The Times of Israel reports: The Gaza head of a major US-based NGO pleaded not guilty in an Israeli court Thursday to aiding Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, his employers said.

Israel accuses Mohammed al-Halabi, head of Gaza operations for the global Christian charity World Vision, of siphoning millions of dollars to the Islamist movement which runs the territory.

At the district court in Beersheba in southern Israel, Halabi pleaded not guilty to all charges against him, World Vision said.

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