Palestinian Authority: Pay terrorists first! Then teachers (if anything's left)!!
Palestinian teachers' warning:
If the teachers' salaries are not paid, the teachers will strike and not open the school year
If only 70% of the salary is paid, the school week will be 4 days
If less than 70%, the school week will be 3 days
But terrorists in prison who need NO money will be paid:
Mahmoud Abbas:
"Even if we have [only] one penny left, it is for the prisoners and Martyrs (i.e., terrorists)...they are more precious than all of us!"
As the school year is about to start, the Palestinian Authority is again showing its priorities. While it continues paying monthly salaries to imprisoned terrorists and "Martyrs" families, costing it $30 million/month – known as the PA's "Pay-for-Slay" reward program – teachers are forced to manage on a fraction of their salaries.
Because of international cuts in funding and cuts in Israeli tax transfers due to refusal to finance the PA's terror rewards, the PA has not paid full salaries to its civil servants since March 2019. At times, salaries were not paid at all, and now the PA is almost two months late paying salaries.
Now, Palestinian teachers have had enough and are threatening a full strike if the PA does not pay them. The General Union of Palestinian Teachers warned the PA:
Posted text: "The Union of [Palestinian] Teachers:
If the teachers' salaries are paid before the start of the school year, the schools will operate as usual.
If the salaries are not paid before the start of the school year, the opening of the [school] year will be postponed until further notice.
If 70% of the salary is paid, the school week will be from Sunday to Wednesday.
In the case of less than 70% [salary], the school week will be from Sunday to Tuesday."
["Salaries of the State of Palestine – Private," Telegram channel,
Aug. 18, 2025]
This is not the first time the PA teachers are striking. On Feb 5, 2023, the PA teachers started a long strike until the PA returned satisfactory pay.
The PA is still in a grave financial crisis, due its "terrorists first" ideology. PA Chairman Mahmoud and PA officials have stressed numerous times that the PA's top priority is rewarding the imprisoned terrorists and the dead terrorist "Martyrs'" families. In January this year, desperate for international acceptance, the PA announced for the world to hear that terror rewards would cease, and prisoners would be paid like all social welfare cases. But a month later, he retracted in a speech to Palestinian leaders:
Abbas at a meeting of the Fatah Revolutionary Council: "I stand by my word: Even if we have [only] one penny left, it is for the prisoners and Martyrs. I will not agree, and you will not agree, to reduce any obligation, any interest, or any penny given to them. They must receive everything, as it was in the past, and they are more precious than all of us! "
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, YouTube channel, Feb. 21, 2025]
Terrorist mass murderers are the PA's most precious. And this is the government some Western countries want to recognize as a state!!!!