The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published its 2025 Annual Report, reviewing the human rights and international humanitarian law situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) during the period from 01 January to 31 December 2025. The report also highlights PCHR’s activities and interventions at both the international and local levels during the same period, and includes an executive summary and recommendations addressed to the international community.

By the end of 2025, the deterioration of the human rights situation across the oPt had reached unprecedented levels. In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued throughout the year to perpetrate the crime of genocide ongoing since 7 October 2023. Despite the announcement of a fragile ceasefire in October 2025, the IOF continued their policies of killing, destruction, starvation, and the imposition of coercive living conditions that ultimately threaten the destruction of Palestinians as a group, while the risks of forced displacement and mass expulsion remain ongoing and imminent.

In parallel with the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip, the IOF escalated the commission of crimes in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, where policies and practices amounting to ethnic cleansing have been pursued with the aim of uprooting Palestinians from their land. This was particularly evident throughout the year in the intensified attacks carried out by settler militias, backed and protected by the IOF, against Palestinian civilians and their property across the West Bank. The year also witnessed widescale military campaigns in the northern West Bank that resulted in the killing of hundreds of Palestinians, the destruction of infrastructure, the leveling of hundreds of homes, and the forcible displacement of thousands of residents from their homes. The report further reviews in detail the conditions of thousands of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including children and women, who have been subjected to the most heinous forms of torture and ill-treatment, including rape and other forms of sexual violence.

At the height of the ongoing deterioration of the human rights and international humanitarian law situation in the oPt, the U.S. Administration imposed unjust sanctions in September 2025 against PCHR, Al-Haq, and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights. The three Palestinian organizations have played a leading role in legal advocacy before the International Criminal Court and were designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for their work related to the Court. These sanctions constitute the latest measure in a series of actions taken by the U.S. Administration against the Court, its judges, and staff, aimed at undermining the international justice system. The sanctions imposed on PCHR and its partners reflect the significance of the efforts they are undertaking to combat the culture of impunity enjoyed by Israel and its political and military leaders, as well as the importance of the strategic breakthroughs achieved in this regard, particularly the issuance of arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. This further strengthens the organizations’ conviction and determination to continue pursuing this path.