The Gaza head of the global Christian charity World imaginative and prescient on Thursday pleaded not guilty in an Israeli court docket to aiding the Hamas terrorist group, his employers spoke of, in accordance with AFP.
Israel accuses Mohammed al-Halabi, head of Gaza operations for World imaginative and prescient, of siphoning hundreds of thousands of greenbacks to the terrorist circulate which runs Gaza.
at the district court in Be'er Sheva in southern Israel, Halabi pleaded no longer guilty to all expenses towards him, World imaginative and prescient pointed out.
"World imaginative and prescient has now not considered any credible facts aiding the fees," the organization talked about in a press release quoted by way of AFP.
The world physique of World vision has denied any knowledge of wrongdoing, however former overseas Ministry Director-ordinary Dore Gold had estimated that Halabi "managed to switch within the decade of his work at World imaginative and prescient...tens of tens of millions of bucks."
Following the disclosure of the Hamas infiltration into World vision, Australia announced it will cut funding to the group. World vision itself later reduce jobs and halted tasks in Gaza following Halabi's arrest.
In its remark on Thursday, the neighborhood mentioned its humanitarian work in Gaza has been suspended "as we habits an intensive and broad-ranging evaluation of our operations."
Halabi's lawyers have complained they've been averted from seeing tons of the proof towards him and objected to 2 additional costs being tacked on seven months after his initial arrest.
The trial will proceed on February 23.
In a separate case, a Palestinian Arab UN employee accused with the aid of Israel of aiding Hamas became these days sentenced to seven months in jail as a part of a plea bargain.
Waheed Borsh, an worker of the United nations construction software (UNDP), changed into suspected of having been recommended by a senior Hamas reputable to habits his work within the UNDP in such a way as to allow Hamas to benefit the optimum advantage from it.
