Euro-Med Chief Surfaced in Dutch Hamas-Financing Case
Archived staff records, Israeli counterterror orders and Dutch courtroom reporting show Euro-Med-linked figures overlapping with institutions scrutinized over Hamas’s European support network.
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Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, an Israeli-designated terrorist organization, is under renewed scrutiny after archived staff records placed one of its former personnel inside its digital operations while Dutch reporting identified the same woman as secretary of Stichting ISRAA, the Netherlands-based charity at the center of a Dutch Hamas-financing case and a 2025 U.S. sanctions action.
The questions come as Euro-Med’s credibility is already under fire after Nicholas Kristof’s highly inflammatory New York Times column cited the group as a reliable source in a piece that brought the now-infamous “dog rape” allegation into mainstream U.S. media.
The ISRAA Link
A 2019 archived Euro-Med staff page listed Anne Jellema under “Digital Strategies,” while Trouw later identified her as secretary of Stichting ISRAA. That overlap matters because the U.S. Treasury Department later described ISRAA as part of the Union of Good, the Hamas fundraising umbrella Washington designated in 2008.
Dutch prosecutors alleged that Amin Ghazi Abou Rashed and Stichting ISRAA moved roughly €8 million from 2010 to 2023 to organizations linked to Hamas. In May 2026, the Rotterdam District Court acquitted Abou Rashed of financing Hamas on a technicality, while convicting him on sanctions-related conduct involving the continuation of Al Aqsa Foundation activities.
The Ramy Abdu Connection
The Dutch case also brought Euro-Med founder Ramy Abdu back into view. Dutch journalist Kees Broer reported that Abou Rashed’s wife was on Euro-Med’s payroll, according to courtroom proceedings. Broer also reported that Jellema connected the two worlds: an ISRAA official who was also a Euro-Med staffer.
That makes the Jellema record more than an isolated résumé detail. It places a former Euro-Med digital staffer inside the same Dutch charity network that U.S. officials later accused of belonging to Hamas’s fundraising infrastructure.
The Italy Warrant
A separate Italian investigation adds another layer. Reuters reported that Italian prosecutors arrested nine people suspected of financing Hamas through Italy-based charities, alleging that roughly €7 million had been diverted to Hamas-linked entities. Italian reporting separately identified Saleh Mohammed Ismail Abdu, also known as Abu Khaled, as one of the suspects sought abroad in the Genoa probe.
HonestReporting has reported that Saleh Abdu is Ramy Abdu’s brother. That relationship should be attributed unless independently confirmed through court records. But if accurate, it would place another member of Abdu’s immediate family inside a European Hamas-financing investigation.
Why It Matters Now
Euro-Med’s credibility is no longer a niche NGO question. Kristof’s New York Times column cited Euro-Med while amplifying allegations critics called the “dog rape” libel. Euro-Med itself had previously published the underlying police-dog rape allegation and later defended its prison-abuse claims.
Euro-Med’s archived staff page, Jellema’s ISRAA role, Abou Rashed’s wife’s reported employment by Euro-Med, and the Italian warrant for Abdu’s alleged brother all raise the same unresolved question: how much due diligence did media outlets and international bodies perform before treating Euro-Med as a neutral human rights source?