The undersigned anti-Zionist and anti-colonial organizations below strongly condemn the Israeli government’s recent decision to suspend and restrict the work of humanitarian and civil society organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank. Among the organizations targeted are our close partners.
The suspension is being implemented through new laws and administrative mechanisms that impose arbitrary and politicized conditions on civil society organizations, effectively criminalizing humanitarian work and international solidarity. This crackdown has to be understood within the broader context of Israel’s settler colonial regime, which systematically seeks to control civic space and fragment Palestinian lives even more.
Legal frameworks are used to dismantle solidarity networks, eliminate accountability, normalize mass violations of Palestinian rights, and silence dissidents. These are inseparable measures from Israel’s settler-colonial regime, with a clear message: any framework that challenges state violence, colonial domination, or impunity is being marked for elimination.
We stand in full solidarity with our partners and all organizations affected by these suspensions, and with Palestinians whose lives are directly endangered by these policies. We call for the immediate reversal of these measures, the protection of civic space, and unrestricted humanitarian access. Defending civil society is inseparable from the struggle for justice.
We call on the international community, states and institutions to recognize that this is not merely a humanitarian issue but part of a broader system of repression, to ensure that the affected organizations are not suspended and restricted in their work, and to engage government officials and foreign ministers through diplomatic and political channels to uphold the Geneva Conventions, and ensure that Israel is held accountable under International Humanitarian Law and International Law.
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Signed: Tishreen, New Profile, Women Democratic Movement in Israel حركة النساء الديموقراطيات תנד״י , Mesarvot, Mothers Against Violence Israel, Zochrot