The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) is an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian umbrella group that is based in the West Bank city of Ramallah with major influence in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. 1 2 As of 2020, PNGO consisted of approximately 135 member groups, all of which provide aid to Palestinians. 3 The Palestinian NGO Network is a member of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, an international effort to delegitimize and isolate the State of Israel. 4
The Palestinian NGO Network and its members maintain ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an umbrella organization and political party for a number of militant groups connected to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). As of 2021, the PFLP is a designated terror organization by the United States State Department. 4 5
Due to its history of anti-Israel rhetoric and activities and its connections to terrorism, PNGO has suffered funding restrictions from the European Union and several countries, including Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany. 6
History
The Palestinian NGO Network was established in September 1993, as a response to the signing of the Oslo Accords, which vested Palestinian representative power in the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was dominated by Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PLO transformed itself from a predominantly military organization into the political coalition Fatah. After the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Palestinian National Council were created as vehicles to increase the Palestinian people’s capacity to engage in democratic politics. Still, Fatah dominated the PA and marginalized other political groups, including the Legislative and National Councils. This, and the PLO’s failure to achieve peace with Israel and Palestinian national sovereignty, created more popular support for radical Islamist forces, such as Hamas, which perpetuate terrorism against the State of Israel. 7
PNGO’s stated objective is to enhance coordination, consultation, and cooperation between member organizations working in different developmental domains. Because of the security measures imposed by Israel which divided the Gaza Strip and the West Bank into disconnected areas, the PNGO developed its two main offices in these areas which are managed by two Coordination Committees elected by the general assembly which represents PNGO members. PNGO has become an important component of Palestinian society, establishing relations with different civil society organizations, such as the Palestinian Union of Charitable Societies, the National Institute for NGOs, the various Palestinian political parties, and the Palestinian Professional Unions. 7
Activities
The Palestinian NGO Network carries out its activities through different committees from its members working in the following five main sectors: health, democracy and human rights, women and children, rehabilitation, and agriculture. Any nongovernmental organization can join the PNGO once it meets a set of criteria. The PNGO’s role is to establish general guidelines and coordinate the NGOs’ work but has no line authority on the NGOs. At present, the PNGO has approximately 135 national NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that work across sectors in different developmental fields. 7
In addition to its work within Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, the PNGO publishes articles and blog posts, policy reports, and other publications that promote the Palestinian cause in what it considers its struggle for liberation from Israel. 8 The PNGO also publishes open letters with its member NGOs in opposition to changes in NGO finance clauses and contracts that it perceives as anti-Palestinian. In 2020, the PNGO and 134 NGOs signed an open letter refusing the term changes of the European Union’s grant requirements which it said were a result of anti-Palestinian Israeli pressure. 3
In 2014, 42 PNGO members issued a joint-statement urging international leaders to stop Israeli plans of what the PNGO considered to be ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. 9
The PNGO also has a history of what it calls conflict mediation between the Islamist terrorist faction Hamas and the secular-nationalist Palestinian political party Fatah. The PNGO has a specific Conflict Transformation Strategy Group (CTSG) it started in 2007 following three years of training by Responding to Conflict, a British NGO. Following budget cuts to the Ministry of Health in Ramallah in 2009, doctors were forced to refer patients from Gaza to hospitals in Israel for specialized care, which frustrated Hamas and Fatah. The PNGO and CTSG called a joint-meeting, proposed a solution to Palestine’s president and the two ministers of health, and within one week, the patient referral process was reopened, and patients were transferred to the care they needed. Nine patients died while awaiting a transfer to Israeli hospitals. In 2010, the PNGO also helped mediate an energy dispute between Israel and Gaza. 10
Ties to Terrorism
The Palestinian NGO Network has several connections to terrorism through its activities, staff, and rhetorical defense of terrorism. 11 12 13
Connections to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
In October 2014, the PNGO co-organized a conference with the PFLP’s Preparatory Committee and the National Initiative Movement. One of the speakers at the event was the PFLP’s Jameel Mazhar, who “called… for escalating the mass popular resistance against the Zionist occupation, foremost of which is armed resistance, as the most effective way to confront the occupation.” PNGO’s former director Mohsen Abu Ramadan also spoke at the event, adding “it is necessary to…take the decisions of war and peace collectively.” 14
In December 2019, the PNGO, Al-Dameer, and the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) organized a conference that featured a speech by PFLP Prisoners Committee official Alam Ka’abi. Ka’abi was sentenced to nine life sentences in 2004 for his role in recruiting and sending terrorists to several attacks in the early 2000s, resulting in the deaths of numerous Israeli citizens and injuring dozens. 11 12
Also in 2019, Walid Hanatsheh, a member of the PNGO’s board of directors and the financial and administrative director for Health Work Committees, an organization with ties to the PFLP, was arrested for participating in a terrorist attack in which a 17-year old was murdered. The indictment against him alleged that Hanatsheh financed the attack, and the PFLP labeled Hanatsheh a “leader in the Popular Front” following his arrest. 15 16
Defense of Terrorism
The PNGO has also defended the actions and missions of several terrorists and terrorist organizations, most notably Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In 2007, the PNGO helped orchestrate a boycott of United States Agency for International Development funding following United States government demands that NGO grantees sign anti-terrorism clauses as part of their funding agreements. As part of this campaign, the PNGO wrote that the anti-terror clause “ignores the legal Palestinians’ right of resistance against the Israeli occupation.” 17 18
In November 2021, PNGO condemned the decision of the British government to declare Hamas a terrorist organization. 13 In May 2023, PNGO released a statement “hold[ing] the Israeli occupation authorities fully accountable for the martyrdom of prisoner Khader Adnan,” a 44-year old PIJ official. The PNGO claimed that Adnan’s death was a premeditated decision and an assassination by Israel. The PNGO’s statement on Adnan’s death said, “it reveals the true despicable face of the occupation’s actions against our prisoner.” 19 Khader Adnan was arrested in February 2023 and indicted for membership in PIJ, supporting a terrorist organization, and incitement. He died following his 86-day hunger strike during which he refused to receive medical treatment from the Israel Prisons Service. 20 21
Anti-Israel Activities
The Palestinian NGO Network has engaged in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement and has also accused Israel of being an apartheid state, among other anti-Israel rhetoric. 22
In November 2007, the PNGO was one of the organizers of the First Palestinian Conference for the Boycott of Israel. One of the strategies put forth at the conference was to “Emphasize that the BDS campaign does not only target Israel’s economy, but challenges Israel’s legitimacy, being a colonial and apartheid state, as part of the international community. Therefore, efforts are needed not only to promote wide consumer boycotts, but also boycotts in the fields of academia, culture and sports.” 22
From 2018 to 2019, the PNGO supported the United Nations blacklist of businesses supposedly operating across the 1949 Armistice line, aimed at bolstering BDS campaigns against Israel. 23 24 Also in 2019, PNGO signed a statement calling on the German Bundestag to revoke a joint-resolution defining BDS campaigns against Israel as antisemitic. 25 26 PNGO is a member of the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the coordinating body for the BDS campaign, and signed onto several other pro-BDS letters and initiatives, including a 2024 call to “Ban Genocidal Apartheid Israel from the Olympics.” According to the letter, by allowing Israel “in the midst of a genocide, to participate in the upcoming Olympic games would signal to the international community that the IOC approves of the gravest of war crimes.” 27
In 2019, the PNGO and the Rights Forum launched the European Legal Support Center (ELSC), an initiative dedicated to the defense of “individuals and organizations that face false and defamatory accusations of antisemitism and repression” because they support Palestinian rights and through BDS measures. 28 29
In January 2023, the PNGO was a signatory on a “historic call to intensify global pressure to dismantle Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid.” The statement called for international intervention, including “the UN, states and political parties worldwide to designate Israel as an apartheid state.” It called for international entities “to impose on it legal, military-security, commercial, financial, academic, cultural and sports sanctions, just as was done against the defunct apartheid regime in South Africa.” 30
Members
Al-Haq, a Palestinian NGO Network member ostensibly dedicated to documenting human rights violations, is led by Shawan Jabarin, who was convicted by Israel’s High Court in the 1980s of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and subsequently was prohibited from traveling abroad based on evidence he was recruiting for the PFLP. 31
Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-P), a local branch of the Geneva-based Defense for Children International, is closely associated with the PFLP and is a member of the PNGO. At least three figures with alleged ties to the PFLP have been employed or appointed as board members by DCI-P. 31 DCI-P has also accused Israel of deliberately targeting civilians in Lebanon, “terrorizing the civilian population” in Gaza, enacting “collective punishment,” and referred to the Gaza conflict as Israel’s “illegal act of aggression.” 32 33
The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) was identified by USAID as the “agricultural arm of the PFLP.” UAWC personnel with ties to the PFLP include an accountant who negotiated funding from the European Union and an administrative manager, both of whom are currently under indictment for the August 2019 murder of 17-year-old Israeli Rina Shnerb. 31
In October 2021, Israel designated Addameer, Al-Haq, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defence for Children International – Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees as terrorist organizations. 34
In August 2022, Israeli forces raided the headquarters of the six along with the Union of Health Work Committees (previously outlawed in 2020) in Ramallah and al-Bireh, removed computers and equipment, and ordered their closure. Hussein Al-Sheikh tweeted his condemnation of the action. Michael Sfard, a lawyer for Al-Haq, said “Let’s recall that this is all happening after the government failed to convince the European countries who one by one determined that there is no basis for the accusations against the organizations.” Sfard claimed that “an urgent international intervention is needed to protect Palestinian human rights defenders from the Israeli dictatorship.” 35
Leadership
Amjad Al Shawa has been the director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network in the Gaza Strip since 1999. He has been working as a part-time correspondent for the Jordanian news agency Petra since 1996. Amjad has a B.A. in business administration and marketing and a Master of American studies. He also has a professional diploma in teaching deaf children in Gaza. He is a member of The Palestinian Resource Group on Conflict Transformation. 36
Al Shawa is also deputy commissioner general of the Independent Commission for Human Rights and a board member of many NGOs; he is involved in many advocacy campaigns and mediations in the Palestinian territories. Amjad participated in many international and national events and conferences; he has published many articles on human rights and civil society issues. 37 He also speaks frequently on the experiences of Palestinians living in Gaza on radio shows and YouTube. 38 39
Finances
Although the Palestinian NGO Network does not publish its own financial information, it has received funding from several government and nongovernmental agencies. From 2021 to 2024, the European Union (EU) has granted €588,299 ($624,000) to PNGO to “mitigate and reverse the shrinking space trends, to amplify the Palestinian narrative and the effectiveness of Palestinian advocacy efforts.” From 2017 to 2020, PNGO was an implementing partner on a €261,914 ($278,000) project funded by the European Union (EU). 33
In January 2020, the EU inserted a clause in new EU grant contracts to prohibit recipients from working with and funding organizations and individuals designated on the EU’s terror lists. 3 PNGO opposed the language changes, stating that the PNGO’s position was that Palestinian terrorist organizations are in fact “political parties.” 40 The EU backed down from its position and removed the grant restrictions. 31
In 2022, the PNGO was an implementing partner of a $3,853,485 project funded by Italy with the World Health Organization and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS). 41 In May 2019, PMRS President Mustafa Barghouti attended a memorial event organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. It centered on PFLP political bureau member Rabah Muhanna, who, according to information posted by the PFLP, “contributed to the establishment” of several PFLP-affiliated NGOs. 42 Again in 2019, Barghouti participated in a conference organized by the PFLP titled, “The crime of normalization and ways of confrontation,” at which he presented a paper on how parties and factions in Palestine can contribute to boycotts and sanctions against Israel. 33
In 2022, the PNGO received CHF 186,200 ($211,000) from Switzerland. 43 In November 2023, Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) announced it was ending its funding to the PNGO over breach of the FDFA’s Code of Conduct. Swiss media revealed the reason was PNGO’s problematic attitudes towards violence and terrorism. 44
From 2014 to 2021, the governments of the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, France, Norway, Switzerland and the EU provided over 200 million euros ($212 million) to the PFLP’s NGO network. In 2021, four Palestinians were charged with diverting European aid from these countries through PNGO channels to terrorism. 45
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