Israel Police seize Hamas donation funds from family of dead Palestinian terrorist who massacred 8 Jewish students in 2008

Police seized thousands of dollars from the family of Alaa Abu Dheim in East Jerusalem on Wednesday, which was paid as a stipend by the Hamas group. The funds ($11,800) in Israeli and foreign currency had been given to the family of Abu Dheim, who in March 2008 shot dead 8 Jewish students, in Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav yeshiva and wounded 11 more. Abu Dheim, from the neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, was killed during the attack by an off-duty IDF captain and a student in the yeshiva. _____ On Wednesday lawmakers gave the final go-ahead for a decisive vote on a bill that would slash tax funds to the PA by the amount Ramallah pays out to convicted terrorists. The bill, proposed by MK Elazar Stern and MK Avi Dichter, says that welfare payments paid out by the PA to Palestinian prisoners and their relatives must be deducted from tax revenues Israel transfers annually to the administrative body. The money withheld in this way would instead go into a fund designated to help victims of terror attacks. Under the current law, based on the 1994 Oslo Accords that established the PA and the mechanism for Israeli funding, the finance minister already has the ability to freeze funds. The measure, which would cut tens of millions of dollars from tax revenues transferred to the PA, is similar to a measure recently passed in the US, known as the Taylor Force Act, withholding funding to the PA over stipends to terrorists and their families. According to the Defense Ministry, the PA in 2017 $198 million to the so-called "martyrs' families fund" and $160 million to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club - some 7% of its overall budget. Photos: The aftermath of the Yeshiva massacre in March 2008, The victims, and Hamas funds confiscated in a raid this week on the home of the family of Alaa Abu Dheim, who perpetrated the 2008 yeshiva massacre

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