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Killing Starving Civilians has become Israel’s Consistent and Deliberate Pattern of Conduct in Gaza
Killing Starving Civilians has become Israel’s Consistent and Deliberate Pattern of Conduct in Gaza

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued to kill Palestinian civilians, who are desperately trying to reach aid distribution points establis...

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Dangerous Ordeal to Get Box of Aid
Dangerous Ordeal to Get Box of Aid

Gaza has lived through 4 Eids since the beginning of the war, all of them black, but this Eid is the darkest and gloomiest of them all....

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Ongoing Genocide in Gaza: PCHR Condemns Israeli Forces’ Targeting of Ambulance Crew, Killing 3 of Them in Humanitarian Rescue Mission
Ongoing Genocide in Gaza: PCHR Condemns Israeli Forces’ Targeting of Ambulance Crew, Killing 3 of Them in Humanitarian Rescue Mission

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces' (IOF) direct targeting of an ambulance while carrying ...

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Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in May 2025
Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in May 2025

In May 2025, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) and Israeli settlers continued their crimes and violations of human rights and international humanitar...

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Press Releases

Aid Distribution Mechanism Created to Kill and Humiliate Starving Gazans- It Must Be Halted Immediately
Genocide Against Gaza Updates Aid Distribution Mechanism Created to Kill and Humiliate Starving Gazans- It Must Be Halted Immediately June 17, 2025
Killing Starving Civilians has become Israel’s Consistent and Deliberate Pattern of Conduct in Gaza
Genocide Against Gaza Updates Killing Starving Civilians has become Israel’s Consistent and Deliberate Pattern of Conduct in Gaza June 17, 2025
PCHR Sounds Alarm Over Potential Shut Down of Southern Gaza’s Last Major Hospital After Israeli Evacuation Orders for Its Surrounding Neighborhoods
Genocide Against Gaza Updates PCHR Sounds Alarm Over Potential Shut Down of Southern Gaza’s Last Major Hospital After Israeli Evacuation Orders for Its Surrounding Neighborhoods June 13, 2025

Testimonies

Fighting Pain and Powerlessness with One Hand
Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

Fighting Pain and Powerlessness with One Hand

June 15, 2025
I Survived the Rubble… But My Heart Was Left Behind
Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

I Survived the Rubble… But My Heart Was Left Behind

June 11, 2025
Dangerous Ordeal to Get Box of Aid
Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

Dangerous Ordeal to Get Box of Aid

June 11, 2025
Forcibly Displaced: From Israeli Detention to a Refugee Tent A Woman’s Testimony from Gaza
Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

Forcibly Displaced: From Israeli Detention to a Refugee Tent A Woman’s Testimony from Gaza

June 10, 2025
The Earth Would Not Be Enough To Hold Our Grief
Testimonies from Genocide Against Gaza

The Earth Would Not Be Enough To Hold Our Grief

May 15, 2025

Publications

All Israeli Violations in West BankThematic ReportsFact SheetsAnnual ReportsPosition PapersInterventionsUN InterventionsWeekly ReportsICC / Universal JurisdictionExternal PublicationsIsraeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022NarrativesSubmissions to the UNUpdates
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Israeli Violations in West Bank Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in May 2025 June 4, 2025
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Israeli Violations in West Bank Bruqin Village in Salfit is Facing Collective Punishment and Joint Attacks by Israeli Occupation Forces and Settlers May 24, 2025
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Genocide Against Gaza Updates A New Report by PCHR Holds Israel Responsible for Deterioration of Kidney Failure Patients’ Health Conditions in Gaza and Death of 41% of Them May 20, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank Field Report: Systematic Coordination Between Israeli Forces and Settlers to Advance Settlement Expansion in Hebron May 18, 2025
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Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in May 2025 June 4, 2025
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Press Releases Bruqin Village in Salfit is Facing Collective Punishment and Joint Attacks by Israeli Occupation Forces and Settlers May 24, 2025
Field Report: Systematic Coordination Between Israeli Forces and Settlers to Advance Settlement Expansion in Hebron May 18, 2025
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Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank April 2025 May 5, 2025
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Genocide Against Gaza Updates Palestinian Center for Human Rights Releases Report on Lack of Privacy and Safety for Women in Makeshift Camps May 18, 2025
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Genocide Against Gaza Updates Israel Kills Cancer Patients Through Deliberate Delay, Committing an Act of Genocide May 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
“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
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Annual Report 2023 March 22, 2024
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Annual Report 2022 June 26, 2023
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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

Shattered Futures: Testimonies of Torture and Genocide in Gaza
Shattered Futures: Testimonies of Torture and Genocide in Gaza
May 27, 2025
The Suffering of Thalassemia Patients in Gaza Strip: When Treatment Becomes A Distant Dream
Raji Sourani to MEE: “The UK Failed to Prevent Israel’s War on Gaza”
“We, the children of Palestine… have only one dream- to have a safe life, growing up without fear and shaping a future filled with hope”
Israeli occupation imposes measures to prevent birth in Gaza
Torn threads
“I lost my whole family in the blink of an eye.”
“His humanitarian work could not protect him… he was arrested!”
Faraj Al-Samouni recounts his story: This is how the lsraeli forces tortured me.
Grief of Loss and Displacement

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Targeting Journalists Integral Part of the Crime of Genocide
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