{"id":269706,"date":"2026-08-30T04:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269706\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:51:08","slug":"israeli-operation-targets-terrorists-families-receiving-palestinian-authority-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269706\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli operation targets terrorists\u2019 families receiving Palestinian Authority payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli security forces confiscated hundreds of thousands of shekels in cash, as well as property and vehicles worth nearly NIS 100,000 in a large-scale operation on Wednesday, raiding the homes of terrorists and their families who receive payment from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-906583\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian Authority<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Police raided several homes, including that of Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Abad, who was involved in an attempted suicide attack in Jerusalem in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">They also raided the home of Ahed Faiz Ali al-Natasha, a Hamas agent who was involved in 2001 in planning a car bomb explosion in the parking lot of an apartment building in Pisgat Ze&#8217;ev and in planning the attack at the Clal Center in Jerusalem, in which two police officers and ten civilians were injured.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-894700\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US State Department informed Congress<\/a> that the Palestinian Authority is still making payments to terrorists and their families, despite promises to end the \u201cpay for slay\u201d programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A total of $156 million was paid out to the terrorists and their families, the report said. $126m. was paid to Palestinian terrorists, including those released from Israeli custody, and $30m. was paid to the families of Palestinian terrorists who died committing their acts of terrorism. The PA had promised to give the families a total of $214m.<\/p>\n<p>Payments continued despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-906166\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PA President Mahmoud Abbas<\/a> legislating changes to the West Bank\u2019s welfare system last year, shifting payments to a needs-based model rather than stipends scaled to the length of a terrorist\u2019s sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PA continues to provide a system of compensation in support of terrorism through new mechanisms and under a different name,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-906799\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Department<\/a> reported. The report cited information from the Israeli government, open-source sources, and NGOs.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Greyman-Kennard has contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli security forces confiscated hundreds of thousands of shekels in cash, as well as property and vehicles worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[1411,37,17077,30580,34120,545],"class_list":["post-269706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-pay-for-slay","tag-terror-attack","tag-terrorism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117182666104003907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}