Palestinian Authority employed Hamas's Oct. 7 planners, study finds
The Palestinian Authority’s “pay-for-slay” program helped make the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack possible. That is the contention of a July 30 study by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), which concluded that the P.A.’s policy of financially supporting terrorists “materially facilitated” Hamas’s ability to “prepare for and execute” the massacre.The P.A. “pay-for-slay” program provided indirect support for Oct. 7, IDF Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, author of the study and the director of the JCFA’s Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative, told JNS.His report, titled “Did the PA’s ‘Pay-for-Slay’ Policy Facilitate the October 7 Massacre?” caught the attention of Israel’s Foreign Ministry. “The Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay policy helped bankroll Hamas’s future leadership,” the ministry posted to its X account.The Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay policy helped bankroll Hamas’s future leadership.A new study finds it paid hundreds of millions to released terrorists – including those who went on to plan and…
A study by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) claims the Palestinian Authority's (P.A.) "pay-for-slay" program "materially facilitated" the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack. Authored by IDF Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, the report, titled “Did the PA’s ‘Pay-for-Slay’ Policy Facilitate the October 7 Massacre?”, asserts that the P.A. employed terrorists, including key planners like Yahya Sinwar, who were released in the 2011 Shalit deal. Hirsch states, “the P.A./PLO’s responsibility for the Oct. 7 massacre also rests on the fact that they employed terrorists, simply for being terrorists, and those terrorists, while in the employ of the P.A., carried out the massacre.” The study suggests that P.A. payments, which are legally mandated for released security prisoners, allowed these individuals to dedicate themselves to planning the attack rather than seeking other employment. The Israeli Foreign Ministry also highlighted this, posting that the P.A.’s policy “helped bankroll Hamas’s future leadership.”
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