On Monday, 15 February 2021, Israeli authorities denied the entry of 2000 doses of Coronavirus vaccine into the Gaza Strip. These doses were sent from the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) in...
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Landmark Decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court Welcomed by Human Rights Organizations
Landmark Decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court Welcomed by Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al-Dameer Association for...
Lives of Gazan Infants Threatened due to Shortage in PKU Testing Materials
Ref: 03/2021 Date: 05 January 2020 Time: 09:30 GMT On Monday, 04 January 2020, the Gaza Ministry of Health (MOH) declared it is out of stock of testing materials necessary for newborns testing for...
Palestinian Organisations Review ‘Report on Preliminary Examination Activities 2020’ and Call on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to Open an Investigation into International Crimes in the OPT
Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and Al Dameer (the organisations) express concern that significant time has passed since the opening of the second...
Joint Statement: 10 Israeli, Palestinian and international health and human rights organizations: Israel must provide necessary vaccines to Palestinian health care systems
As the Israeli healthcare system begins the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines to the Israeli public, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Israeli authorities to live up to their legal...
Israeli Authorities Ban Import of Necessary Maintenance Parts, PCHR Warns Against Repercussions of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital Oxygen Station Shutdown on the Lives of Hundreds of Patients
On Wednesday, 04 November 2020, al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital’s oxygen station shutdown due to the Israeli occupation authorities’ stalling in allowing the import of the necessary spare-parts for its...
PCHR Warns of Health Sector Collapse and Suspension of Health Services in the Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows up with grave concern the healthcare situation in the Gaza Strip and seriously warns of a catastrophic deterioration that would strike the...
Israeli Attacks on Human Rights Organizations and Activists
Preface From the moment we took it upon ourselves to defend human rights and civilians in times of war, we were conscious to both the dignity in our mission and the dangers it bears on our lives and...
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...
Silencing the Press: Israeli Occupation Forces Attacks on Journalists
Introduction Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued the systematic attacks against local and international media personnel1 working in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) despite the...
Joint Press Release: Civil Society Submit Appeal to UN Special Procedures Urging Access for Gaza Patients
On 26 June 2020, a group of civil society organisations submitted a joint urgent appeal to United Nations (UN) Special Procedures urging immediate access to healthcare for Palestinian patients from...
Joint Press Release: On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Civil Society Calls for Urgent Release of Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons
As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day this year, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Israeli prisons and detention centers. While...
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...
Joint Statement: Human rights organisations welcome Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on racial segregation and apartheid on both sides of the Green Line
Palestinian, regional, and international human rights organisations welcome the adoption, on Friday, 12 December 2019, by the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...
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 Statement: State of Palestine Submits State Referral to the ICC
On 22 May 2018, the State of Palestine referred the situation in Palestine to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in accordance with Article 14 of the ICC Statute. In submitting its...
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...
PHROC calls on Member States of the European Union to Respect the Legal Status of Jerusalem and to Abide by their Obligations under International Law in the oPt
In the fiftieth year of Israel’s unlawful occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Israel continues to significantly alter the legal status, demographic composition,...
Joint Press Release: Palestinian NGO's Network and Human Rights Organizations Call for Ending Exceptional Restrictions Imposed on Traveling from and into Gaza Strip
The Ministry of Interior and National Security in the Gaza Strip has recently taken a number of exceptional measures, which included imposing restrictions on travelling via Beit Hanoun (Erez)...
PCHR Calls upon PA to Respect Right to Peaceful Assembly
The Palestinian Center for Human rights (PCHR) condemns the Palestinian security services' forcible dispersal of a peaceful protest in Ramallah yesterday. The dispersal was accompanied with arresting...