{"id":549044,"date":"2026-07-19T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/549044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:35:10","slug":"israeli-security-forces-nab-activists-in-terror-ngo-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/549044\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli security forces nab activists in terror NGO &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (July 19, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces arrested several operatives involved in running the Health Work Committees (HWC) during a joint operation lasting several weeks, the police announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The activists who were arrested were involved in the management of HWC, a key part of the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/israel-news\/israeli-security-services-uncover-finance-network-linking-european-ngos-to-palestinian-terror-group\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine<\/a>\u2019s financial operations. Indictments have been filed against some of those involved, and more are expected to be filed in the coming weeks, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous HWC staff members, founders and board members have ties to the PFLP terrorist organization, NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institute, has documented.<\/p>\n<p>HWC has received millions in funding from European countries, claiming to provide health services to the Palestinian population, particularly the poor and the marginalized. It diverts that aid to PFLP. Israel has indicted HWC workers in the past for defrauding European countries of millions by fabricating aid projects.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Israel designated the HWC a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>On July 7, 2021, Israel arrested HWC General Director Shatha Odeh for her alleged involvement in terrorist activity. Following her arrest, the IDF closed HWC\u2019s offices for six months.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" href=\"#image-bc0000\" id=\"image-bc0000\" name=\"image-bc0000\" data-cms-ai=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Judea and Samaria Border Police arrested activists involved in the Health Committees Committees (HWC), a designated terrorist organization, June 16, 2026. Credit: Israeli Police Spokesman.\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784468110_846_.webp\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Judea and Samaria Border Police arrested activists involved in the Health Committees Committees, a designated terrorist organization, June 16, 2026. Credit: Israeli Police Spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Given its 2020 terror designation, that it is still operating at all is \u201cdeeply troubling,\u201d NGO Monitor founder and president Gerald M. Steinberg told JNS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral of its senior officials and employees\u2014including its former general director, former fundraiser and at least three individuals who held financial positions\u2014have been convicted of terror-related offenses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEqually concerning is that several European countries, most notably Belgium, have continued to provide funding to HWC despite its designation,\u201d Steinberg added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is yet another example of how terror groups like the PFLP repeatedly exploit the NGO facade. We call on donor states to immediately halt any remaining funding to HWC, based on its leaders\u2019 ongoing ties with the PFLP,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Israel began cracking down on HWC following the murder of 17-year-old Israeli teenager <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/israel-news\/father-of-murdered-israeli-teen-to-be-discharged-from-hospital\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rina Shnerb<\/a>. Shnerb was killed by a roadside bomb in August 2019 while hiking with her father and brother in the Binyamin region of Samaria.<\/p>\n<p>Walid Hanatsheh, HWC\u2019s finance and administration manager, was arrested in October 2019 for participating in the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 19, 2026 \/ JNS) The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the Israel Police and the Israel Defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-549044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}