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How are salaries transferred to terrorists? Confidentiality Israel today

2022-03-31T06:12:06.897Z


The defense establishment refuses to provide details about what Minister Ganz described as a "loan to the PA" • Lavi organization: "This is a bluff, this is a grant to finance terrorism"


What is the state hiding?

The Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Finance recently imposed a confidentiality on a "loan" that Israel made available to the Palestinian Authority, in the amount of at least half a billion shekels.

The meaning of the secret loan is the emptying of the content of the law offsetting the salaries of terrorists.

The loan was approved in the summer by Defense Minister Bnei Gantz after meeting with PA Chairman Abu Mazen.

At the same time, Israel Today has learned that, contrary to the wording of the law, the cabinet has not yet approved the offsetting of terrorism salaries for 2021.

As you may recall, in July 2021, the current government decided to offset more than half a billion shekels from the Palestinian taxes, against terrorist allowances paid in 2020.

But a few weeks later, Gantz announced that Israel would give the PA what he defined as a "loan" - half a billion shekels, apparently - as the amount frozen in the law on offsetting terrorism salaries.

Since Ganz's decision on the "loan", the political and security system has refused to provide information on its exact scope, repayment dates, interest rate and to whom exactly it is transferred to the PA, which according to many international reports suffers from corruption.

Recently, the Lavi organization asked the Jerusalem District Court to activate the Freedom of Information Law in order to remove the veil of secrecy, but his request was denied.

This, after Judge Yoram Noam held a one-sided and closed-door hearing, in which the opinion of the director of the Palestinian Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the head of the Civil Department at the Government Coordination Headquarters in the Occupied Territories were presented.

"In disclosing the requested information, there is a fear of harm to the state's foreign relations," the two argued. Economic to the PA.

According to Adv. Yitzhak Bam of the Lavi organization, "The state bears the name of security in vain.

"The money transfers help the PA to support terrorists and their families, so the 'loan' is a direct aid to finance terrorism. Hiding the data strengthens our conclusion that the loan story is in fact a bluff, and it is a grant."

A polling forum for the lives of bereaved families and victims of terrorism said: "The State of Israel's refusal to provide the loan repayment dates to the Palestinian Authority shows that the government considers the offsetting of terrorists a nuisance to be removed.

It is not possible for the State of Israel, on the one hand, to send our children to fight terrorism and, on the other hand, to fund and strengthen the Palestinian Authority, which supports terrorists, and to find ways around the offsetting law.

"We demand that all relevant parties in the government comply with the law on offsetting the terrorists' salaries and stop funding the terrorist entity - the Palestinian Authority."

The Prime Minister's Office said: "The terrorist salary report for 2021 is expected to be approved soon."

Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Our position was heard behind closed doors and we will not comment on things."

The Ministry of Finance: "No loan was granted to the PA, but the payment date was brought forward, at the expense of funds that the government is expected to transfer to the PA in the future."

The Ministry of Defense did not respond to the news.

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Source: israelhayom

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