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Thursday, March 16, 2017
Liberman declares Palestinian National Fund a terrorist organization
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDefense Minister Avigdor Liberman declares the “Palestinian National Fund” to be a terrorist organization, accusing it of providing “massive support” to terrorists and funneling “tens of millions of shekels” to Palestinian security prisoners and their families each month.
“The fund has a crucial role in the financial support for Palestinian terrorist operatives imprisoned in Israel, and it is used as the most significant route for transferring money,” Liberman says in a statement.
The defense minister says that Israel will take steps to seize the fund’s “money and property” in order to prevent the support of terror.
In order to declare the fund a terrorist organization, Liberman invoked Israel’s 2016 “Fight Against Terror” law.
— Judah Ari Gross
The Times of Israel Community.