[1][2] Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) is an independent, local Palestinian child rights organization established in 1991 to promote the rights of children living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

[3] In October 2021, DCIP was designated a terrorist organization by Israel, together with five other Palestinian NGOs: Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Center for Research and Development, the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees.

[4] This accusation was supported by the pro-Israeli NGO Monitor, who issued a report claiming DCI-P's ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), designated a terrorist organisation by the United States, European Union, Canada, and Israel.

NGO Monitor alleges that PFLP members have been employed and appointed as board members at DCI-P.[5] The designation of Defence for Children International – Palestine as a terrorist organisation was condemned by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,[6] and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights who called it a “frontal attack on the Palestinian human rights movement and on human rights everywhere.”[7] 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.

[8] 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.