IDF says the 'Addameer charity association' is funded by terror funds
Israel Defense ForcesIsrael's military, announcing a joint operation with the Israel Security Agency
According to the IDF, the group it calls the Addameer charity association is funded by terror funds and gives legal assistance to imprisoned PFLP members it calls terrorists, and some people working at the association took part in a 2019 attack.
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The Addameer charity association is funded by terror funds and provides legal assistance to members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine held in prison.
“the 'Addameer charity association' is funded by terror funds and provides legal assistance to PFLP terrorists held in prison”
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Israeli forces raid an office in Ramallah that Israel says is Addameer's; the IDF says the group is terror-funded, and Palestinian rights groups call the raid politically motivated
On October 13, 2026, Israeli forces raided offices in Ramallah that Israel said belonged to the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees, two groups Israel designated as terrorist organizations in 2021. Forces confiscated equipment and files and deployed snipers around the nearby Palestine Medical Complex. The next day the IDF and the Israel Security Agency said the "Addameer charity association" is funded by terror funds and gives legal assistance to imprisoned members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council and Sahar Francis, a former Addameer director, called the raid harassment timed to Israel's upcoming election.
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The IDF's Hebrew-language X account posted the joint IDF and Israel Security Agency announcement on October 14, 2026. The post says, in translation, that terror organizations operated under the guise of charities, that the IDF and ISA exposed their cooperation in the West Bank and arrested activists, and links to the full statement on the IDF website.
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Israel National News report of October 14, 2026 that reproduces the joint IDF and Israel Security Agency announcement. It says forces raided the offices of what the military calls the Addameer charity association in Ramallah on Tuesday, seized computers, documents and checkbooks, and arrested wanted individuals, and gives the military's account of a separate raid on an orphans' charity in Yatta.
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Israel National News reports that in a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet, security forces raided the offices of the Addameer charity association in Ramallah on Tuesday. It says wanted individuals were apprehended and computers, documents and checkbooks were confiscated.
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The announcement adds that some of the people working at the association took part in the August 23, 2019 attack at the Danny Spring in which Rina Shnerb was killed, and describes a separate raid on an orphans' charity in Yatta that it says served Hamas.
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The case looks at the October 13 raid on the Ramallah office Israel attributes to Addameer. The announcement presents the raid as a targeted operation against an illegal charity that serves a terrorist organization, so we labeled it a defense of the raid.
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Read the full caseFormer Addameer director Sahar Francis calls the raid part of a propaganda show before Israel's election
“I would claim that this is part of the whole propaganda show that this government is actually implementing just before the Israeli election, couple of weeks before the Israeli election, to send a very clear message to the whole Palestinian society”Read statement
Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council denounces the raid as an attack on civil society
Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council
“The Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) strongly denounces the latest attacks by Israel, as the latest in a series of repressive measures aimed at silencing the work of Palestinian civil society”Read statement
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