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Palestinian president revokes prisoner payments dubbed

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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has issued a decree revoking the system of payments to families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails or those of Palestinians who were killed or wounded during attacks against Israelis .

The U.S. and Israel have argued for years that the system incentivized attacks on Israelis , and repeatedly demanded that the Palestinian Authority revoke it.

The Biden administration, led by its representative for Palestinian affairs Hady Amr , negotiated the issue over the course of two years .