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| Police seize thousands in Hamas cash from family of dead terrorist who killed 8 |
| 2018-06-28 |
| [IsraelTimes] Cops confiscate money from East Jerusalem home of Alaa Abu Dheim, who killed students in a terror attack at Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav yeshiva in 2008 Police seized tens of thousands of shekels from the family of an East Jerusalem terrorist on Wednesday, which cops said was paid as a stipend by the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group. The NIS 43,000 ($11,800) in Israeli and foreign currency had been given to the family of Alaa Abu Dheim, who in 2008 rubbed out eight Israeli students, aged 15-26, in Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav yeshiva and maimed 11 more. Abu Dheim, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, was killed during the attack by an off-duty IDF captain and a student in the yeshiva. "The activities carried out this morning were another step in the general actions of the Israel Police and security forces to prevent, thwart and stop those directly involved in riots or terror activities in Jerusalem, and also against those who encourage and support terrorists," police said in a statement. "The operation was the result of covert activity and targeted intelligence gathering by the Israeli Police and security forces which found that the family of the terrorist who live in East Jerusalem received cash and funding from Hamas in support for the murderous terror attack," police said. "We will not permit financial support from a terror organization for the families of bully boyz who carry out murderous attacks," they added. Security forces and politicians have worked to end payments from the Paleostinian Authority and from Paleostinian terror groups to families of bully boyz which they say encourage further attacks. On Wednesday politicians gave the final go-ahead for a decisive vote on a bill that would slash funds to the PA by the amount Ramallah pays out to convicted terrorists. The bill, proposed by Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern and Likud MK Avi Dichter, says that welfare payments paid out by the PA to Paleostinian prisoners and their relatives must be deducted from tax revenues Israel transfers annually to the administrative body. The money withheld in this way would instead go into a fund designated to help victims of terror attacks. Under the current law, based on the 1994 Oslo Accords that established the PA and the mechanism for Israeli funding, the finance minister already has the ability to freeze funds. The measure, which would cut hundreds of millions of shekels from tax revenues transferred to the PA, is similar to a measure recently passed in the US, known as the Taylor Force Act, withholding funding to the PA over stipends to bully boyz and their families. According to the Defense Ministry, the PA in 2017 paid NIS 687 million ($198 million) to the so-called "deaders’ families fund" and NIS 550 million ($160 million) to the Paleostinian Prisoners’ Club ‐ some 7 percent of its overall budget. Paleostinian prisoners serving 20- to 30-year sentences for carrying out terror attacks are eligible for a lifetime NIS 10,000 ($2,772) monthly stipend, the Defense Ministry said, citing PA figures. Those prisoners who receive a three- to five-year sentence get a monthly wage of NIS 2,000 ($554). Paleostinian prisoners who are married, have children, live in Jerusalem, or hold Israeli citizenship receive additional payments. The Defense Ministry last month released figures alleging that some bully boyz who killed Israelis will be paid more than NIS 10 million ($2.78 million) each throughout their lifetimes by the PA. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 About time. Allowing funding that is used in such a manner is the height of absurdity. I also find it shocking that so much of that funding goes to these losers. This is not your milk money for school lunch. Add to this the cost of their underground transit system.......... |
| Posted by: Roger29 Palms 2018-06-28 15:52 |
| #2 Cops gotta get paid just like terrorists. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-06-28 10:14 |
| #1 Need to make the property rubble then build a nice Jewish centre there. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-06-28 06:44 |