YWCA rhetoric includes accusing Israel of “genocide” and “apartheid”; participating in BDS campaigns; promoting a Palestinian “Right of Return”; and supporting the Kairos Palestine document, which calls for BDS against Israel, denies the Jewish historical connection to Israel in theological terms, and rationalizes, justifies and trivializes terrorism, calling it “legal resistance.”
According to media reports, Hamas has agreed to appoint Amjad Al-Shawa – “a pro-Hamas” figure and a key NGO official in the sphere of international aid in Gaza – as the head of a new technocratic committee that will administer civil affairs in Gaza as part of the US-brokered ceasefire.
On July 3, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese will present a report to the UN Human Rights Council alleging that global companies across a range of industries “sustain[] Israel’s illegal occupation and ongoing genocidal campaign.”
This submission focuses on the rampant campaign of torture within the Palestinian Authority (PA), violating the PA’s obligations under the Committee Against Torture.
On June 12, 2024, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s permanent Commission of Inquiry published its newest report detailing Hamas’s brutal attack in Israel on October 7th and Israel’s defensive military response.
On October 12, 2023, UN OCHA-oPt launched the “OPT Flash Appeal,” seeking $294 million “to address the most urgent needs of 1,260,000 people in the Gaza Strip (Gaza) and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, for three months.”
The Institute for NGO Research participated in the 55th Session of the UN Human Rights Council by presenting submissions and giving oral statements.
