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As Part of Ongoing Genocide: Israel Continues to Kill and Forcibly Displace Palestinians in Gaza by The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian objects by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip. Over the past four days, several Palestinians, including children, have been killed and injured in a wave of attacks targeting civilian gatherings, displacement tents, homes, and civilian property. PCHR emphasizes that these ongoing attacks, coupled with Israeli threats to expand the scope of bombardment and the issuance of new evacuation orders, are placing civilians at increasing risk and further exacerbating the catastrophic conditions resulting from the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip for nearly three years.

Continue reading at https://pchrgaza.org/as-part-of-ongoing-genocide-israel-continues-to-kill-and-forcibly-displace-palestinians-in-gaza/

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Four Palestinians Killed in Joint Attack by Israeli Occupation Forces and Settlers in Nablus on Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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Ibrahim Hussein’ Ali Ramadan (31), who was shot in the head; his brother, Jawad Hussein ‘Ali Ramadan (26), who was shot in the chest; Farouq ‘Adnan ‘Ali Ramadan (41), who sustained wounds to the chest, abdomen, and thigh; and ‘Imran Ahmed ‘Ali Ramadan (33), who was shot in the head.

… IOF also imposed a military curfew on Tal village, closed all entrances to Nablus, and declared the area a closed military zone.

… The settlers carried out two major attacks on the villages of Jeet and Far’ata, east of Qalqiliya and southwest of Nablus, adjacent to Tal village. During the attacks, they set fire to a house and vehicles parked in front of it as well as in the vicinity of Ramallah. These attacks resulted in the injury of five Palestinians, including two who sustained serious injuries.

At the time of preparing this press release, IOF and Israeli settlers continue to carry out widespread attacks and acts of collective punishment against Palestinian civilians and their property in these areas.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office stated in a press release that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the military to take “punitive” measures following the Tal village incident. 

… For his part, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for issuing orders to the IOF that “for every Jew killed, the enemy must bear the loss of land and homes.” Ben-Gvir has repeatedly participated in incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, while promoting incitement for settler attacks and working to provide them with protection.

These developments come amid an ongoing pattern of escalating attacks and crimes carried out by the IOF and Israeli settler militias across the occupied West Bank.

Continue reading at https://pchrgaza.org/four-palestinians-killed-in-joint-attack-by-israeli-occupation-forces-and-settlers-in-nablus/

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Israel Continues to Use Thirst as Weapon against Gaza’s Population and Deny Them Access to Safe Water by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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Since the onset of the Israeli military offensive on 7 October 2023, the water system in the Gaza Strip has been subjected to widespread and systematic destruction, affecting 89% of its core infrastructure. Bombardment and bulldozing have destroyed more than 330 kilometers of water distribution networks, while military attacks have forced 71% of municipal desalination plants out of service—a figure that rises to 100% in North Gaza and Gaza City. In addition, 69% of water production wells have been destroyed or damaged, with the level of damage reaching as high as 88% in some areas. Around 66% of water tanks have also been damaged. As a result, the operational capacity of the water sector has been severely undermined throughout the Gaza Strip. This destruction has left 91% of the Gaza Strip’s population without water security since the outbreak of the war. Approximately 65% of the population has been forced to survive on less than six liters of water per person per day—a quantity that falls far below the minimum required to meet basic survival needs.

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Israel’s Assassination of Al-Wheidi Proves That Even Those Who Create Moments of Joy in Gaza Are Targets of Genocide by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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PCHR views with the utmost concern the IOF’s targeting of a civilian vehicle carrying Mohammed al-Wheidi, Director of Public Relations at the Egyptian Committee in the Gaza Strip, killing him and other civilians. The attack occurred while the Egypt–Argentina match was underway during the World Cup, as al-Wheidi was supervising preparations for a public screening of the match. This raises serious concerns that the IOF’s targeting extends beyond the killing of Palestinians to the deliberate destruction of even the limited spaces and moments of normal life and collective joy available to Gaza’s besieged population. By targeting individuals and initiatives that provide these rare opportunities, Israel appears to be pursuing a policy aimed at destroying the remaining manifestations of civilian life and keeping the population in a constant state of fear and deprivation.

Taken together, these developments demonstrate the IOF’s continued implementation of systematic policies aimed at destroying the conditions necessary for life in the Gaza Strip. Through widespread killings, largescale destruction, and repeated forced displacement, the IOF continue to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to make the territory uninhabitable, thereby reinforcing the material elements of the crime of genocide. They further demonstrate that the crimes being committed are not limited to targeting individuals but are directed against the continued existence of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip as a whole.

Continue reading at https://pchrgaza.org/israels-assassination-of-al-wheidi-proves-shows-that-even-those-who-create-moments-of-joy-in-gaza-are-targets-of-genocide/

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Israel Escalates Killings and Expands Access-Restricted Areas, Exacerbating the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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Over the past several days, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued their airstrikes, artillery shelling, and gunfire, carrying out further killings in a constant pattern of direct attacks against civilians and civilian objects. This coincides with an expansion of their deployment across the Gaza Strip through the introduction of the so-called “orange line,”1 which covers up to 11 percent of the total area of the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall area designated as access-restricted or prohibited to 64 percent of the territory.

The establishment of the so-called “orange line” indicates a serious escalation in the policy of progressively reducing the geographical space available to the civilian population. This line extends beyond areas previously designated by the “yellow line,” introducing a new layer of restrictions on movement and access. These developments demonstrate a further deepening of forced overcrowding, confining the population to an area that does not exceed 36 percent of the Gaza Strip’s territory, amid the absence of essential services and the continued deterioration of health and environmental conditions. Consequently, concerns over the spread of disease are heightened, further undermining the conditions necessary for the maintenance of human life.

… PCHR emphasizes that the IOF’s ongoing widescale killings and targeting of civilians, coupled with the continuing policies of siege, movement restriction and starvation, constitute a complementary pattern of acts that amount to crimes of genocide under international law, in particular the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Continue reading at https://pchrgaza.org/israel-escalates-killings-and-expands-access-restricted-areas-exacerbating-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-gaza/

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Joint Media Release: Palestinians file legal action against the Minister for Defence to force transparency over arms exports to Israel on Al-Haq

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“Palestinians are subjugated under an illegal occupation, are being subjected to genocide and mass bombardment, with no safe place to flee. We have the right to know who is arming the settler colonial apartheid regime and what is being exported. Our efforts to shed some light on Australian exports have been unsuccessful to date, and we should not have to go to Court to understand who is arming the Israeli regime.”

Continue reading at https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/27455.html

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“We are like outcasts” by Margherita Capacci

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“The impact of the sanctions has been huge on PCHR, it goes beyond what we first anticipated”, says Basel al-Sourani, from The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR). Founded in 1995 and based in Gaza, PCHR provides legal aid to Palestinians on the ground and has worked to provide evidence and connect victims and witnesses with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Al-Sourani warns that “no one else” will do that documenting work. His organisation is trying to continue engaging with the Hague Court, he says. But “instead of putting all our efforts towards documenting the genocidal crimes committed by Israel since October 2023 and ensure there is accountability for all the crimes committed, we had to put efforts and resources to deal with the impact of those sanctions.”

Continue reading at https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/156738-we-are-like-outcasts.html

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Palestinian Centre For Human Rights Issues a Report on the Collapse of the Sharia Judicial System in Gaza and Its Impact on Women by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) today issues a new report “Absence of Justice and Suspension of Rights: Women’s Reality amid the Collapse of the Sharia Judicial System during the Genocidal War.” The report documents the near-total collapse of the Sharia judicial system in the Gaza Strip as a direct result of the ongoing genocidal war and examines the grave consequences this collapse has had on women’s rights, particularly in personal status matters, including separation, alimony, and child custody.

The report emphasizes that Israel’s violations extend beyond direct military attacks to include the deliberate dismantling of Palestinian society’s institutional infrastructure, notably the effective suspension of the Sharia judicial system, thereby creating a profound legal vacuum that undermines the protection of rights and the ability to resolve disputes through organized and lawful judicial mechanisms.

Continue reading at https://pchrgaza.org/palestinian-centre-for-human-rights-issues-a-report-on-the-collapse-of-the-sharia-judicial-system-in-gaza-and-its-impact-on-women-2/

Read the report at https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Absance-of-Sharia-Judiciaries-EN-1.pdf

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After the Rape: The challenges of monitoring sexual violence in Gaza by Majd Jawad

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Palestinian women in Gaza have faced widespread sexual violence during the Israeli genocide. Despite mountains of evidence, human rights groups face difficulties pursuing justice, as women live in fear of social stigma and reprisal from Israel.

… “What is required is not just documenting violations, but establishing a neutral international mechanism to investigate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war,” Abdel Ghafour insists. “What is happening to women in detention is part of a widespread and systematic attack, not individual transgressions by soldiers.”

In a statement, the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights asserted that Israeli sexual assault must be treated as a political and societal issue, not an individual one. “As a political-societal issue connected to colonial policies of oppression…”

Continue reading at https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/after-the-rape-the-challenges-of-monitoring-sexual-violence-in-gaza/

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Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Urge UN Intervention to Halt Israel’s Death Penalty Bill Targeting Palestinian Detainees by Al-Haq

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In a joint urgent appeal to UN Special Procedures and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Al-Haq – Law in the Service of Man, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan), and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warn that Israel’s draft Penal Bill (Amendment No. 159) (Death Penalty for Terrorists) 2025 would formalise the systematic, state-sanctioned killing of Palestinian detainees and further entrench Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime while advancing its genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.

Continue reading at https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/26958.html

Read the full submission here https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2025/11/26/urgent-appeal-death-penalty-bill-20-november-2025-1764179301.pdf