Ref: 98/2019 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the explosions targeting two traffic police checkpoints in Gaza City yesterday evening, killing three members of the traffic police and injuring 9 civilians including a woman. PCHR demands that the Gaza Strip...
During the reporting period (July), the Israeli authorities continued to impose their closure on the Gaza Strip for the 13th consecutive year along with tightened restrictions on the crossings surrounding the Gaza Strip, contrary to the Israeli claims of easing restrictions on the movement of...
Ref: 38/2019On Monday, 26 August 2019, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights(PCHR) received at its head office in Gaza City Mr. Thomas Hammarberg, one of the most prominent human rights figures in Sweden and former Secretary General of the Stockholm-based Olof Palme International Center, and...
Ref: 37/2019On Monday, 26 August 2019, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a workshop titled: “Five Years After the UN Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism” in its head office in Gaza City. Specialists representing the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, the Palestinian Contractors’ Union,...
Ref: 97/2019On Sunday evening, 25 August 2019, the Ministry of Interior announced on its website the death of detainee (A. 'A.) due to an electric shock while carrying out maintenance works at "Asdaa'" Rehabilitation Center in Khan Younis. As a result, he taken to Naser...
Ref: 96/2019On 71st Great March of Return, 149 civilians injured as a result of the Israeli military’s continued use of excessive force against peaceful protests along the Gaza Strip’s eastern border; 66 children, 7 paramedics, including a female paramedic, were among those injured this Friday,...
Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory 8- 21 August 20192 Palestinians killed, including a child, under the pretext of carrying out stab and run-over attacks in the West Bank. Great March of Return in Eastern Gaza Strip: 85 civilians injured, including...
"Unleashing latent social potentials and powers is the core responsibility of the civil society whose existence and effectiveness is the most significant indicator to democracy. To enable the civil society to practice its entitled role, it needs not only unbounded legal environment but also an...
PCHR Fact Sheet July 2019 The term "buffer zone" in land and at sea is used for land and sea areas unilaterally and illegally declared by Israel as no-access areas along the eastern and northern borders, as well as the Gaza Strip sea...
Ref: 95/2019On the 70th Great March of Return, 66 Palestinian civilians were injured due to the Israeli military’s continued use of excessive force against peaceful protests along the Gaza Strip’s eastern border. At least 20 children, 3 women and a volunteer paramedic were among those injured...
