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<p>November 1, 2021 - <a href="https://qudsnen.co/?p=30905">https://qudsnen.co/?p=30905</a></p><p>Following Israel’s labeling of 6 Palestinian human rights NGOs as “<a href="https://qudsnen.co/?p=30646">terror</a>”
groups, three civil Palestinian coalitions have condemned such a
decision on Monday, saying the prosecution of NGOs is a decades old
issue.</p>
<p>“Activists, men and women, are subjected to administrative detention,
travel ban and house arrest, but these organizations continue to work,”
said the three civil coalitions: Adaleh, the Global Palestinian Refugee
and the Palestinian Disability Coalition, in a joint statement.</p>
<p>The groups said in the statement that the international organizations
are “fully aware of the prosecutions and narrowing space for NGOs as
well as shutting them down by the occupation, particularly in Jerusalem”
including the EU delegation in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Instead of taking positions supporting NGOs in Jerusalem and the West
Bank, the groups stated, the EU is changing its position towards
Palestinian NGOs, “starting with the imposition of conditions and
classifying and describing seven Palestinian factions and political
parties as terrorist.”</p>
<p>These conditions faced severe criticism by a large number of NGOs and
many organizations and coalitions rejected these conditions, the
statement read, adding this position will witness “an escalation in the
Palestinian civil society and will reach a full boycott of politically
conditioned grants by the EU and other international organizations.”</p>
<p>In this context, the three coalitions in their statement reiterated
the call for a “unified position towards how some western development
agencies treat that Palestinian civil society who must impose its own
conditions, agenda and priorities and define its relation with all
categories of the Palestinian society without subduing to donors’
agendas.”</p>
<p>The three coalitions said that during the past week, they have noted a
number of international positions at country level, organizations level
and some representatives of UN agencies.</p>
<p>The coalitions said they praise the positions of a number of these
organizations, but noted that they are “extremely concerned about some
positions that need to be scrutinized, analyzed and discussed.”</p>
<p>In this framework, the coalitions said they have noted the official
position issued by the EU on Friday, 29 October, entitled
Israel/Palestine on listing six Palestinian organizations on the
terrorism list.</p>
<p>They said that the EU’s statement alleges that if substantiated
evidence were to be provided that any beneficiary has made an
inappropriate use of EU funds, the EU would take action to recover these
funds.</p>
<p>If EU representatives had the courage and respect to the
international law, the groups said, they must question Israel on how it
obtains its information in light of the torture it implements in the
dungeons of Moscovia Detention Center (Russian Compound), which is
located only a few kilometers away from the EU Delegation Headquarters
in Jerusalem.</p>
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