{"id":82117,"date":"2023-11-26T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T12:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=82117"},"modified":"2023-11-26T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T12:12:18","slug":"uk-aid-must-not-help-martyr-payouts-david-cameron-told-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/uk-aid-must-not-help-martyr-payouts-david-cameron-told-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"UK aid must not help martyr payouts, David Cameron told | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
DAVID Cameron faces calls to conduct a full audit of British aid to Palestine amid fears it helps fund payouts to the wives of terrorist "martyrs".<\/p>\n
Every year the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, spends millions on a shocking practice known as "pay for slay".<\/p>\n
Officially known as the \u201cMartyrs Fund\u201d, it pays out monthly stipends to terrorists and the families of dead terrorists who commit politically motivated violence against Israel.<\/p>\n
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Payouts range from a few hundred pounds a month to \u00a32,500 \u2013 significantly higher than average local salaries.<\/p>\n
While the Foreign Office insists that no UK aid goes to the fund, campaigners say Western aid spent on essentials only frees up cash for the practice.<\/p>\n
"New Foreign Secretary David Cameron must carry out a full audit of UK aid,\u201d independent peer Ian Austin writes in the Sun on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinisters claim they no longer directly fund the Palestinian Authority but he needs to make sure not a single penny end us teaching kids extremism or paying terrorists and their families under the disgusting \u2018pay to slay\u2019 scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UK has given the Occupied Palestinian territories an extra \u00a360 million since the war broke out \u2013 on top of \u00a327 million already committed for this year.<\/p>\n
Most UK aid to Palestine is channelled through a dedicated agency United Nations called UNRWA and goes on health and education.<\/p>\n
But British-Israeli Rabbi Leo<\/span> Dee, whose wife and two daughters were murdered by Hamas in the West Bank in April, warns that the UK is "technically funding its enemies".<\/p>\n <\/picture>FATHER\u2019S JOY <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>bellewing his top <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>TRIAL TALK <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>FLING SHAME <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n He told the Sun on Sunday: "The terrorists who killed my wife and daughters, their families will receive about a million dollars per family over the next<\/span> 40 years in payment.<\/p>\n "What you have is the biggest terrorist incentive scheme that's ever been created in the world and it's funded by the West.\u201d<\/p>\n A Foreign Office spokesperson said: \u201cNo UK aid is used for payments to Palestinian prisoners, or their families or the Martyrs Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n Sources insisted UK aid undergoes rigorous oversight to minimise the risks of diversion.<\/p>\nMost read in The Sun<\/h2>\n
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