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🎥 In this video, released female detainees from the
#Gaza
Strip, share their true and painful testimonies, recounting the sexual abuse they were subjected to during their detention in Israeli prisons. The video sheds light on these grave violations and documents female
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🚨PCHR expresses its shock at the killing of our second colleague, Dana Yaghi, as Israel continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in
#Gaza
. Dana, lawyer at the Womens’ Rights Unit, was murdered on 22 February along 40 others, the majority of whom are from her family,
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🎇 2023 will be remembered as the year the world abandoned the Palestinian people and not only failed to prevent
#Israel
from comitting the crime of genocide but aided and abetted the comission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
🩸As the world celebrates the New Year,
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📃ICJ Orders
#Israel
to “Immediately Halt its Military Offensive”: International Community Must Ensure Israel’s Compliance With All Provisional Measures Orders
@AlMezanCenter
,
@alhaq_org
, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) welcome the new provisional measures
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🚨PCHR condemns the arrest of colleague Ayman Lubad.
♦️The Palestinian Center for Human Rights condemns in the strongest terms the arrest of our colleague Ayman Labad, a researcher in the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Unit, and is deeply concerned about his fate and
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📝Updates from the Field:
♦️What is happening in Rafah is a large scale military attack, not a limited operation as described by Israel. According to PCHR’s documentation, at least 116 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the ground operation in
#Rafah
seven days
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📺A heartbreaking testimony of a displaced Palestinian mother whose son was executed by the Israeli forces in front of her eyes after being promised safety.⤵️
#ceasefireNOW
#gaza
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📝A must-read: Horrific testimony by a Palestinian paramedic, Walid Al-Khalili, regarding the severe torture methods he was subjected to by the Israeli occupation forces, including the use of electric shocks and hallucination pills, and the sniping of his fellow doctor.⤵️
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📝The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has documented numerous incidents of extrajudicial killings committed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) against
#Palestinian
civilians across the
#gaza
Strip, including the case of Ahmed Mohammed Abu Helal, 53, who is a
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📄
@Addameer
,
@AlMezanCenter
,
@alhaq_org
, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) express deep dismay at the news of the killing of 50-year-old orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, while he was being held in Israeli custody.
♦️Dr. Al-Bursh was the Head of
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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights is Concerned Over Deterioration of Prisoner
#Ahmed_Manasra
’s Health Condition
#FreeAhmadManasra
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📄Today marks exactly 10 years since the killing of four Palestinian children from the Bakr family by the Israeli military in Gaza. In marking this somber anniversary,
@AlMezanCenter
,
@AdalahEnglish
, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) highlight the systematic
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📃Members of the Palestine’s Children Council – Gaza Strip along with their counterparts in the West Bank met with
@FranceskAlbs
, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the
#Palestinian
territories occupied since 1967.
🩸The Gaza Strip’s
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📣We have submitted a joint amicus curiae observations to the
@IntlCrimCourt
along with our partners,
@alhaq_org
&
@AlMezanCenter
concerning the Oslo Accords. We argue that the Oslo Accords do not bar or limit the Court from exercising its jurisdiction for crimes within its
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📃Heartfelt Condolences and Unwavering Support to Dear Colleague Yasser ‘Abdel Ghafour
♦️It is with a heavy heart that we received the sad news of a new crime committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces against the family of our colleague Yasser ‘Abdel Ghafour, Deputy Head of the
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🎙️Mayar speaks to PCHR about how 18 members of her family were killed by an Israeli airstrike despite the Israeli occupation forces informing them personally that the area is safe. Mayar also tells PCHR how her family, including her blind uncle, were subjected to torture and
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📃Attacks against human rights defenders and obliteration of civic space in Gaza unacceptable, says UN expert
♦️GENEVA – Ten months into Israel’s war on Gaza, following the heinous 7 October Hamas attacks, Israeli Defence Forces continue to intentionally starve and kill
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🚨Join us for an in-person side event parallel to the 55th session of the
@UN_HRC
"Understanding
#Genocide
: The Case of
#Gaza
" w/
@FranceskAlbs
,
@luigidaniele10
,
@PeruginiNic
, Hamdi Shaqoura &
@Baselsourani94
.
📅 26 March 2024
⏱️ 10:00-11:00 CET
📍Roox XXV, Palais des Nation
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♦️“Mere statements and empty condemnations have proven utterly insufficient in halting the invasion of Rafah, and they will be equally ineffective in preventing the potentially looming invasion of Deir Al-Balah.”
📢We reiterate our call on the international community to enact an
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📢Former international staffers at
@almezancenter
and
@pchrgaza
are sending a message to the International Criminal Court and all states: "We used to call Gaza our home. What will be left if international law is not respected and our colleagues are not protected? This is a moment
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🚨1-6) Palestinian human rights organizations welcome landmark announcement charging Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant for international crimes under the jurisdiction of the Rome Statute.
👇
#gaza
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live Now : Understanding Genocide: The Case of Gaza
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PCHR’s Director,
@RajiSourani
, speaking at The Tonight Show in Ireland about the ongoing genocide in the
#Gaza
Strip and the need for Ireland, given the shared history and shared struggle, to play a more leading role in protecting the rights of the
#Palestinian
people.⤵️
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♦️The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) vehemently condemns the escalating and deliberate targeting and killing of
#journalists
by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) during their ongoing genocidal campaign against Palestinian civilians in the
#Gaza
Strip. The latest victim
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📝Torture in Israeli Detention: Diaa Al-Kahlout, a Palestinian
#journalist
from
#Gaza
working for Al-Araby Aljadeed newspaper, speaks of his 33-days in Israeli detention and the constant torture and ill-treatment he was subjected to by the
#Israeli
occupation forces. Diaa was
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📃 Palestinian human rights organisations, PCHR,
@alhaq_org
, and
@AlMezanCenter
, welcome the historic ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning Israel’s actions and policies in the OPT. Among other things, the
@CIJ_ICJ
, in its Advisory Opinion, found that
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📝Update on the situation in Jabalya:
📃On the third day of their invasion of Jabalya, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) besieged this morning UNRWA schools in Abu Zaitoun area, east of Jabalya camp, which shelter thousands of displaced people from northern Gaza amid intense
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Over 30 UN Special Rapporteurs add their voices to Palestinian human rights organizations to call on ICC Prosecutor
@Karimkhan
to expedite his investigation into the situation in Palestine in light of Israel’s escalation against the Palestinian people⤵️
Concerned by the pervasive impunity & ever-deteriorating situation in the
#oPt
, I joined over 30 UN independent experts in urging the
@IntlCrimCourt
's Prosecutor to undertake his investigative mission to the region with all deliberate speed.
Full letter:
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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights ,
@AlMezanCenter
, and
@alhaq_org
call on 🇺🇳
#SecurityCouncil
to address root causes and protect the Palestinian 🇵🇸 people from
#Israeli
attacks in light of the deteriorating situation in the
#Occupied
Palestinian Territory.
🔗
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🚨 After receiving harrowing testimonies from released
#Palestinian
detainees: Our organizations condemn Israel’s acts of torture and abuse against hundreds of arbitrarily detained Palestinians from
#Gaza
📢The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR),
@AlMezanCenter
, and
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Gaza Field Update: 20-22 May 2024 W/
@AlMezanCenter
&
@alhaq_org
▫️For more than seven consecutive months,
#Israel
has persisted in conducting a genocidal military campaign against the Palestinian people in
#Gaza
, resulting in the killing of over 35,700 Palestinians and
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📝Last May, Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) invaded Jabalia Refugee Camp, forcibly displacing Maher al-Tanani and his family. However, Maher’s sister, Dawlat al-Tanani (58) decided to stay home, and her neighbour and relative, Jaber, and his son, Ahmed, came to stay with her.
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🎙️Mays Abdelhady, Head of Palestine’s Children Council, says, “this time, it is not a war but rather annihilation of human life. I appeal to all human rights institutions to move quickly and save our children.”
♦️The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in partnership with Save
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“We are satisfied that these important provisional measures ordered by the Court cannot be practically implemented without a ceasefire. The Court has been clear. Israel must end, with immediate effect, its genocidal war carried out to destroy the Palestinian people in Gaza”, said
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📃 States must immediately and directly intervene to stop Israel’s attack on Rafah in Gaza amid Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in
#Gaza
, ongoing for 213 consecutive days. Read our open letter with
@alhaq_org
and
@AlMezanCenter
.
Click here to read the full statement👇
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📃 Palestinian Human Rights Organisations on Israel’s Arbitrary Arrests, Enforced Disappearance, Inhumane Treatment, and Torture of Palestinians
Click here to read the full statement👇
#CeasefireNow
#Gaza_in_Genocide
#GazaGenocid
#gaza
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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR),
@AlMezanCenter
, and
@alhaq_org
, vehemently condemn and demand an end to the repeated Israeli attacks against internally displaced persons forced to seek shelter in tent camps and in areas designated as ‘safe’ by the Israeli
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كشفت منظمة بتسيلم أن التوثيق الإسرائيلي لإطلاق النار من طرف فلسطيني لا يمكن أن يكون السبب وراء مقتل الصحفية #شيرين_أبو_عاقلة صباح اليوم
This morning, B’Tselem’s field researcher in Jenin documented the exact locations in which the Palestinian gunman depicted in a video distributed by the Israeli army, fired, as well as the exact location in which Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed.
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Watch:
@RajiSourani
at
@UNISPAL
Conference: We will not give up, we will keep strategic optimism. We are sure that tomorrow will be ours.
#Rights4Palestine
#Gaza
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📝 Testimonies from War on
#Gaza
♦️On the 18th day of detention, at around 17:00, one of the detainees asked to go to the doctor because he was suffering from shortness of breath due to a heart attack, but the soldiers refused and ordered the appointed detainee to cover him. At
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📢Under
#Israeli
brutal bombardment, systematic destruction and displacement of 1.4 million
#Palestinians
, including our staff and other humanitarian aid staffs, and due to communications and internet blackouts and impossible access to our head offices,
#Palestinian
human rights
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📝 Testimonies from War on Gaza
🩸 Reem al-Souri, an employee at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
“ We are having hard days in the Church and many fellows were killed”
📃 On 13 October 2023, we left our house due to the Israeli relentless bombardment and after
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Starvation continues to be one of the main methods employed by Israel in its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in the
#Gaza
Strip. Children are still dying from starvation in northern Gaza as the Israeli army has erased the Strip's entire food basket and continues to
Famine in Gaza has spread from the north to the entire strip.
Every Palestinian in Gaza is now facing famine because of Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign. How do I know this? The recent deaths of more Palestinian children tells us everything 1/3
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🚨The International Court of Justice orders Israel to immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in Rafah.
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♦️Instead of complying with the legally-binding provisional measures issued by the
@CIJ_ICJ
, Israel has intensified its genocidal acts against the Palestinians in Gaza, including by blocking the entry of humanitarian aid and further starving the civilian population.
♦️ The use
February registered a 50% reduction of humanitarian aid entering
#Gaza
compared to January.
Aid was supposed to increase not decrease to address the huge needs of 2 million Palestinians in desperate living conditions. Among the obstacles: lack of political will, regular closing
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🔹 This report by CNN is another evidence of Israel's systematic torture and brutal treatment of Palestinians from Gaza.
@pchrgaza
has documented tens of testimonies from released detainees that remind us of the torture practices in Abu Ghraib Prison and Guantanamo Detention
Disturbing accusations of abuse of Palestinian detainees by Israeli troops come from inside Israel's military. Accusations surround a detention facility in the Negev desert. Three Israeli whistleblowers describe a systematic pattern of abuse.
@mchancecnn
reports.
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1. PCHR condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raid on the offices of Palestinian civil society organizations
@alhaq_org
,
@Addameer
@BisanResearch
@UAWC1986
@of_committees
@DCIPalestine
&
@HWCPalestine
early this morning.
#standwiththe6
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#Ceasefire_In_Gaza_Now
!
🚨With each hour that passes, a new massacre is committed in
#Gaza
by the
#Israeli
occupation forces while the
#world
is watching, in complete disregard for the principles of
#distinction
,
#proportionality
, and
#necessity
.
👨👩👦With each hour that
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📃Report on Israel’s Crimes in the West Bank in July 2024
♦️During the reporting period, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) and
#Israeli
settlers continue their violence against Palestinians and their properties in the
#West_Bank
, including occupied
#Jerusalem
, amounting to
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Testimonies from War on
#Gaza
📝
Ongoing Suffering!🩸
Shaimaa’ al-Shawa, 30-year-old female lawyer at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
♦️ Like everyone else in Gaza, my family has endured unimaginable suffering since the start of the war on 07 October 2023. The
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📄In a factsheet published on Sunday, 11 August 2024, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has emphasized that
#Israel
uses water as a weapon of war in its ongoing
#genocidal
campaign in the Gaza Strip and inflicts conditions of life calculated to bring about the
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Tahseen Elyaan
@alhaq_org
The suffering of
#Palestinians
did not start with Palestinian’s accession to the Rome Statute. It started 75 years ago. This must be taken into account by the
#ICC
office of the prosecutor when looking at the situation.
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🚨Another evidence of the selectivity and double standards of the ICC Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
vis-à-vis
#Palestinian
#victims
. This visit takes place while
#genocide
is being committed now against
#Palestinians
in
#Gaza
.
🔔Instead of issuing arrest warrants for
#Israeli
#ICC
Chief Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
is visiting
#Israel
at the request and invitation of survivors & the families of victims of the 7 October attacks.
The Prosecutor will also visit
#Ramallah
, State of
#Palestine
, meeting w/ senior Palestinian officials.
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📃Urgent Alert: Israel Marks 200 Days of Genocide with Plans to Destroy Rafah
♦️ After 200 days of horrific genocidal acts in
#Gaza
, the real objectives of the attack are the continuation of the 76-year-long ongoing Nakba and the erasure and genocidal destruction of the
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This year,
@alhaq_org
,
@AlMezanCenter
, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) commemorate
#InternationalJusticeDay
amid the live-streamed
#genocide
committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza. As of 15 July 2024, the Gaza Ministry of Health has
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🚨PCHR along with
@AlMezanCenter
&
@alhaq_org
sent a letter to ICC Prosecutor urging him to intervene to prevent genocidal massacre in Rafah as Israel expands its ground invasion of the city, which shelters more than 1 million Palestinians, the majority of whom are displaced.
👉
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🚨In the early hours of 28 August 2024, the
#Israeli
Occupying Forces (IOF) launched a vicious, major, military attack on the northern governorates of the occupied
#West_Bank
, mainly
#Jenin
,
#Tulkarem
, and
#Tubas
, and the refugee camps therein, that is still ongoing and
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Civilians here in
#Gaza
are under attack, blocked and murdered again and again.
#Israel
is committing appalling
#crimes
. The silence of the world is shoking. Where is the
@IntlCrimCourt
? We demand strong action by the Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
to bring the criminals to justice!"
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♦️Voices from Gaza: The Experiences of Palestinian Women Amid the Ongoing Genocide
📃 While across the globe 8 March marks International Women’s Day, for the women of Gaza, it marks five months and one day since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal military campaign. During this
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📢Palestinian human rights organizations call on the international community to intervene to stop
#Israeli
massacres in
#Gaza
and provide protection to
#Palestinian
civilians
Over the past two days, the Israeli army has conducted a relentless series of attacks by air, sea, and
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📝Testimonies from War on
#Gaza
🎴My name is Sa'ed Mustafa Ahmed al-Masri
🔥 How come that a family safe in their house being bombed at 7 in the morning without any warning!!
🩸I am 53 years old and have never lived worse than these days!⤵️
👇👇👇👇👇📺👇👇👇👇👇📝
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📢Today marks an unfathomable toll in Israel’s revengeful military campaign against
#Gaza
: over the past month, the Ministry of Health reported that more than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including over 4,000 children. Overall, more than two-thirds of
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📃
@alhaq_org
,
@AlMezanCenter
and PCHR Welcome ICJ Modified Provisional Measures Against Israel Ordering Unhindered Aid and End of All Genocidal Military Acts in Gaza
⛔️ “The alarm has now been sounded by the Court. All the indicators of genocidal activities are flashing red in
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الشرطة تحظر الكوفية وتقتحم حرم جامعة الازهر بغزة وتعتدي على الطلبة: المركز يدين ويطالب النيابة العامة بالتحقيق
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🚨Urgent Call to Declare Gaza a Famine-Stricken Area
♦️ We the undersigned Civil Society Organizations and Coalitions, considering the ongoing genocide in Gaza for more than seven months, the people of
#Gaza
are suffering from severe food shortages, a continuous decline in
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📢
@RajiSourani
delivering a statement during the
#ASP
on behalf of
#Palestinian
human rights organizations
@pchrgaza
@AlMezanCenter
@alhaq_org
calling on the
#ICC
prosecutor to expedite his investigation into the situation in
#Palestine
.
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📝Human rights defender Ayman Lubbad speaks of his detention by Israeli occupying forces in
#Gaza
⤵️
#gaza
#palstine
#gazaunderattack
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📢 We &
@AlMezanCenter
@alhaq_org
have sounded the alarm on escalating threat of epidemics & diseases among
#Gaza
’s internally displaced population stemming from
#Israel
’s displacement policy & the genocidal military campaign now entering its 4th month
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🚨 Reminder: Our side event will take place tomorrow at the Palais des Nations.
The event will be live-streamed on X platform.
You can also access the side-event via the following link:
Meeting number: 2742 233 3822
Password: JhwJ38QwRp7
@FranceskAlbs
🚨Join us for an in-person side event parallel to the 55th session of the
@UN_HRC
"Understanding
#Genocide
: The Case of
#Gaza
" w/
@FranceskAlbs
,
@luigidaniele10
,
@PeruginiNic
, Hamdi Shaqoura &
@Baselsourani94
.
📅 26 March 2024
⏱️ 10:00-11:00 CET
📍Roox XXV, Palais des Nation
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Panel discussion and reception with leading
#Palestinian
and Israeli
#human_rights
defenders
@pchrgaza
@btselem
@CA_global
@ChristianAidIrl
@Trocaire
@RuleOfLawIRL
@AmnestyIreland
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Unwilling and Unable Israel’s Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests
#Palestine
#Israeli
#HumanRights
#Gaza
#ICC
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📝 Testimonies from War on Gaza
🩸 Has not time come to stop this genocide?
📄 Ahlam al-Aqra’ (49), a mother of four, including a child, a lawyer at the Legal Unit in the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and holds a PhD in International law
♦️ There are no words to
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📢The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights,
@AlMezanCenter
and
@alhaq_org
condemn Israel’s deliberate targeting of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) team through airstrikes, despite prior coordination of the convoy’s movement in the central Gaza Strip. Seven members of WCK team were
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📄Report on Israel’s Crimes and Violations of Palestinians’ Rights in the West Bank in January and February 2024
♦️Since the beginning of 2024, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) and Israeli settlers have escalated their violence against Palestinians and their properties in the
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♦️Once again South Africa stands up to defend 2.3 million Palestinians from the ongoing Israeli genocide. We commend and salute South Africa’s efforts and call on other states to abide by their legal obligations under international law and stop aiding and abetting the genocidal
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PCHR fears that there will be more civilian casualties in an area considered among the most densely populated areas in the world and where there is not any form of protection, including public and private shelters or even safe corridors.
#gaza
#GazaUnderAttack
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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the
#Israeli
occupation forces’ (IOF) violent suppression and attacks on mourners participating in the funeral of journalist
#ShireenAbuAkleh
in East
#Jerusalem
.
@pchrgaza
#Palestine
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