CIA unable to corroborate Israel's 'terror' label for Palestinian rights groups

Source: The Guardian

CIA unable to corroborate Israel’s ‘terror’ label for Palestinian rights groups

Exclusive: sources say report shows CIA unable to find evidence to support Israeli claim, but finding does not prompt US rebuttal

Isaac Scher
Mon 22 Aug 2022 10.30 BST

The Central Intelligence Agency was unable to corroborate Israel’s decision to classify six prominent Palestinian NGOs as “terrorist organizations”, but the finding did not lead to any official US criticism of the controversial move.

In October, Israel labeled as terror groups Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for Children International–Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees.

Israel claimed that the organizations were front groups for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a leftist political party that has a paramilitary branch.

Earlier this year, Israel passed intelligence about the designation to the US, but a CIA intelligence assessment of the material did not find any evidence to support the claim, according to two sources familiar with the study.

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