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Foreign Office refuses BBUK request for documents concerning UK aid to Palestinian Authority

Foreign Office refuses BBUK request for documents concerning UK aid to Palestinian Authority

By In Advocacy, Israel, News, Statements On 11 July 2023


Bureau of International Affairs Director Jeremy Havardi and We Believe in Israel Director Luke Akehurst are featured in yesterday’s Jewish News report that

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has refused to disclose and publish documents concerning how British aid to the Palestinian Authority is audited.

This was in response to a Freedom of Information request in May submitted in good faith jointly by We Believe in Israel and B’nai B’rith UK, which was

 motivated by a desire to establish whether or not British taxpayers are funding the notorious ‘Pay for Slay’ scheme where the Palestinian Authority incentivises terrorism by disbursing salaries to convicted terrorists while they are in Israeli prisons, or their families in the event of their death

To read the article in full, see :

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/foreign-office-refuses-request-for-documents-concerning-uk-aid-to-palestinian-authority/