(With thanks the Palestinian Media Watch)
Since Oct. 7, the International Red Cross has been helping imprisoned Palestinian terrorists receive controversial stipends from the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch.
According to PMW,
incarcerated Palestinians fill out forms to receive the stipends, and the Red
Cross delivers the paperwork to Ramallah.
“The role of the
International Red Cross in this process is central,” explained PMW director
Itamar Marcus. “The international health organization is involved in this
because as they visit prisoners, they’re able to bring in forms. Israeli
security is not looking at the forms or preventing the terrorist prisoner
access to the forms they need to sign.”
The prisoners’ paperwork
needs to be completed by the end of 2023 in order to receive stipends in 2024.
Terrorists imprisoned before Oct. 7 are also sending renewal forms via the Red
Cross to Ramallah, according to PMW.
A Fatah directive dated
Dec. 4 and translated by PMW instructs Palestinians to “please produce a [Red]
Cross document for those who have no sentence whose names appear below; a [Red]
Cross document accompanied by a new administrative [detention] order for the
administrative detainees; and a [Red] Cross document accompanied by a verdict
for the sentenced prisoners.
Lists of prisoners from
Bethlehem and Hebron districts were circulated on social media to encourage
prisoners and their families to claim the payouts. Other Palestinian
organizations, such as the PLO’s Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, joined the
publicity campaign.
Since Oct. 7, around
2,400 Palestinian terror suspects have been arrested throughout Judea and
Samaria, of whom about half are associated with Hamas.
Israel argues that these
stipends are nothing more than economic incentive to commit murder, and refers
to them as “pay for slay.”
The International Red
Cross did not respond to a request for comment.
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