43 Human Rights Institutions and Networks, Including ICSPR , Consider the Israeli Occupation’s Decision to Ban International Humanitarian Organizations from Continuing Their Work in the Gaza Strip

Date: 6 January 2026

Joint Press Statement

43 Human Rights Institutions and Networks, Including ICSPR , Consider the Israeli Occupation’s Decision to Ban International Humanitarian Organizations from Continuing Their Work in the Gaza Strip a Dangerous Escalation and a Continuation of the Genocide Against the Palestinian People

The undersigned institutions and organizations express their strong condemnation and absolute rejection of the Israeli occupation’s decision to prevent a number of international humanitarian organizations from continuing their work in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation’s decision to ban the work of international institutions and revoke the permits of humanitarian organizations constitutes a new and fierce assault on the Palestinian people. It represents a direct extension of the war of genocide and a dangerous escalation of the policies of starvation, exhaustion, and attrition practiced by the occupation against our people. This is a purely political decision aimed at tightening the siege, preventing the delivery of the bare minimum of medical and humanitarian aid, intimidating funding sources, and turning the Gaza Strip and the West Bank into unlivable areas by expelling international witnesses to the occupation’s crimes and daily violations.

The undersigned institutions and organizations believe that this systematic attack on international organizations—coinciding with aggressive decisions taken against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)—falls within the framework of an integrated plan to undermine the refugee cause, liquidate the right of return, and terminate international legal and moral obligations toward the rights of the Palestinian people, in the context of direct U.S. partnership in these policies.

International silence in the face of these crimes constitutes a real danger that threatens what remains of the human conscience. This assault is not limited to disregarding the principles of international law; rather, it represents a blatant continuation of systematic policies aimed at intimidating humanitarian organizations and their funding sources.

Accordingly, we call for the following:

1. Urging international organizations, the international community, all embassies, foreign missions, and governments to take immediate action and adopt a clear and firm position rejecting the arbitrary Israeli decision, which constitutes a grave moral and historical setback.

2. Calling on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities to halt the implementation of this decision, which is scheduled to take effect at the beginning of 2026. The continued operation of international organizations, given the catastrophic reality faced by our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, represents a moral and legal duty that cannot be abandoned.

3. Calling on the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to take urgent action to compel the Israeli occupation to revoke its decision banning the work of international institutions, to halt the withdrawal of their licenses, and to guarantee their continued work without obstruction.

4. Calling on the governments of the countries to which the targeted institutions belong to take and publicly announce a practical position that clearly demands that the Israeli government immediately rescind its decision, as it constitutes a direct assault on the constitutional rights of their citizens and on their sovereignty.

Signatories:

1. International Movement for Human and Peoples’ Rights (comprising 21 organizations from 17 countries)

2. Moroccan Democratic Network for Solidarity with Peoples (comprising 34 associations)

3. Jordanian Independent Trade Unions Federation

4. Global Coalition for Solidarity and Defense of Palestinian Prisoners

5. Egyptian Coalition for Children’s Rights

6. Moroccan Front for the Support of Palestine and the Rejection of Normalization

7. Horizons of the Tunisian Worker Association

8. Bahraini Transparency Association

9. Women’s Visions Association / Jordan

10. Candles Association for Equality / Morocco

11. Anti-Corruption Association – Transparency Morocco

12. Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)

13. Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights

14. Association of Human Rights Trainers in Iraq

15. Moroccan Human Rights Space

16. International Observatory for Documenting Human Rights Violations / Argentina

17. Arab World Observatory for Democracy and Elections

18. National Observatory for the Defense of the Civil State (Tunisia)

19. Hurriyat Observatory / Morocco

20. Human Rights and Democracy Media Center – SHAMS / Palestine

21. Al-Badeel Center for Studies and Research / Jordan

22. Khiam Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture / Lebanon

23. Ma’an Development Center / Palestine

24. Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (Musawa)

25. Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)

26. Moroccan Center for Citizenship

27. Bensaid Ait Idder Center for Research and Studies / Morocco

28. Center for Protecting Freedom of Journalists / Jordan

29. Damascus Center for Theoretical Studies and Civil Rights

30. Amman Center for Human Rights Studies

31. Bahrain Forum for Human Rights

32. Renewal Forum, Tunisia

33. Libyan Academic Organization

34. Tunisian Organization Against Torture

35. Arab Organization for Human Rights in Libya

36. Insan Organization for Rights and Freedoms / Yemen

37. Organization for Media Freedom and Expression – HATEM / Morocco

38. Sahara Youth Organization for Development and Human Rights / Libya

39. Al-Dameer Foundation for Human Rights – Gaza / Palestine

40. Egyptian Foundation for the Advancement of Childhood Conditions

41. International Commission to Support Palestinian People’s Rights – ICSPR (Hashd)

42. Moroccan Human Rights Authority

43. Moroccan Authority for the Support of the Causes of the Ummah