Mick Hartley

A couple of reports from Palestine Media Watch.

Yesterday:

Hamas is again hiding its terror activities in schools and hospitals, as it did before and throughout the Gaza war. It has also redeployed its security forces across most of the regions of the Gaza Strip that are not under Israeli control, the Palestinian Authority official daily has reported. Moreover, Hamas is not only ruling over the Gazans, but it is auditing the activities of international aid agencies and making them pay taxes to Hamas….

The use in Gaza of civilian institutions, such as hospitals and schools, for terrorist activity was a fundamental part of Hamas’ war strategy. It served two purposes—1) It enabled Hamas to hide its terrorists and weapons in places that Israel could not easily detect or fight; and 2) when Israel did attack the terror infrastructures hidden in civilian surroundings, Israel was condemned by the entire world….

So, while Israel is prevented from attacking Hamas during the American-coordinated ceasefire, Hamas is taking advantage of Israel’s constraints to rebuild its terror infrastructures and rule across the Gaza Strip. In addition to the executions, arrests, and injuring of anti-Hamas forces, which have been widely publicized by Hamas itself in order to terrify any opposition, Hamas is secretly using hospitals and schools to enforce its rule, extorting humanitarian aid, and maintaining its armed presence across most of Gaza — all while protected by the ceasefire.

And, from last week:

Two days ago, Israel released 250 Palestinian terrorists, who had been serving at least one life sentence for murder, for the release of 20 Israeli hostages.

While in prison, the Palestinian Authority has paid the terrorists high monthly salaries, and now 160 new Palestinian terrorist millionaires are walking the streets.

In total, Palestinian Media Watch has calculated the PA paid these killers a total of at least 229,523,000 NIS, or close to at least 70 million dollars.

The Palestinian Authority ensures that it very much pays to slay.

A chart gives the payment details for the released terrorists.