Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud Abed Nabi in front of his family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp On 30 March 2012, Palestinians around the world marked Land Day, commemorating the 1976 killing of 6 Palestinians protesting against land confiscation by the Israeli authorities. Across occupied Palestine, thousands of civilians held peaceful...
Ref: 37/2012 Part of the Board of Trustees' meetings – al-Mathaf Hotel On Monday morning, 23 April 2012, Members of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Organization of Human Rights (AOHR), who were hosted by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), concluded a series...
Israeli security forces fire tear gas towards Palestinian protesters during clashes outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah April 17, 2012.Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) IOF use force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian...
Ref: 36/2012 Today morning, 18 April 2012, lawyer Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), received David Viveash, Field Office Director of the Cater Center, and Nathan Stock, Assistant Director of Conflict Resolution Program at Carter Center, in PCHR's head office in Gaza City. They addressed the efforts...
Ref: 47/2012 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the prevention of dozens of international solidarity activists participating in the "Welcome to Palestine Campaign” by the Israeli police from accessing to Israel. We also condemn their detention as they arrived at the Ben Gurion International Airport, imprisoning and subjecting them to...
Ref: 45/2012Today, 17 April 2012, marks the Palestinian Prisoners Day, which has been devoted by the Palestinian people to support the cause of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails. Since 1979, Palestinians have commemorated this day, which marks the anniversary of the release of Palestinian prisoners in the first...
Ref: 35/2012 Today morning, 17 April 2012, lawyer Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), received Axel Wernhoff, Consul General of Sweden, Gert Clockx, Consul General of Belgium, and Lars Rehof, the Danish Representative to the Palestinian Authority, in PCHR's head office in Gaza City. Sourani welcomed the...
On Friday 13 April 2012, Israeli forces fired on a Palestinian fishing boat in the north part of the Gaza Strip. Every week, thousands of fishermen are targeted by Israeli naval forces as they attempt to secure their livelihood. Nehad Raja Mohamed Al Hissi, 29, is a fisherman. He is...
Nisreen posses next to a picture of her husband Samir in her home in Zeitoun Nisreen Murtaja, 35, lives in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza city in the house of her husband’s family. In 1993, Nisreen’s husband, Samir, 41, was arrested from his home in the presence of his family,...
[embed]https://youtu.be/ytN2P-xREvk[/embed]Marking the annual Palestinian Prisoners Day of 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights releases the film This short documentary addresses the issues of solitary confinement and other measures of inhuman and degrading treatment to which Palestinian prisoners are subjected in Israeli jails. The film further highlights the human rights...
