Israel accuses Palestinian rights groups of terrorism

JERUSALEM — Israel connected Friday declared six salient Palestinian quality rights groups to beryllium violent organizations, saying they were secretly linked to a left-wing militant movement.

It was not instantly wide what the favoritism would mean for the groups. Most of the targeted groups papers alleged violations of quality rights by Israel arsenic good arsenic the Palestinian Authority, some of which routinely detain Palestinian activists.

The designated groups are Al-Haq, a quality rights radical founded successful 1979, arsenic good arsenic the Addameer rights group, Defense for Children International-Palestine, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees.

The Israeli Defense Ministry said they are linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular, left-wing question with a governmental enactment arsenic good arsenic an equipped helping that has carried retired deadly attacks against Israelis.

The ministry’s connection was released during the Israeli and Palestinian weekend. Representatives from the targeted organizations could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

The Defense Ministry said the groups “constitute a web of organizations progressive undercover connected the planetary beforehand connected behalf of the ‘Popular Front,’ to enactment its enactment and further its goals.” It said they are “controlled by elder leaders” of the PFLP and employment its members, including immoderate who had “participated successful panic activity.”

It said the groups service arsenic a “central source” of financing for the PFLP and had received “large sums of wealth from European countries and planetary organizations,” without elaborating.

Spokespeople for the European Union delegations to Israel and to the Palestinian territories did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

The Palestinian Authority condemned what it said was an “unhinged assault” connected Palestinian civilian society.

“This fallacious and libelous slander is simply a strategical battle connected Palestinian civilian nine and the Palestinian people’s cardinal close to reason Israel’s amerciable concern and exposure its continuing crimes,” it said successful a statement.

The Israeli quality rights radical B’Tselem called the government’s declaration “an enactment diagnostic of totalitarian regimes, with the wide intent of shutting down these organizations.”

“B’Tselem stands successful solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues, is arrogant of our associated enactment implicit the years – and is steadfast to proceed so.”