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Derek Stoffel: Pressure grows on Palestinian officials to end payments to prisoners and families of 'martyrs' - World - CBC News

21.9.17

Pressure grows on Palestinian officials to end payments to prisoners and families of 'martyrs' - World - CBC News: To Israel, the stipends are "blood money," paid to people who have attacked Israelis, meant to encourage the killing of Jews.

Palestinian officials are under increasing pressure, particularly from the United States, to end the transfers.

"I am extremely worried that they would stop these payments," said Umm Mohammad, Mohammad Abu Shahin's mother. "We need that payment, because my husband is sick."

They have no money to support their son's wife and two children, she added.


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