Field Updates At approximately 03:15 on Wednesday, 15 August 2012, a bomb was detonated in front of a women’s hairdressing shop belonging to Wasfiya Mohammed Najem in al-Nussairat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. The shop was damaged and the windows of a number of nearby houses were broken. ...
This week’s video links to a narrative given by Rahwi Qarqaz, a Gazan man who was arrested when trying to seek medical treatment in Israel. He was detained and questioned for 13 days. The video is titled “Occupied Lives: 13 days of trauma.” [embed]https://youtu.be/XPDQ9H3K8lo[/embed]...
Rahwi Qarqaz in front of his house in Jabalya.3 years ago, Rahwi Qarqaz (42) had a motor bike accident. As a result, he fractured his right shoulder and suffered a breakage in the cartilage of his left knee. Since then, he has had to undergo surgery on several occasions,...
Ref: 71/2012 On Monday noon, 13 August 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) received Head of the Netherlands Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority, Ms. Birgitta Tazelaar, in its head offices in Gaza City. Tazelaar met with Mr. Raji Sourani, Director of PCHR, who briefed her on the...
Ref: 86/2012 In confirmation of the Israeli judiciary’s flagrant disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians, an Israeli court sentenced an Israeli soldier, who is accused of killing a Palestinian woman and her daughter during “Operation Cast Lead” (27 December 2008 -18 January 2009), to only 45 days...
Palestinians Passing Through Bethlehem Checkpoint on their Way to Pray at al-Aqsa Mosque Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) In a new extra-judicial execution crime, the IOF killed a Palestinian activist and wounded another. IOF used force to disperse peaceful protest...
Fact Sheet July 2012Following disengagement from the Gaza Strip in September 2005, Israel has unilaterally and illegally established a so-called “buffer zone”, an area prohibited to Palestinians along the land and sea borders of the Gaza Strip. The precise area designated by Israel as a “buffer zone” is unknown and...
Ref: 70/2012The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) received the Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza, Patrick Gueissaz, in PCHR’s head office in Gaza City.PCHR’s Director,RajiSourani, met with Gueissaz, and the meeting addressed a number of current developments relating to the human...
This week’s video links to a narrative given by Mamoun Ahmad Dalloul, a Gazan business owner who has seen his dairy factory be destroyed by Israel’s forces 5 times in less than 4 years. The video is titled “Occupied Lives: I have no future.” [embed]https://youtu.be/Ov7PDcXe6zw[/embed] ...
The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) condemns, in the strongest terms, the heinous crime committed by an armed group in Sinai on Sunday, 05 August 2012, the result of which 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed and others were wounded.PNGO extendsits condolences to the Egyptian people, the victims' families and...
