UK funds ‘pensions’ for Islamist terrorists in Palestine with UK taxpayers money, says UKIP.
Published Aug 20, 2017
UK taxpayers are contributing more than £16m a year to EU funds which are
used to reward Palestinian terrorists, according to UKIP, which has called on
the payments to be stopped.
“Via EU development funds, of which we contribute 13%, and amounts to
€138 million, the UK still paying over £16 million to the Palestinian Authority
(PA) – despite the UK suspending direct payments from the Department for
International Development over the issue of payments for terrorists in 2016”,
said Lisa Duffy, the UKIP Development spokesman.
“The PA uses a full 8% of its annual budget to provide ’salaries' to
Palestinians convicted of terrorist offences against Israel – payments which are
larger than the salaries of some policemen, teachers and other public employees.
They are on a sliding scale: the worse the offence, the higher the
payment.
"The UK Government must demand the the EU stop spending its money on
non-humanitarian work in Palestine. The UK has rightly stopped funding this
directly, but due to our continued membership of the EU British taxpayers are
paying to incentivise terror in Israel. It has to
end".
