Question 31515 — terrorism

Summary

Mr. Meyer Habib alerts the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the existence of a grant of 232,000 euros from the French Development Agency (AFD) for an irrigation and water management project in the Palestinian Territories involving the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC). However, this Palestinian NGO maintains links with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), included on the list of terrorist organizations in the European Union. The PFLP has historically distinguished itself by multiple terrorist attacks of an anti-Semitic nature, including in France and Italy. Thus, on June 27, 1976, it was a PFLP commando, assisted by the Red Army Faction, who diverted Air France flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Entebbe. The terrorists separate the hostages into two groups: Jews on one side, non-Jews on the other, which they release. In October 1980, the attack against the Synagogue on rue Copernic in Paris left four dead and around forty injured. In October 1985, PFLP terrorists hijacked the liner Achille Lauro in Genoa. They threw overboard in his wheelchair an octogenarian and paraplegic American hostage, Léon Klinghoffer, chosen and executed because he was Jewish. Links between the UAWC and the PFLP are documented and established by NGO Monitor in a report available through the following link: https://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngos/union_of_agricultural_work_committees_uawc_/ It appears from this report that at least three senior executives of the UAWC are also executives of the PFLP and directly involved in the bomb attack of August 23, 2019 in Dolev which caused the death of Rina Shnerb, a seventeen-year-old Israeli girl. The Dutch government recently admitted after investigation that Dutch funds were used to pay the salaries of two PFLP-affiliated terrorists employed by the UAWC. At the level of the European Union, in response to persistent suspicions, the Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Olivér Várhelyi has launched an investigation to uncover probable European funding in favor of Palestinian NGOs involved in terrorist activities. He clarified before the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) that such funding “will not be tolerated”. How can France accept that public funds, financed by taxes, are used, even indirectly, to support the terrorist activities of an anti-Semitic organization responsible for the deaths of French people? This is why he asks him if he intends to launch an investigation into the use of French subsidies to Palestinian NGOs, notably the UAWC, and what measures it intends to take in the event of financing of terrorist activities.

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