Prisoner Institutions Condemn Sanctions on Three Palestinian Human Rights Organizations

SadaNews - The prisoner institutions condemned the decision issued by the U.S. Treasury Department to impose sanctions on three Palestinian human rights organizations: Al-Haq, the Al-Mezan Center, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, as a punishment for their role in exposing the ongoing violations and crimes of the occupation amid the ongoing genocide.

The institutions emphasized in a statement released today, Friday, that this decision, which comes just three months after a similar decision classifying the Al-Dameer Organization for Prisoner Care and Human Rights as 'terrorist', and imposing sanctions on the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, constitutes a direct U.S. aggression against Palestinian civil society institutions and the entire human rights framework, reflecting a clear complicity in the crime of genocide.

The institutions stressed that targeting established Palestinian organizations that have worked for decades to expose Israeli occupation violations aims to dismantle Palestinian civil and human rights society during one of the bloodiest phases faced by our people.

In this context, the human rights organizations called on international human rights bodies and the United Nations to condemn the U.S. decision that seeks to undermine the Palestinian human rights system, amid the ongoing genocide and international community complicity, and the systematic disregard for the voices of the free that support Palestinian rights. They also demanded increased support for Palestinian human rights organizations as part of supporting the Palestinian people's right to self-determination and protecting their existence.