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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas officially mum as its allies slam PA over apparent suspension of prisoner payments
2025-12-23
[IsraelTimes] Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
allies cry foul over a statement last week by the Paleostinian Authority’s new welfare agency that said Ramallah would pay stipends to prisoners in Israeli jails based on economic need rather than time served.

The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group says the PA’s move to end special payments to the families of Paleostinians killed, maimed or detained by Israel — including while or after committing attacks — is tantamount to "stabbing our nation’s history of struggle in the back."

"The decision seeks to turn this well-established right into a social ’handout’ dependent on social research and devoid of any national consideration," PIJ says.

Popular Resistance® Committees (PRC), another Hamas ally, says the PA move is a "national and moral crime" that "aligns with the policy of the Zionist enemy."

Another blurb published by PRC and attributed broadly to "factions of the Paleostinian resistance" says the PA move is a "dangerous policy that deepens the division" among the Paleostinian people and "reflects a blatant submission to foreign diktats."

The statement does not appear on Hamas’s own social media. Both PRC and Hamas have previously published disparate blurbs attributed to "factions of the Paleostinian resistance."

The statements follow a Thursday blurb by the Paleostinian National Economic Empowerment Institution, also known as Tamkeen, that denied Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s accusation that the PA had failed to end what Israel and others call "pay-to-slay" laws that incentivize terror attacks.

Responding to Sa’ar, Tamkeen said it was the only body in the PA empowered to determine financial entitlements, and that it complies with Abbas’s February decree to end the laws.

The Tamkeen statement quickly drew fire both within Abbas’s own Fatah faction and from the head of the PA’s prisoner affairs office, which had hitherto handled the payments.

The statement came as PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
seeks to demonstrate the PA’s competence to assume the reins of postwar Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
under US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
’s ceasefire plan, which requires the PA to undergo unspecified reforms.

In an apparent sign that Abbas’s decree from earlier this year to end the payments is being implemented, Paleostinians in the West Bank have taken to the streets to demand the stipends be restored.
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