AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime will cut the tax revenue it transfers to the Palestinian Authority if it pays the family of the alleged killer of an American-Zionist settler, Zionist Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said on Friday.
Kahlon said he had instructed that any sum paid to the attacker’s family be withheld from tax revenue that the occupying regime collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) under interim peace deals.
"I will examine other ways to limit the economic activity of the terrorist’s family,” he said on Twitter.
American-born Ari Fuld, 45, was reportedly stabbed at a shopping mall in the Etzion bloc of Jewish settlements south of al-Quds on Sunday. His alleged attacker, Khalil Youssef Jabarin, 17, from a village in the occupied West Bank, was shot at the scene and has since been in Israeli custody.
"The attacker is in moderate condition after being shot and neutralized by a civilian who was in the mall,” The Jerusalem Post reported.
It has not yet been decided whether Jabarin and his family will receive payments, according to a Palestinian official.
The Zionist regime has in the past withheld tax funds and in July enacted a law to financially penalize the PA by the amount of stipends paid to Palestinians jailed by the regime, their families, and the families of those killed by Zionist troops.