Field Update Yesterday morning, a civilian died after being hit with a bullet to the head 10 days ago during a procession welcoming a prisoner released from the Israeli prisons in Jenin. This incident is part of the state of proliferation of weapons and the assault...
Ref:10/2018Using disproportionate force, on Thursday morning, 18 January 2018, Israeli forces conducted a wide-scale military operation in Jenin and its suburbs targeting Ahmed Nasser Khalid Jarrar (22). Ahmed survived, but the Israeli forces killed his cousin and demolished 3 houses belonging to Jarrar family. The...
Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (11 - 17 January 2018) Israeli forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt 3 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, were killed, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 112 Palestinian civilians, including 29 children, 2...
Ref: 05/2018Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), met in PCHR's Head office in Gaza City with Mary Gelberine, Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and Terry Bulata, SDC Project Manager.Sourani highlighted the accumulating and successive crises...
Ref: 04/2018On Tuesday, 16 January 2018, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a workshop titled "Mechanisms to Protect Civilians and their Property in Land and Sea Border Areas." The workshop was attended by specialists representing civil society organizations, international organizations, farmers and fishermen...
Ref: 03/2018Lawyer Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), met with James Heenan, Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), and Saber al-Nirab, from OHCHR in Gaza, at PCHR's Head office in Gaza...
Ref: 09/2018In new crime of using lethal force against civilians participating in peaceful protests, on Monday afternoon, 15 January 2018, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian in Jayous village, northeast of Qalqiliyah. This crime comes in light of the Israeli government’s escalation following the U.S....
Ref': 08/2018In one hour, on Thursday afternoon, 11 January 2018, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and wounded 3 other civilians, including 2 children, in the Gaza Strip. Two of the wounded sustain serious wounds. These two new...
Ref: 02/2018On Thursday morning, 11 January 2018, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) received the Deputy Prime Minister; Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney; and the accompanying delegation from the Ministry and Irish Consulate General in Jerusalem. The visiting delegation was received...
Ref: 01/2018 Raji Sourani, Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) received Karen Lohner, Head of the Legal Department at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Israel along with Khalil al-Wazir, ICRC's Legal Advisor in...
