The United States has added three eminent Palestinian rights groups, Al-Haq, Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights on its list of sanctions.
Thursday, the groups were added to the “list of blocked people” in the Treasury Department “.
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In a later declaration, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the rights defending groups had been targeted for “directly committed efforts from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, stop, hold or prosecute Israeli nationals, without the consent of Israel”.
The Trump administration had previously sanctioned the ICC in response to its investigation and the subsequent arrest warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.
The three groups had provided evidence on Israeli abuses in the case.
“The United States will continue to respond with important and tangible consequences to protect our troops, our sovereignty and our allies against the contempt of the sovereign of the ICC and to punish the accomplices of its surpassing,” said Rubio.
We condemn the draconian sanctions imposed by the Ministry of the Treasury of Foreign Assets (OFAC) in the stronger terms: our organizations: @Alhaq_org ,, @Amezancenter & @pchrgaza/ 1
– al-haq الحق (@alhaq_org) September 4, 2025
The Al-Haq, based in Ramallah, was a leading organization both in the occupied Palestinian territory and in the international research of Israeli abuses, while putting disputes in several countries.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza, and the Human Rights Center of Al-Mezan led an independent organization that documented the War in the Israel in Gaza.
In a statement shared by the three organizations, they condemned “in the strongest terms of draconian sanctions” imposed by the Trump administration.
“These measures in time of genocide living against our people are a coward (LY), an immoral, illegal and anti -democratic act,” said the press release.
“Only States without taking into account international law and our shared humanity can take such odious measures against human rights organizations working to end a genocide,” the statement said.
The United States just sanctioned three of the most eminent Palestinian human rights groups: @Alhaq_org,, @pchrgazaAnd @Amezancenter.
Shameful but not surprising.
This administration leans back to put Israel first each time. pic.twitter.com/ocxbyjllki
– Mohsen Farshneshani (@mfarshneshani) September 4, 2025
In an article on the social media platform X, Mohsen Farshneshani, lawyer and sanctions advisor to Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), has described organizations as “three of the most eminent human rights groups”.
“Shameful but not surprising,” wrote Farshneshani. “This administration leans back to put Israel first every time.”
The United States previously sanctioned the Addameer based in Ramallah, an organization of human rights focused on Palestinian prisoners and detainees in June.
At the time, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who worked in close collaboration with the group, said that sanctions “would make daily operations more and more, including for their employees, subsidized communities and service providers.
“The United States is using its sanctions regime to call for tenders from the Israeli government, which has systematically sought to muzzle reports and advocacy in human rights,” he added.
An Israeli Human Rights group, B’tselem, has also condemned the US move, appealing to it “assault” against Palestinian rights.
“This is another decision to erase the fundamental standards for the protection of human beings, designed to allow Israel to continue to harm Palestinians without restraint,” said Yair Dvir, spokesperson for B’tsem, in a press release.
In July, the Trump administration also sanctioned the Palestinian Authority (PA), which administers the occupied West Bank, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which represents the Palestinians internationally.
At the same time, the Trump administration revoked the sanctions imposed by former American president Joe Biden on the Israelis of the colonies and illegal organizations accused of violence.
