Following
Palestinian Media Watch's report on the program for youth produced by the Palestinian
NGO PYALARA and PA TV that glorified suicide bombers,
PYALARA has removed all reference to its international donors from their website.
PMW reported that
PYALARA listed the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office, Save the Children UK and Cordaid as funders. Currently, all that remains on the donor page is this sentence:
"PYALARA has received generous grants from private and public sources both domestic and international ... Special sponsors include:"
These words are now followed by a blank page as the names of all the "special donors" have been removed.
PMW reported last week that
Save the Children UK had responded that they would investigate
PYALARA in response to PMW's report. PMW has not yet received a response from our inquiry to Save the Children about
PYALARA's removal of its donor page.
The following are screen shots of PYALARA's webpage before and after PMW's report:
[Before, June 14, 2012]
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[After, June 19, 2012]
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