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Israel: “Illegal” and officially 6 Palestinian NGOs

THE Israeli army signed a series of decrees Sunday making 6 Palestinians “illegal.” NGOs which recently included in its list of “terrorist organizations”, a measure that is expected to further complicate the work of these organizations.

On October 22, the Ministry of Defense announced that it had appointed six Palestinians NGOs, some of whom work to protect human rights and detainees, are blacklisted for alleged links to the Popular Liberation Front Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist organization considered “terrorist” by the United States and the European Union.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and several Israeli organizations immediately denounced this designation, which could lead to funding cuts for these NGOs, some of which receive European funding, and restrict the movement of their members.

On Sunday, Commander Yehuda Fox, commander of the Israeli army in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territory, enforced the measure by decree, declaring the organizations “illegal” because they are “part” of the PFLP and “endanger” the security of his state Israel”.

The six NGOs, which claim that they did not have access to the evidence against them, have 14 days to appeal against this decision, the decrees underline.

The Israeli intelligence service, Sin Bet, accused the organizations in May of embezzling funds from “several European countries” in favor of the PFLP, with an Israeli source saying “tens of millions of dollars” had been transferred without “any of the let these governments know where the money was going. “

However, little evidence to support relations between the PFLP and the six NGOs is given in a 74-page report by Sinn Beth on the case, which was reported to Agence France-Presse over the weekend by +972 magazine, an independent Palestinian media outlet. , first had access to it.

The dossier is based on contacts with Said Abedat, an “active member” of the PFLP, who was fired for embezzling money from the Health work committees, a Palestinian NGO he worked for and which does not belong to the six “terrorist” organizations.

In statements to the Israeli police, Abedat confirms that the employees of these NGOs are mostly PFLP agents. However, the file does not provide any cross-examination of the testimony of this man and the three other persons questioned in this case.

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