Foreign Minister Eli Cohen welcomed Germany’s decision today (Thursday) to prohibit Hamas activity in the state and declare the Palestinian organization Samidoun to be a terrorist organization. Cohen thanked German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, arguing that “we are drying up the funding sources of terror.”
“I welcome Germany’s declaration of Samidoun as a terror organization. Samidoun is a central fund in the fund network of the terror organization of the PFLP in the guise of a civil society organization,” Cohen said. “This is another step in the decisive implementation and enforcement against Palestinian terror organizations.”
He also noted that “Germany, our closest ally, is a central partner in the actions to defeat terror organizations, in Germany itself and in the international arena.”
As reported earlier, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser prohibited Hamas activity in the country yesterday, as well as the activity of the Samidoun organization which works in Germany to free Palestinian prisoners. She stated that “antisemitism has no place in Germany. We will fight it in all forms and with all the means of the constitutional state.”
The official goal of the Samidoun organization is to aid Palestinian prisoners in an effort to free them from Israeli prisons. In practice, it serves as cover for the PFLP abroad, established by its activists in 2012. The organization’s representatives operate in many countries in Europe and in North America. It is headed by Khaled Barakat, a senior leader of the PFLP abroad, involved in establishing military squads and driving terror activity in Judea and Samaria and abroad.