Several top members of a health organization affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group were recently apprehended in the West Bank, Israeli authorities announce.
The Union of Health Committees was outlawed by Israel in 2021 for allegedly serving as “a central part of the financial apparatus” of the PFLP.
In a joint statement, the Shin Bet, police and IDF say that several senior employees at the Union of Health Committees were arrested after “the institution had resumed operating from its headquarters in Ramallah and continued employing operatives, including members of the Popular Front terrorist organization.”
Among those detained are PFLP operatives, the statement says.
The Shin Bet says that in the past few days, indictments were filed against some of the suspects, and additional indictments are expected in the coming weeks.
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