(Ha'aretz) Noa Shpigel - Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Wednesday that his decision to categorize six Palestinian civil society groups as terror organizations was based in part on information that known terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were on their payrolls without actually working for them. Israeli defense officials discovered that the NGOs, all recipients of EU funding, had let meetings of PFLP members take place in their offices and that PFLP members controlled management of the NGOs and coordinated between them.
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