Nine European Union states said in a joint statement on Tuesday they would continue working with the six Palestinian civil society groups that Israel designated terrorist associations last year due to a lack of evidence for that claim.
Israel designated six Palestinian civil society groups as terrorist organisations and accused them of funneling donor aid to militants, a move that drew criticism from the United Nations and human rights watchdogs.
The groups include Palestinian human rights organisations Addameer and Al-Haq, which document alleged rights violations by both Israel and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank and which reject the charges.
