Israel FM accuses Palestinian Authority of aiding terror with ‘Pay-for-Slay’ after deadly attack

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar blasted the Palestinian Authority (PA) for emboldening coercion with its infamous "Slay -to-Pay" programme aft a Palestinian connected Friday murdered 2 Israelis.

Palestinian terrorists murdered 19-year-old Aviv Maor from Kibbutz Ein Harod and Mordechai Shimshon, 68, from Beit She’an connected Friday successful bluish Israel.

The Palestinian Authority "Pay-for-Slay" argumentation gained wide nationalist attraction erstwhile Taylor Force, a West Point postgraduate who served successful Afghanistan and Iraq, was savagely knifed to decease by a Palestinian violent connected March 8, 2016, portion connected a circuit of Israel. President Donald Trump signed the Taylor Force Act into instrumentality successful October 2018, aft a vigorous run by Force's parents, Robbi and Stuart Force.

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Israeli information forces inspect the country wherever a conveyance was utilized by assailant successful a suspected violent onslaught involving a car ramming and stabbing that killed 2 radical successful Afula, bluish Israel. Israel Dec. 26, 2025. (Gil Eliyahu/Reuters)

Prior to Friday’s violent attacks, Sa'ar issued warnings to the planetary assemblage astir alleged Palestinian enactment deception. He wrote connected X:" Don't judge Mahmoud Abbas' lies. The Palestinian Authority's payments to terrorists and their families haven't stopped. The PA decided to proceed its ‘Pay-for-Slay’ policy. This includes payments to the families of ‘martyrs’ and injured terrorists, jailed terrorists and released terrorists.  The PA is besides disguising the payments to the released murderers arsenic payments to pensioners of the Palestinian Security Services!   This is distorted.  End ‘Pay-for-Slay’ now!"

Abbas is the 90-year-old chain-smoking President of the Palestinian Authority successful the West Bank (the portion is known successful Israel by its biblical names of Judea and Samaria.)

Kobi Michael, a elder researcher astatine Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, told Fox News Digital that contrary to Palestinian Authority claims astir stopping the "Slay-to-Pay" program, determination has been "no important alteration successful Palestinian Authority argumentation with respect to the payments to terrorists."

Taylor Force was a West Point postgraduate who served successful Afghanistan and Iraq, and was pursuing his MBA astatine Vanderbilt University. His agleam aboriginal was savagely chopped abbreviated connected March 8, 2016, erstwhile Taylor was walking with his Vanderbilt friends on the Mediterranean boardwalk promenade successful Tel Aviv, Israel. A Palestinian violent attacked the radical with a knife, and Taylor was stabbed to death. (Courtesy of the Force Family)

He continued that "They are making noises arsenic if they are changing their policies." But helium termed it a "façade" with nary alteration successful policy.

Michael said that "Pay-for-Slay volition proceed successful a antithetic manner. Donors and the planetary assemblage [who concern the PA] volition find it much hard to show it."

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The counter-terrorism expert, Michael, who is besides a chap astatine the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy, said the PA "defines terrorists arsenic societal welfare. They proceed to enactment incitement against Israel. They proceed remaining dysfunctional."

According to a Dec. 19 study successful the Times of Israel, a PA-linked enactment –The Palestinian National Economic Empowerment Institution (also known arsenic Tamkeen) — disputed the Israeli authorities assertion that "Pay-for Slay" is inactive intact.

Tamkeen noted successful its connection that it "confirms that the outgo strategy linked to the fig of years of imprisonment has been wholly and permanently abolished and is nary longer successful effect successful immoderate way."  It added that "Claims regarding its continuation autumn nether the class of deliberate misinformation and falsification of facts."

Fox News Digital reached retired galore times to the Palestinian Authority for a remark and sent property queries to the Palestinian National Economic Empowerment Institution (Tamkeen.)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with past President Joe Biden successful the West Bank municipality of Bethlehem, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

When asked by Fox News Digital what donor nations tin bash to halt "Pay-for-Slay," Michael said, "Be strict erstwhile it comes to fiscal donations," adding determination are "many ways to unit the Palestinian Authority."

He sharply criticized Western European leaders who recognized an autarkic Palestinian authorities successful 2025 without ensuring that the authorities would beryllium a non-sponsor of terrorism. "Western leaders, the British premier minister, the French president and the Spanish premier curate are rushing and moving to admit a Palestinian state, and they don’t attraction what takes spot nether the Palestinian Authority successful the territories." He said their designation is "an inducement to proceed to 'Pay for Slay."’

Michael said the Trump medication is the lone 1 "applying unit connected the Palestinian Authority."

A Palestinian violent from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is seen carrying a limb during a subject parade successful the Balata exile camp, eastbound of Nablus, successful the bluish West Bank.  (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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He stressed that if the U.S.-designated violent question Hamas is not dismantled and disarmed successful Gaza, "it volition beryllium different accomplishment of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority."

The U.S. State Department and American Embassy successful Jerusalem did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital property queries.