The US State Department informed Congress this month that the Palestinian Authority has not ceased payments to the families of security prisoners and slain attackers, despite a reform Ramallah implemented to end cash transfers awarded in accordance with the amount of time one served behind Israeli bars. “The PA continues to provide a system of compensation in support of terrorism through new mechanisms and under a different name,” the State Department said in a report submitted to Congress earlier this month. US President Donald Trump’s administration made the unusual decision to publicize the report on Wednesday, which exclusively relied on open-source information from the Israeli government and several organizations that have long been critical of the PA. Under a 2018 US law, the secretary of state is required to report to Congress every 180 days if the PA is ending payments to the families of prisoners and slain attackers, which are based on the length of one’s sentence.…