Jerusalem began cracking down on the Health Work Committees group following its involvement in the murder of 17-year-old Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb in 2019.
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.
The activists who were arrested were involved in the management of HWC, a key part of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s financial operations. Indictments have been filed against some of those involved, and more are expected to be filed in the coming weeks, police said.
Numerous HWC staff members, founders and board members have ties to the PFLP terrorist organization, NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institute, has documented.