Members of the Palestinian Authority military wing who are convicted of terrorist acts not only get paid while behind bars, as WND reported, they get regular promotions, a cash bonus and a guaranteed salary when they get out, according to Palestinian Media Watch.
PMW’s report, by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, focuses on Palestinian Authority rewards for those who are convicted and jailed for taking part in the “resistance,” or terror acts.
It reveals, for example, that the terrorist who drove the vehicle for Muhammad Al-Faqih in a July 1 drive-by attack that left a rabbi dead, Muhammad Amira, will reach the rank of general after 20 years in prison. When Amira is released, he will receive a bonus and a guaranteed salary.
That’s in addition to the salary he’s receiving while behind bars.
Al-Faqih allegedly murdered a father of 10 in the drive-by shooting near Hebron. He was killed in a confrontation with Israeli soldiers only about 10 days ago.
Amira, a member of the PA Security Forces, was arrested for driving the vehicle used in the drive-by.
PMW reported that based on a chart published in 2013 by WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s news agency, PA military achieve the rank of general after 20 to 25 years in prison.
The table:
“Should Amira, the driver of [Mickey] Mark’s shooter, be released from prison, he would return to the Palestinian military and receive a salary according to his new rank,” PMW’s report explained.
The 10 accomplices arrested were weapons suppliers and others, and are not in the PA Security Forces. But the report said they will be rewarded with raises in civil service rank for their time in prison.
“This will guarantee that they will receive high salaries upon release from prison,” PMW’s report said.
The chart:
WND reported it was PMW that followed a “money trail” showing that the Palestinian Authority is secretly continuing to pay “salaries” to convicted terrorists, despite promising two years ago to stop the payments.
The organization said it found Palestinian Authority Ministry of Finance documents that show a transfer of money from the PA to the Palestinian National Fund, the body that funds the Palestinian Liberation Organization, in the amount needed to pay the salaries.
The PA has received an estimated $25 billion in financial aid from the U.S. and other countries over two decades, according to the Gatestone Institute.
The PA’s payments became an issue for donor nations in 2014 after PMW exposed them.
PMW said that among the likely recipients is Abdallah Barghouti, now serving 67 life sentences for preparing explosives for terror attacks over the years that killed 67 people.
After having been imprisoned for 13 years, Barghouti would be receiving about $1,600 a month now, according to the PA law.
When the Western donor nations objected in August 2014, the PA announced it had closed its Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs and promised “that salaries to prisoners will no longer be paid by the PA but by the newly formed PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs.”
But the PMW report revealed the new PLO Commission is identical to the old PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs in everything but name.
WND reported later when Western nation leaders objected to the continued payments.
In its new report, PMW describes how Rabbi Michael Mark, a 48-year-old father of 10, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in a shooting July 1.
The benefits for terrorists were cited, according to PMW, by PA Judge Ali Abu Diyak of the PA’s Consulting and Legislation Office.
He found that the “importance of this amendment lies in the fact that it set into law additional directives to standardize the salaries of the released prisoners and their employment ranks, and it filled the vacuum that was created as a result of the previous regulations that fixed in law the salaries of the prisoners while they were still in captivity (i.e., imprisonment), but did not address their salaries after the release from captivity.”
He noted that the policy calls for a preference for released terrorists in hiring and an enhanced salary based on their time in prison in service to “the State of Palestine.”
That chart is here:
Diyak noted the regulations also call for a “fixed salary” should no position be available for employment, plus additional payments for a wife and children tied to a cost-of-living index.
Further, they are granted disability payments if they were injured “during the arrest,” and the rules set up rights for inheritors.
And then there are the prison release bonuses, ranging up to $30,000.
“Every released prisoner who was in captivity for one year or more will receive a one-time release grant upon his release, after the regulation’s coming into effect,” Diyak noted.
The scale:
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