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US and Israel seek to end Palestinian Authority's financial support for families of political prisoners
Instead of freeing Palestinian prisoners, a new scheme aims at punishing their families, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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A SCHEME is underway to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners.
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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