Fighting “Pay for Slay” Stipends to October 7 Murderers & Rapists

The so-called “Pay for Slay” stipend program is a public policy of the Palestinian Authority (PA) which refers to the payments for terrorism as its “Martyrs’ Fund.” This indefensible program is codified in two Palestinian statutes. Outrageously, the PA awards monthly stipends to reward the criminals who are serving or have served sentences in Israeli jails for committing violent acts such as stabbing, shooting, or murdering Israeli civilians. The reward amount increases based on the number of murders and the length of the sentence given by the Israeli courts. The stipends are also paid out to the families of suicide bombers. The families of the October 7 Hamas attackers, who burned Jews alive, raped women and beheaded babies, are already applying for their stipends from the PA’s Martyr’s Fund. Shurat HaDin is working on a worldwide legal campaign to (a) cut off the funding for the program via legal demand letters and (b) seize the Pay for Slay money for the victims via lawsuits against the PA for aiding and abetting terrorism, and the terrorists themselves. Shurat HaDin recently launched the campaign with a legal demand letter calling on the EU, the largest funder of the PA, to stop its aid to the Palestinians until there is independently verifiable proof that the PA stipend program has ceased to reward and encourage violence against Jews. These official Palestinian payments for the Oct. 7 atrocities must be stopped.