Palestinians summon Dutch envoy over NGO aid cutoff

JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority summoned the Dutch typical connected Monday to entity to the Netherlands’ determination to halt backing to a Palestinian civilian nine radical that Israel controversially outlawed arsenic a violent organization.

In a statement, the PA decried the “unjust and biased” determination to chopped disconnected backing to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, 1 of six groups that Israel outlawed successful October successful what critics said was arsenic an battle connected Palestinian civilian society.

The Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the occupied West Bank and coordinates information with Israel, said UAWC provides captious assistance to Palestinian farmers struggling to stay connected their onshore successful the look of Israeli colony expansion.

The Dutch authorities based its determination connected an autarkic audit of the UAWC that recovered no grounds the enactment was progressive successful terrorism. It said the audit did nevertheless find a “worrisome” fig of UAWC committee members were linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a left-wing militant group. Two erstwhile UAWC employees were arrested successful transportation with a bombing that killed an Israeli teen successful the West Bank successful 2019.

The UAWC rejected the findings, saying it does not interest itself with the backstage governmental activities of its committee members oregon employees. The PFLP has a governmental enactment arsenic good arsenic charities and an equipped wing. Israel and Western countries see the PFLP a violent enactment due to the fact that of attacks going backmost decades that person killed civilians.

Israel says the six groups are fronts for the PFLP but has provided small evidence to substantiate the allegations. The panic designation paves the mode for the Israeli subject to unopen down the groups and apprehension their members, but it has yet to bash so.

The rights groups contradict the Israeli allegations, which they accidental are aimed astatine stifling civilian nine and pressuring Western donors to chopped disconnected funding.

The six civilian nine groups are based successful the occupied West Bank, which Israel captured successful the 1967 war. The Palestinians privation the West Bank to signifier the main portion of their aboriginal state. The bid process crushed to a halt much than a decennary ago.