PA cutting salaries for terrorists - but only Hamas terrorists, not Fatah

Fatah and Islamic Jihad and DFLP terrorists can rest easy. Mahmoud Abbas is hitting Hamas and pretending to do it to appease the US.

From Reuters:

Scores of former Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel and living in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday their stipends from the Western-backed Palestinian Authority have been suspended in an apparent bid to appease Israel and the United States.

A spokesman for Palestinian prisoners said that 277 freed prisoners in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are aligned with the Islamist Hamas group that runs the coastal enclave, were surprised to find their May stipends had not been paid.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that the Palestinians, who view prisoners as national heroes, stop paying stipends to them and their families, and U.S. lawmakers have warned that Palestinian funding could be cut off unless Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas halts the practice.

This is politics, not morality. The PA continues to publicly praise terror attacks. It is simply a way for the PA to pressure Hamas while pretending to do something against the terror it wholeheartedly supports.

(h/t Yerushalimey)

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