Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin
December 6, 2005
Abbas Approves Grants to
Suicide Terrorist Families
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
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The Palestinian Authority yesterday revealed a new law that allocates money
to family members of shahids, or 'martyrs.' A shahid is the highest honor
attainable to a Muslim, and signifies a death for Allah. The Palestinian
Authority regularly labels suicide terrorists as 'shahids.'

Following the translation of the article is a list of some terrorist shahids
honored by the Palestinian Authority. Under the new law, the families of
these terrorists will receive monthly payments.

The president has authorized the implementation of the financial clause of
the Care of the Families of Shahids draft law "...The fifth clause of the
draft law includes granting a monthly allowance to the family of every
shahid, taken from the general budget of the [Palestinian] National
Authority. The sum of the allowance is estimated to be $250, but if the
shahid was married [at the time of death], another $50 are to be added to
the sum mentioned above, and if the shahid had children, [an additional sum
of] $15 will be allocated to each of them. In addition, if the shahid had a
[living] father or mother, a sum of $25 will be allocated to each of them.
If the shahid had brothers, whom he had been taking care of, each of them
will be allocated [a sum of] $15... The transfer of the allowances to the
families of the shahids is expected to be carried out by the Institute for
the Care of the Families of Shahids, through special [bank] accounts
[opened] for the eligible people... [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 5, 2005]

From PMW Archives

Suicide terrorists are called shahids by the Palestinian Authority and,
under the new law, their families will be receiving Palestinian Authority
monthly payments.

In August this year, Palestinian Media Watch revealed that the Palestinian
Authority Ministry of Culture released, as its official 'Book of the Month,'
a collection of poems named in honor of Hanadi Jaradat, a terrorist
'shahida' who murdered 21 people in Haifa's Maxim restaurant in October
2003.

Likewise, on July 25 this year, the Palestinian Authority's official paper
labelled as shahids two terrorists who were killed after murdering an
Israeli civilian couple two days previously.

Two weeks before that, Palestinian Media Watch noted that a course for
women, sponsored by the Palestinian Authority's ruling party Fatah, had been
named in honor of the first woman suicide bomber, the 'Shahida' Wafa Idris.
This followed an established pattern of many years in which Idris has been
honored by the Palestinian Authority - including in a "course in democracy
and human rights." Details can be seen here.

In July 2003, the Palestinian Authority organised a football (soccer)
tournament named in honor of the suicide bomber 'shahid' that murdered 29
people on Passover Eve in Netanya's Park Hotel.

Under the new law, the families of these murderers will receive money from
the Palestinian Authority.

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