SAMED

SAMED, short for Palestine Martyrs Works Society ({{Langx|ar|جمعية أعمال شهداء فلسطين|translit=Jamʿiyyat aʿmāl šuhadāʾ Filasṭīn}}), is the economic institution of the PLO. It represents the PLO at economic conferences in Arab countries. SAMED is also involved in the political, cultural, and social fields.[http://www.zajel.org/article_view.asp?newsID=2534&cat=5 Institute of Arab Studies]

For many years, SAMED handled the distribution of cash compensation to the families of martyrs killed in attacks on Israel, payments now handled by the Palestinian Authority Martyr's Fund.{{cite book|last1=Marron|first1=Rayyar|title=Humanitarian Rackets and their Moral Hazards: The Case of the Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1317119494|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iz37CwAAQBAJ&dq=palestinian++martyrs+fund&pg=PT134|accessdate=8 June 2017}}

SAMED was set up by the PLO as a front company, a commercial and manufacturing entity. Most SAMED workshops were then in the refugee camps in northern Lebanon. Since then its activities have expanded.[http://countrystudies.us/jordan/62.htm Jordan - The Palestinians and the PLO]

Following its establishment, SAMED operated across the spaces of Palestinian exile while it maintained a global reach beyond Palestinian refugee camps, namely with workshops and collaborations in other allied states, particularly in Africa.{{Cite book |last=Feldman |first=Ilana |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1043049820 |title=Life lived in relief : humanitarian predicaments and Palestinian refugee politics |date=2018 |isbn=978-0-520-97128-8 |location=Oakland, California |oclc=1043049820}} In the past, SAMED regularly published a scholarly economics journal called Samed al-Iqtisadi (SAMED Economist). The journal was part of a broader PLO-supported media landscape that included newspapers, radio, and film production.