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From news article:
According to the Congressional Research Service, US aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip since 2008 has averaged over $600 million per year. More than $200 million of that annual sum went directly to the Palestinian Authority (“PA”) budget – over $800 million in four years. Where does the money go?

Research by the non-profit Palestine Media Watch (“PMW”) found that the PA has a long-established practice of paying stipends to convicted Palestinian terrorists and the surviving relatives of suicide bombers.

In April 2011 the PA formalized this practice, passing a law that placed on the PA payroll, all Palestinian and Israeli Arabs convicted of terror crimes and jailed in Israel. Palestinian news media report that more than 5,500 convicted Palestinian terrorists qualify for these payments.

Hence, as also reported by Palestinian media, the PA now pays every month,more than $5 million to convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons – more than $60 million per year. The monthly pensions paid to these criminals exceed the average salaries of PA security forces and civil servants.

American taxpayers may find these facts surprising, given the media’s frequent description of the PA as “moderate.” But this description defies reality. Although PA leaders occasionally mention peace and denounce terrorism to English-speaking audiences, the PA's actual policies – stated in Arabic – continue to reject peace and glorify terrorists who murder Jews.