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Gaza Accountability Project

Photo: Eman Mohammed
Photo: Eman Mohammed

LPHR and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (based in Gaza) are working relentlessly on behalf of Palestinian victims, survivors and their families to pursue accountability for the commission of clearly apparent serious violations of international criminal, humanitarian and human rights law. This critically important work includes substantive engagement with relevant international accountability and investigatory mechanisms, including the International Criminal Court and UN independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza Conflict.

A core focus of our dedicated legal work and advocacy since July 2014 has been on the military targeting of family homes in Gaza due to the scale and gravity of civilian harm it caused: over 66 per cent of children (370 out of 556 child fatalities) and over 82 per cent of women (241 out of 293 woman fatalities) were killed by attacks whilst inside their homes in Gaza during the seven-week hostilities in 2014.

For examples of our ongoing work since July 2014, please see the following:

LPHR Briefing: Assessing Israel’s compliance with UK Government criteria for an effective investigation into alleged international crimes against civilians during the ‘Great March of Return’ protests (published March 2022)

LPHR and Al Mezan Statement: Attacks on homes must stop; those responsible must be investigated by the ICC (published May 2021)

‘ICC is the only realistic forum for justice on Gaza‘ (published by the Law Society Gazette in February 2021 and selected as one of its top five commentaries of the week)

LPHR Statement: ICC Prosecutor should affirmatively decide that Gaza cases are admissible for investigation following Pre-Trial Chamber decision that the Court has jurisdiction (published February 2021)

LPHR and Al Mezan Statement submitted to ICC Prosecutor: Assessing cases of the 2014 attacks on Gaza leads to definitive conclusion: victims and survivors have been abandoned to non-genuine investigations and gross injustice (published on the sixth anniversary of the 2014 military offensive on Gaza in July 2020)

LPHR, Al Mezan and Medical Aid for Palestinians Report: Chronic Impunity: Gaza’s Health Sector Under Repeated Attack (published March 2020)

LPHR Statement: 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 (published December 2019)

LPHR Q&A: Current progress of the International Criminal Court’s preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine and potential next steps (published July 2019)

LPHR Report: Twelve key points relevant to the complementarity assessment being undertaken by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the grave issue of targeted airstrikes against family homes in Gaza (published April 2019)

LPHR Submission to the UN independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Israel’s Supreme Court judgment on the legality of Israel’s rules of engagement in the context of use of force against Gaza protesters (published December 2018)

LPHR and Al Mezan Report: Justice Denied: Gaza human shield survivors and the systemic failure of Israel’s military investigation system to provide accountability (published September 2018)

LPHR and Al Mezan Update to its September 2014 report to the UN Commission of Inquiry on large-scale destruction and damage to family houses in the Gaza Strip, with associated profound loss of life and injury to Palestinian residents, during Israel’s military operation between 7 July and 26 August 2014 (published December 2016. This update includes a survey of affected families on their hope for justice)

LPHR, Al Mezan and Medical Aid for Palestinians Report: No More Impunity: Gaza’s Health Sector Under Attack (published June 2015)

LPHR and Al Mezan Submission to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict concerning large-scale destruction and damage to family houses in the Gaza Strip, with associated profound loss of life and injury to Palestinian residents, during Israel’s military operation between 7 July 2014 and 26 August 2014 (published September 2014 – alongside a public statement that summarises our findings based on an assessment of 40 grave violation incidents. LPHR subsequently had a private meeting in Geneva in February 2015 with the Commission to discuss our legal analysis, which conformed with the analysis contained in the Commission’s subsequent report. The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has indicated that the Commission’s report is key evidence for her preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine)

LPHR Letter published in the Guardian urging the UK government to publicly condemn Israel’s policy of directly targeting family homes in Gaza (4 August 2014)

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