Introduction

Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC) defines itself as a “one of the largest agricultural development institutions in Palestine as it was established in 1986 by a group of agronomists.”

The group adds that “when established, UAWC depended on volunteers completely and formed agricultural committees in the West Bank and Gaza to set the priorities of farmers and help the Union in implementing its programs and community activities.” It is “registered as a non-governmental agricultural organization according to the Palestinian Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations Law No. 1 at the Palestinian Ministry of Interior.”

UAWC rhetoric includes accusations of “ethnic cleansing,” “collective punishment,” and “apartheid,” as well as supporting a Palestinian “right of return.” UAWC also promotes BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns against Israel.

UAWC is identified by Fatah as an official Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) “affiliate” and by a USAID-engaged audit as the “agricultural arm” of the PFLP. According to academic scholar Glenn E. Robinson, UAWC was founded in 1986 by “agronomists loosely affiliated with the PFLP.” 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’.”

It is important to note that UAWC has offices in both the West Bank and Gaza. The two parts of the organization participate in annual meetings together, as noted in UAWC’s Facebook photo album of its 2018 meeting that shows both branches in attendance (the Gaza branch via Skype). UAWC’s West Bank and Gaza branches also share an organizational structure (see Appendix I).

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Founded by George Habash in 1967, the PFLP is a secular Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organization, originally supported by the former Soviet Union and China. The PFLP is a terrorist organization, designated as such by the EU, the US, Canada, and Israel. The PFLP is involved in suicide bombings, shootings, and assassinations, among other terrorist activities targeting civilians, and was the first Palestinian organization to hijack airplanes in the 1960s and 1970s.

The group was responsible for the assassination of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rechavam Ze’evi in 2001, and its members joined with the Baader-Meinhof Gang (a West German radical group) to hijack an Air France Tel Aviv-bound flight in 1976, landing it in Entebbe, Uganda. PFLP members took credit for the house invasion and murder of the Fogel family in 2011 and was responsible for the massacre at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood in 2014 where four worshipers and an Israeli Druze police officer were murdered. The terror organization also praised its “comrades” for their role in the murder of Israeli Border Police office Hadas Malka, and wounding of four other Israelis in a June 16, 2017 attack in Jerusalem. In August 2019, a PFLP terror cell carried out a bombing against Israeli civilians, murdering 17-year-old Rina Shnerb, and injuring her father and brother.

The PFLP has never recognized the State of Israel and opposes all negotiations with Israel, instead calling for the “liberation” of all of “historical Palestine,” regularly by means of terror.

NGO Monitor has identified a broad network of Palestinian NGOs claiming to advance human rights or humanitarian interests that have links to the PFLP terror group.  These connections include current and former NGO board members, officials, and employees who served in the PFLP or spoken on its behalf at public events and taken part in PFLP forums.

Funding

UAWC claims to “reject normalization and political conditional funding.” Yet, its donors include numerous governments and international aid organizations. Additionally, UAWC’s terror affiliation is antithetical to human rights norms and principles. Due to its affiliation with the PFLP, the provision of funds to UAWC is in likely violation of international, EU, and domestic terror financing and material support laws. The organization is therefore an inappropriate partner for governments and individuals seeking to further human rights in the region.

In January 2020, UAWC vehemently opposed a new requirement in European Union grant contracts that prohibits grantees from working with and funding organizations and individuals designated on the EU’s terror lists.

UAWC’s donors have included Canada, France, Netherlands, Spain (AECID), Denmark, Norwegian People’s Aid (Norway), and the United Nations. (See table below for further funding information.)

• The government of Canada claimed (October 2020) that “While Canadian-funded projects with experienced international and Canadian partner organizations have included UAWC as a sub-implementer in the past, we do not currently fund the organization, directly or indirectly.” However, Canada funds a $15.6 million project (2016-2022)with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that lists UAWC as an implementing partner.
• In 2017-2021, UAWC and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) were implementing partners on a €3.7 million project funded by the European Union for “Reform and Development of Markets, Value Chains and Producers’ Organizations.”¹
  • In 2011-2017, the European Union provided €18.3 million to projects involving UAWC.
• In 2017-2020, Denmark provided DKK 87,084,557 in 2017-2020 to the UN-FAO. According to FOA, implementing partners include UAWC.
• In 2017-2021, the Netherlands (Representative Office in Ramallah) granted $11.3 million to UAWC to “implement the second phase of the Land and Water Resource Management program.”
  • On July 20, 2020, the Dutch government announced that it was suspending funding to UAWC over links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). During a parliamentary debate, Foreign Minister Stef Blok and Development Minister Sigrid Kaag acknowledged that an internal government audit concluded that Dutch funds were used to pay the salaries of two UAWC employees who were also members of the PFLP terror organization and then arrested for murder. (See more below.)
• In 2020-2024, UAWC is receiving NOK 70.4 million from Norway via Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) for a project titled “Civil Society influence for reduced inequality in Palestine.”
  • In a letter sent to NGO Monitor, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that “To date, we have not uncovered conclusive information that the Union of Agricultural Works Committee (UAWC), as an organization, is involved in or supports acts of terrorism.
• In 2019-2021, France provided funding for a €650,000project with UAWC as a local partner. Several governmental and sub-governmental bodies provide funding for the project, including AFD ( €232,000),  the Rhone Mediterranean Corsica water agency (€203,440), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur région (€100,000), and the municipality of Les Mées (€2,000).
• In 2019-2021, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) provides UAWC with €400,000for “Improving the economic situation of vulnerable farmers.”
• UAWC received a grant of NOK 49.4 million from Norway (via Norwegian People’s Aid) for a project (2016-2019) titled “Partnership for democratic development in Palestine.” The project is being implemented by 11 NGO partners, including the Union of Palestinian Women Committees (UPWC), a Palestinian NGO identified by Fatah as an official PFLP “affiliate,” and by USAID as the “PFLP’s women’s organization.”
• In 2005-2013, UAWC received AUD 2.3 million from Australia via World Vision.
  • In February 2012, Shurat HaDin (The Israel Law Center) sent legal warnings to the Australian government and World Vision Australia accusing them of funding UAWC, a terrorist group. According to Shurat Hadin, “The Union of Agricultural Work Committees is an integral part of the proscribed terror organization, the PFLP, that Australian citizens and corporations are prohibited from providing support to.”
  • In May 2012, the Australian government announced that it conducted an “examination” and found that “There is no evidence to support claims that AusAID funding of UAWC through World Vision has been in breach of the UN Charter Act.”

UAWC’s Organizational Ties to PFLP

• According Fatah’s website, UAWC is a PFLP “affiliate.”
• 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’.”
• In July 2021, Israeli forces confiscated computers and documents from UAWC’s offices, as well as ordering the closure of its offices for six months.
• In 2014, UAWC opened a center to market agricultural products. The Deputy Secretary-General of the PFLP at the time, Abdul Rahim Malloh, attended the inauguration event.
• In 2012, UAWC organized an event in commemoration of the Nakba, where the group “extended a greeting of love, loyalty, dignity, and pride to our captives in the usurping occupation prisons who are fighting the empty intestine for their rights and freedom. All greetings to them, headed by Secretary General of the Popular Front Ahmed Saadat.”
• In 2011, according to an article in Alwatan Voice, UAWC “honored dozens of prisoners” at an event attended by leading PFLP officials. According to the article, “the Director General of the Agricultural Union Mohamed Bakri welcomed the distinguished guests…. At the end of the ceremony, the Honorary Committee was presented by Mr. Jamil Al-Majdalawi, Mr. Kayed Al-Ghoul, Dr. Mariam Abu Daqqa, Mr. Younis Al-Jrou, Majdi Yaghi…”²
• In 2010 in Ramallah, UAWC “celebrated Land Day in the presence of a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abdel Rahim Malloh.”
• In 2010, UAWC “organized a solidarity day with the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmed Saadat, prisoners and detainees in the Israeli occupation prisons in the presence of the President of the Federation and the Executive Director of the Federation and all its members.”

UAWC – West Bank Employees with Ties to the PFLP

Numerous UAWC staff members, founders, board members, general assembly members, and senior staff members have ties to the PFLP terror group.

Samer Arbid

According to Arabic-language media, Arbid worked as UAWC’s accountant at the time of his 2019 arrest.³ According to Samidoun, yet another PFLP-linked NGO, Arbid was the “financial director of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in the West Bank” in 2016.

Previously, the PFLP-tied NGO Addameer’s website listed Arbid as its accountant for several years.

• According to Israeli security officials, on August 23, 2019, Samer Arbid commanded a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror cell that carried out a bombing against Israeli civilians, murdering 17-year old Rina Shnerb, and injuring her father and brother. According to the Israel Security Agency (Shabak), 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.
  • According to Arbid’s indictment, Arbid was indicted on 21 counts in Israeli military court.  His alleged crimes include:
    • Premeditated causing of death
    • Planting an explosive
    • Multiple counts of premeditated attempt to cause death.  These include involvement in shooting attacks against civilian buses and private vehicles, as well as the August 23, 2019 bomb attack in which Rena Schnerb was murdered.
    • Illegal possession of weapons.
    • Weapons trafficking.
    • Membership in an illegal organization.
• According to UAWC, Arbid was placed in administrative detention in December 2015. According to Samidoun, Arbid “was ordered to an additional three months’ administrative detention” on March 12, 2016.
• Similarly, Samidoun reported that Arbid was arrested on September 23, 2013 and placed in administrative detention.
• According to Samidoun, Arbid was placed in administrative detention from March 2007 to August 2008.
• In an Addameer-produced video from April 2013, Arbid describes his numerous arrests. He states that he was arrested at the beginning of 2003 and sentenced to two and a half years in prison, and served an additional year in administrative detention.

Arbid is seen in a March 2019 photo posted on Facebook by UAWC (Source: UAWC, Facebook, March 21, 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20191030092528/https://www.facebook.com/uawcpal/photos/a.194160117304192/2118876701499181/?type=3&theater)

Arbid at UAWC’s 2018 annual assembly (Source: UAWC, Facebook, May 5, 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20191030092602/https://www.facebook.com/uawcpal/photos/a.194160117304192/1684563951597127/?type=3&theater)

2016 Grassroots International Post regarding Arbid’s 2015 arrest (Source: Grassroots International, Facebook, April 12, 2016: https://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIntll/photos/a.10150263324402756/10153603329272756/?type=1&theater)

2016 Samidoun article regarding Arbid’s 2016 detention (Source: Samidoun, “Palestinian land defender’s imprisonment without charge or trial extended by Israeli military occupation,” March 14, 2016: https://samidoun.net/2016/03/palestinian-land-defenders-imprisonment-without-charge-or-trial-extended-by-israeli-military-occupation/)

Abdul Razeq Farraj

UAWC Finance and Administration Director.⁴

• Farraj was arrested on October 23, 2019 and indicted on 4 counts in Israeli military court.  His alleged crimes include:
  • Holding a position in an illegal organization. This allegedly included responsibility for recruiting new members into the PFLP. Under this count, the indictment notes that Samer Arbid informed Farraj about “attacks and attempted attacks” carried out by the terror cell led by the former, as well as details pertaining to its weapons and explosives.
  • Aiding an attempt to cause death in connection to the August 2019 bombing.
• The indictment also states that “a few days after the terror attack, Farraj met with Hanatsheh at Farraj’s place of work office and the two discussed the attack.”
• Spent six years, from 1985-1991, in “an Israeli prison after being convicted of affiliation with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.”
• According to Amnesty International, Farraj was released from prison in July 2018 after spending 14 months (from May 2017) in administrative detention.
• According to Addameer, Farraj was also in administrative detention from May 30, 1994-February 1, 1996; April 9, 2002 – July 28, 2006; January 12, 2009 – October 6, 2009; November 27, 2011 – July 20, 2012; and February 25, 2014 until at least October 2015.

Abdul Rzeq Farraj (Source: الحرية لاسير الحرية عبد الرازق فراج, Facebook, May 26, 2014: https://www.facebook.com/710570302335672/photos/a.710583729000996/710604825665553/?type=3&theater)

Ubai Aboudi

Ubai Aboui was UAWC’s “M&E [Monitoring and Evaluation] Officer” until April 2019. Aboudi is currently the Executive Director of Bisan Center for Research & Development, a Palestinian NGO with ties to the PFLP. 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’.”

• In June 2020, he 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).

Ismat al-Shuli 

Member of UAWC’s Board of Directors until at least 2016.⁵

• Al-Shuli was in Israeli prison for seven years, beginning in 1975, for “belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.” He was also in jail for “five years from 1983 to 1988,and then administrative detention for two periods of 16 months, 1989 and then again in 1990, bringing the number of years in detention to 14 years.” Al-Shuli was again arrested on March 4, 2014 and released on January 1, 2015 after 10 months in administrative detention.
• A December 2017 article in Palestinian media refers to al-Shuli as a “PFLP leader” and refers to a statement he gave during a “mass rally” through the streets of Ramallah with “thousands of Palestinians, including supporters of the PFLP.”
• In September 2016, al-Shuli spoke at a PFLP event commemorating PFLP Secretary General Abu Ali Mustafa and was referred to as a PFLP “leader.”
• On March 30, 2010, Al-Shuli attended a UAWC “Land Day” celebration. Other attendees included PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Abdel Rahim Malloh and UAWC board members Bashir Al Khairi, Al-Barghouthi, and Khalid Al-Hadmi.

Khaled Hidmi

Was UAWC’s General Director until 2014.

• Hidmi simultaneously headed the UAWC’s West Bank branch and the Israeli Agricultural Work Committee organization. This Israeli entity was disbanded by a court order in 2018 due to financial irregularities and a lack of transparency (on file with NGO Monitor).
• As mentioned above, in 2014, UAWC opened a new center to market agricultural products. The center’s inaugural event was attended by Hidmi, as well as Abdul Rahim Malloh, then Deputy Secretary-General of the PFLP.

Khaled Al-Hadmi (left) with PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Abdel Rahim Malloh. (Source: https://www.wattan.tv/ar/news/112805.html)

Hadmi and PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Abdel Rahim Malloh together at a UAWC in event. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190706210803/http:/uawc-pal.org/Files/cb283a5a-bacf-462f-90cd-f015748760ec.pdf.pdf

Yusuf Abd al-Haq

Yusuf Abd al-Haq was member of UAWC’s Board of Directors until at least 2016. In 2014, Abd al-Haq was referred to as a legal and economic adviser at a UAWC conference. In 2018, he took part in the UAWC’s annual general assembly.

• Referred to, on multiple occasions, as a PFLP “leader.”
• In February 2014, according to the PFLP, “Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, a former lecturer at the university, spoke on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, discussing Habash’s life as well as a current political analysis of the Palestinian cause.”⁶
• In 2014, according to Al Jazeera, “The Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests that included leaders and cadres of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at An-Najah University in Nablus in the northern West Bank. Dr. Yousef Abdul-Haq – Professor of Economics at An-Najah University in Nablus – was one of the most prominent detainees…”

Bashir al-Khairi

Former president of UAWC’s Board (until 2011).

• Al-Khairi appeared on the PFLP list for the scheduled May 2021 Palestinian Legislative Elections, which were postponed indefinitely.
• A May 4, 2014 PFLP article refers to Al-Khairi as a “leader” and a “comrade.” The article also explains that Al-Khairi attended a May 1, 2014 PFLP event where a mural was unveiled “honouring al-Hakim, Dr. George Habash, the founder of the Front and the Arab Nationalist Movement.
• In August 2014, according to the PFLP, al-Khairi stressed that the “approach of resistance and liberation in the life of Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa is still firmly in the mind of every free Palestinian” at a PFLP event commemorating the “13^th Anniversary of Martyrdom of its Secretary General Abu Ali Mustafa.” At the event, Al-Khairi stated that “the time has come to recognize those who contributed to the steadfastness of Gaza in its war against the Zionist enemy, namely Iran, Syria, and Lebanon, headed by Hezbollah.”
• According to a 2002 CNN article, Khairi was the head of the PFLP political bureau.
• According to a 2013 AusAID document, Bashir al Khairi was “convicted of terrorist offences in 1969 and gaoled for 15 years.”
• In statements in 2012 and 2014, the PFLP referred to Al-Khairi as an “historic leader,” a “comrade,” and a “leader.”
• Khairi was arrested in 2010 and 2011. According to an article in Arabic language media, in 2010, Al-Khairi was arrested by the IDF along with other PFLP members. The article refers to him as being a member of the PFLP’s National Council.
• Al-Khairi also served on the PFLP-tied NGO Addameer’s Board of Directors.

Ahmad Sufan

Member of UAWC’s Board of Directors until at least 2012.⁷

• According to Palestinian media, in 2014, “The members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Sufan and Yasin Farraj were arrested.”
• Sufan was also arrested in 2012.

Muhammad Nujum 

Manager of UAWC’s Jericho office, apparently in  2012–2018.

• According to UAWC, in 2012, Nujum was arrested and held in administrative detention.

Fouad Abu Seif

Director of UAWC’s Operations and Development Department until at least 2012.⁸

• According to Ma’an News Agency, on July 26, 2012, the “Israeli occupation forces at dawn arrested the Director of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees Operations and Development Department, Fouad Abu Seif…”
• UAWC “denounced” Abu Seif’s arrest.

Mu’ayyad Bashart

UAWC’s Jericho Project Coordinator until at least 2012.⁹

• According to UAWC, Bashart was arrested on January 8, 2012.

Rezeq Al-Barghothy

Chairman of UAWC’s Board of Directors.¹⁰

• In April 2016, was described in Palestinian media as “The representative of Ahmed Saadat, head of the Popular Front.”
• In 2016, Al-Barghothy participated in a sit-in “in solidarity” with Palestinian prisoners who were on a hunger strike. He is seen standing in front of a PFLP banner and holding PFLP signs for prisoners.

Al-Bargothy participating in sit-in “in solidarity” with Palestinian prisoners who were on a hunger strike. Source: Al-Ayyam, June, 29, 2016 : http://www.al-ayyam.ps/ar_page.php?id=111f6291y287269521Y111f6291

• On August 5, 2017, Al-Barghothy posted on Facebook a eulogy for Ammar Tirawi, a “Palestinian terrorist who carried out two shooting attacks on July 15, 2017,” referring to him as a “hero.”

Jaber Qarmout

According to a May 2018 UAWC’s Facebook post, Qarmout is a member of UAWC’s administrative council.

• In 2017 and 2016, Qarmout celebrated the “martyrdom” of his brother Zidan Qarmout with PFLP members, including a commander of the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades.
• In 2014, Qarmout attended a graduation ceremony organized by the Progressive Student Action Front, the PFLP’s “student organization.”

Jaber Qarmout celebrating the “martyrdom” of his brother Zidan Qarmout, with PFLP members, including a commander in the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades (2017). Source: PFLP, February 25, 2017: Source

UAWC – Gaza Employees with Ties to the PFLP

Zakaria Bakr

UAWC’s “head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee.”¹¹

• Bakr is referred to in Palestinian media as a PFLP “comrade.”
• In 2017, according to the PFLP, Bakr, alongside members of the PFLP Central Committee, participated in a sporting event organized by the PFLP in honor of the anniversary of the organization’s assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi in 2001. Speakers celebrated that “the knights of Palestine and the PFLP overthrew the head of the criminal Ze’evi and sent him to the garbage of history, stressing that the only language understood by the enemy it is the language of bullets.” At the event, Bakr was described as a PFLP “comrade.”

Pictures from PFLP sporting event organized in honor of the anniversary of the organization’s assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi in 2001 (Source: PFLP, October 18, 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20190707085251/https://pflp.ps/post/16040/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%81-%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9-%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%85)

UAWC’s Zakaria Bakr with senior PFLP members, including PFLP Central Committee Member Abu Nidal Toman (middle, with trophy in hand) (Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190707085251/https://pflp.ps/post/16040/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%81-%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9-%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%85)

• In May 2014, Bakr attended a PFLP Nakba day event.
• In February 2016, Bakr attended a PFLP event in support of Palestinian prisoners.

Zakaria Bakr speaking, alongside senior PFLP members Abu Nidal Toman , Jamil Mizher, Mariam Abu Daqqa and others, at a PFLP event in support of Palestinian prisoners. (Source: PFLP, February 8, 2016: https://pflp.ps/post/12655/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%85-%D9%88%D9%82%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%85-%D9%88%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%82-%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A)

• On June 16, 2019, Bakr posted the following virulently antisemitic and graphic image on his Facebook account:

Hiba Abdul Kareem

Was elected to UAWC’s Board of Directors in May 2016.¹²

• The PFLP refers to Kareem as a “comrade.”
• In August 2018, according to the PFLP, Kareem spoke at a PFLP event and “welcomed attendees” in honor of “martyr Jabhahaoui” under the slogan “going on the path of martyrdom and resistance.” Kareem’s speech further paid “tribute” to “martyrs.” According to the PFLP’s description of the event, “the hall was decorated with a number of PFLP banners, pictures of PFLP martyrs and its Secretary General, Commander Ahmed Saadat, as well as pictures of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah…”
• In November 2017, according to the PFLP, Kareem participated in a PFLP meeting. The PFLP cites her as a “project coordinator” and refers to the speech she gave about project implementation mechanisms at the event.
• In December 2016, according to the PFLP, Kareem was spoke at a large PFLP gathering in “memory of the martyr Sami Madi.”¹³ At the event, Jamil Mezher (see above) addressed the PFLP, called for “Intifada and resistance” and celebrated PFLP hijackings and attacks such as the assassination of Minister Ze’evi and the Har Nof synagogue massacre.
• In November 2015, the PFLP referred to Kareem as a “member of the center district leadership” to help “families in need and affected by the aggression…” According to the PFLP, Kareem explained that the “campaign was carried out in conjunction with the launching of the Popular Front and the embodiment of its social and humanitarian role…”

Magdy Yaghi

Former member of UAWC’s Board of Directors (from 2010 until at least 2012). In 2019, Yaghi participated in a UAWC event.

• The PFLP refers to Yaghi as a “member of the regional command” and a “comrade.”
• In February 2019, Yaghi participated in a memorial service organized by the PFLP for Maher Yamani, a PFLP “founder” and “member of the Central Committee and one of its most prominent military commanders.” Yamani “coordinated special operations…in particular the operation against an aircraft of the Israeli company El Al in July 1968 in Greece.” “Fighters” of the PFLP’s Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades and “civil society representatives” attended the event.

Yaghi participated in a memorial service organized by the PFLP for PFLP founder Maher Yamani (PFLP, February 24, 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190701134613/https://pflp.ps/post/18248/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%84-%D9%88%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D9%85)

• In 2014, Yaghi participated in a PFLP trip to several high schools in Gaza to commemorate the 47^th anniversary of the terror group’s founding.

(Source: PFLP, December 20, 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20190702072624/https://pflp.ps/post/9504/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B0-%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A)

Yaghi marching with PFLP members carrying hatchets and Molotov cocktails
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190211125221/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=933934089994971&set=pb.100001351658383.-2207520000.1549889283.&type=3&theater

Yaghi with senior PFLP members Abu Nidal Toman and Jamil Mizher. (Source: Magdi Yaghi, Facebook, December 7, 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20191030091248/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=615742195147497&set=pb.100001351658383.-2207520000.1570004710.&type=3&theater)

Taghreed Jomee   

Served as a UAWC board member in 2010–2012.

• Jomee was a member of the PFLP’s Central Committee until at least 2013.

Jomee with PFLP Political Bureau member Mariam Abu Daqa (Source: Shaker Jouda, Facebook, December 12, 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20190806085556/https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151946660482605&id=5843026048&set=p.10151946660482605)

Suliman Shahin (Shaheen)

According to his Facebook, Shahin works at UAWC Gaza.¹⁴

• Shahin is tagged in a February 2014 photo on Facebook as having received a PFLP award upon his graduation in agricultural engineering.
• Shahin has shared a number of images on his Facebook page, calling for or showing acts of violence:

(Source: Suliman Shaheen, Facebook, April 30, 2014: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1457880494448909&set=pb.100006809172573.-2207520000.1562136969.&type=3&theater)

“Burn and Death to Israel” (Source: Suliman Shaheen, Facebook, July 8, 2014: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1489134694656822&set=pb.100006809172573.2207520000.1562136806.&type=3&theater)

“Blood = Blood #Kill_Them” (Source: Suliman Shaheen, Facebook, July 6, 2014: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1488233458080279&set=pb.100006809172573.-2207520000.1562136806.&type=3&theater)

Funding to UAWC

Appendix I: UAWC Organizational Structure

Source: https://www.uawc-pal.org/Files/a1bc851a-931e-4412-9d32-9205bdb4bed6.pdf.pdf (on file with NGO Monitor).