Following 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 Israeli policy is...
Israel has subject the Gaza Strip to a closure policy since 1991, however, its current, most extreme form, has been applied continuously since 14 June 2007, following the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip. Despite the effects of Operation Cast Lead, the closure regime has been continuously applied. Today,...
Ongoing construction works in “Armon Hanatsin” settlement in JerusalemIsraeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.A Palestinian civilian was wounded.Dozens of protesters and 3 diplomats suffered from tear gas...
Ref: 32/2012 On Tuesday, 27 March 2012, lawyer Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestinian Center of Human Rights (PCHR), and Mr. Hamdi Shaqqura, PCHR Deputy Director for Program Affairs, met with a Finnish delegation. The delegation was comprised of Dr. Martti Eirola, Representative of Finland to the Palestinian Authority; Mika Routsalainen,...
Ref: 31/2012 In response to an invitation by the Faculty of Law at al-Azhar University in Gaza City, Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and President of the Arab Organization for Human Rights' (AOHR) Board of Trustees, delivered on Sunday, 25 March 2012, a lecture on...
Ref: 39/2012 The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navanethem Pillay, has presented her fourth report on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) to the UN Human Rights Council which is holding its 19th session in Geneva, Switzerland. The report reiterates the applicability of international human...
Ref: 38/2012 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over summons issued by the Internal Security Service (ISS) against a number of Fatah members in the Gaza Strip in the past few days. PCHR calls for stopping such summons and detention practices under degrading conditions, in...
Ref: 37/2012 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the incitement campaign waged by extremist right-wing Israeli groups against the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) aiming at libeling and defaming UAWC’s in the occupied Palestinian territory. This campaign is part of a systematic wide-scale offensive launched by extremist...
The following is an article written by Lydia de Leeuw, a staff member of PCHR’s International Unit. It is an expression of a personal experience relating to the tragic situation in the Gaza Strip through her eye. It mainly focuses on the conditions of patients and their families, and compares...
Ref: 36/2012 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the murder of K. K. by her relatives in Khan Yunis refugee camp on Friday, 23 March 2012, on the ground of the so-called “family honor.” PCHR calls for bringing the perpetrators before justice, and taking necessary legal...
