The Belgian government will freeze all funding to the Palestinian Authority education system after one elementary school built with Belgian support took the name of a notorious Palestinian terrorist, a spokesperson for Brussels tells The Times of Israel.
Didier Vanderhasselt, a spokesperson for Belgian’s Foreign Ministry, says Brussels “will put on hold any projects related to the construction or equipment of Palestinian schools.”
“The Belgian government unequivocally condemns the glorification of terrorist attacks. Belgium will not allow itself to be associated with the names of terrorists in any way,” Vanderhasselt says in a statement.
The Beit Awaa Elementary Girls School, located in southern West Bank’s Hebron region, was built with funds from Brussels in 2012-2013.
The school was later renamed the Dalal Mughrabi Elementary School. Dalal Mughrabi took part in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre, in which she and several other Fatah terrorists landed on a beach near Tel Aviv, hijacked a bus on Israel’s Coastal Road and killed 38 civilians, 13 of them children, and wounded over 70.
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