PM Netanyahu Orders that Palestinian Authority Payments to Terrorists and
their Families be Deducted from Tax Revenue Transfers to the PA
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Friday 1 July, 2016), ordered that
the amount of money being transferred by the Palestinian Authority to
terrorists and their families be deducted immediately; this is in addition
to action on the ground by the IDF and the security forces.

The Palestinian Authority transfers funds to terrorists by various
laundering methods; the more severe the acts of terrorism, the greater the
amount of funds. Prime Minister Netanyahu has ordered that the entire amount
of support for terrorists and their families be deducted from the tax
revenues that Israel transfers monthly to the Palestinian Authority.

Israel believes that the encouragement of terrorism by the Palestinian
leadership – in the form of both incitement and payments to terrorists and
their families – constitutes incentive for murder.