Key Issue:NGO Links to Terror Groups
Foreign donors, including European governments, provide significant funding for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group.
Belgium
Via Broederlijk Delen:
- Defense for Children International – Palestine: €170,800 (2017-2021)
Via Viva Salud
- Health Work Committees and Union of Health Work Committees: €955,976 (2017-2021)
European Union
- Al-Dameer: €450,000 (2016-2019)
- Al Mezan: €449,997 (2017-2020)
- Defense for Children International (DCI–P): €732,477 (2019-2021)
- Health Work Committees (HWC), Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC), and Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P): €699,236 (2017-2019)
- Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC): €18.3 million (2011-2017)
- Palestinian NGO Network: €446,482 (2016-2019)
France via the French Agency for Development (AFD)
- Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC): €232,000 (2019)
Ireland via Irish Aid
Netherlands
- Al Mezan: €202,055 via the Dutch Representative Office in Ramallah (2018–2019)
- Union of Agricultural Works Committee: 2013-2021, approximately $20 million (2013-2021) via the Dutch Representative Office in Ramallah; $11,250,000 (2017-2021) via the Dutch MFA.
Norway via the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR): NOK 6.9 million(2019-2021)
- Addameer: NOK 2.2 million (2014-2016)
- Al Mezan: NOK 3 million (2014-2016)
Sweden via the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
- Health Work Committees: $805,487 (2019)
Switzerland via the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
- Addameer: CHF 139,347 (2019)
- Al-Dameer: CHF 77,221(2017-2019)
- Palestinian Center for Human Rights: CHF 334,971 (2019)
- Palestinian NGO Network: CHF 159,625 (2019)
United States via the National Endowment for Democracy
- Al-Dameer: $126,000(2016-2019; funding did not continue in 2020)
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