Palestine decries US sanctions on local rights groups as ’serious targeting of civil society’ – Middle East Monitor

Palestine denounced on Friday US sanctions on three local human rights organizations as “unacceptable targeting of the Palestinian civil society,” Anadolu reports.

On Thursday, the US sanctioned three Palestinian human rights organizations for their role in supporting the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation into Israeli officials for atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the Justice Ministry said the decision “represents a serious…