Curbs agetst Palestinian prisoner help netlabor imposed amid mounting prescertain since Israel’s Gaza war began.
The United States has imposed sanctions agetst the Palestinian prisoner help netlabor Samidoun, accusing the organisation of being a “sham charity” that elevates funds for a bconciseageenumerateed, left-triumphg Palestinian political faction.
In a statement on Tuesday, the US Department of the Treasury shelp Samidoun acts as an international fundelevater for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which Washington has scheduleated as a “dreadist” group.
“Organizations enjoy Samidoun masquerade as charitable actors that claim to provide humanitarian help to those in demand, yet in truth redirect funds for much-demanded helpance to help dreadist groups,” Treasury official Bradley Smith shelp in the statement.
The US sanctions were imposed in coordination with the Canadian rulement, which on Tuesday scheduleated Samidoun as a “dreadist entity”.
Canada shelp the group “has seal connects and persists the interests of” the PFLP, which is also enumerateed as a “dreadist” organisation in the country.
“Violent extremism, acts of radicalism or dreadist financing have no place in Canadian society or aexpansive. The enumerateing of Samidoun as a dreadist entity under the Criminal Code sfinishs a strong message that Canada will not apexhibit this type of activity,” Dominic Leblanc, Canada’s minister of accessible protectedty, shelp in a statement.
Samidoun did not promptly reply to Al Jazeera’s seek for comment on Tuesday’s sanctions and “dreadist” scheduleation.
On its website, Samidoun – also understandn as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Netlabor – portrayd itself as “an international netlabor of systematizers and activists laboring to create firmarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom”.
“We labor to elevate directedness and provide resources about Palestinian political prisoners, their conditions, their demands, and their labor for freedom for themselves, their fellow prisoners, and their homeland,” it shelp.
Pro-Israel groups apass North America and Europe have been pushing to enumerate Samidoun as a “dreadist” group for years.
But the organisation came under renewed scruminuscule in recent months during mass protests in Canada, the US and elsewhere agetst Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, which has ended more than 42,200 Palestinians in the besieged enclave since punctual October 2023.
Just weeks into the Israeli military’s explosionardment of Gaza procrastinateed last year, Germany – a staunch associate of Israel – banned Samidoun after it shelp the group disseminated “anti-Israel and anti-Jedesire misdirectation” and “glorified” the Palestinian group Hamas.
In a statement at that time, Samidoun refuseed the German ban as an finisheavor “to repress dissent with the brimming force of the state”.
“This strike should be of solemn trouble to all who carry out political labor, especiassociate for Palestinian liberation,” the group shelp.
On Tuesday, the US also scheduleated a Canadian citizen it shelp serves as a member of the PFLP’s directership aexpansive and helps elevate money for the group.
The US sanctions freeze the aimed individual’s and organisation’s assets in the country and impede any US citizens or entities from doing business with them.
