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Israel/Palestine

shira

(30,109 posts) Sat Jun 6, 2015, 10:09 PM Jun 2015

Foreign aid scandal: UK money is 'STILL going to convicted Palestinian terrorists'

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has taken around £130million in foreign aid from the Department for International Development over the past five years. The public cash is being used to help it fund its estimated £84million annual wage bill for convicted terrorists locked up in Israel, according to campaigners...

...Although President Mahmoud Abbas publicly ordered the Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs to halt the payments, he then passed on the duty to the specially created Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs run by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, meaning the money is still being paid out.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/579366/Foreign-aid-scandal-UK-money-convicted-Palestinian-terrorists

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