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The [British] Government has lost a legal battle to keep back secret documents which may support claims that terrorists have been paid using British taxpayers’ cash.

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Campaigners including UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) have long accused the Government of failing to come clean over the alleged misuse of cash, claiming that Ministers have potentially misled Parliament by saying that salaries for terrorists were simply welfare payments.

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Campaigners have demanded that the Department For International Development [DFIF] release an audit of where UK aid given to the PA has gone. DFID claimed that releasing the audit would harm relations between the UK and PA.

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But now the Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has ruled that there is a ‘significant public interest’ in the disclosure of the information. Between 2008 and 2015, Britain paid the Palestinian Authority £430.5 million. More than eight per cent of money from the PA Central Treasury was used to pay terrorists’ salaries, according to documents obtained in 2012 by Palestinian Media Watch. Read more about it here:

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Secret documents may help prove that the UK is paying terrorists with taxpayer cash as government loses legal battle to keep files under wraps
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Aid money said to have funded ‘salaries’ to Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israel
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Monthly payments between £400 and £2,000 came from Palestinian Authority
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Recipients reportedly include master bombmaker Abdullah Barghouti, who was jailed after attacks that left 67 dead
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The Government has lost a legal battle to keep back secret documents which may support claims that terrorists have been paid using British taxpayers’ cash.

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UK foreign aid money is said to have funded ‘salaries’ to Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails for terrorist acts.

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The payments of between £400 and £2,000 a month came from the Palestinian Authority (PA), which controls the West Bank and has received hundreds of millions in British foreign aid.

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UK foreign aid money is said to have funded ‘salaries’ to Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails for terrorist acts - including master bombmaker Abdullah Barghouti (pictured), who was jailed after attacks that left 67 dead. It is claimed that he has been given more than £100,000

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Recipients reportedly include master bombmaker Abdullah Barghouti, who was jailed after attacks that left 67 dead. It is claimed that he has been given more than £100,000 by the PA.

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For the past year, campaigners going through the Information Commissioner’s Office have demanded that the Department For International Development release an audit of where UK aid given to the PA has gone. DFID told the ICO that releasing the audit would harm relations between the UK and PA.

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But now the Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has ruled that there is a ‘significant public interest’ in the disclosure of the information. Between 2008 and 2015, Britain paid the Palestinian Authority £430.5 million. More than eight per cent of money from the PA Central Treasury was used to pay terrorists’ salaries, according to documents obtained in 2012 by Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch.

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DFID Ministers have claimed that since the process was audited by independent accountants, the UK knew where British money was going and it was not going to terrorists. But auditors Pricewaterhouse Coopers has said the narrow scope of its work did not require it to consider whether the money was going to terrorists.

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UKLFI CEO Jonathan Turner said: ‘Those responsible for misleading the public and Parliament to facilitate the payment of large sums of money that were used to reward and encourage murder should now be held to account.’

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A DFID spokesman said: ‘These audit reports contain no evidence that UK aid has ever been used for payments to Palestinian prisoners or their families.’

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[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7318509/Secret-documents-help-prove-UK-paying-terrorists-taxpayer-cash.html]

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\nTerrorist accused of killing a British student will be paid £800 a month by the Palestinian government which receives £25m-a-year UK foreign aid
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\n• Palestinian Jamil Tamimi murdered British theology student Hannah Bladon
\n• He told police that he attacked Hannah in the hope a soldier would kill him
\n• His family qualify for a 'salary' from the Palestinian Authority of £800 a month
\n• Palestine receives more than £25 million a year from the UK in foreign aid
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\nBy Nick Craven

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\nA terrorist accused of murdering a British student in Jerusalem will be paid a salary of more than £800 a month by the Palestinian government – which receives more than £25 million a year from the UK in foreign aid.
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\nJamil Tamimi, who has a history of mental health issues, killed theology student Hannah Bladon in a frenzied knife attack on Good Friday after the 21-year-old gave up her seat on a tram to a woman with a baby.
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\nThe 57-year-old Palestinian told police that he attacked Hannah, a Birmingham University exchange student attached to Jerusalem's Hebrew University, in the hope that a soldier in the carriage would kill him.
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\nInstead Tamimi was arrested and is almost certain to be lauded as a resistance 'hero' by the Palestinian Authority (PA), like hundreds of others before him.
\nAn Israeli court has already ruled, following a psychiatric evaluation, that he is fit to stand trial and should be treated as a terrorist by the justice system.
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\nIt means Tamimi or his family qualify for a 'salary' from the PA, according to Itamar Marcus, the founder and director of the Israeli monitoring group Palestinian Media Watch.
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\n'According to PA law, everyone who is imprisoned for 'resisting the occupation' receives a PA salary,' he said. 'In PA practice, 100 per cent of the suicide bombers, stabbers, shooters and car rammers have been included in this category and do receive PA salaries.'
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\nTerrorists who have 'resisted the occupation' are paid a monthly amount by the PA and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on a sliding scale related to their sentence.
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\nAn Israeli court has ruled that murderer Jamil is fit to stand trial and should be treated as a terrorist by the justice system
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\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official spokesman, Ofir Gendelman, tweeted his outrage, saying: 'Not only didn't PA president Abbas condemn Hannah Bladon's murder, but he'll reward the Palestinian attacker who did it with a monthly salary.'
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\nInfluential commentator Avi Mayer, a former spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces, added: 'If you're British and you pay taxes, know that your money is going to fund a body that rewards convicted murderers.'
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\nBritish taxpayers give the PA £25 million a year from foreign aid for health and education.
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\nThe Mail on Sunday has repeatedly highlighted the way in which such funding has been abused, and the news comes as our poll shows a pledge to continue spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on aid will be a voter loser for the Tories. Last month, we exposed how terrorism was openly promoted to pupils at West Bank schools named after mass murderers and Islamist militants.
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\nLast December, the Department for International Development announced that it would restrict its payments to the PA to health and education with a 'vetted list' of public servants. But critics point out that when British taxpayers' cash goes to education and health, it frees up money in other budgets controlled by the PA.
\nDFID said: 'UK financial support is only used to provide essential health and education services to Palestinians, as part of our efforts to help deliver peace and the two-state solution. We have extensive precautions in place to ensure that UK money does not support terror groups or organisations.'
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Secret documents may help prove that the UK is paying terrorists with taxpayer cash as government loses legal battle to keep files under wraps

Aid money said to have funded ‘salaries’ to Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israel

Monthly payments between £400 and £2,000 came from Palestinian Authority

Recipients reportedly include master bombmaker Abdullah Barghouti, who was jailed after attacks that left 67 dead