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2021-11-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Spanish-Palestinian woman pleads guilty to raising PFLP funds through charity
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[IsraelTimes] Juani Rishmawi admits to defrauding donors on behalf of the terrorist organization for reduced sentence; politicians say it’s proof PFLP uses humanitarian groups as fronts
A Spanish-Paleostinian woman pleaded guilty in a military court on Wednesday to embezzling funds from a West Bank charity on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine terror group, which Israel recently accused of using six other non-governmental organizations as fronts for its terrorist activities.
Israeli politicians hailed the conviction, believing it justifies a deeply contentious decision by the Defense Ministry and the military to outlaw the six groups, prompting at times harsh international opposition.
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Under the deal, Juani Rishmawi admitted to working in the service of a proscribed organization — the PFLP — and illegally bringing money into the West Bank in exchange for a reduced sentence of 13 months in prison and a NIS 50,000 ($16,000) fine. Her sentencing hearing will be held next week.
"According to the facts that she admitted, for years the accused worked to raise money, amounting to millions of shekels from countries in Europe, for the Health Work Committee, which worked on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine," the military said.
Rishmawi, 63, was responsible for fundraising for the organization in Europe.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the money was embezzled using forged documents and by defrauding funders, and that it was used "to fund the activities of the Popular Front."
"PFLP institutions deceived aid organizations in Europa
 ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
through a number of methods — reporting on fictitious projects, transferring false documents, forging and inflating invoices, diverting tenders, forging documents and bank signatures, reporting inflated salaries, and more," the Shin Bet security service said after Rishmawi’s arrest earlier this year.
According to the Shin Bet, the money was used to pay the families of slain members of the PFLP, to recruit new operatives, and to spread the group’s messaging throughout the West Bank, Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
and East Jerusalem.
The military added that Rishmawi raised funds for the Health Work Committee despite suspecting that the money was going toward the PFLP and continued doing so even after "she learned that the organization’s money manager had funded terror attacks against the State of Israel during his tenure."
According to the left-wing B’Tselem human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
group, Paleostinians overwhelmingly plead guilty in military courts due to extremely high conviction rates and lengthy trials in which suspects are anyway kept in jail throughout, which means military prosecutors rarely have to present significant evidence at trial.
"With unbridled cynicism, [the Israeli government] speaks in praise of human rights as they trample them day after day, and hour after hour," B’Tselem said in response to Rishmawi’s plea bargain.
The conviction came shortly after Israel designated six other Paleostinian civil society groups as terrorist organizations for similar allegations, which has sparked harsh denunciations from international rights groups and probing questions by foreign governments, including the United States and European allies.
Following the conviction, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel will "continue to act against terrorism anywhere, however it appears."
His office added that the conviction "proves that the Popular Front uses ’humanitarian’ organizations to raise terror funds."
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, whose office has dealt with much of the criticism toward Israel for the move, called on the international community to "work with Israel in order to prevent terrorist organizations from operating under a civilian guise and to prevent aid money from reaching terrorist organizations."
Israel has yet to publicly release evidence proving that the organizations acted as fronts for the PFLP, though some individuals working for them have been tied to the terrorist group. A dossier compiled by the Shin Bet about the decision to outlaw the groups indicated that testimony from Rishmawi and another employee of the Health Work Committee, Tayseer Abu Sharbak, who was arrested alongside her, provided some of the basis for the move, despite the fact that neither of them worked for the organizations in question.
The investigation into Rishmawi and the Health Work Committee began during a crackdown on the PFLP after members of the organization conducted a deadly terror attack in the West Bank in 2019, which killed Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb and seriously injured her father and brother. 
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