MEP calls on EC to investigate if community funding has gone to finance terrorism

The European Commission should investigate if European Union aid to the Palestinian people have been used, if indirectly, to finance terrorist activities by the Islamist Hamas organisation, Kinga Gál, MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, told MTI on Wednesday.

Gál voiced support for Olivér Várhelyi, EU commissioner for enlargement and neighbourhood policy, who had recently called for a suspension of assistance to the Palestinian Authority and full screening of utilisation of the funds. She also said Israel had the right to self defence, and expressed sympathy with the victims’ families.

Meanwhile, she said the threat of terrorism in Western Europe and demonstrations in support of terrorist organisations are an indication of “Brussels’s migration policy being ill-advised”.

“Talks on the ill-advised migration pact should be suspended without delay,” she said, adding that the community’s external borders should be protected to prevent illegal migrants from entering and removing the possibility for terrorist activities.