Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas made clear on Sunday that the PA will not stop paying families of terrorists imprisoned in Israeli jails, despite the fact that Israel approved a law withholding tax funds to the PA as long as it continues to pay terrorists.
“We will not allow anyone to interfere with the money that Israel is against us paying to the families of martyrs and prisoners. These are our martyrs, our wounded and our prisoners, and we will continue to pay them. This is something we started in 1965,” Abbas said at the opening of a meeting of the Fatah Central Committee in Ramallah, according to the Wafa news agency.
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