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LPHR Demolitions and Displacement Bulletin (for the period covering 1 December – 31 December 2019, plus an overview of 2019)
31st January 2020
UK organisations urge government to challenge annexation, US ‘Peace Plan’
28th January 2020
A seminal step towards legal accountability and justice for victims, survivors and their families: ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s decision that she is ready to open an investigation into the situation in Palestine
24th December 2019
LPHR files OECD Guidelines complaint against JCB for involvement in human rights breaches in the occupied Palestinian territory
10th December 2019
LPHR Child Rights Bulletin (for the period 1 September – 30 September 2019)
5th November 2019
LPHR Child Rights Bulletin (for the period 1 August – 31 August 2019)
4th October 2019
39 UK parliamentarians sign letter submitted to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, urging her to immediately publish the UN database listing companies involved in settlement-related activities
26th September 2019
LPHR Child Rights Bulletin (for the period 1 July – 31 July 2019)
4th September 2019
Open Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet: Release of the United Nations Database of Businesses Engaged in Activities Related to Israeli Settlements
29th August 2019
LPHR Child Rights Bulletin (for the period 1 June – 30 June 2019)
12th August 2019

From our blog

Update on the shooting of 9-year-old ‘Abd a-Rahman a-Shtweiwi: Forensic Architecture’s findings strongly suggest the boy was shot in the forehead with live ammunition
23rd October 2019

On 12 July 2019, nine-year-old ‘Abd a-Rahman a-Shteiwi was shot in the forehead by an Israeli soldier in Kafr Qaddum, in the occupied West Bank, during the town’s weekly protests against settlement expansion and settler violence. At the the time he was shot, ‘Abd was playing at the entrance of his friend’s house, over 100 metres away from demonstrators. The shot to ‘Abd’s forehead resulted in a large hole, multiple skull fractures and serious brain damage; a CT scan showed around 100 fragments lodged in the boy’s brain. Over three months since this grievous wounding, we have reports from two sources that he remains in hospital in a coma. (more…)
Prosecutor of the ICC under renewed challenge by ICC judges over her Gaza flotilla raid decision
23rd September 2019

On 2 September 2019 the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (the Prosecutor), Fatou Bensouda, to reconsider her decision not to open an investigation into the Gaza flotilla raid. This marks the third intervention by the ICC against the Prosecutor’s decision of November 2014 not to launch an investigation into alleged serious crimes committed by Israeli military forces against humanitarian activists on 31 May 2010. This blog provides a brief overview of the prosecutorial and judicial decisions made at the ICC in relation to this egregious incident. (more…)
Israel’s policy to prevent injured Gazan protesters from accessing critical medical treatment must be challenged by the international community
10th September 2019

In August 2019, the World Health Organis ation (WHO) reported that between 30 March 2018 and 31 July 2019, 315 Palestinians (including 62 children) had been killed during the ‘Great March of Return’ civilian protests in Gaza that demand realisation of the right of return and an end to the closure imposed on Gaza. In addition, Israeli forces’ use of excessive force, including live ammunition, against civilian protesters not posing a direct and imminent threat to life or serious injury, has caused thousands of injuries, many being very serious. 7,381 Palestinians have suffered gunshot wounds, of which 6,437 (87%) presented limb wounds, according to the WHO report. (more…)
New research indicates that G1 Secure Solutions, formerly G4S Israel, remains involved in human rights violations against Palestinians
5th August 2019

In June 2015, the UK National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises published its important findings that G4S was in multiple breach of human rights responsibilities connected to its activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, following a comprehensive human rights complaint submitted by LPHR. Nine months afterwards, G4S announced that it had commenced a process to sell its subsidiary company, G4S Israel. Then, in June 2017, the UK multinational announced that it had completed the sale of G4S Israel to an Israeli private equity fund, FIMI Opportunity Funds.

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RT @shahdhm Several European States are submitting amicus briefs in defence of Israel's position on lack of jurisdiction in the ICC case,an act signfying support for the impunity of an occupier from prosecution,using positivist rhetorics. @LPHR_Lawyers @ECCHRBerlin reut.rs/3bRHuUO

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RT @pchrgaza The Palestinian Center for Human Rights welcomes the publication of UN Database on Business Enterprises Operating in Israeli Settlements. pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14189 #OHCHR pic.twitter.com/lmdwpJJKUE

RT @WHOoPt UPDATE: 3-year-old Jana and her mother received Israeli-issued permits to exit Gaza Strip and crossed to Jerusalem today. She and her mother have been delayed and denied permits since Oct 2019. twitter.com/WHOoPt/status/…

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