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Israeli Violations in West Bank
Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in August 2025
September 2, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Settler in Nablus
August 14, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Five Palestinians Killed in Less Than a Month: Alarming Escalation in Settler Attacks Backed by Israeli Occupation Forces
August 4, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in July 2025
August 3, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Human Rights Defender Killed in Shooting Attack by Israeli Settler in Hebron, as Israeli Judiciary Is Complicit in His Release
July 31, 2025
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Israeli Violations in West Bank
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Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022
Narratives
Submissions to the UN
Updates
Annual Reports
Annual Report 2024
July 22, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Compound Crime in Sinjil: Two Palestinians Killed in Cold Blood and 27 Others Injured in Systematic Settler Violence Backed by Israeli Occupation Forces
July 14, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Field Report: Arab al-Malihat Community in Jericho… Recent Example of Israel’s Forced Displacement Policy in West Bank
July 10, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in June 2025
July 2, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Dead Three Palestinians While Protecting Settlers’ Attacks in Ramallah
June 27, 2025
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
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
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
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
Genocide Against Gaza Updates
PCHR Releases Report on Torture and Genocide Against Palestinians from Gaza
May 12, 2025
Genocide Against Gaza Updates
Israel Kills Cancer Patients Through Deliberate Delay, Committing an Act of Genocide
May 10, 2025
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Israeli Violations in West Bank
Compound Crime in Sinjil: Two Palestinians Killed in Cold Blood and 27 Others Injured in Systematic Settler Violence Backed by Israeli Occupation Forces
July 14, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Field Report: Arab al-Malihat Community in Jericho… Recent Example of Israel’s Forced Displacement Policy in West Bank
July 10, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in June 2025
July 2, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Dead Three Palestinians While Protecting Settlers’ Attacks in Ramallah
June 27, 2025
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
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
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Field Report: Systematic Coordination Between Israeli Forces and Settlers to Advance Settlement Expansion in Hebron
May 18, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank April 2025
May 5, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Field Report: “Violence Under Protection… Settler Attacks as a Tool of Forced Displacment in Hebron”
April 20, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Serious Escalation in House Demolition Policy in West Bank: Israeli Occupation Forces Carry out 15 Demolitions, Destroy 24 Houses and 58 Facilities in Just 10 Days
April 11, 2025
Israeli Violations in West Bank
Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank – March 2025
April 6, 2025
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
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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
Children are Direct Victims of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, PCHR Confirms
December 31, 2024
Fact Sheets
“Israel’s Policy of Starvation During its Genocidal Campaign: Impact on Women and Girls in Northern Gaza Strip”
August 22, 2024
Fact Sheets
“Israel Weaponizes Water in its Genocidal Campaign against Civilians in Gaza Strip”
August 14, 2024
Fact Sheets
2nd Anniversary of the Great March of Return: Impunity Continues to Prevail.
March 30, 2020
Fact Sheets
COVID-19 State of Emergency: Powers and Restrictions Under Palestinian and International Law
March 30, 2020
Fact Sheets
Gaza Strip: Attacks in the border areas and their consequenc
October 3, 2019
Fact Sheets
Gaza Strip: Attacks in the border areas and their consequences
September 5, 2019
Fact Sheets
Gaza Strip: Attacks in the border areas and their consequences
August 20, 2019
Fact Sheets
Gaza Strip: Attacks in the border areas and their consequences
July 9, 2019
Fact Sheets
Gaza Strip: Attacks in the border areas and their consequences
June 12, 2019
Fact Sheets
Gaza Strip: Attacks in the border areas and their consequences
April 10, 2019
Fact Sheets
On the 1st anniversary of the #GreatReturnMarch, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights publishes an info-graphic showing the number of civilian casualties from 30 March 2018-28 March 2019 resulting from Israel’s suppression of the #GreatReturnMarch demonstrations.
March 28, 2019
Fact Sheets
Question and Answer: 1st Year Anniversary of the March of Return Demonstrations
March 28, 2019
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Annual Reports
Annual Report 2024
July 22, 2025
Annual Reports
Annual Report 2023
March 22, 2024
Annual Reports
Annual Report 2022
June 26, 2023
Annual Reports
Annual Report 2021
June 2, 2022
Annual Reports
Annual Report 2021 (Executive Summary)
May 12, 2022
Annual Reports
Annual Report 2020
July 15, 2021
Annual Reports
Annual Report 2019
April 13, 2020
Annual Reports
Annual report 2018
July 1, 2019
Annual Reports
Annual report 2017
June 28, 2018
Annual Reports
Annual report 2016
June 20, 2017
Annual Reports
Annual report 2015
August 30, 2016
Annual Reports
PCHR Publishes Its 2014 Annual Report in English
August 31, 2015
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Position Papers
Position Paper: ICC Prosecutor Ought Respond Immediately to Escalating IOF War Crimes against Palestinians
April 19, 2022
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
Position Papers
Position Paper by Human Rights Organisations’ on the Independence of the Palestinian Judicial System
August 12, 2020
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Position Paper: Constitutional Court’s Decision to Dissolve PLC is Political and Illegal
March 21, 2019
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Accountability Guarantees End of International Law Violations Against Peaceful Demonstrators
May 17, 2018
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Position Paper: A Grant of Recognition from those who do not own to those who do not deserve: Baflour Declaration Recurs The Palestinian Right to Jerusalem is An International Law that Cannot be taken away by Political Measures and Statements
December 7, 2017
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Position Paper: Unleashing Media Freedoms Should be Priority in Reconciliation Table Agenda
November 5, 2017
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Position Paper Issued Following Workshop on Media Freedoms in Light of PCHR’s Legal Review of Electronic Crimes Law
September 20, 2017
Position Papers
Withdrawing ESCAW Report is Complicity: Rima Khalaf, Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley and the New Approach to End Occupation
March 22, 2017
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Position Paper on al-Aqsa University Crisis in the Gaza Strip
September 27, 2016
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Position Paper: Palestinian Unity Government Calls for Local Council Elections
July 19, 2016
Position Papers
Gaza under Closure and Rubble, UN Mechanism to Reconstruct Gaza Fails and the Only Solution Is Lifting the Closure
March 11, 2015
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Interventions
Obligations Owed and Not Demands to Negotiate: Legal Characterization of Palestinian Hunger Striking Prisoners’ Demands in the Israeli Jails
May 23, 2017
Interventions
Interview with Raji Sourani in Gaza “We are just soft targets: we are very cheap”
July 17, 2014
Interventions
PHROC Open Letter to UN Secretary-General on Hostilities in the Gaza Strip
July 16, 2014
Interventions
End impunity in Palestine: calling for investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court
December 10, 2012
Interventions
Call for Special Session of the Human Rights Council in the Gaza Strip : Violations of International Law Must End
November 17, 2012
Interventions
The text of the letter sent by Mr. Raji Sourani, Director of PCHR, to Ms. Jessica Montell, Executive Director of B’Tselem.
March 21, 2012
Interventions
PCHR Appears before UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Denounces Israel’s, Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians with regard to the Right to Justice
February 19, 2012
Interventions
A letter by human rights organizations to the UN Secretary-General on the General Assembly’s session
September 16, 2011
Interventions
A letter by human rights organizations to the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States on the General Assembly’s session
September 16, 2011
Interventions
Urgent: Letter to High Commissioner for Human Rights
February 10, 2011
Interventions
Alternative Report Submitted to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Response to Israel’s Third Periodic Report (E/C.12/ISR/3)
October 28, 2010
Interventions
A Joint Appeal from Civil Society: The International Community Must Act Now to End Impunity for War Crimes in Israel and Palestine
September 28, 2010
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UN Interventions
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
UN Interventions
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
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
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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PCHR sends an urgent appeal concerning the situation of Palestinian Detainee Samer al-Arabid to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT and the Special Rapporteur on Torture.
October 8, 2019
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PCHR sends a submission to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ahead of Israel’s fourth periodic review during its 66th session highlighting Israel’s restrictions on Palestinian’s right to access healthcare in hospitals in West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Israel or abroad.
September 15, 2019
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PCHR Welcomes UN Investigative Report on Violations Committed during March of Return
February 28, 2019
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Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Meet with New UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Commission of Inquiry on Return Protests in Geneva
November 14, 2018
UN Interventions
PCHR Submits Joint Written Statement to the 24th Session of the Human Rights Council
October 1, 2013
UN Interventions
PCHR submits shadow report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
July 25, 2013
UN Interventions
PCHR submits a report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
June 26, 2013
UN Interventions
PCHR Submits Written Statement to the 23rd Session of the Human Rights Council
June 10, 2013
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Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 27 September- 04 October 2023)
October 5, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 21- 26 September 2023)
September 27, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 14-20 September 2023)
September 21, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 07-13 September 2023)
September 14, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ( Weekly Update 31 August- 06 September 2023 )
September 7, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 24 – 30 August 2023)
August 31, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ( Weekly Update 17-23 August 2023 )
August 24, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 10 – 16 August 2023)
August 17, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 03-09 August 2023)
August 10, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 27 July – 02 August 2023)
August 3, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 19-26 July 2023)
July 27, 2023
Weekly Reports
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 13 – 18 July 2023)
July 19, 2023
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ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute
December 13, 2022
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
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
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
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
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
Unwilling and Unable Israel’s Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests
December 1, 2021
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
Sheikh Jarrah Families Send Letter to the International Criminal Court Calling for Urgent Investigation of their Imminent Forced Displacement, Endorsed by 190 Organisations
April 24, 2021
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
“We remain committed to an international rules-based order”
June 23, 2020
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
Motion for Leave to File Supplemental Observations with respect to the Situation in the State of Palestine on behalf of the European Centre for Law and Justice
June 16, 2020
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
An Open Letter to the Israeli Government Condemning Annexation
June 11, 2020
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
European Court of Human Rights deals major blow to Israel’s war on Palestine solidarity
June 11, 2020
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
Baldassi and Others v. France – criminal conviction of activists involved in the campaign boycotting products imported from Israel violated their freedom of expression
June 11, 2020
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
Statement delivered by H.E Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine
May 19, 2020
ICC / Universal Jurisdiction
Prosecution Response to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States
April 30, 2020
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External Publications
ICC’s “Landmark Decision” Could Open Door to Prosecuting Israel for War Crimes in Palestine
February 8, 2021
External Publications
NGOs to Biden: support access to justice for all by rescinding Trump-era executive order impeding ICC’s work
January 28, 2021
External Publications
The Biden Administration Should Engage with the ICC – the Evidence Shows That It Saves Lives
January 28, 2021
External Publications
U.S.-ICC Relations Under a Biden Administration: Room to Be Bold
January 22, 2021
External Publications
ACLU CLIENTS CHALLENGE TRUMP’S SANCTIONS ORDER AGAINST INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
January 15, 2021
External Publications
Concerning the International Criminal Court
December 21, 2020
External Publications
PCHR: Esta vez se perdieron los archivos
December 8, 2020
External Publications
The Palestinian case at the ICC is legal, not political
December 6, 2020
External Publications
Lisa Nandy urges ban on imports of West Bank goods
July 1, 2020
External Publications
SUPPORTING WOMEN IN GAZA FACING COVID, VIOLENCE AND POVERTY
June 15, 2020
External Publications
COVID-19 and Human Rights – 2013 Laureate Raji Sourani: “Governments must put human rights and dignity at the centre”
May 9, 2020
External Publications
ASP President, O-Gon Kwon, reaffirms unwavering support for the ICC
March 26, 2020
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Home Demolition / Destruction of Property
Israeli Military Aggression on the Gaza Strip May 2021: House Demolitions
November 17, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Israeli Military Aggression on the Gaza Strip: Economic Sector Destruction
September 3, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
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
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
PCHR Holds Conference on: The Humanitarian Conditions in Gaza Post-IOF Aggression
June 9, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
For the second Time in a row, PCHR Obtains Travel Permit for Treating Man Injured “Life Saving Achievement”
May 27, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Life Saving Achievement for Woman Injured in IOF Gaza Offensive, PCHR Obtains Travel Permit for Treatment from Israeli Public Prosecution
May 26, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Israeli Authorities Maintain Beit Hanoun Crossing Closed and Ban Entry of Humanitarian Cases Including Patients, their Companions and Bodies of Patienta who Died in Hospitals Abroad
May 24, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Cease-fire Reached After 11 Days of IOF Aggression on Gaza
May 21, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Day 11 of Israeli Offensive on Gaza: Violent Artillery Shelling and Systematic Destruction of Houses
May 20, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (11 – 19 May 2021)
May 20, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Day 10 of Israeli Offensive on Gaza: Violent Artillery Shelling and Systematic Destruction of Houses
May 19, 2021
Israeli Offensive on Gaza May 2021
Invitation to A Press Conference
May 19, 2021
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Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022
Updated Figures of Casualties in Israeli Strikes on Gaza Strip (05-07 August 2022)
August 30, 2022
Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022
Filed Update 5: 4 Palestinian Civilians Killed
August 8, 2022
Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 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
Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022
Field Update 3: 2 Palestinians Killed and 11 Others Wounded, including 3 Women and 3 Children
August 6, 2022
Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022
Gaza Strip Faces Israeli Offensive with frail Healthcare System and Acute Power Shortage
August 6, 2022
Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022
Field Update 2: 2 Palestinians Killed and 7 Others Wounded, including 2 Women and 4 Children
August 6, 2022
Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip August 2022
Initial Update: Gaza under Attack … In New Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip… 10 Palestinians Killed, including 3 Civilians: Woman and Girl, and 48 Others Injured, including 9 Children and 4 Women
August 5, 2022
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Green Riding Hood… Pain Dwells within Her Ribs
December 4, 2018
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Dreams Amputated.. Nazihah… Attempts to Adjust to Amputation
November 27, 2018
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Life under siege: Electricity cuts put dialysis patients at risk
July 16, 2017
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Life under Siege: Indiscriminate killing of farmers
June 18, 2017
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Life Under Siege: Medical treatment denied
May 25, 2017
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Life under occupation: Excessive violence of the Israeli forces
May 7, 2017
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Life under occupation: House demolitions in East Jerusalem
April 30, 2017
Narratives
Life under Siege: Stolen Childhood
April 23, 2017
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Life under occupation: Suffering behind the annexation wall
April 13, 2017
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Life under siege: Open air prison
April 10, 2017
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Life under occupation: Opposing Israeli discrimination in H2 area of Hebron
April 5, 2017
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Life under siege: Child’s Wartime Memories
March 20, 2017
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Submissions to the UN
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
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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