According to the US Treasury Department, the sanctions included the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, both based in the Gaza Strip, and the Al-Haq-Law for Human Rights Foundation in Ramallah. In November 2023, these organizations filed a request with the court to investigate Israeli airstrikes on densely populated civilian areas, the blockade of Gaza, and the displacement of its population.
The US move comes a year after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The sanctions decision coincides with a vote by the world's largest academic association of genocide scholars on a resolution affirming that legal standards exist to prove Israel committed genocide in Gaza, a claim Tel Aviv deemed "shameful" and "based on Hamas's lies."
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With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 64,231 martyrs and 161,583 wounded, most of them children and women, thousands missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has killed 370 Palestinians, including 131 children.
