Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar thanks US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for what he calls “moral clarity” after a newly published State Department report found the Palestinian Authority has continued payments to attackers of Israelis, including terror convicts, and their families, despite the authority’s claims to the contrary.
In a post on X, Sa’ar cites the report to Congress — based on open-source data covering September 2025 through February 2026 and published on the agency’s website yesterday — as evidence that Ramallah is still paying stipends despite modifying the mechanism used to distribute them.
According to the report, the payments violate the Taylor Force Act, which conditions US aid to the PA on the termination of its policy of compensating Palestinian terrorists and their families.
Sa’ar says that in 2025, the PA allocated some $156 million to what have been dubbed “pay-for-slay” payments, calling the practice “distorted,” and urging the international community to “stop whitewashing” the policy.
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