The UN mission calls the announcement by Defense Minister Benny Gantz an ‘attempt to intimidate and forcibly silence’ these organizations from exposing Israel’s violations against Palestinians

The Palestinians’ UN observer mission asked the Security Council on Sunday to condemn Israel’s designating of six nongovernmental organizations as terror groups, calling it “false and libelous slander.”

On Friday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the six organizations operate in a West Bank network run by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has been classified as a terror group by the European Union and countries including the United States.