Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Israel Perpetuates Genocide in the Gaza Strip, Escalating Mass Killings and Bombing Shelters in Gaza

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) escalation of mass killings, targe...

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Israeli Occupation Forces’ Execution of Ambulance and Civil Defense Crews After Their Arrest: A War Crime

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) heinous crime against 14 members o...

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Israel’s Forced Displacement of Rafah Residents and Escalation of Mass Killings: A Systematic Pursuit of Genocide and Displacement Plan

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) issuance of evacuation orders for ...

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Iman Al-Kafarna: A Life of Forced Displacement and Suffering Under Bombardment and Siege

I am Iman Bassam Hassan Al-Kafarna, 30 years old, originally from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. I am married to Mahmoud Saad Abdullah Al-Kafarna and a...

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Press Releases

Genocide Against Gaza Updates Famine is Imminent in Gaza Strip: Bakeries Closed Amid Lack of Flour and Foodstuff April 3, 2025

Genocide Against Gaza Updates Israel Perpetuates Genocide in the Gaza Strip, Escalating Mass Killings and Bombing Shelters in Gaza April 3, 2025

Genocide Against Gaza Updates Journalist and His Family Killed: Israel’s Ongoing Policy to Kill Witnesses to Genocide April 2, 2025

Testimonies

Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

Iman Al-Kafarna: A Life of Forced Displacement and Suffering Under Bombardment and Siege

March 26, 2025

Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

From the Depths of Suffering: A Gazan Woman’s Testimony of Forced Displacement

March 18, 2025

Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

Malak Al-Sabra in a Caregiver’s Hands and an Uncertain Fate for Her Family

March 6, 2025

Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

Reham Eshtiwi: A Heart Burdened by Loss and Pain

March 6, 2025

Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

Burned, Tortured, and Blindfolded: My Testimony of Survival in Detention

March 4, 2025

Publications

All Israeli Violations in West Bank Thematic Reports Fact Sheets Annual Reports Position Papers Interventions UN Interventions Weekly Reports ICC / Universal Jurisdiction External Publications Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021 Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022 Narratives Submissions to the UN Updates

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Israeli Violations in West Bank Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in February 2025 March 5, 2025

Israeli Violations in West Bank Israel’s Tool for Palestinian Land Appropriation: A Field Report on Accelerating Pastoral Settlement Expansion in Sebastia, Nablus February 25, 2025

Genocide Against Gaza Updates PCHR Issues Study on ” Israeli Violations and International Inaction: Women in Gaza Shattered by Compound Violence” February 20, 2025

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Israeli Violations in West Bank Israeli Occupation Forces Escalate House Demolitions and Continue Forced Displacement in the West Bank amid Accelerated Settlement Activity February 13, 2025

Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in February 2025 March 5, 2025

Israel’s Tool for Palestinian Land Appropriation: A Field Report on Accelerating Pastoral Settlement Expansion in Sebastia, Nablus February 25, 2025

Press Releases Israeli Occupation Forces Escalate House Demolitions and Continue Forced Displacement in the West Bank amid Accelerated Settlement Activity February 13, 2025

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Press Releases PCHR Condemns Israeli Occupation Forces’ Killing of 2 Women, including 9-month Pregnant, and Injury of Her Husband in the Continued Military Assault on Nur Shams Refugee Camp, Tulkarm February 10, 2025

Genocide Against Gaza Updates PCHR Issues Study on ” Israeli Violations and International Inaction: Women in Gaza Shattered by Compound Violence” February 20, 2025

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Genocide Against Gaza Updates Children are Direct Victims of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, PCHR Confirms December 31, 2024

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Freedom of Expression / Peaceful Assembly PCHR Releases Report on the Targeting of Journalists and Media Institutions in Gaza During the 2023-2024 Genocide October 17, 2024

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Genocide Against Gaza Updates “Women with Cancer in Gaza Face Imminent Death Risk Amid Ongoing Genocide“ May 31, 2024

“Israel’s Policy of Starvation During its Genocidal Campaign: Impact on Women and Girls in Northern Gaza Strip” August 22, 2024

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“Israel Weaponizes Water in its Genocidal Campaign against Civilians in Gaza Strip” August 14, 2024

2nd Anniversary of the Great March of Return: Impunity Continues to Prevail. March 30, 2020

COVID-19 State of Emergency: Powers and Restrictions Under Palestinian and International Law March 30, 2020

Annual Report 2023 March 22, 2024

Annual Report 2022 June 26, 2023

Annual Report 2021 June 2, 2022

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Annual Report 2021 (Executive Summary) May 12, 2022

Position Paper: ICC Prosecutor Ought Respond Immediately to Escalating IOF War Crimes against Palestinians April 19, 2022

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Death Penalty On World Day Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty is Not a Solution, Only an Illusion of Deterrence to Avoid Liability October 10, 2020

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Position Paper by Human Rights Organisations’ on the Independence of the Palestinian Judicial System August 12, 2020

Main Position Paper: Constitutional Court’s Decision to Dissolve PLC is Political and Illegal March 21, 2019

Main Obligations Owed and Not Demands to Negotiate: Legal Characterization of Palestinian Hunger Striking Prisoners’ Demands in the Israeli Jails May 23, 2017

Interview with Raji Sourani in Gaza “We are just soft targets: we are very cheap” July 17, 2014

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PHROC Open Letter to UN Secretary-General on Hostilities in the Gaza Strip July 16, 2014

End impunity in Palestine: calling for investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court December 10, 2012

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Impact of Israeli Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Right to Health of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, PCHR’s Submission to Professor Alena Douhan, Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights February 26, 2023

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Rights Groups submit to UN Special Procedures on the Abuse of Muhammad Al-Na’em by an Israeli Bulldozer and the Injury of Palestinians in Gaza March 6, 2020

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Press Releases Human rights organisations welcome Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on racial segregation and apartheid on both sides of the Green Line December 21, 2019

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Press Releases Palestinian, regional, and international groups submit report on Israeli apartheid to UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination November 14, 2019

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Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 27 September- 04 October 2023) October 5, 2023

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Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 21- 26 September 2023) September 27, 2023

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Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 14-20 September 2023) September 21, 2023

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Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 07-13 September 2023) September 14, 2023

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Press Releases Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute December 13, 2022

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Press Releases Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Submit File to the ICC, Urge Prosecutor to Open Cases from Attack on Palestinians in Gaza in May 2021 May 24, 2022

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Press Releases Al-Haq Joint Statement at the General Debate of the 20th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court December 21, 2021

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News Unwilling and Unable Israel’s Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests December 1, 2021

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ICC’s “Landmark Decision” Could Open Door to Prosecuting Israel for War Crimes in Palestine February 8, 2021

NGOs to Biden: support access to justice for all by rescinding Trump-era executive order impeding ICC’s work January 28, 2021

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The Biden Administration Should Engage with the ICC – the Evidence Shows That It Saves Lives January 28, 2021

U.S.-ICC Relations Under a Biden Administration: Room to Be Bold January 22, 2021

Home Demolition / Destruction of Property Israeli Military Aggression on the Gaza Strip May 2021: House Demolitions November 17, 2021

Israeli Military Aggression on the Gaza Strip: Economic Sector Destruction September 3, 2021

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Press Releases In Light of Complete and Unprecedented Closure of Gaza Strip, PCHR Obtains Travel Permit for Treating Man Injured Upon Petition Filed to Court June 13, 2021

News PCHR Holds Conference on: The Humanitarian Conditions in Gaza Post-IOF Aggression June 9, 2021

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Updated Figures of Casualties in Israeli Strikes on Gaza Strip (05-07 August 2022) August 30, 2022

Filed Update 5: 4 Palestinian Civilians Killed August 8, 2022

Field Update 4: 7 Palestinians Killed, including 2 Women and Child, and 49 Others Wounded, including 14 Women and 21 Children August 7, 2022

Field Update 3: 2 Palestinians Killed and 11 Others Wounded, including 3 Women and 3 Children August 6, 2022

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Main Green Riding Hood… Pain Dwells within Her Ribs December 4, 2018

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Main Dreams Amputated.. Nazihah… Attempts to Adjust to Amputation November 27, 2018

Main Life under siege: Electricity cuts put dialysis patients at risk July 16, 2017

Main Life under Siege: Indiscriminate killing of farmers June 18, 2017

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In a Joint Submission to UN Special Rapporteur, Organisations Highlight the Role of Israel’s Colonial Settlements in the Entrenchment of its Settler-Colonial and Apartheid Regime May 8, 2021

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Publications Joint Parallel Report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Israel’s Seventeenth to Nineteenth Periodic Reports November 14, 2019

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Field Updates Citizen Killed in Family Dispute in Qusin Village in Nablus September 26, 2023

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Field Updates PCHR Condemns Assault by Gunmen on Hebron Municipal Council Member, ‘Abdel Karim Farrah September 25, 2023

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Field Updates PCHR Condemns Assault by Unknown on Public Figures and Property September 21, 2023

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Closure Update State of the Gaza Strip Border Crossings (01 – 31 August 2023) September 19, 2023

Media

Israeli occupation imposes measures to prevent birth in Gaza

February 5, 2025

How the Israeli Occupying Forces executed Ahmed Abu Helal in cold blood…

A heartbreaking testimony of a displaced Palestinian mother

Understanding Genocide: The Case of Gaza

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Israeli Violations in West Bank Report on Israel’s Crimes and Violations of Palestinians’ Rights in the West Bank in June 2024 July 4, 2024