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According to Israeli media, the Biden administration has requested that the authority entirely overhauls its support system of Palestinian prisoners. The Palestinian leadership had already expressed willingness to engage the US in a “discussion.”
Israel’s Channel 12 reported the Biden administration has called on PA President Mahmoud Abbas to stop paying stipends to Palestinian prisoners’ families and, instead, to consider an alternative “welfare” system. For example, over 60-year-old prisoners would receive payments as if “retired PA employees.” Those under 60, according to the report, would be paid as “PA employees.”
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