Pay for slay

After a $655M PLO verdict, Oct. 7 victims go after Hamas's money - interview

Gideon Fisher tells the 'Post' about the emerging legal strategy of targeting terrorist financing in civil litigation, offering victims of the October 7 massacre a potential path for compensation.

Israeli soldiers guard near stickers of victims killed in the October 7 massacre and ongoing Iron Swords War at the Bental water reservoir near Kibbutz Merom Golan, in the Golan Heights, October 7, 2025.
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas is seen at an event in Italy, last year.

A just US ruling, an Israeli absurdity: The Jewish state is complicit in rewarding terror - opinion

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah (L) and Hamas politburo member Khalil al-Hayya.

PA ordered to pay $655.5 million to Intifada victims after NY Appeals Court reinstates prior ruling

Israelis protest outside Maasiyahu prison, central Israel, the possible release of terrorist who tortured and murdered Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam nearly 40 years ago. May 31, 2023.

Family of murdered IDF soldier outraged as terrorist released, entitled to tax-funded service


‘80 years after Holocaust, there is a price for Jewish blood’ - Shurat Hadin head

“80 years after the Holocaust, there is a price for Jewish blood,” Shurat Hadin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said Monday at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York.

 Shurat Hadin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.

PA raises salary for terrorists who killed 9 at Hebrew U

The 14.29% raise in the salaries of four terrorists coincided with the 20th anniversary of the bombing, which took place on Sunday.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France July 20, 2022.

Cabinet authorizes to deduct ‘pay for slay’ payments from PA tax money

The Security Cabinet voted to deduct NIS 600 million from taxes for the Palestinian Authority, as long as the PA stops paying terrorists who attacked Israelis.

 New Israeli Shekel banknotes are seen in this picture illustration taken November 9, 2021

Palestinians pay partial wages after Israel transfers tax revenue to PA

The Palestinian foreign minister estimated that Israel has been withholding $500 million of tax revenues due to the PA's pay-for-slay policy.

 Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks during a meeting with journalists in the West Bank cityof Ramallah on July 03, 2019.

Israeli taxes not used for Palestinian terror payments, FADC head says

The FADC held a debate on the source of an Israeli loan of NIS 500 million to the PA last year to offset financial harm from the absence of withheld taxes.

 Committee Chairman Ram Ben Barak leads a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 15, 2021.

'Pay-for-slay' Abbas takes his cue from 'Iran-Deal' Blinken - opinion

PA President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the last week's terror attacks in a rare move that shouldn't be cause for optimism.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

Bankrolling terrorism and moral equivalence - opinion

The families of the three terrorists killed on Tuesday by Israeli forces will be handsomely paid monthly stipends from now on.

 PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, last month

The Sisyphean attempt to curb Palestinian ‘martyrdom’ - opinion

With internal American and Israeli politics being as divided as they are, it’s going to take a lot more than a congressional bill to keep would-be “martyrs” at bay.

 A knife used in a stabbing in Jerusalem's Old City that injured two Border Policemen on November 17, 2021.

Taylor Force Act addition seeks to block 'pay for slay'

“Such flouting of anti-terrorism financial regulations is only possible through the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts at United States banks.”

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020

Israel won't thwart two states, minister tells int'l parley on Palestinians

"My dream is to see my country in peace with my people," Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej told an international donor parley in Oslo.

 Participants of Wednesday's Ad Hoc Liaison Committee in Oslo