This factsheet describes violations of children's rights in the Gaza Strip in accordance with the Monitoring & Reporting Mechanism on grave violations of children’s rights in situations of armed conflict, which was adopted by the Security Council in its Resolution No. 1612 (2005). This Mechanism requires monitoring and documentation of...
Ghatheyya Mifleh al-Khawalda (80) was 15 years old when she fled her home during the Nakba of 1948 Today is Nakba Day, the day on which Palestinians mourn the loss of their homeland in 1948. 65 years ago, in May of 1948, Ghatheyya Mifleh al-Khawalda was a carefree 15-year-old...
Ref: 52/2013The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) welcomes the order issued by President Mahmoud Abbas to all competent authorities confirming the prohibition of all forms of torture and calling for compliance with the Palestinian Basic Law and relevant laws. PCHR hopes that this decision represents a serious...
Ref: 51/2013 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is deeply concerned by the detention of journalist ‘Omar Abu ‘Aroqub by the General Intelligence Service (GIS) and the Preventive Security Service (PSS), who questioned him about the nature of his work. PCHR calls upon the government and the security...
Ref: 33/2013 On Sunday, 12 May 2013, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) concluded the second training course this year for young lawyers in the field of litigation before Sharia courts. The 15-hour training course was organized PCHR’s head office in Gaza City in the period 5 – 12...
Ref: 34/2013On 12 May 2013, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) filed a petition to the High Court of Justice in Gaza to appeal against the prevention by Internal Security Services (ISS) of two members of its staff from travelling to the West Bank via Beit Hanoun...
Ref: 50/2013 On Thursday, 09 May 2013, the Military Court in Gaza City sentenced M.A.N. (48), a civil servant from al-Sha'af neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City, to death by hanging. The court convicted M.A.N. of spying in favor of an enemy entity, in violation of the Palestinian Revolutionary...
PCHR Fact Sheet April 2013 Following disengagement from the Gaza Strip in September 2005, Israel 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 not clear...
Ref: 49/2013The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the decision of Internal Security Services (ISS), stationed at Beit Hanoun Crossing (Erez), to prevent lawyer Eyad al-Alami, PCHR's Deputy Director for Legal Affairs, and lawyer Mohammed Bseiso from traveling to the West Bank this morning. The two lawyers were leaving...
