PA has paid terrorists of Hebrew U attack millions

Posted: 7/31/2019 4:16:00 PM
Author: Palestinian Media Watch Research Team
Source: This article was published on the Autz 7 website on July 31,b 2019.

NOTE FROM LIBRARIANS FOR FAIRNESS: Among the nine innocent human beings who were murdered in this terrorist attack was our dear friend and colleague, librarian Dina carter.


PA has paid terrorists of Hebrew U attack millions
by Palestinian Media Watch Research Team

PA has granted over 4.3 million shekels to Arabs given life sentences for 2002 attack at Hebrew U in which 9 murdered, over 80 injured.

17 years ago today a bomb was detonated in the Hebrew University cafeteria in Jerusalem murdering 9 people, including five American citizens, and injuring over 80 others. This attack was one of many terror attacks carried out by the same terrorist cell.

Six Palestinian Arabs were convicted of the crime and sentenced to multiple life sentences. Since their arrests, the Palestinian Authority has rewarded the imprisoned terrorists, paying them no less than 4,371,100 shekels ($1,257,259).

Among the convicted terrorists for this and other attacks were Adballah Barghouti - serving 67 life sentences, one for each of the victims he murdered - and Ibrahim Hamed - serving 54 life sentences, one for each of the victims he murdered. Through June 2019, the PA cumulatively paid them 1,271,000 shekels ($339,862) and continues to pay them thousands of shekels per month.

The other four terrorists - Wael Qassem, Wassim Abbasi, Alla Aldin Abbasi and Muhammed Odeh - were residents of Jerusalem, entitling them to a salary supplement of 300 shekels/month. Each of them has been paid over 770,000 shekels ($220,733) since their arrest in August 2002. Each of them is currently receiving 7,300 shekels ($1,951) per month.

Despite its (self-inflicted) financial crisis, since the beginning of 2019 alone, the PA has cumulatively paid the terrorists almost 300,000 shekels ($86,000).

The PA obligated itself to pay monthly salaries to imprisoned terrorists when it passed the Law of Prisoners and Released Prisoners in 2004. The exact amount paid is set in regulations passed by the PA government. Mahmoud Abbas has twice raised the salaries the PA pays to the imprisoned terrorists.

Top PA leaders have explained that the PA is "obligated" to pay salaries to the Palestinian terrorists in prisons and the families of suicide bombers and other so-called "Martyrs," because they were "soldiers" of the PA, who were "sent" by the PA and who acted out of "national interest and not for personal reasons." Most significantly, they "received orders" from the PA.

The PA law of Prisoners and Released Prisoners prohibits the PA from signing any peace agreement that does not include the release of all the Palestinian Arab terrorists, including the six responsible for the Hebrew university attack, and many other mass murderers.