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Source: Associated Press
Dutch stop funding Palestinian NGO, question Israeli charges
By JOSEPH KRAUSS
January 6, 2022
JERUSALEM (AP) The Netherlands said it will stop funding a Palestinian civil society group recently outlawed as a terrorist organization by Israel but rejected Israels main claims about the group following its own audit.
The Dutch government said Wednesday it found no evidence that the Union of Agricultural Work Committees had organizational ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a left-wing militant group, or was involved in funding or carrying out terrorism, as Israel has alleged.
The government nevertheless decided to stop the funding because it found evidence that individual members of the civil society group were linked to the PFLP, which has a political party as well as an armed wing, and is considered a terrorist group by Israel and Western countries.
Israels Foreign Ministry welcomed the decision, saying UAWC and the five other Palestinian civil society groups it designated as terrorist organizations in October are an organic part of the PFLP. Two former UAWC employees have been arrested and accused of carrying out a bombing in the occupied West Bank in August 2019 that killed an Israeli teenager, prompting the Dutch government to suspend funding pending an independent investigation.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-israel-netherlands-terrorism-96d93d12bf989a4317f501752d09216c
sabbat hunter
(6,891 posts)are those the new code words for left wing terrorists?
Eugene
(62,627 posts)sabbat hunter
(6,891 posts)What they actually are is completely different.