al-Aqsa (association)
The al-Aqsa e. V. is an international organization to support Palestinian orphans who lost their parents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . The organization was founded in 1991. The headquarters of al-Aqsa e. V. was in Germany until it was banned in July 2002 .
Projects in the Palestinian Territories such as B. Hospitals and food distributions to the population. In addition, the relatives of those killed receive financial support.
On May 29, 2003, the United States Department of State classified the organization as a terrorist organization . Therefore, all accounts of "al-Aqsa eV" in the USA were blocked and all transactions with the organization became illegal. In Germany, the association was banned in 2002 by Interior Minister Otto Schily , who accused the association of promoting violence and terror in the Middle East and of supporting Palestinian Hamas terrorists. In 2004 the Federal Administrative Court confirmed the ban and declared that the association violated the idea of international understanding and indirectly supported violence through financial donations. Other countries including the Netherlands , Denmark , Great Britain , Luxembourg and Switzerland have taken similar measures.
The European Union names the organization on its list of terrorist organizations.
Occur under other names
- Aqssa Society
- al-Aqsa al-Khayriyya
- al-Aqsa Charitable Foundation
- al-Aqsa Charitable Foundation Sanabil
- al-Aqsa Charitable Organization
- Al-Aqsa International Foundation
- al-Aqsa Islamic Charitable Society
- al-Aqsa Sinabil Establishment
- Charitable al-Aqsa Establishment
- Charitable Society to Help the Noble al-Aqsa
- Islamic Charitable Society for al-Aqsa
- Mu'assa al-Aqsa al-Khayriyya
- Mu'assa Sanabil
- Nusrat al-Aqsa al-Sharif
Further branches are located in:
- Rotterdam , Netherlands ,
- Copenhagen , Denmark ,
- Brussels , Belgium ,
- Malmo , Sweden ,
- Islamabad , Pakistan ,
- Johannesburg , South Africa ,
- Saana , Yemen
and in other places.
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- List of prohibited US Treasury organizations ( August 14, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Protecting Charitable Organizations
- Report of the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia from May 20, 2005.