HRW & Amnesty: Israel’s move against 6 NGOs an attack on int’l human rights movement

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Friday issued a joint statement, in which they said the latest Israeli move against six Palestinian human rights NGOs is “an attack on the international human rights movement”, warning that the international community’s response will be a “true test of its resolve to protect rights defenders.”

“For decades, Israeli authorities have systematically sought to muzzle human rights monitoring and punish those who criticize its repressive rule over Palestinians”, the joint statement read.

“The decades-long failure of the international community to challenge grave Israeli human rights abuses and impose meaningful consequences for them has emboldened Israeli authorities to act in this brazen manner.”

Israeli authorities had on the same day declared six Palestinian civil society organizations operating in Palestine to be “terrorist organizations.

The groups are Addameer, al-Haq, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees.

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