'Aussie nonprofit funding PFLP-linked Gazan group'
Attorneys at the civil rights group the Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) announced on Monday that they have "conclusive evidence" to show that a Gaza-based organization supported by two Australian groups is linked to the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The Law Center said World Vision Australia (WVA), a Christian child-advocacy group, and Australian government agency AusAID are breaking Australian and US laws by funding the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), which has offices in Gaza City in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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The Israel Law Center said that UAWC board president Bashir al-Khairi is a well-known and senior member of the PFLP, and heads the terror group's political office in Ramallah. According to the Law Center, Khairi was still actively representing the PFLP as recently as January.
A lawyer by profession, Khairi has been arrested several times for involvement with the PFLP, and has served time in prison.
The UAWC board vice-president, Jamil Muhammad Ismail al-Majdalawi, known as Jamil Ismail, is also a well-known PFLP member, the Israel Law Center said, and heads the PFLP political office in Gaza as well as representing the
terror group on the PLO's central committee.
The Israel Law Center also pointed to three other UAWC directors Ramallah-based Razeq al-Barghouti, and Gazans Taghreed Jom'a and Faysal Khalafallah whom it says are also members of the PFLP.
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