Israel’s crackdown on Palestinian human rights organizations ‘illegal and unacceptable’ – Global Affairs

In a raid last week, the Israeli military broke into and closed the offices of seven Palestinian human rights and humanitarian groups operating in Ramallah, located in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).

“These actions lead to severe repression against human rights defenders and is illegal and unacceptable,” Experts sayencourage Member States of the United Nations to use international law to end abuses.

Specify ‘illegal’

At dawn last Thursday, Israeli forces raided the offices of seven Palestinian human rights groups, causing extensive property damage and ordering the military shutdown.

This entails Israel’s earlier characterization of such organizations as “terrorist” and “illegal”.

These designations and claims are illegitimate and unwarranted, and there is no concrete and credible evidence to support Israel’s allegations, the experts said. observe which they did in April.

Harsh accusations

On August 18 and 21, the Israeli security service Shin Bet questioned the director of the Coalition of Palestinian Women, Al-Haq and Defense for Children-Palestinian – three of the seven closed organizations. door.

Experts are particularly concerned about Shin Bet’s alleged threats against organizations, including public statement regarding the director of Al-Haq, Shawan Jabarin.

“The The Israeli government has taken many measures to undermine civil society organization