An Israeli court rejected a petition filed by a number of Arab Israeli prisoners against the decision of confiscating their financial allocations.

“The Tel Aviv Administrative Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by 15 security prisoner and their families against seizing hundreds of thousands of shekels received by them from the Palestinian Authority as a reward for the terrorist attacks they carried out,” Israel’s Arutz 7 reported.

The decision of the petition rejection and the confiscation ratification is added to the judicial precedent that was confirmed in July 2020 when the court rejected a similar petition filed by the family of the prisoner, Fakhri Mansour, against the confiscation of their money which they obtained from the Palestinian Authority as a prisoner's allocations.

Defense Minister of Israel Benny Gantz stated following the ruling, "despite the resumption of security coordination, terrorism support will not be allowed.” “We will deepen the fight against terrorism in every way – on the ground, in intelligence and also through economic means,” he stressed.

The prisoners whose petition was denied included Maher ‘Abd al-Latif Yunis, who was a member of the military cell that killed soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980, Ibrahim Naif Abu Mokh was one of the members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine squad that was responsible for the abduction and kill of soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984, Bashir ‘Abd Allah al-Khatib who killed Chaim Taktuk in Ramla in 1988, and Shatila Suleiman Abu Ayada who carried out a stabbing attack in Ras al-Ein, east of Tel Aviv in 2016.

The National Commission for Combating Terrorism Economically of the Defense Ministry is leading the confiscate of the money paid by the Palestinian Authority as allocations to the Arab Israeli prisoners and their families. In addition, it cooperates with the Intelligence Division, the Shin Bet, the Prisons Authority, the Israeli Police, and the Money Confiscation Unit in the Ministry of Justice.

commission has confiscated hundreds of thousands of shekels from the prisoners and their families to date.