A humanitarian is wrongly convicted of helping besieged Palestinians in Gaza
Supporters of Mohammad El Halabi hold a Palestinian flag and placards as protesters wave Israeli flags outside the district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, June 15, 2022. The court found the Gaza aid worker guilty of several terrorism charges. El Halabi, who was the Gaza director for the Christian charity World Vision from 2014 until his arrest in 2016, was accused of diverting tens of millions of dollars to the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules the territory. Both El Halabi and World Vision have denied any wrongdoing, and an independent audit in 2017 also found no evidence of support for Hamas. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
(RNS) — The case against El Halabi has dealt a blow to the Israeli justice system.