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Ramallah – The Palestinian prisoner “A.A.” spent more than a year and a half in Israeli prisons, as he was arrested shortly after the start of the extermination war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, and was released a few days ago with a meager body invaded by boils and the effects of leather scabies.
A few days ago, and with the Palestinian government disbursing the salaries of its employees, he went to the Palestinian Post Office, where during his detention, his wife used to receive allocations that block her children, but the surprise was not to include his name among those who deserve these allocations for the past months.
Later, it was found that the procedure included the allocations of more than 1,600 prisoners outside and inside the occupation prisons, which shocked the families of coexistence with those allocations, some of them for many years.
Between two fires
The suspension of allocations came months after referring the prisoners ‘files – with a presidential decision – to the “Tamkeen” institution, which is concerned with combating poverty and imposes on the beneficiaries of them to fill a form on their social condition to examine the extent of their need to help, which is a measure rejected by the institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs, which also refused to stop the allocations.
“The dedication is the only source of income for the families of the prisoners, because the breadwinner is inside the prison, and from it their wives, children or mothers overcome the burden resulting from their absence,” said Suhair Al -Barghouthi, a martyr’s wife and the mother of a martyr and a prisoner and is affected by stopping the allocations.
“With the bitterness, I say that the prisoners suffer inside the prisons, and the suffering and pain reached their families abroad, the prisoners are fighting in their livelihood, and they have become between two fires: occupation or the measures of power.”
She referred to hundreds of affected families, not excluded, “The presence of a political dimension in the decision”, which she said was “in particular the prisoners of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”
Abu Al -Homs reveals: Security parties instructed to stop the salaries of 1612 prisoners and the government does not want to deal with the prisoners of Hama and the party
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Quds Network Prisoners (@asranews) May 17, 2025
Rejected
In comments distributed by the Prisoner Club, its president, Abdullah Al -Zaghari, said that “preserving the dignity of our families and the rights of their families is a basis for an approach that the Palestine Liberation Organization sought as a legitimate and only representative of the Palestinian people.”
He expressed his rejection of “any decision that would affect the rights of the prisoners and their families,” noting that the club received about stopping the salaries of prisoners and editors.
Commenting on the suspension of the prisoners ’allocations, the“ Lawyers for Justice ”group said in a statement that the procedure came“ based on joint recommendations between the Ministry of Finance and the security services without subjecting them to any judicial oversight, and it represents a seduction and arbitrariness by the executive. ”
The human rights group referred to the violation of the decision of the provisions of the Palestinian Basic Law and its contradiction with the Civil Service Law and the General Retirement Law, and demanded “to withdraw or cancel the decision and stop its effects because it represents a flagrant violation of the most basic constitutional principles.”
In a joint statement, the prisoners’ institutions, including the Prisoners and Editors Affairs Authority of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Prisoner Club, called on the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the national forces, to “adhere to the principles of preserving the dignity of militants and families of the martyrs, wounded and prisoners who presented their ages and their lives for the Palestinian national project.”
The story of allocations
The Palestinian Authority began with its institutions in 1994 in the institutionalization and organization of the prisoners ’file through the Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, and the laws regulating its work, but the experience faced challenges, most notably the accusations of Israel and European authorities of the authority to support“ terrorism ”by paying allocations to the prisoners.
As a result of these pressures, the ministry was canceled and was transferred to the PLO, but on February 10, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas canceled the laws and government decisions and administrative regulations that regulate the disbursement of these allocations from the budget of the National Authority, and referred their files to the “Tamkeen” institution.
According to the head of the captive prisoner, Qaddour Faris, for his rejection of the decision, “about 35 to 40 thousand Palestinian families, inside and outside the Palestinian territories, will be affected by this decree”, including the martyrs and the wounded.
Prisoners’ allocations start from the minimum wage in the National Authority (about $ 500), and rise in the number of years of detention, according to special laws and regulations.
There must be a dialogue
The expert in the issues of prisoners and editors, Hassan Abd Rabbo, explains that what the National Authority and the PLO for prisoners and editors pay “is based on legislation and laws according to the regulations legitimized by the Palestinian political system as rights guaranteed to them.”
He continued that the disbursement of these allocations began in the mid -sixties of the last century with the aim of preserving the moral and legal aspect, as well as enabling the families of the prisoners, wounded and martyrs to manage their life and living with pride and dignity.
Abd Rabbo says that what is spent for the prisoners is “the minimum required to continue these families – which sacrificed and presented for the sake of salvation from the Israeli occupation – their social life in the absence of the head of the family by his martyrdom, injury or arrest.”
Abd Rabbo stressed the importance of dialogue between the institutions of the prisoners and the official authorities “on the basis of preserving the historical and national status and the rights guaranteed of this segment struggling with the Palestinian people, up to common denominators in order to preserve the Palestinian national and social fabric.”
Commenting on the issue of non -payment of power, the salaries of 1612 prisoners .. The Secretary General of the National Initiative Movement, Mustafa Al -Barghouthi, for the “Quds Network”: The prisoners are more than the sacrifice alongside the martyrs, and their rights must be protected in a way that preserves their dignity and in a way that preserves their families, and we call for the disbursement of the prisoners ’allocations without decrease and for everyone without discrimination. pic.twitter.com/snalu8rfd4
Quds Network Prisoners (@asranews) May 11, 2025
What next?
In the opinion of the Palestinian writer and journalist, Mohamed Abd Rabbo, stopping, reducing or delaying the prisoners ’allocations is related to external pressures, especially from the United States and the European Union, which sometimes require the stopping of these allocations as“ support for terrorism ”, as they put it, as a condition for continuing financing or political engagement.
He added, “The Israeli position cannot be ignored in this regard. Israel deducts these allocations from the clearing funds that it uses as a financial and political pressure card.”
He continued, “For its part, the authority may not completely eliminate the allocations and may rearrange them or delay them, and it may be justified by avoiding more financial strangulation and saving what can be saved from its international relations. However, the step raises widespread anger and popularly because the prisoner file is a national line in the Palestinian collective awareness.”
And whether the Palestinian decision is a lifeline with which the clearing can be paid in full, the Palestinian writer said, “Theoretically, this can be done, especially since Israel uses this file as an excuse to deduct part of the clearing funds, but its return is not only related to the file of the prisoners, there are other factors that Israel controls the security situation in the West Bank and political relations between the authority and Israel, then the position on security coordination, so stopping the allocations may not necessarily lead to a file in a file Clearing. ”
He referred to the position of the Palestinian factions, especially the Islamic Resistance Movements (Hamas), Islamic Jihad, and the popular and democratic fronts, which strongly reject any prejudice to the prisoners ’allocations, and this is considered a betrayal of national principles and breastfeeding to dictate the occupation or donors.
Developments with numbers
According to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Finance, the mid -March was published, the occupation is holding 7 billion shekels (about $ 1.95 billion) of minus funds.
The clearing is tax funds that Israel will meet the goods received through the outlets that control it, and it is assumed that it will transform it monthly to power against Rosim by 3%.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the deductions came under multiple pretexts, including: 2 billion shekels (about 560 million dollars) deducted after October 7, 2023, and what the Authority pays to the Gaza Strip, 3.7 billion shekel Jordan.
As for monthly, the Ministry of Finance data indicates that 275 million shekels (about 77.5 million dollars) are deducted as an amount similar to what the government offers to the Gaza Strip, and 52.6 million shekels (about 14 million and 800 thousand dollars) as deals on the pretext of allocations of martyrs and prisoners.
It is noteworthy that the reports of the prisoners’ institutions indicate that the occupation forces arrested about 17 thousand Palestinians from the West Bank and an unknown number from the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
