Israel will send an envoy to Washington, DC, to explain its decision last week to designate six Palestinian non-governmental organisations as “terrorists”, a foreign ministry official has said.The statement on Tuesday, made by senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official Joshua Zarka on Israeli Army Radio, comes as rights groups and United Nations experts have increasingly condemned the designation of the organisations, calling the move a major escalation of Israel’s decades-long crackdown on political activism in the occupied Palestinian territories.For its part, the administration of President Joe Biden said on Friday that it had not been notified by its close ally of the plans to single out the groups in advance. Israeli officials have contested that claim.
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