While the U.S. is waging war on Russia in defense of “democracy” in fascist Ukraine, their beloved Israel, “the only democracy in the Mideast” (as it is often called) has demonstrated their “democracy” yet again by raiding and shutting down seven Palestinian civil rights organization in the West Bank. Armed with machine guns, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) “ransacked and shut down the offices of seven leading Palestinian civil society and human rights organizations in the occupied West Bank on Thursday,” Aug. 18, Consortium News reported Aug. 19. “The early morning raids targeted Al Haq, prisoner advocacy group Addameer, Bisan Center for Human Rights, Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P), Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) and Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC),” they report. Pictures of the raids and the metal plates attached over the doors accompany the article by Tanupriya Singh, a correspondent for People’s Dispatch.
Singh reports that the targeted groups were documenting Israeli war crimes in Palestine and collaborating with investigations into Israel’s actions, including the probe by the International Criminal Court. “In October 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense had declared the six groups as `terrorist organizations’ under its anti-terrorism laws, citing their alleged ties to the banned, left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Over the following months, Israel failed to present any evidence to substantiate these claims despite repeated demands.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/19/israel-raids-palestinian-civil-society/
