Belgium cuts off school aid

Belgium will no longer cooperate with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while Palestinian schools bear the names of what it called “terrorists”.

The Brussels Times reported on Friday that funds Belgium had allocated for the construction of schools will be suspended but that the country will continue to provide funds for other activities in Palestine such as those undertaken by UN aid agencies.

The Belgian education ministry said: “As long as school names are used to glorify terrorism, Belgium can no longer cooperate with the Palestinian education ministry and will not give out budgets for the construction of schools.” Last year, the name of a school funded by Belgium was changed to ‘Dalal Mughrabi’, who took part in an anti-Israel attack in 1978.