Bisan Center for Research and Development

The Bisan Center for Research and Development is a civil society non-profit, non-governmental organization in Ramallah, Palestine.

[1] In 1990, with funding from Austcare, Bisan founded 22 community centers in the West Bank offering vocational training.

[5] In October 2021, Bisan was designated a terrorist organization by Israel, together with five other Palestinian non-profit, non-governmental organizations (Addameer, Al-Haq, Defence for Children International – Palestine, the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees).

"[8] In July 2022, nine EU countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden) issued a joint statement saying they will continue working with the six Palestinian organisations that Israel had banned because Israel had failed to prove that they should be considered terrorist groups.

[10] On 18 August 2022, Israeli forces raided the headquarters of the six organisations along with the Union of Health Work Committees (outlawed in 2020) in Ramallah and al-Bireh, removed computers and equipment and ordered their closure.