For payment processors compliance is important as the penalties are severe and business critical. That leads to a lot of overeagerness to comply with intranspar

For payment processors compliance is important as the penalties are severe and business critical. That leads to a lot of overeagerness to comply with intransparent and complicated rules. So perhaps they are allowed to offer the service but fear they might violate some laws. There are terrorist organisations in Palestine, I think that is out of the question. I don't believe that is an excuse to broadly deny service, but it may be that transaction are hard to check for illegitimate business. But we see that anything remotely controversial is equally penalized by payment processors. I think the danger from cutting people off is vastly greater than unintentionally offering a service to criminals. The article and its language are questionable. Vulnerable group isn't at all applicable or sensible if we talk about all of Palestine.