(JNS) Despite an increased public outcry and international condemnation for the practice, the Palestinian Authority has allocated more than $319 million as “pay to slay” salaries for Arabs convicted of attacking Israeli Jews in 2018, according to a new report by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

The budget allocated funding to 5,000 families of convicts, pocket money to be used at prison commissaries for 6,000 convicts, stipends for 5,500 released convicts and financial grants for 1,500 convicts to be received upon their release.

Many of the convicts were found guilty of killing or the attempted killing of Israeli Jews.

A P.A. law from 2004 entitles any Palestinian prisoner—“anyone who is sitting in the occupation’s prisons for participating in the struggle against the occupation”—and his or her family to a variety of payments. According to Israel’s Prison Service, there are a total of 5,600 Palestinian Authority Arabs in Israeli prisons.

Of the money set aside for terrorists, NIS 691 million was earmarked for the families of those killed while carrying out terror attacks against Israelis or while engaging in battles with Israeli security forces.