Israel expels Islamic Relief aid worker
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Israel expels Islamic Relief aid worker
5/30/2006 6:00:00 PM GMT
A humanitarian aid worker from the UK based charity Islamic Relief Worldwide
has been deported indefinitely from Israel, Reuters reported.
Ayaz Ali, 36, who worked in Gaza for Islamic Relief, was arrested by Israeli
soldiers earlier this month and held for three weeks. He was released on
Monday and given seven days to leave Israel and never return to the West
Bank or Gaza Strip, even though an Israeli military judge ruled that there
was no evidence against Ali or Islamic Relief.
Ali has been working with Islamic Relief for five years and was appointed as
Program Manager in the Gaza Strip in December 2005. The aid organization
insists that his work is solely humanitarian and neither he nor Islamic
Relief is linked to any criminal or suspect activity in the occupied
territories.
His colleagues say that one of his projects was a toy and book library for
young Palestinian children. But the Israeli authorities allege that Islamic
Relief and Ali "support and assist" the Hamas resistance movement, which now
leads the Palestinian government.
Islamic Relief dismissed the Israeli allegations as "entirely unfounded",
and the organization said it will make representations to the Israeli
government refuting these claims.
The relief organization also said that it doesn't transfer funds to any
organization in the Palestinian Territories, and that all its financial
transactions go through rigorous checks both internally and externally by
the UK Charities Commission and agencies such as the European Commission who
fund Islamic Relief's work in the Palestinian Territories.
"There is not a grain of truth in anything that Islamic Relief or I have
been accused of by the Israeli authorities," Ali said upon his arrival in
the UK.
He added: "I was interrogated for 20 days and every time I made it clear to
them that we do not have any political links and are only interested in
humanitarian work. In the end they found no evidence to support their claims
and were forced to let me go."
Meanwhile, Islamic Relief President Dr Hany El Banna, OBE said: "Islamic
Relief has been working in the Palestinian Territories since 1994, providing
humanitarian aid to vulnerable people. Any aid agency working in the region,
particularly one with 'Islamic' in its title, undergoes regular scrutiny. We
have been accused and cleared every time and will continue to do our duty to
humanity."
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