(Telegraph-UK) The EU is planning to send investigators to Israel to interview Palestinians held in Israeli prisons over suspicions that the PA may have diverted EU donations to fund terrorist operations. Officials from the EU fraud investigation agency, Olaf, visited Israel at the beginning of the year and reviewed documents and testimony presented by the IDF and Shin Bet security service. Investigators decided that the material was authentic and now want to substantiate the allegations from the testimony of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members held in Israel. A BBC documentary broadcast last year claimed that the PA was paying members of the Brigades, which have carried out suicide attacks on Israelis, up to £27,500 a month. In the past decade, the EU has transferred about £1 billion to the PA.
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