On the night of June 30, 2016, a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the settlement of Kiryat Arba and snuck into the home of Hallel Ariel, a fourteen-year-old girl, and promising dancer, and fatally stabbed the teenager as she slept. The terrorist—who was later shot and killed—had forewarned his intentions of becoming a martyr in posts on Facebook. The PA pays terrorists and their families generous stipends after committing acts of terror against Jews, and Shurat HaDin filed a lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority on behalf of Hallel’s parents for rewarding their daughter’s murderer. We also filed a war crimes complaint against PA President Mahmoud Abbas about the “pay for slay” incentives. In a sharply worded letter to the ICC, we stressed that although the Palestinian Authority is not a sovereign state, Abbas is a citizen of Jordan, which is an ICC member state, and subject to the court’s jurisdiction.
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