{"id":268424,"date":"2021-10-07T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=268424"},"modified":"2021-11-30T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:06:28","slug":"ngo-action-news-7-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ngo-action-news-7-october-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News &#8211; 7 October 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:-60px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:34;line-height:1.4;\"><h1 class=\"main-title blue\">Civil Society and the <span class=\"secondline\">Question of Palestine<\/span><\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-alert alert custom alert-custom fusion-alert-center notice fusion-alert-capitalize awb-alert-native-link-color alert-dismissable awb-alert-close-boxed alert-shadow\" style=\"--awb-background-color:#edf2fc;--awb-accent-color:#a0a0a0;--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-border-top-left-radius:0px;--awb-border-top-right-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\" role=\"alert\"><div class=\"fusion-alert-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"alert-icon\"><i class=\" fa fa-exclamation-circle\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-alert-content\">This page may contain links to third-party Web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of the United Nations and the United Nations is not responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. The United Nations provides these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link or reference does not imply endorsement of the linked site by the United Nations. This newsletter is a project of the Division for Palestinian Rights, and is intended to provide information on NGO activities relevant to the question of Palestine . NGOs interested in contributing information on their activities should communicate it by email.The Division reserves the right to make the final selection with regard to material to be included in this newsletter. It cannot take responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/span><\/div><button style=\"color:#a0a0a0;border-color:#a0a0a0;\" type=\"button\" class=\"close toggle-alert\" data-dismiss=\"alert\" aria-label=\"Close\">&times;<\/button><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Middle East<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 5 October, <u>7amleh<\/u> published a statement announcing that a coalition of human rights organizations have sent a letter to PayPal, asking the company to stop denying its services on allegedly discriminatory grounds to Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). According to this statement, PayPal refuses to operate in the OPT yet provides full access to users in Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 29 September, <u>Al-Haq<\/u> informed about a new report on financial transactions between 672 European financial institutions and 50 businesses actively involved with Israeli settlements, in the period January 2018 to May 2021. This report is published by the \u201cDon\u2019t Buy into Occupation\u201d coalition, a cross-regional coalition of Palestinian and European NGOs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 27 September, <u>Al Mezan<\/u> issued a press release to mark the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Journalists. Al Mezan recalled the essential role played by media to monitor and report human rights abuses and violations. The organization also condemned alleged violations of international laws protecting journalists and the freedom of the press during recent Israeli military operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>North America<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 4 October, <u>Human Rights Watch<\/u> issued a statement entitled \u201cTime to Recognize Reality of Israeli Apartheid &amp; Persecution\u201d. Recalling the United Nations\u2019 role in ending South Africa\u2019s system of apartheid, the organization encouraged states to engage with the UN Human Rights Council\u2019s Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>United Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>On 5 October, the Commissioner-General of the <u>United Nations Relief and Works<\/u> <u>Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East<\/u> (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, delivered a statement to the United Nations General Assembly\u2019s Fourth Committee. Mr. Lazzarini highlighted that the vulnerability and needs of Palestine refugees in the region increased since his last report on November 2020. He further stressed that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated during the reporting period. Tensions remained also high in the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, with an increase from the previous years in the number of injuries and fatalities caused by excessive use of force by Israeli Security Forces. Mr. Lazzarini also focussed on the impact of austerity measures on current and future UNRWA services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 30 September, the <u>United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian <\/u><u>Affairs<\/u> (OCHA) published the report \u201cWest Bank demolitions and displacement &#8211; August 2021\u201d. This monthly report informed that August recorded the third-highest monthly number of structures demolished or seized so far in 2021. OCHA also reported that 80 per cent of Area C displacement in August was in the Jordan Valley while 100 Palestinians were forcibly displaced in East Jerusalem in August alone, representing 46 per cent of the total number of Palestinians displaced in East Jerusalem this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 29 September, the <u>United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace<\/u> <u>Process<\/u>, Tor Wennesland, briefed the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Mr. Wennesland reported on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2334, covering the period from 12 June to 27 September 2021. Among other issues, he focused on the continued demolitions and seizures of Palestinian-owned structures across the occupied West Bank, movement restrictions, settler-related violence and on the high number of acts of violence against civilians during demonstration and confrontation between Palestinians and Israeli Security Forces. He also called for the parties to refrain from acts of provocation, incitement and inflammatory rhetoric, and urged Israelis, Palestinians, regional States and the broader international community to take practical steps that will enable the parties to re-engage on the path to peace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 29 September, <u>UNRWA<\/u> announced that the European Union has contributed EUR 5 million for humanitarian aid and early recovery in the Gaza Strip in support to UNRWA in the wake of the May 2021 hostilities. The Agency further informed that it will provide one-off cash grants to an estimated 10,000 vulnerable families whose homes had sustained damages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><em>This newsletter informs about recent and upcoming activities of Civil Society Organizations affiliated with the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The Committee and the Division for Palestinian Rights of the UN Secretariat provide the information &#8220;as is&#8221; without warranty of any <\/em>kind,<em> and do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, or reliability of the information contained in the websites linked in the newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1239,1512],"tags":[],"country":[],"committee-meeting":[],"class_list":["post-268424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-ngo-action-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268424"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=268424"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=268424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}