Get Updates
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. Read more about Poisoning of Gaza water puts population at risk
22 July 2010
Israel’s policy towards strawberry farming in Gaza, and particularly their exports, is a demonstration in the economics of occupation. Read more about Gaza's strawberries spoil under siege
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. Read more about Tough times for Gaza travel agent
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. Read more about In Gaza, dialysis in paralysis
31 May 2010
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. Read more about Rights org condemns "hideous" attack on Freedom Flotilla
29 April 2010
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. Read more about Caterpillar equipment used in extrajudicial killing near Hebron
22 March 2010
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. Read more about Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in West Bank, bomb Gaza tunnels
2 March 2010
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. Read more about Rights group: Israeli forces responsible for settlers' provocation at al-Aqsa
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. Read more about Report: The impact of closure and attacks on the Gaza Strip
27 December 2009
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. Read more about Israeli forces kill six Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza