CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) International
Profile
Country/Territory | Switzerland |
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Website | www.care-international.org/ |
Founded | 1945 |
In their own words | “CARE International is a global confederation of 14 National Members and one Affiliate Member with the common goal of fighting global poverty.” |
Funding
- In 2020, total income was €781.3 million; total expenses were €810.4 million.
- Lists donors as: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark (DANIDA), European Union, France (MFA), Germany (BMZ), Netherlands, Norway (NORAD, MFA), Switzerland (SDC), United Kingdom (DFID), United States (USAID), UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, and the World Health Organization.
- In 2022, CARE received $1,464,600 from UN OCHA for a project with Ma’an Development Center. (See more on Ma’an below.)
- In 2022, CARE received $698,710 from UN OCHA for a project with the Abdel Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA), formerly known as the Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip (RCS4GS). (See more on ACHA below.)
- In 2020, CARE received $668,498 from the UN OCHA occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Fund for a project with Health Work Committees and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. (See more on these NGOs below.)
- The Australian government funded CARE, in partnership with Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ), on an AUD 40 million (2015-2020) project titled “AMENCA 3: Palestinian Farmers Connecting to Markets.”
Activities
- As a member of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA), CARE has been a signatory on numerous statements demonizing Israel.
- In November 2021, AIDA published a press release condemning the decision by the Israeli Ministry to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations. According to AIDA, “The decision is a further erosion of civic and humanitarian space and stands to significantly constrain the work of the six organisations which have worked with the international community, including the UN, for decades, providing essential services to countless Palestinians.”
- In May 2020, AIDA called for “third states, the EU, and its member states, to devise and publish an exhaustive list of countermeasures to adopt in order to disincentivise Israel’s annexation policies in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
- In July 2016, CARE was a signatory on a petition to “stop this injustice” and “Lift the Gaza Blockade,” as “this blockade is a violation of international law.”
- Signatory to the 2015 Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) “joint agency briefing paper titled, “Charting a New Course: Overcoming the Stalemate in Gaza,” misrepresenting international law and distorting legal terminology to place primary blame for the 2014 Gaza war on Israel. The paper omits Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians, as well as terror tunnels running beneath the border into Israel. The paper further encourages contact with Hamas, stating: “Restricted contact can undermine humanitarian access and implementation of humanitarian programmes…”
- In December 2013, CARE was a signatory on a statement denouncing Israeli home demolitions as they “facilitate the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and the destruction of civilian property is a violation of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law.”
- Issued a joint statement on November 19, 2012, with 44 other highly politicized organizations, calling on the international community to “apply immediate pressure on the government of Israel” and warning of a “widespread humanitarian disaster in Gaza brought on by a prolonged [Israeli] military occupation.”
- In 2008, released a report, alongside Christian Aid, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Trocaire, Save the Children UK, and Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), titled, “The Gaza Strip: Humanitarian Implosion,” stating, “Israel’s policy affects the civilian population of Gaza indiscriminately and constitutes a collective punishment against ordinary men, women and children. The measures taken are illegal under international humanitarian law.”
Partnership with Terror-Tied NGOs
- CARE has provided funding to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Ma’an Development Center, Health Work Committees (HWC), and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS). All four of these NGOs have ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP), a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel.
- In 2022, CARE received $1,464,600 from UN OCHA for a project with Ma’an Development Center.
- In May 2018, Ma’an Development Center employee Ahmad Abdallah Aladini was killed during violent clashes on the Gaza border. Aladini was a “comrade” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization designated as such by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. According to the PFLP, Aladini was active against the “Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.”
- On his Facebook page, Aladini posted PFLP propaganda, including images that glorify violence and terrorists. On May 7, 2018, Aladini posted a PFLP memorial notice for the death of six members of Hamas who were killed during the “crimes of the Zionist enemy.”
- In May 2018, Ma’an Development Center employee Ahmad Abdallah Aladini was killed during violent clashes on the Gaza border. Aladini was a “comrade” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization designated as such by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. According to the PFLP, Aladini was active against the “Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.”
- In 2022, CARE received $698,710 from UN OCHA for a project with the Abdel Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA), formerly known as the Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip (RCS4GS).
- In 2020, CARE received $82,524 for a project with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society.
- In May 2019, Mustafa Barghouti attended a memorial event organized by the PFLP. It centered on PFLP political bureau member Rabah Muhanna, who, according to information posted by the PFLP, “contributed to the establishment” of several PFLP-affiliated NGOs. The hall was decorated with PFLP paraphernalia.
- In March 2019, Sajed Mizher, a “first aid volunteer” for Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) was killed by the Israeli security forces “during confrontations…in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem.” Mizher was a “comrade“ of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization designated as such by the S., EU, Canada, and Israel). Mizher’s funeral procession featured many individuals wearing military gear, PFLP paraphernalia, and PFLP banners. Mizher’s body was also adorned in PFLP paraphernalia, as well as a PMRS orange reflective vest. (For more details, see NGO Monitor’s blog “Palestinian NGO Medic Killed in Bethlehem Clashes Had Ties to PFLP Terror Group.”)
- In 2020, CARE received $668,498 from the UN OCHA occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Fund for a project with Health Work Committees and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society.
- On June 9, 2015, the Israel defense minister announced that the Jerusalem branch of the Health Work Committee is an unlawful association, designated as a terrorist organization by the Israel High Court of Justice (HCJ 3923/15; emphasis added).
- Numerous HWC staff members, founders, board members, general assembly members, and senior staff members have ties to the PFLP terror group. For more information on HWC’s PFLP ties, read NGO Monitor’s report “Health Work Committees’ Ties to the PFLP Terror Group.”
- In January 2020, HWC was designated by Israel as a terrorist organization.
- In 2016, Canada committed $3 million to CARE International for “humanitarian assistance – emergency livelihoods response to small-scale farmers affected by the Gaza crisis.” The project lists Ma’an Development Center as the NGO “implementing partner” and UAWC as an NGO partner.
- UAWC is identified by Fatah as an official “affiliate,” and by USAID-engaged audit as the “agricultural arm” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. According to academic scholar Glenn E. Robinson, UAWC was founded in 1986 by “agronomists loosely affiliated with the PFLP.”
- UAWC staff members, founders, board members, general assembly members, and senior staff members have ties to the PFLP terror group. For more information on UAWC’s PFLP ties, read NGO Monitor’s report “Union of Agricultural Work Committees Ties to the PFLP Terror Group.”
- Samer Arbid, Union of Agricultural Works Committee’s accountant from 2016until his arrest in 2019, was indicted on 21 counts in Israeli military court. Arbid is on trial for commanding a PFLP terror cell that carried out a bombing, murdering an Israeli civilian, and injuring her father and brother. According to the indictment against him (on file), Arbid prepared and detonated the explosive device. On August 30, 2020, the PFLP referred to Arbid as a “prisoner and commander,” and “one of the heroes of the Bubeen operation” — referring to the August 2019 bombing.
- In May 2018, Ma’an Development Center employee Ahmad Abdallah Aladini was killed in the violence on the Gaza border. Aladini was a “comrade” of the PFLP. According to the PFLP, Aladini was active against the “Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.”
- UAWC is identified by Fatah as an official “affiliate,” and by USAID-engaged audit as the “agricultural arm” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. According to academic scholar Glenn E. Robinson, UAWC was founded in 1986 by “agronomists loosely affiliated with the PFLP.”
Care West Bank Gaza
- CARE had been operating in the West Bank and Gaza since 1948. However on August 5, 2014, following the 2014 Gaza war, CARE WBG “temporarily suspended normal operations in Gaza, and will recommence once the security situation allows.” While CARE WBG has posted job openings on its Facebook page, it has not updated its website since August 2014, and therefore it is unclear to what extent they have resumed activities.
- CARE WBG lists donors as: Australia (AusAid), Canada (CIDA), EU, France, Germany (BMZ), United Kingdom (DFID), United States (USAID), and the Ford Foundation.
- CARE West Bank and Gaza’s various projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are individually profiled and list pro-BDS groups Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ), Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee, and Ma’an Development Center as its implementing partners. (See below for list of projects.)
- In June 2012, following demolitions of illegally built structures in the Palestinian village of Susiya, which included a CARE WBG health clinic, CARE issued a press release condemning “the demolition orders that will destroy most of the Palestinian community of Susiya, including an ECHO-funded health clinic run by CARE International in partnership with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. CARE calls on Israel’s Civil Administration to immediately halt the demolition orders in Susiya and on all humanitarian aid projects in the occupied Palestinian territory,” and called on individuals to sign a petition to “stop the forced evictions and occupation.”
Partners
- CARE International has an ongoing-partnership with the Union of Agricultural Workers Committees, an organization founded in 1968 by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and an official PFLP “affiliate.” The PFLP is a designated terror organization by the U.S., EU, Canada and Israel.
- CARE West Bank Gaza lists partners as Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ), Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee, Ma’an Development Center, Women Affairs Technical Committee, Women Affairs Center, Health Work Committees, Union of Health Work Committees, Economic and Social Development Center (ESDC), International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), New Farm Company, Women’s Program Center-Jabalia, Women’s Program Center-Khanyunis, Women’s Program Center-Nussierat, Women’s Program Center-Rafah, Zakher for Development of Women Capacities, Al Najda Social Association, Al Bait Al Saeed Society for Women and Child Care, and Union of Health Care Committees (UHCC-Gaza).
- Listed as a partner of Islamic Relief USA, the American affiliate of Islamic Relief Worldwide.
- Member of Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA), along with American Friends Service Committee, Caritas, Catholic Relief Services, DanChurchAid, EAPPI, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Oxfam Novib, Norwegian Refugee Council, and others. Many of these NGOs are active in BDS and lawfare campaigns, and utilize the Durban strategy to demonize and isolate Israel in the international arena.
- In March 2019, during the violence on the Gaza border, AIDA released a statement demanding Israel “halt the killing and maiming of protestors in the Gaza Strip.” AIDA also supported the UN’s Commission of inquiry report on the protests and called for “full accountability for the unlawful behavior of the Israeli military.” AIDA ignored the violent nature of the protests, which have consisted of an organized armed attack on the Israeli border and IDF positions, attempts to destroy and breach the border fence, and sustained arson, rocket, and mortar attacks on Israeli civilian communities.
- Member of the “Displacement Work Group,” an initiative of Badil and OCHA to “monitor human rights violations (evictions, home demolitions, land confiscations) resulting in the displacement of people from their lands and communities,” along with: Addameer, Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, AIC, ARIJ, Badil, BIMKOM, B’Tselem, DCI – Palestine section, Diakonia, EAPPI, Ir Amim, ICAHD, Maan Development Ctr, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Oxfam UK, Oxfam Solidarite – Belgium, PA Govt. Spokesperson, PCHR, RHR, Society of St. Yves, Save the Children UK, Shatil, UNFPA, Stop the Wall, ACRI, UNFPA, World Vision, WCLAC, and Yesh Din.
- CARE is a member of the United Nations’ Occupied Palestinian Territory Health and Nutrition Cluster, Food Security Cluster, and Protection Cluster.
Appendix 1
CARE WBG Projects Between 2009-2014
Donor | Implementing Partner | Project | Amount | Year |
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Australia (AusAid) | ARIJ and Economic and Social Development Center | Livelihood Security and Civil Society Strengthening in the Occupied Palestinian Territories - TATWEER | $6 million AUD | May 1, 2009-April 30, 2014 |
Germany (BMZ) | Improving the Livelihoods of Vulnerable Households and Small Farmers in Conflict- affected Communities in the West Bank | 972000 | July 1, 2010- April 30, 2012 | |
EU via ECHO | PMRS and Health Work Committees (HWC-WB) | Community-based Emergency Health and Hygiene Assistance in Palestine | €1 million | April 1, 2010- March 31, 2011 |
130 international and local humanitarian organizations | Gaza NGO Safety Office – Phase IV | 500000 | May 17, 2010 – May 16, 2011 | |
Reducing Food Insecurity in Conflict- affected Communities in the West Bank | €1 million | April 1, 2010 – March 31, 2011 | ||
Reducing Food Insecurity through Fresh Food Assistance and Agricultural Inputs to Vulnerable Households in the Gaza Strip | €2.4 million | April 1, 2010 – March 31, 2011 | ||
Canada (CIDA) | Ma’an Development Center and PARC | Quick Impact Agricultural Livelihood Recovery | $3.2 million CAD | July 17, 2009- April 30, 2011 |
United States (USAID) | Eastern Gaza Society for Family Development (EGS), Al Ataa' Charitable Society (ACS) and Beit Lahia Development Association (BLDA) | Eye to the Future - Building Skills and Attitudes that Underwrite and Promote Conflict Mitigation in Gaza | $1.1 million | July 1, 2009 – June 30- 2012 |
Supporting Early Recovery of Agricultural Livelihoods in Gaza | $1.8 million | November 1, 2009-July 31, 2011 |
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