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US slams Smotrich’s transfer of $134 million from Palestinian Authority frozen funds – Israel News

NEW YORK – In a Thursday afternoon post on X, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that he signed an order transferring about $134 million from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) frozen funds to victims of terrorism.Smotrich described the order, which he signed on Sunday, as an act of “historical justice,” saying that the PA “encourages and favors terrorism by paying the families of terrorists, prisoners, and released prisoners.”“By the judgments that awarded compensation to the victims of terrorism, we offset the same amounts from the PA’s funds and transfer the...