Background

Act X Palestine (AXP) is a coalition of Palestinian and international NGOs that collaborate on political advocacy and fundraising campaigns targeting Israel, primarily in Catalonia. Several members of the coalition are linked to EU-designated Palestinian terror organizations and/or have been designated by the US Treasury Department and placed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.

On January 29, 2026, AXP is set to host a fundraising concert at Palau Sant Jordi, a venue that the Barcelona City Council lists as a “public centre.” According to the coalition, “The proceeds from this concert will go to support various cultural spaces throughout Palestine. This will be channeled through the Palestinian Performing Arts Network (PPAN) and several independent cultural centers, ensuring that the funds reach the projects and groups directly, minimizing intermediaries.”

Fiscal Sponsorship

According to AXP’s donations webpage, “funds will be deposited in NOVACT, and their allocation will be collectively managed by all the organizations promoting the ACT X PALESTINE campaign” (emphasis added). NOVA Centre per la Innovaci Social (NOVACT) receives funding from the European Commission and the Spanish government.

Proceeds from AXP’s merchandise are allocated to Palestinian NGOs including the PFLP-linked Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC).

Donations to AXP are processed through US-registered Stripe Inc.

Members of AXP

Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

• On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared UAWC a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
• Two UAWC officials – Samer Arbid and Abdel Razeq Farraj – are standing trial for their alleged involvement in a deadly August 2019 bombing that murdered an Israeli teenager. Both of them have been claimed by the PFLP as members of the terror group.
• NGO Monitor’s February 2023 report identifies 17 current and former UAWC board members, officials, and employees who are linked to the PFLP, as well as demonstrating organizational ties between the two.
• On January 5, 2022, the Netherlands announced the cancellation of a contract with UAWC citing ties to the PFLP. The report by an independent investigation commissioned by the government confirmed that 34 UAWC employees in 2007- 2020 had ties to the PFLP, some holding leadership positions in the terrorist group concurrent to their employment at UAWC.
  • The investigation also noted that, based on “18 events that took place in the period between 2007 and 2020,” “there are indications of organizational ties between the UAWC and the PFLP as well.”
• According to a May 2018 statement by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), “Online credit card donations facilities have been withdrawn” from multiple PFLP-linked NGOs, including UAWC.  The statement explains that this was the result of letters to “Visa, Mastercard and American Express, alerting them that they were providing financial transaction services to organisations with links to a terrorist organisation.”

Addameer

• On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Addameer a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
• In June 2025, the US Department of Treasury designated Addameer for “being owned, controlled, or directed by, or for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the PFLP.”
• NGO Monitor’s February 2023 report identifies 15 current and former Addameer board members, officials, and employees who are linked to the PFLP. Additionally, it includes 4 different Addameer officials who have publicly glorified terrorists or praised acts of violence.
  • For example, according to a March, 7, 2022 statement, Salah Hamouri serves as a lawyer at Addameer, a role he has held since at least 2016. In 2005, Salah Hamouri was arrested and convicted of plotting to assassinate former Israeli Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. In December 2011, Hamouri was released as part of the prisoner swap to free IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Since 2000, Salah Hamouri has been arrested at least four times (2001, 2004, 2017-2018 and 2022) and placed in administrative detention for “endangering security in the region.” In September 2022, the PFLP identified Hamouri as a PFLP member who had launched a hunger strike while in Israeli prison. In an October 2011 statement, the PFLP referred to Hamouri as a “comrade.”

Left to Right: Ahmed Saadat, General Secretary of the PFLP; Samir Kuntar, “top Hezbollah operative” and responsible for the 1979 terrorist murder of an Israeli family including a four year old girl; Marwan Barghouti, head of Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades terror group, convicted to five life sentences for murder; and Salah Hamouri (image source: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9q8gi)

Salah Hamouri with PFLP Flag. (image source: HadfNews, September 30, 2018: https://tinyurl.com/v9qf4yx)

Al-Mezan

• On September 4, 2025, Al-Mezan was sanctioned by the US Department of State and placed on the OFAC SDN list on the grounds of “directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent.”
• NGO Monitor’s research identifies 6 current and former Al Mezan board members, officials, and employees who are linked to Hamas and the PFLP.
• In 2017, Al Mezan director Issam Younis participated in a panel discussion on “The requirement for supporting and the success of the national [Palestinian internal] reconciliation.” The panels included multiple representatives of Palestinian terror groups, such as PFLP Political Bureau member Kayed Al- Ghoul, PIJ Political Bureau member Khaled Al-Batsh, and Hamas Political Bureau head in Gaza Yehya Al-Sinwar. Issam Younis addressed the panel together with Yehya Al-Sinwar.

Al-Mezan director Issam Younis (on the right) addressing a 2017 panel with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (on the left)

• Nafiz Al-Madhoun, member of the Al Mezan Board, serves as Director General of the Hamas–controlled Palestinian Legislative Council. A number of Arabic-language sources have referred to Al-Madhoun as a Hamas leader or the head of Hamas’ parliamentary bloc in Gaza. Palestinian government sources have also noted his co-hosting of a September 2011 event for Gaza security personnel with Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri.
  • In March 2023, al-Madhoun participated in  “Jurists Confronting the Occupier,” a legal event organized by the Hamas-affiliated International Center for Law Studies. Speakers included Hamas political bureau members Mahmoud Al-Zahar and Musa Abu Marzouq, as well as Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council member Mohammed Faraj Al-Ghoul.

Al-Haq

• On September 4, 2025, Al-Haq was sanctioned by the US Department of State and placed on the OFAC SDN List on the grounds of “directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent.”. 
• On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Al-Haq a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
• The Israeli Supreme Court has identified Al-Haq General-Secretary Shawan Jabarin as a leading PFLP member on multiple occasions:
• In 2007, the Court identified Jabarin as “apparently acting as a manner of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, acting some of the time as the CEO of a human rights organization, and at other times as an activist in a terror organization which has not shied away from murder and attempted murder, which have nothing to do with rights…” 
• In 2008, the Israeli Supreme Court noted that Jabarin is “among the senior activists of the Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine] terrorist organization.” 
• According to a May 2018 statement by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), “Online credit card donations facilities have been withdrawn” from multiple PFLP-linked NGOs, including Al-Haq.  The statement explains that this was the result of letters to “Visa, Mastercard and American Express, alerting them that they were providing financial transaction services to organisations with links to a terrorist organisation.”
• In 2017, Al-Haq director Shawan Jabarin participated in a panel discussion on “The requirement for supporting and the success of the national [Palestinian internal] reconciliation” (see above). Jabarin joined the panel with Yahya Sinwar via video.

Al-Haq director Shawan Jabarin (far right on screen) remotely addressing a panel with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (far right on dais)

Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P)

• On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P) a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
• Former DCI-P board member Mahmoud Jiddah was imprisoned by Israel for 17 years for carrying out grenade attacks against Israeli civilians in Jerusalem in 1968. He was released in 1985 in a prisoner swap. A February 2017 Al Jazeera article adds that Jiddah was arrested in 1968 for joining the PFLP and carrying out “armed operations in Jerusalem, Hebron, and Tel Aviv.”
• In 2018, Citibank, Arab Bank, and the Global Giving donations platform closed DCI-P’s accounts, as a result of terror-financing concerns.
• According to DCI-P, Hashem Abu Maria “served as the coordinator of DCI-Palestine’s community mobilization unit, promoting constructive child participation throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory” where he “focused on Palestinian teens monitoring and documenting child rights violations in Hebron.” In July 2014, Abu Maria was killed during a violent confrontation in Beit Ummar.
  • Following his death, he was hailed by the PFLP as a “leader,” which issued an official mourning announcement.
  • The PFLP announcement praised his work for DCI-P, stating “he was in the ranks of the national liberation struggle and the PFLP from an early age, arrested several times, and was a model for a steadfast struggler and advocate for the rights of our people through his work in Defence for Children International….With those words, this true revolutionary comrade went to join the demonstration and joined the martyrs of Palestine, his blood shed at the hands of the occupier’s forces. The Front pledges to the leader and his fellow martyrs, to all of the martyrs who have fallen on the path of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine, that the struggle of the resistance everywhere in Palestine until all of Palestine, from the river to the sea, is liberated.”

PFLP death notice for Hashem Abu Maria

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)

• On September 4, 2025, Al-Mezan was sanctioned by the US Department of State and placed on the OFAC SDN list on the grounds of “directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent.”
• On June 27, 2015, the PFLP’s prisoner committee participated in a workshop organized by PCHR. The event was held “in solidarity” with Khader Adnan, a member and “leader” of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, during his two-month long hunger strike. During the event, PFLP prisoner committee member Hani Mezher called on PCHR to “exert a double effort to make urgent contacts with all institutions and raise the issue of prisoners with the international community and the free world so we can save his life.”
• NGO Monitor’s research identifies 6 current and former PCHR board members, officials, and employees who are linked to the PFLP.
• During the May 2023 conflict between Israel and Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, PCHR released a statement affirming “The Palestinian people [have the right] to resist the occupation by all available means, including armed struggle” (emphasis added). This statement was amended after criticism and donor pressure, including from the EU.
• On October 7, 2023, as the Hamas-orchestrated atrocities were being committed, PCHR Fundraising and Program Officer Feda’a Murjan posted on Facebook, “We will truly step in our land. Allah, you are our protector and supporter.”
• Raji Sourani, founder and director of the PCHR, was “prohibited from leaving Palestine [sic] from 1977 to 1990.” According to a 1995 article in the Washington Report, Raji Sourani served “a three-year sentence [1979-1982] imposed by an Israeli court which convicted him of membership in the illegal Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…” He was also denied a US entry visa in 2012. Sourani was imprisoned an additional three times “in 1985 and 1986…” and held in administrative detention in 1988. From 1986 to 1987 he was “restricted from legal work for one year by an Israeli military decision issued by the Israeli Military Governor.”
  • In February 2014, the PFLP organized a ceremony in Gaza honoring Sourani for winning the “Alternative Noble Prize.” Rabah Muhana, a member of the PFLP Political Bureau, delivered a speech at the prize ceremony.
  • During the ceremony Sourani stated that “I was in the ranks of the Popular Front, and there were comrades who taught us with their own hands. This organization has given us much more. We hope that the direction and the sense of belonging that were planted inside us will remain in our minds. We don’t apologize and don’t regret our past, we are proud that once we were members of this organization and we fought in its ranks” (emphasis added).

Bisan Research & Development Center

• On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Bisan a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
• A 2014 dissertation by Sbeih Sbeih (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) on Palestinian NGOs claims that “some [NGOs], because of their link to PFLP, opposed the Oslo Accords. Such was the case of Bisan.”
• On July 29, 2021, Israeli forces confiscated computers and documents from Bisan’s office. In response, the PFLP published a statement “renew[ing] its demand to confront the continuing Zionist violations against the active Palestinian civil institutions.”
• Ubai Aboudi, then Bisan’s Executive Director, was arrested by the Israeli authorities on November 13, 2019. In June 2020, Aboudi was sentenced to 12-months in prison. According to his conviction, Aboudi “was convicted of being a member and an activist of the Popular Front organization during the period starting from 2016 and ending in July 2019.” Specifically, Aboudi “was responsible for recruiting additional activists to the organization from young people and students, as well as strengthening the organization’s infrastructure in the area” (on file with NGO Monitor).
  • Aboudi formerly served as the Union of Agricultural Work Committee’s “M&E [Monitoring and Evaluation] Officer” until 2019.
• Itiraf Hajaj (Rimawi) served as Bisan’s Executive Director. Rimawi was arrested on September 23, 2019,  and  an  Israeli  authorities’ statement  refers to  him  as responsible for PFLP clandestine operations. Additionally, according to the PFLP-linked organization Samidoun, in 1995-2017, Rimawi was arrested several times. A 2016 High Court of Justice decision [HCJ-2524/16] referred to Rimawi as a “PFLP member” who “posed a security threat” (on file with NGO Monitor).
  • According to Palestinian media, Rimawi was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in December 2020.

Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO)

• On December 22, 2019, PNGO, Al-Dameer, and the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) organized a conference on “international accountability mechanisms,” featuring a speech by PFLP Prisoners Committee official ‘Alam Ka’abi. Ka’abi was sentenced to nine life sentences in 2004 for his role in recruiting and sending terrorists to a number of attacks in the early 2000s, resulting in the deaths of several Israeli citizens and injuring dozens.
• On December 20, 2017, PNGO organized a conference on “Palestinian reconciliation.” PFLP official Rabah Muhana was a guest speaker. Mahana is referred to on the PFLP’s official website as a “Member of the Front’s political bureau and one of the most prominent national leaders in the Gaza strip…he was known for his adherence to national principles, the right of return and resistance.” Mahana joined the PFLP in 1979 and was arrested by Israel multiple times, one of them in 2001 in the wake of the assassination of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Zeevi, carried out by the PFLP.
• In October 2014, PNGO co-organized a conference with the PFLP’s “Preparatory Committee” and the National Initiative Movement. One of the speakers at the event was the PFLP’s Jameel Mazhar, who “called… for escalating the mass popular resistance against the Zionist occupation, foremost of which is armed resistance, as the most effective way to confront the occupation.” PNGO’s former director Mohsen Abu Ramadan also spoke at the event, adding “it is necessary to leave the negotiations [with Israel] and take the decisions of war and peace collectively.”
• In October 2019, Walid Hanatsheh – a member of PNGO’s board of directors and the Financial and Administrative director for Health Work Committees, an organization with ties to the PFLP – was arrested for participating in a terrorist attack in which a 17-year old was murdered.  According to the indictment against him, Hanatsheh bankrolled the bombing. Following his arrest, the PFLP labeled Hanatsheh a “leader in the Popular Front.”
• Shatha Odeh, PNGO’s head of the board and head of PNGO’s Coordinating Committee, also serves as the General Director of Health Work Committees (HWC).
  • On July 7, 2021, Israel arrested Odeh for her alleged involvement in terror activity. Following her arrest, the IDF closed HWC’s offices for six months.
  • Odeh attended a memorial event organized by the PFLP that 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.