Haaretz has cited a senior Palestinian Authority official as saying that the PA leadership's position was to reject a proposal by the European Union and the forum of donor countries that the PA pay salaries to the families of prisoners imprisoned in Israel according to their economic situation.
Qadri Abu-Bakr, head of the prisoners' administration in the PA said, "The prisoners are freedom fighters and as far as we are concerned, they are members of the security forces, and therefore no Palestinian leader can accept such a proposal." He added that a message in this spirit was conveyed to the EU and donor countries on Tuesday.