Overturning last year’s decision, the UK believes there is a ‘significant public interest’ in knowing how much of the £430.5 million the UK gives the Palestinians that’s not earmarked for specific targets, but does go “to encourage & reward murder” of Israelis.
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has ordered the Department for International Development (DFID) to disclose audit reports of accounts into which British grant money was transferred and allegedly used to pay salaries to convicted Palestinian terrorists.
The decision, signed on Friday by Jonathan Slee, senior case officer for the Information Commissioner’s Office, overturns a 2018 refusal by both the DFID and its internal reviewer to disclose these reports, following a Freedom of Information request made by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) last year. Continue Reading »