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Defense for Children International - Palestine’s (DCI) headquarters, July 20, 2021. Published by DCI

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Ramallah, July 29, 2021—Israeli forces raided Defense for Children International - Palestine’s headquarters in the central occupied West Bank, confiscating computers and client files, early Thursday morning.

Israeli paramilitary border police forces raided DCIP’s headquarters located in Al-Bireh’s Sateh Marhaba neighborhood, located just south of Ramallah around 5:15 a.m. on July 29. More than a dozen Israeli soldiers forced open the office’s locked front door and confiscated six desktop computers, two laptops, hard drives, and client files related to Palestinian child detainees represented by DCIP’s lawyers in Israel’s military courts. No documents were left in the office to give any indication of the reason for the raid, and they did not leave behind any receipt of materials seized.

“This latest act by Israeli authorities pushes forward an ongoing campaign to silence and eliminate Palestinian civil society and human rights organizations like DCIP,” said Khaled Quzmar, general director at DCIP. “Israeli authorities must immediately end efforts aimed at delegitimizing and criminalizing Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society organizations, and the international community must hold Israeli authorities accountable.”
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by IMEMC News
July 29, 2021

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the headquarters of “Defense For Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-Palestine) in Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh city near Ramallah, in central West Bank.

DCI issued a statement revealing that the soldiers violently searched its offices and confiscated computers after breaking into its headquarters in Ramallah.

DCI Palestine strongly denounced the Israeli invasion and serious violations targeting all local and international human rights organizations and institutions.

It added that these attacks will not deter it from performing its duties in protecting the rights of the Palestinian children, and added that it will continue its international pressure to hold Israel accountable for its crimes, including the killing of Mohammad Moayyad al-Allami, 11, who was shot by Israel soldiers on June 28th, in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

It is worth mentioning that DCI-Palestine has been subject to ongoing defamation and incitement campaigns by various organizations that support Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, aiming at cutting its funding and shutting it down.

Also on Thursday at dawn, the soldiers invaded Bisan Center for Research & Development in Ramallah and searched it before confiscating computers, in addition to shutting it down for six months.