Editing Palestinian Authority (section)

====Payments to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons====
On 22 July 2004, Salam Fayyad, PA Minister of Finance, in an article in the Palestinian weekly, ''The Jerusalem Times'', detailed the following payments to Palestinians imprisoned by the Israeli authorities:<ref name="Ref_av">{{Citation | title=A settlement for the prisoners | work=Jerusalem-Times.net | url=http://www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=449&edition=539 | access-date=19 February 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114065416/http://www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=449&edition=539 | archive-date=14 January 2006 | url-status=dead }} Subscription only.</ref>

# Prisoner allowances increased between June 2002 and June 2004 to $9.6M USD monthly, an increase of 246 percent compared with January 1995 – June 2002.
# Between June 2002 and June 2004, 77M NIS were delivered to Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, compared to 121M NIS between January 1995 and June 2002, which is an increase of 16M NIS yearly. The increase of annual spending between the two periods registers 450 percent, which is much higher than the percentage increase of the number of prisoners.
# Between 2002 and 2004, the PA paid 22M NIS to cover other expenses – lawyers' fees, fines, and allocations for released prisoners. This includes lawyers' fees paid directly by the PA and fees paid through the Prisoners Club.
In February 2011, The Jerusalem Post revealed that the PA was paying monthly salaries to members of Hamas who are in Israeli prisons.<ref>{{Cite news|title=PA paying salaries to Hamas men in Israel's prisons|work=The Jerusalem Post 
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In March 2009, an extra 800 shekels ($190) was added to the stipends given to Palestinians affiliated with PLO factions in Israeli prisons, as confirmed by the head of Palestinian Prisoner Society in Nablus Ra'ed Amer. Each PLO-affiliated prisoner receives 1,000 shekels ($238) per month, an extra 300 shekels ($71) if they are married, and an extra 50 shekels ($12) for each child.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=208966 |title=Extra 800 shekels added to PLO prisoner payments following Abbas' order |agency=Ma'an News Agency |access-date=26 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528000532/http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=208966 |archive-date=28 May 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2016 the [[United Kingdom]] had a domestic debate about how its aid to the PA ended up funding prisoners incarcerated in Israel.<ref name="tdt_13June2016">{{cite news|title=UK aid 'indirectly spent on Palestinian terror groups' former Cabinet minister warns|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/13/uk-aid-indirectly-spent-on-palestinian-terror-groups-former-cabi/|access-date=2 November 2016|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=13 June 2016}}</ref> In October 2016 a sum of £25 million, constituting a third of its aid payments, was withheld pending the results of an investigation.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}