Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar again accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of lying about internal reforms that put an end to the PA’s controversial “pay-for-slay” policy, which provided financial benefits to the families of terrorists.

The Palestinian Authority rolled out a long-demanded reform to its prisoner payment policy earlier this year after announcing that it would do so in February, moving to condition welfare stipends on financial need, rather than the length of one’s sentence.

But Sa’ar pointed to a statement by Abbas on Wednesday in which the PA president asserted that “loyalty to the sacrifices of our righteous martyrs, our steadfast prisoners, our wounded, and their resilient families is a deeply rooted national and moral obligation.”

Abbas, Sa’ar charged on X, was “continuing to lie about ending the PA’s distorted policy of paying salaries to these despicable terrorists and their families.”

“Instead of ending all payments, he’s disguising many of them as payments to pensioners and salaries of the PA Security Services,” he added, demanding that the international community “hold the PA accountable” for the policy.

He has previously accused the PA of lying about the reform, charging in October that it has extended payments to security prisoners freed by Israel in the ceasefire and hostage release deal that halted two years of........

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