Israel puts six Palestinian aid clubs on terror list: some received Dutch millions in subsidy Abroad

According to Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the NGOs are in fact part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group also considered a terrorist organization by the European Union.

“These organizations operate as civil society organizations, but in practice they are a branch of the PFLP leadership, whose main goal is the liberation of Palestine and the destruction of Israel,” the ministry said in a statement. This also states that the international aid funds for these groups, including from the Netherlands, have been used, among other things, to promote terrorism.

Smear campaign

The Palestinian aid clubs accuse Israel of a smear campaign to make it impossible for them to do the job. They are supported in this by international organizations such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah says there is an Israeli attack on ‘Palestinian civil society’.

In the past, our country has often been pointed out by Israel about the, according to that country, dubious links between a series of Palestinian NGOs and the PFLP. Now it goes a step further and declares some of these organizations to be terrorist groups themselves. As a result, firm action can be taken. It recently raided two of them.

Money tap turned off

The Israeli action was prompted by the death of Rina Shnerb in 2019. She was killed in an attack by the PFLP. Two suspects, who are now in custody, were working for the Palestinian agricultural organization UAWC at the time of the terror attack and were paid part of their wages from Dutch aid funds.

One of them, accountant Samer Arbid, is also suspected of having channeled up to 18 million euros in foreign aid money, including from the Netherlands, to Muslim terrorists in recent years. The Dutch government has turned off the funding to the UAWC pending the results of an investigation.

The organization has now been declared a terrorist group by Israel. Just like Defense for Children Palestine, which, through the UN, gave our country about $ 200,000 between 2018 and now. Addameer received money from the Netherlands until the summer of 2018.

Samidoun is now also on the Israeli terror list. The organization is committed to Palestinian prisoners and has a Dutch branch, which organized protest meetings throughout our country last spring – during the war between Israel and Hamas.

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