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Scene at Bisan Center. Published by Bisan Center. Republished by IMEMC News

Scenes at Bisan Center. Published by Bisan Center
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Bisan Center
July 29, 2021

Bisan’s board of trustees and employees do not consider this attack, preceded by continuous attacks on other civil society organizations, foreign behavior for an oppressive regime fighting all that is Palestinian, and specifically targets progressive civil society organizations predominantly standing against occupation and violations of international and human rights law.

Mere condemnation of these acts is no longer adequate, the occupation’s increasing shrinking space for Palestinian CSOs and disregard for CSO rights and jurisdictions has become a routine, and with no official protection of CSOs, the entirety of the Palestinian society has become permissible for occupation forces to destroy.

We demand that international human rights organizations and defenders to stand with Bisan Center for Research and development and defend it against desecrations to our right to work, and reject the occupation’s incessant attempts to undermine any social Palestinian infrastructure working to end the occupation. While also holding the occupation accountable for its violations of basic human rights.

Finally, Bisan Center for Research and Development must emphasize its democratic and progressive mission, to defend the socio-economic, political, and civil rights of the poor and marginalized in the Palestinian society. A mission that Bisan has long worked to sustain and will continually work toward achieving.
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by IMEMC News
July 29, 2021

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian research and development center in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and searched it before confiscating computers, in addition to shutting it down for six months.

Media sources said the soldiers smashed the main door of Bisan Center for Research & Development, before violently searching and ransacking its officers, and confiscated its computers.

They added that the army placed an order shutting the center down for six months that can be renewed based on “assessment” from the army.

The center is a non-governmental, independent institution that conducts research and development work to help the Palestinian people and the nongovernmental institutions in developing the society and advancing its projects, in addition to documenting the Israeli violations against the Palestinian people.

It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army recently invaded and searched the building of the “Health Work Committees” and the “Union of Agricultural Work Committees” in al-Biereh city, near Ramallah, and placed orders shuttering them down for six months that can be renewed.