Despite U.S. pressure to end the practice, the Palestinian Authority (PA) pays stipends to Palestinians in Israeli jails as well as to the families of “martyrs” who died committing terrorist acts. Jerusalem, however, continues to seek loopholes to protect Palestinian banks from terrorism-related sanctions. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner writes:

Twenty years after Britain outlawed Hamas’s military wing, the home secretary, Priti Patel, has decided to proscribe the entire organization. Stephen Daisley applauds this decision, but observes that London does not yet seem to recognize the dangers of what Hamas represents: