The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the State Department’s budget that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is serious about its promise to “cease the payments” to Palestinian prisoners’ families.
“They have changed that policy and their intent is to cease the payments to the families of those who have committed murder or violence against others” Tillerson reassured the Senate committee.
“We have been very clear with them that this is simply not acceptable to us” he added.
The PA has earlier decided to stop paying salaries to some 250 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails.
