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Old July 5th, 2017 #1
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Post 'Demand to stop prisoner payments' is Israeli gambit to avoid peace talks - PA commission

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank — The Palestinian public is in an uproar over demands made by the United States and Israel to cut payments to Palestinian political prisoners and former prisoners of Israel as a condition of renewed peace talks.

Thousands of Palestinian prisoners and ex-prisoners receive money from the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Palestinian National Fund (PNF) each month, money that prisoners and their family’s depend on to survive, Akram Atallah of the Palestinian Authority’s Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission told Mondoweiss.

Atallah said he believes the Israeli government’s demand that payments to prisoners stop as a condition of renewed U.S.-led peace talks is a way for the Israeli government to sidestep the progression of a potential peace process.

“The Israeli position understands very much what that impact [of cutting prisoners’ salaries] would be, and how impossible that is,” he said. “This demand to stop payment to prisoners is a condition by Israel to avoid making any peace treaties with the Palestinians. In a time in which people want to talk about settlements and borders and water issues, Israel wants to make this issue with prisoners the crux of a deal to make peace?”

In essence, the program allots a monthly payment of around $350 per prisoner, with the amount increasing depending on whether the prisoner is married, how many dependents they are responsible for and how long they are sentenced. For instance, any Palestinian prisoner who spends more than 10 years in Israeli jails receives around 10,000 shekels ($2,735) a month, according to Ma’an News documentation.

While the PA will not be able to cut prisoners’ salaries without severe backlash, earlier this month the Palestinian government did cut the salaries of 277 former prisoners who

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