The six NGOs, who claim they did not have access to the evidence against them, have 14 days to appeal this decision.
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The Israeli army signed a series of decrees on Sunday, November 7, making “illegal” up to the occupied West Bank six Palestinian NGOs recently placed on its list of “terrorist groups”. On October 22, the Defense Ministry announced that it had placed six Palestinian NGOs, including some working for the defense of human rights and prisoners, on its blacklist because of alleged links with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP ), a Marxist group considered to be “terrorist” by the United States and the European Union.
On Sunday, Commander Yehuda Fox, head of the Israeli army for the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel, implemented the measure with decrees declaring these organizations “illegal”, because “part” of the PFLP and “endangering the security of the State of Israel”. The six NGOs, who claim they did not have access to the evidence against them, have 14 days to appeal the decision, the decrees say.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many Israeli organizations immediately deplored this designation, which could result in drying up the funding of these NGOs, some of which receive European funds, and limiting the travel of their members.
Israel’s internal secret service, Shin Beth, accused the organizations in May of embezzling funds from “several European countries” for the benefit of the PFLP, an Israeli source claiming that “tens of millions of dollars” had been transferred without “that none of the governments know where the money was going”.