The European Union's anti-fraud unit (OLAF) believes documents Israel provided showing Palestinian Authority financial support for terrorism are authentic, Israeli diplomatic officials said Thursday.
The German daily Die Welt reported last week that suspicion is growing that money from PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's office was transferred to terrorist organizations.
This means that EU funds were used to help finance terrorism for the first two years of the current violence.
The EU budgeted some 10 million euros a month to the PA from the fall of 2000, when the current violence erupted, to the fall of 2002, when questions about usage of the funds forced the European Commission to stop payments.
The documents Israel provided were taken from Arafat's office during Operation Defensive Shield in March 2002 and transferred to the EU by the Defense Ministry.
Read more details...Getting down to the nub now. The inner workings of the terrorist organizations.
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