‘Charity’, UK Branch Continue to Push Land Grab in West Bank: Report
WEST BANK (Press TV) – A new report shows the so-called Jewish National Fund charity and its British branch continue to raise money for seizure of more occupied Palestinian lands for the construction of new illegal settlements.
In a new report, the PopularResistance.org revealed that both the Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) and its branch in the United Kingdom, JNF UK, continue to fund the Zionist regime’s land confiscation in the occupied West Bank in direct defiance of international law.
Last month, the parent organization, for the first time in its long history, openly announced that it raised money for further land grab in the occupied Palestinian territories in favor of establishing more illegal settlements for Zionists, which are condemned globally.
The fund said at the time that its board of governors voted through the allocation of NIS (new Israeli shekel) 38 million to help the Zionist regime further usurp Palestinian land and mushroom settlements, the report said.
Such funding comes as "all Israeli settlements, based on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank, constitute a war crime under international law,” the report said.
Furthermore, the JNF UK, the British branch, also continued to be a registered charity, a status that enables it to enjoy tax exemption to collect money for its parent organization, or the JNF, the report added.
"This decision is not an aberration, or a reversal of existing JNF policy, but a clear indication that the settlement expansion driven by Israel’s far right government and emboldened by the support it received from the Trump administration, is set to continue, more blatantly than previously,” the report went on to say.
It was revealed last year that during a two-year period and in a clandestine move, the JNF-KKL spent tens of millions of shekels to usurp territories in the occupied West Bank earmarked for the expansion of illegal settlements.
Simultaneously, Himnuta, a wholly-owned JNF-KKL subsidiary, spearheaded new attempts to force Palestinians from their homes in Israeli-annexed East al-Quds.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
All settlements are illegal under international law. The UN Security Council has condemned the regime’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East al-Quds as its capital.
In a new report, the PopularResistance.org revealed that both the Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) and its branch in the United Kingdom, JNF UK, continue to fund the Zionist regime’s land confiscation in the occupied West Bank in direct defiance of international law.
Last month, the parent organization, for the first time in its long history, openly announced that it raised money for further land grab in the occupied Palestinian territories in favor of establishing more illegal settlements for Zionists, which are condemned globally.
The fund said at the time that its board of governors voted through the allocation of NIS (new Israeli shekel) 38 million to help the Zionist regime further usurp Palestinian land and mushroom settlements, the report said.
Such funding comes as "all Israeli settlements, based on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank, constitute a war crime under international law,” the report said.
Furthermore, the JNF UK, the British branch, also continued to be a registered charity, a status that enables it to enjoy tax exemption to collect money for its parent organization, or the JNF, the report added.
"This decision is not an aberration, or a reversal of existing JNF policy, but a clear indication that the settlement expansion driven by Israel’s far right government and emboldened by the support it received from the Trump administration, is set to continue, more blatantly than previously,” the report went on to say.
It was revealed last year that during a two-year period and in a clandestine move, the JNF-KKL spent tens of millions of shekels to usurp territories in the occupied West Bank earmarked for the expansion of illegal settlements.
Simultaneously, Himnuta, a wholly-owned JNF-KKL subsidiary, spearheaded new attempts to force Palestinians from their homes in Israeli-annexed East al-Quds.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
All settlements are illegal under international law. The UN Security Council has condemned the regime’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East al-Quds as its capital.