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IDF wants more background details of left-wing groups

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Published: 22 March 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

THE ISRAELI ARMY has started asking left-wing groups that arrange meetings between Israelis and Palestinians for large quantities of information about their activities, funding sources and media efforts.

The army’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories is requesting members’ phone numbers, the position they hold in the organization and the training they’ve received, among other things.

It has refused to issue entry permits for Palestinians going to Israel to meet with Israelis unless the groups supply this information. This demand is on top of the normal security check the Palestinians must undergo.

Israeli organisations say this is a significant change in COGAT’s demands, and is meant to prevent Palestinians from entering Israel for such meetings.

FULL STORY Israel demands that left-wing groups disclose funding sources, activists’ personal details (Haaretz)

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Photo: A meeting between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, 2015 (Moti Milrod)
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