Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Poisoning of Gaza water puts population at risk

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
11 August 2010

Beyond tarnishing Gaza’s once pristine shores, the noxious consequences of the deterioration of the wastewater treatment operation in Gaza resulting from the closure hold much more grave implications: the Gaza Strip is, quite literally, being poisoned.

Gaza's strawberries spoil under siege

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
22 July 2010

Israel’s policy towards strawberry farming in Gaza, and particularly their exports, is a demonstration in the economics of occupation.

Tough times for Gaza travel agent

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
17 July 2010

“Shurafa Tourist and Travel Company has been operating in Gaza since 1952,” Nabil Shurafa, general manager of the company, says proudly. This historical background is significant, as much for understanding the many and various forms of movement restrictions with which Shurafa Travel has had to deal during Gaza’s 43 year occupation as for providing a rationale for how and why Shurafa remains open under the current restrictions.

In Gaza, dialysis in paralysis

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
9 July 2010

Now under siege for more than three years and thus unable to provide necessary medication, plagued with equipment in perpetual disrepair, and confronted with an acute shortage of electricity, al-Shifa’s dialysis unit is unable to properly treat its patients.

Rights org condemns "hideous" attack on Freedom Flotilla

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Monday, May 31, 2010 - 02:37

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights strongly condemns the crime perpetrated by Israeli Occupation Forces earlier this morning, 31 May 2010, when Israeli naval forces attacked the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters as it was sailing towards the Gaza Strip.

Caterpillar equipment used in extrajudicial killing near Hebron

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 13:21

On Monday 26 April 2010, Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian man, Ali Ismael Ali Swaiti, 45, in Beit Awwa in the West Bank district of Hebron, after demolishing a house while he was inside. Israeli occupation forces claim that Ali Swaiti had been wanted for several years.

Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in West Bank, bomb Gaza tunnels

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:38

During the past three days, Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in the West Bank and struck targets in the Gaza Strip. The bodies of two West Bank victims were examined by a doctor who told the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights that the victims’ wounds indicate that they were shot from a close range.

Rights group: Israeli forces responsible for settlers' provocation at al-Aqsa

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 09:29

In the early morning of Sunday, 28 February 2010, Israeli forces closed all roads leading to the al-Aqsa Mosque and established barriers at the entrances of the old city of Jerusalem, denying Palestinian civilians access to it. A few hours later, at least 200 Israeli police and security officers entered the yard of the al-Aqsa Mosque and besieged dozens of Palestinian worshippers.

Report: The impact of closure and attacks on the Gaza Strip

28 December 2009

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has released a report highlighting the reality of life in the occupied Gaza Strip, and illustrating the dramatic deterioration in the human rights situation brought about by 928 days of continuous illegal closure, as well as numerous offensives, incursions and attacks.

Israeli forces kill six Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza

Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 08:51

On Saturday morning, 26 December 2009, Israeli occupation forces killed six Palestinians in two separate attacks in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli occupation forces employed excessive lethal force and killed three Palestinians, and Israeli undercover units extrajudicially executed three members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (the armed wing of Fatah movement) in Nablus.

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