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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Trump sanctions Palestinian human rights organization over alleged political connections</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Michael Arria</div>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">June 11, 2025</div>
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<p>The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on a leading
Palestinian human rights group and five other charities for alleged
links to Palestinian political factions designated by Israel and the
U.S. as \u201cterrorist groups.\u201d</p>
<p>Addameer, which provides legal services to Palestinian prisoners, was <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2022/09/israel-pressuring-biden-to-accept-terrorist-designation-for-palestinian-ngos/">designated</a>
as a terrorist group by Israel in 2021, and the country\u2019s government
has been pressuring the United States to impose sanctions ever since.
Israel has refused to provide any evidence linking the organization to
militants.</p>
<p>The other sanctioned groups are Al Weam Charitable Society, Filistin
Vakfi, El Baraka Association for Charitable and Humanitarian Work, Israa
Charitable Foundation Netherlands and Associazione Benefica La Cupola
d\u2019Oro.</p>
<p>\u201cToday\u2019s action underscores the importance of safeguarding the
charitable sector from abuse by terrorists like Hamas and the PFLP, who
continue to leverage sham charities as fronts for funding their
terrorist and military operations,\u201d <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0162">said</a> Deputy
Secretary Michael Faulkender in a statement. \u201cTreasury will continue to
use all available tools to prevent Hamas, the PFLP, and other terrorist
actors from exploiting the humanitarian situation in Gaza to fund their
violent activities at the expense of their own people.\u201d</p>
<p>In a 2022 interview, Addameer Director Sahar Francis <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/it-wont-end-with-us-addameer-director-warns-of-repercussions-of-israeli-terror-designation/">told</a> <em>Mondoweiss</em> that attacks on the group didn\u2019t start with Israel\u2019s designation.</p>
<p>\u201cThe campaign against us has been ongoing for many years: harassment,
smear campaigns, defamation, the distribution of false information
about us by different groups like NGO monitor, UK Lawyers for Israel,
and other right wing Israeli groups,\u201d explained Francis.</p>
<p>\u201cThe policy behind all these attacks is actually to terrify the
donors, and to terrify those who were investing in civil society in
Palestine,\u201d she continued.</p>
<p>In August 2022, the Israeli army <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/israeli-army-raids-shuts-down-offices-of-6-palestinian-civil-society-organizations/">raided</a> the offices of seven Palestinian civil society organizations in the occupied West Bank, including Addameer. The <a href="https://x.com/Addameer/status/1560126708916830210">soldiers</a>
broke the office doors and confiscated material. The UN published a
report finding no basis for Israel\u2019s claims about the groups and
concluded that the targeted organizations provided \u201ccritical human
rights, humanitarian and development work in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory.\u201d</p>
<p>The Trump administration\u2019s sanctions on the legal group comes amid
the deadliest period in history for Palestinian prisoners. Addameer <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinian-prisoners-israeli-detention-abuse-starvation-death">says</a>
that 10,100 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli detention,
twice the amount that were being held before the October 7 attack. That
number does no include prisoners from Gaza being held in Israeli
military facilities.</p>
<p>\u201cIt 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 \u2014 particularly since
the beginning of the genocidal war on Gaza \u2014 including prolonged
solitary confinement,\u201d reads a joint statement put out by Addameer and a
number of other human rights groups last month.</p>
<p>\u201cThe inhumane conditions in which Palestinian political prisoners are
being held represent another facet of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza
Strip,\u201d it continues. \u201cThe continued escalation by the brutal prison
system against detainees in various prisons and military camps has
entered a more dangerous phase than in previous months. Time has now
become a critical factor in determining the fate of thousands of
prisoners and detainees held by the Israeli occupation, amid a period in
which Israel continues to carry out acts of genocide with complete
impunity.\u201d</p>
<p>The Trump administration\u2019s sanctions were criticized by many on social media.</p>
<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d
wrote human rights attorney Craig Mokhiber. \u201cThe US, on behalf of an
oppressive foreign regime, is criminalizing humanitarian & human
rights work.\u201d</p>
<p>\u201cAddameer is a first-rate human rights organization dedicated to
exposing Israeli violations against Palestinian prisoners, which is
precisely why it has been targeted by Israel\u2019s extremist government and
now the Trump administration,\u201d tweeted author Khaled Elgindy.</p>
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