Trump sanctions Palestinian human rights organization over alleged political connections

Trump sanctions Palestinian human rights organization over alleged political connections


The UN published a report finding no basis for Israel’s claims about the groups and concluded that the targeted organizations provided “critical human rights, humanitarian and development work in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” “It is important to highlight the growing number of arbitrary restrictions imposed by the occupation on legal access to imprisoned political leaders and those serving life sentences — particularly since the beginning of the genocidal war on Gaza — including prolonged solitary confinement,” reads a joint statement put out by Addameer and a number of other human rights groups last month. “The Trump administration, continuing its complicity with the Israeli regime in the perpetration of genocide in Palestine, just days after sanctioning judges of the ICC, has now announced sanctions on the celebrated & long-serving Palestinian human rights organization,” wrote human rights attorney Craig Mokhiber.

Author: Michael Arria


Published at: 2025-06-11 22:08:53

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