Reform will bring families of security prisoners and slain terrorists into same welfare system as other Palestinians, be ...

Sander Gerber 'cautiously optimistic,' but says 'ambiguous' Abbas decree making welfare stipends contingent on economic need ...

State Department spokesperson tells ToI decree signed by Abbas 'appears to be positive step,' Washington will monitor its ...

It would be naive to think that after years of facilitating terrorism against Israelis and Americans the Palestinian ...

Western supporters of the PA have suggested another policy instead of its controversial 'pay for slay' policy, one of social ...

Scrapping the system of salary-type payments has been a major demand of successive US administrations. Abbas had long ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has signed a decree repealing legislation that allocated payments to ...

Abbas revokes laws on payments to families of Palestinian prisoners and those killed by Israel, shifting the program to a new ...

The payouts were long denounced by Israel, which says the system incentivises terrorism. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has signed a decree to halt the government’s system of financially ...

The main architect behind Congressional legislation that suspended US aid to the Palestinian Authority over its payments to ...