Palestinians celebrate after Palestinian prisoners end a hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)
While it expects $693 million from donors, Ramallah’s 2017 budget allocates nearly $345 million for the contentious stipends
(SOURCE) The Palestinian Authority’s 2017 budget for payments to inmates in Israeli prisons and so-called “families of martyrs” is equal in sum to about half of the foreign aid Ramallah expects to receive this year, a recently published Israeli report shows.
According to the PA Finance Ministry’s 2017 budget, published on its website earlier in July, salaries to incarcerated and released Palestinian prisoners, many of whom are convicted terrorists, will amount in 2017 to NIS 552 million ($153.4 million).
That is an increase of 13 percent over the 2016 budget, according to a report published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank on July 24.
The new budget also allocates $190,869,166 for payments to so-called “families of martyrs,” up from $174,630,296 allocated in 2016.
The families are defined as those with members who were “killed or wounded in the struggle against Zionism,” including those killed while committing attacks against Israelis, or in any other context by an Israeli.
The total allocation to Palestinian prisoners and ex-prisoners, as well as martyrs’ families, in the 2017 budget is NIS 1,239,528,424 ($344,313,451).
This sum is equal to 49.6 percent of the foreign aid Ramallah expects to receive over the year.
Table shows how much the Palestinian Authority has allocated for payments to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and ‘martyr’ families since 2013. (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)
The author of the report, Brig.-Gen. (res) Yossi Kuperwasser, a formerly director general of the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry and head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence, told The Times of Israel the rising budget allocation for the payments is not due to any new policy, but rather reflects natural growth under PA laws already in place.
According to the 2017 budget, the total number of “martyrs’ families” and families with injured members to receive payments is 21,500. In 2016 that number was 19,000.
Kuperwasser also pointed out that in accordance with PA law, the payments are updated according to the price of living index.
The budget for the payments has remained steady at around seven percent of the PA’s entire budget since at least 2013. However, its share in relation to foreign aid has grown due to a decline in donations to Ramallah in recent years.
End Time Bible Prophecy 
I wonder if the people and countries donating money are aware of what it is their money is going towards. I don’t suppose it makes a difference, they all now have blood on their hands and will have to answer for it when they stand before the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:6, “6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” Given this revelation, some folks got some ‘splainin to do, Lucy.
Then again, as demon-possessed as our world has become, it’s utterly plausible that they all know and support it.
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Thanks for your comment The Ezekiel Project!
So many people are deceived by what is taking place with the so-called Palestinians, even our governments who support them, then again just how many know exactly what and who they are supporting?! It doesn’t surprise or shock me one bit.
God bless! Maranatha!
We truly live in a wicked world. It’s our responsibility to bring the light and chase away the darkness. That’s why we do this, I think.
Amen!