PLO says $15 million per month being paid in terror stipends – Official estimates as much as $181 million paid in 2020; PA policy of paying salaries to prisoners has won Ramallah international criticism | Timesofisrael

Ramallah may have paid as much as NIS 600 million ($181 million) in 2020 in salaries to Palestinians imprisoned by Israel for security offenses — including terrorism — and their families, a Palestine Liberation Organization official said on Thursday.
“We pay around NIS 50 million ($15 million) per month in salaries,” PLO Commissioner for Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr said in a phone call with The Times of Israel.