Amin Abou Rashed

Amin Abou Rashed (also known as Amin Rashid or Amin Abou Ibrahim) was a mem­ber of the Al-Aqsa Foun­da­tion in Rot­ter­dam, Nether­lands. The Al-Aqsa Foun­da­tion Nether­lands was the Dutch mem­ber orga­ni­za­tion of the Union of Good, a world­wide coali­tion of char­i­ties alleged­ly rais­ing funds for Hamas and head­ed by the late Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood leader Youssef Qaradawi. After the de fac­to clo­sure of the Al-Aqsa Foun­da­tion, Rashed moved to the Foun­da­tion Pales­tin­ian Plat­form for Human Rights and Sol­i­dar­i­ty (PPMS), cre­at­ed in late 2005, where he served as both chair­man and direc­tor. His inter­na­tion­al activ­i­ties includ­ed being a chief orga­niz­er of the 2010 Gaza flotil­la (dur­ing which he was detained by Israeli author­i­ties) and found­ing mem­ber of the Euro­pean Cam­paign To End the Siege on Gaza. In 2011, he appeared in a pho­to­graph with Qaradawi, and in Jan­u­ary 2013, Israel offi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed him as part of Hamas’s pres­ence in Europe.