Smotrich orders withholding NIS 3.2 million of PA tax revenue, transfer to terror victims

3 May 2023, 7:44 pm

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a meeting of his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich orders the continued halt in transfers of tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority and to redirect it to families of terror victims.

“The state of Israel is stopping the financing of terror by the Palestinian Authority, we won’t let this absurd situation continue,” he says.

Smotrich says Israel withheld NIS 3.2 million ($883,000) this month after deducting NIS 139 million ($38 million) in January from the revenues to offset payments the PA makes to Palestinian terrorists, attackers, security prisoners and their families.