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The End of Palestinian Authority’s ‘Pay for Slay’?

The End of Palestinian Authority’s ‘Pay for Slay’?
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds a joint press conference with the Turkish president after their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on July 25, 2023. Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images
Mackenzie France
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On Feb. 10, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced a long-promised change to the PA’s “Pay for Slay” policy. Many triumphant headlines declared this as an official end to the reprehensible PA policy of paying stipends to the families of “martyrs” (that is, terrorists) who were killed, injured, or imprisoned while explicitly carrying out violence against Israel.
Mackenzie France
Mackenzie France
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Mackenzie France is a Young Voices contributor and director of strategy at the Pinsker Centre, a foreign policy think tank focusing on the Middle East and the State of Israel. He is also a Krauthammer Fellow at the Tikvah Fund.
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