Scrapping the system of salary-type payments has been a major demand of successive US administrations. Abbas had long resisted pressure to halt the program.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has signed a decree repealing legislation that allocated payments to Palestinian security prisoners based on their sentence length, as well as to families of terrorists killed during attacks,

Abbas reportedly canceled the program, dubbed “pay-for-slay” by its critics, as a goodwill gesture toward Donald Trump.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo RAMALLAH,

The United States and Israel have long condemned the payment of stipends to families of Palestinian prisoners involved in attacks on Israel.

The system — referred to as "pay for slay" by the first Trump administration and the Israeli government — was a major point of friction between the U.S. and the Palestinian Authority. The U.S. and Israel have argued for years that the system incentivized attacks on Israelis,