As Israel prepares to implement a new law that imposes financial sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for its "Pay for Slay" policy, Palestinian Media Watch has looked at the PA's financial reports for 2018 which includes its payments to terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners.
While the PA does not provide details of how this money was allocated between the terrorist prisoners and the released terrorist prisoners, PMW calculations, based solely on open sources, show that at least 230 million shekels were paid in salaries to terrorist prisoners, at least 176 million shekels were paid in salaries to released terrorist prisoners and the remaining 96 million shekels covers additional salary payments and other benefits to the terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners that PMW is unable to precisely quantify, for a total of 502 million shekels (about $136 million).