A dog accompanying Israeli soldiers attack a demonstrator during the weakly peaceful protest in Kufor Qaddoum village near Qalqilya, 16 March 2012Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) IOF continued to fire at Palestinian civilians and property in border areas...
As organisations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights—including those acting as legal representatives for war crimes victims—we are disappointed by B’Tselem’s active participation in an upcoming event at which former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be fêted as a keynote speaker. Olmert has been implicated in...
Ref: 30/2012 On Tuesday, 20 March 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) issued a new report on the impact of the shortage of fuel and electrical outages on the life of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. The report addresses the disastrous conditions experienced by the civilian...
Today morning, the Palestinian NGO Network and human rights organizations in Gaza held a meeting due to publishing the amendments made by the Council of Ministers in Gaza to the Executive Bill of the Charitable Associations and Community Organizations Law No. 1/2000 in volume 81 of al-Waqa'i Official Gazette...
We are attaching herewith the text of the letter sent by Mr. Raji Sourani, Director of PCHR, to Ms. Jessica Montell, Executive Director of B’Tselem. The letter condemns B’Tselem’s contribution to sponsoring a fundraising event in New York, in which Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli Prime Minister during the offensive...
Ref: 30/2012 On Tuesday, 20 March 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) issued a new report on the impact of the shortage of fuel and electrical outages on the life of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. The report addresses the disastrous conditions...
"Each instant I remember him, I keep calling his name in the house, looking for him everywhere… Ayoub… " Ayoub's picture the day before he died Adila Ahmad Yussef Asalia, 44 years old, is the mother of Ayoub, a 12 year old child killed by an Israeli drone while running after a...
We are attaching herewith the text of the letter sent by Mr. Raji Sourani, Director of PCHR, to Ms. Jessica Montell, Executive Director of B’Tselem. The letter condemns B’Tselem’s contribution to sponsoring a fundraising event in New York, in which Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli Prime...
Ref: 35/2012 On 9 March 2012, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) closed its 80thsession in Geneva, Switzerland. CERD is mandated to review State Parties’ periodic reports in light of the treaty-based obligations arising from the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The case of...
Ref: 29/2012 On Thursday morning, 15 March 2012, the Economic and Social Rights Unit in the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a workshop titled "Power Crisis in the Gaza Strip… Is It Financial or Political?" This workshop was organized in the context of the PCHR’s follow-up to the...
