All staff are currently under threat of imminent arrest and prosecution. In the following days, directors of the organisations were summoned by the Israeli military and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) for interrogation. Last week, in a significant escalation, Israeli military forces raided the offices of seven Palestinian human rights and community organisations in the occupied West Bank on 18 August 2022, sealing shut their doors, ordering them closed, and seizing computers and other confidential materials.
BOYCOTT ADVANCE NO SOUND FREE
We call for immediate action in response to the Israeli government’s latest escalation so as to curtail any further imminent repressive tactics by Israeli authorities and ensure Palestinian civil society is free to continue its critical work. We write because your administration’s consistently yielding response to the Israeli government’s escalating attacks against prominent Palestinian human rights and civil society groups over the past 10 months has put the safety and well-being of Palestinian human rights defenders at serious risk.
Over 290 civil society organisations from the United States of America (USA) and around the world demand immediate action to USA President Joe Biden in response to Israeli government’s latest attacks on Palestinian civil society.
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