Not just Samir Kuntar.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) recently boasted, via the Palestinian media, about the financial benefits it was supplying for Palestinian terrorists after they get out of jail. This is an issue at the moment because the United States coerced Israel to comply with Palestinian demands to release 102 Palestinian terrorists from prison in order to get the Palestinians to meet Israelis for another round of peace talks. It was then revealed that released prisoners receive up to $50,000 upon release (based on years served) and a monthly pension of $1,135. Earlier this year the Palestinians came under pressure to stop paying imprisoned terrorists salaries.All these Palestinians were convicted of killing people (usually Israeli civilians) but are considered heroes by the Palestinian government and most Palestinians. These payments have been made for over a decade, and the Palestinians sought to keep it out of their English language media so that the Western donors would not get upset and reduce their contributions.
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