Palestinian Media Watch reports Denmark has canceled funding for the Palestinian Authority non-governmental Women's Technical Affairs Committee (WATC) and demanded its money be returned, after PMW's revelation that the NGO named a youth and women's center in the Samarian town of Burqa after terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi who led who led a bus hijacking and murder of 37 civilians, including 12 children in 1978.
Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said on Friday, "I am outraged that the WATC, which claims to work for human rights, has not only glorified a terrorist but also abused the trust of a generous people like the Danish. It is completely unacceptable and I can't distance myself strongly enough from it. Denmark and Danish tax kroner must under no circumstances be used for anything that glorifies or promotes terrorists in any way. Therefore, we will now also demand that the WATC return the Danish aid." The press release from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs also stated that the ministry has ended all cooperation with the center because it "withheld crucial information" about the naming of the women's center "after a female Palestinian terrorist."