SIX PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS DESIGNATED AS “TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS” BY ISRAEL

Sat 23 October 2021:

Six Palestinian human rights organizations were labeled “terrorist organizations” by Israel on Friday, accusing them of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an Israeli military-banned organisation.

The Israeli Justice Ministry has outlawed six Palestinian organizations, including Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights, Al-Haq, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, according to the Jerusalem Post.

These organizations reportedly were declared illegal and accused of being extensions of the PFLP, which is described as a terrorist organization by the Israeli government, it said, adding that the decision was taken under the anti-terror law.

The institutions are considered to have a wide influence in the field of civil society in the occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, in a written statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the “attack by the authorities of the Israeli occupation state against Palestinian civil society and institutions, in particular the decision to designate six leading human rights organizations and non-governmental organizations as terrorists.”

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) second-largest organization, the PFLP, was elected to the Legislative Council in the most recent parliamentary elections in 2006.

The offices of the UAWC, a Palestinian non-profit organization based in Ramallah, central West Bank, were closed for six months by the Israeli army in July.

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