Ramallah, December 30, 2023—Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian boys yesterday in the occupied West Bank. Mahmoud Othman Mohammad Warani, 15, was shot by Israeli forces around 4 p.m .on...
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Israeli forces kill two Palestinian boys with drone-fired missile in Tulkarem
Ramallah, December 27, 2023—Israeli forces killed two Palestinian boys using a drone-fired missile early this morning in the northwestern occupied West Bank. Israeli forces killed Hamza Ahmad Mostafa...
Year-in-review: Israeli forces carry out genocide against Palestinian children
Ramallah, December 14, 2023— This year has no comparison in the history of Israeli forces’ efforts to exert total control over the Palestinian people and violate children’s rights. Throughout the...
Arbitrary by Default: Palestinian Children in the Israeli Military Court System
Israeli authorities' systematic denial of fair trial rights to Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces from the occupied West Bank and prosecuted in Israeli military courts constitutes...
Palestinian child detainee tests positive for COVID-19 in Israeli prison
Ramallah, August 6, 2020—A Palestinian child prisoner detained by Israeli forces in late July has tested positive for COVID-19, the first known case involving a Palestinian child detainee confirmed...
Palestinian Civil Society Organisations Welcome the Report of the Special Rapporteur addressing Israel’s Collective Punishment Policy
On 16 July 2020, Professor Michael Lynk, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, introduced his annual report...
Joint Press Release: Human Rights Organisations Send Joint Written Submission on Israeli Apartheid to the UN Human Rights Council
On 3 February 2020, a group of 13 Palestinian, regional, and international civil society organisations sent a joint written submission on Israeli apartheid over the Palestinian people to the United...
Israeli forces’ transfer of Palestinian child detainees amounts to war crime
**Ramallah, January 20, 2020—**Israeli authorities transferred dozens of Palestinian child detainees outside the occupied West Bank to a prison inside Israel last week, amounting to a war crime. The...
Joint oral statement by Save the Children and 17 Civil Society Organizations: Urgent need to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and its impact on the most vulnerable populations
A call for renewal and strengthening of the mandate for the Group of Eminent Experts United Nations Human Rights Council 39th session 26th September 2018 Item 10, Technical assistance and capacity...
Yemen: The need for the UN Human Rights Council to renew and strengthen the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts [EN/AR]
Excellency, We, the undersigned NGOs, urge your government to support the renewal and strengthening of the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen through the enhancement of its reporting...
Joint Letter of Allegation to the United Nations Special Procedures
To the attention of: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Mr. S. Michael Lynk; The United Nations Special...
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UN Secretary-General Must List All Perpetrators of Children’s Rights Violations in War (an open letter to UN Secretary-General Guterres) [EN/AR]
An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres As organizations working to protect the rights of children in armed conflict, we are dismayed by your reported decision to “freeze” any new...
Palestinian girl's death warrants impartial investigation
Ramallah, May 15, 2017 - Israeli border police shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian girl on May 7, after the girl allegedly brandished a knife near forces stationed outside of the Old City of...
Violent Attacks Against Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees
(PHROC) strongly condemns the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) special unit's violent attacks against Palestinian prisoners and detainees. The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC)...
Children in West Bank face deadliest year of past decade
Ramallah, December 23, 2016—Israeli forces and security guards have killed 32 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2016. This makes it the deadliest year of...
Early marriage and education, the chicken or the egg?
Ramallah, November 19, 2016—“I wish I could do it now,” said 24-year-old West Bank resident Basma, of the education she abandoned a decade ago when she married her husband. “I did not feel it...
Detention Bulletin April 2016
At the end of April, a total of 414 Palestinian children were imprisoned in the Israeli military detention system, among highest number of child detainees since January 2008. Israel has the dubious...
Back-to-school in Tel Rumeida, a closed military zone
Palestinian children in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, located in the southern part of the West Bank, returned to school on August 28 with no end to the Israeli-enforced military closure of their neighborhood...
New Israeli law allows children as young as 12 to be jailed
Ramallah, August 11, 2016—Israel’s parliament approved a new law last week enabling Israeli authorities to imprison minors as young as 12 years old when convicted of serious violent crimes. The new...
Palestinian 10-year-old boy killed near East Jerusalem
Ramallah, July 21, 2016—A 10-year-old Palestinian boy died from a sponge-tipped bullet to the chest fired by Israeli forces during a clash with youth in the central West Bank town of Al-Ram on...