UN Agencies and the Association International Development Agencies (AIDA) said connected Tuesday they were lasting firmly down civilian nine organisations successful the Occupied Palestinian Territory, pursuing an Israely military decision to de-authorize six NGOs. 

In a connection released this Tuesday, the agencies said they regretted the decision, made connected 7 November by the Military Commander successful the West Bank, saying it represents “a further erosion of civic and humanitarian space”. 

The determination extends to the West Bank a determination by the Israeli Minister of Defence, made in October, to designate these Palestinian human rights and civilian nine groups arsenic violent organisations. 

The UN agencies believe the determination “stands to importantly constrain the work” of these NGOs, which person worked with the planetary community, including the UN, for decades, providing indispensable services to countless Palestinians. 

Al Aqsa mosque successful Jerusalem's Old City.

Al Aqsa mosque successful Jerusalem's Old City., by © Unsplash

Allegations 

According to quality agencies, Israel has said the organizations are tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a governmental question with an equipped helping that has carried retired deadly attacks against Israelis and is considered a violent enactment by some Western nations. 

In a statement, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the OPT, Lynn Hastings, said “these allegations are taken precise seriously.” 

According to her, however, none of the UN agencies, nor AIDA, have received written documentation which could service arsenic a ground for the allegations.  

“We volition proceed to prosecute with each applicable partners for much information”, Mrs. Hastings explained.  

International law 

Counter-terrorism authorities must follow international humanitarian and quality rights law, which see afloat respect for the rights to state of relation and expression. It also cannot beryllium applied to morganatic quality rights and humanitarian work. 

For the UN agencies, “the breadth of the Israeli 2016 Anti-Terrorism authorities and its interaction connected the presumption of innocence, present superior concerns nether planetary law.” 

“With our beardown committedness to the indispensable relation of civilian nine successful antiauthoritarian beingness and successful uncovering peaceful solutions to conflict, galore of america enactment with, and immoderate financially support, these organizations”, the connection reads.  

They agencies said that past allegations of misuse of funds by Palestinian civilian nine enactment partners person not been substantiated. 

“We volition proceed to basal by planetary instrumentality and civilian nine organizations that beforehand planetary humanitarian law, quality rights and antiauthoritarian values”, the agencies conclude. 

‘A frontal attack’  

The six Palestinian organizations being redesignated are Addameer, Al-Haq, Defense for Children International – Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees.  

The redesignation arsenic violent organisations, successful effect, bans the enactment of these quality rights defenders, and allows the Israeli subject to apprehension their staff, shutter their offices, confiscate assets and prohibit their activities.  

At the extremity of October, autarkic UN quality rights experts called the archetypal decision “a frontal onslaught connected the Palestinian human rights movement, and connected quality rights everywhere.”