US sanctions Palestinian rights groups for supporting ICC Israel probe

Al-Haq, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan targeted for engaging with ICC, authorities section says.

The United States has added 3 salient Palestinian rights groups, Al-Haq, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights to its sanctions list.

The groups were added to the Department of the Treasury’s “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List” connected Thursday.

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In a consequent statement, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the rights groups were targeted for having “directly engaged successful efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, oregon prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent”.

The Trump medication had antecedently sanctioned the ICC successful effect to its probe and consequent apprehension warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged warfare crimes committed successful Gaza.

All 3 groups had provided grounds connected Israeli abuses successful the case.

“The United States volition proceed to respond with important and tangible consequences to support our troops, our sovereignty, and our allies from the ICC’s disregard for sovereignty, and to punish entities that are complicit successful its overreach,” Rubio said.

We condemn successful the strongest presumption the draconian sanctions imposed by The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) connected our organisations: @alhaq_org , @AlMezanCenter & @pchrgaza/1

— Al-Haq الحق (@alhaq_org) September 4, 2025

The Ramallah-based Al-Haq has been a starring organisation some successful the occupied Palestinian territory and internationally seeking accountability for Israeli abuses, portion starring litigation successful respective countries.

The Gaza City-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights person been starring autarkic organisation that person documented Israel’s ongoing war successful Gaza.

In a connection shared by each 3 organisations, they condemned “in the strongest presumption the draconian sanctions” imposed by the Trump administration.

“These measures successful times of unrecorded genocide against our People, is simply a coward[ly], immoral, amerciable and undemocratic act,” the connection said.

“Only states with implicit disregard to planetary instrumentality and our shared humanity tin instrumentality specified heinous measures against quality rights orgs moving to extremity a genocide,” the connection said.

The U.S. conscionable sanctioned 3 of the astir salient Palestinian quality rights groups: @alhaq_org, @pchrgaza, and @AlMezanCenter.

Shameful but not surprising.

This medication bends implicit backwards to enactment Israel First each time. pic.twitter.com/ocXBYJllki

— Mohsen Farshneshani (@mFarshneshani) September 4, 2025

In a station connected the societal media level X, Mohsen Farshneshani, a sanctions lawyer and advisor astatine Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), described the organisations arsenic “three of the astir salient Palestinian quality rights groups”.

“Shameful but not surprising,” Farshneshani wrote. “This medication bends implicit backwards to enactment Israel First each time.”

The US antecedently sanctioned the Ramallah-based Addameer, a quality rights organisation focused connected Palestinian prisoners and detainees, successful June.

At the time, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which some enactment intimately with the group, said the sanctions “would marque day-to-day operations harder and harder, including for their employees, assisted communities and work suppliers. This volition besides negatively impact their engagement with their spouse organizations, locally and internationally, including US-based groups”.

“The US is utilizing its sanctions authorities to bash the bidding of the Israeli government, which has agelong systematically sought to muzzle quality rights reporting and advocacy,” it added.

In July, the Trump medication besides sanctioned the Palestinian Authority (PA), which administers the occupied West Bank, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which represents Palestinians internationally.

At the aforesaid time, the Trump medication has revoked sanctions imposed nether erstwhile US President Joe Biden connected Israelis from amerciable settlements and organisations accused of violence.