Since the beginning of the Second Intifida, in September 2000, the Israeli occupation forces demolished 12,000 Palestinian houses, partially or completely, across the Gaza Strip, displacing approximately 124,000 people, including 60,000 children. Ahmad Abdallah Youssef al Afifi (32) lost his Rafah home, in the southern Gaza Strip, in a...
Ref: 92/2012On Tuesday, 06 November 2012, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) received in its head office in Gaza a delegation from Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) headed by Mr. Alberto Virella, Director of Africa, Asia, and Western Europe for AECID. The delegation met with Mr....
Ref: 91/2012 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) hosts a 21-member solidarity delegation, representing different sectors of the civil society organizations, from United States of America. The delegation includes the family of the international solidarity movement activist, Rachel Corrie, who was killed on 16 March 2003, when an Israeli bulldozer...
Ref: 90/2012 Today, 6 November 2012, the first session of the criminal trial into the Israeli assault on the humanitarian boat “Mavi Marmara” – which killed nine Turkish nationals and injured many others – was held at the Istanbul Çağlayan Courthouse. The Mavi Marmara was part of the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla”...
Impressions of Gaza Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to beunder the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive...
Ref: 119/2012 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns Palestinian police’s dispersal of a women’s sit-in today in Gaza. A number of participants were subjected to violent beatings from the police, who even attempted to arrest Na’aima al-Sheikh Ali, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). PCHR calls upon...
Date of Publication: 30 October 2012The October 2012 report titled “TRADING AWAY PEACE: How Europe helps sustain illegal Israeli settlements” is the result of a joint project of 22 organizations, including International Federation for Human Rights, Norwegian People’s Aid, Medical Aid for Palestinians. By providing details of involvement of...
Ref: 118/2012 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns banning Jamal 'Obaid and Salim al-Braim from traveling via Rafah International Crossing Point by the Internal Security Service (ISS), in violation of the law. PCHR calls upon the Attorney General and the government in Gaza...
Dying light on the horizonFishing boats can be seen at night a couple of miles out at sea in Gaza with very expensive high-powered lights trying to attract fish that they cannot reach, but the horizon remains deadly for them.Israeli forces shot and killed 22-year-old fisherman Fahmi Abu Riash...
Ref: 116/2012 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns IOF’s assault on a fishing boat boarded by Palestinian fishermen and international solidarity activists who were aiming to lift the siege by crossing the IOF imposed 3 nautical-mile limit on Palestinian fishermen since the past six years. PCHR calls upon the...
