Palestinian leader vows to keep paying attackers’ families | NZ Herald

Mahmoud Abbas

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will continue paying stipends to Palestinian attackers and their families despite the Israeli parliament’s decision last week to withhold those funds from taxes collected on the Palestinian Authority’s behalf.

Abbas told a meeting of Fatah party leaders Sunday that his government will keep paying “our martyrs and prisoners and wounded people” as it has since 1965.

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