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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Israel and Germany will discuss means of keeping money away from six Palestinian groups Tel Aviv banned last year to allow funding to proceed for programmes they were intended to run. Israel blacklisted the six prominent NGOs in October, claiming they were “terror groups” – an allegation the rights groups strongly deny. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch at the time called the move, which the United States also rebuked, “an attack by the Israeli government on the international human rights movement”. The decision to look at alternative funding options follows a request by German fore…