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Israel’s Last Evacuation Order Requires Urgent International Intervention to Protect Gaza's Civilian Population, Who Have Nowhere Left to Shelter
On 28 October, Israeli authorities issued a new evacuation order for Palestinians in northern Gaza. In the early afternoon, the Israeli army spokesperson instructed “all residents of northern Ga...
Open Letter: Palestinian Civil Society Organizations Call on the UN General Assembly to Urgently Adopt Resolution on Ceasefire
Adopt the draft resolution
Our organizations, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reiterate the urgent need to call for an immediate ceasefir...
Palestinian CSO Send a Letter to the UN High Commissioner Calling for Ceasefire, and Stress on the Root Causes
On 23 October 2023, The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and Al-Haq, sent a letter the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, urging...
Open Letter to the UN Security Council: Palestinian Civil Society Organisations Call for a Ceasefire
Since 7 October 2023, the number of Palestinians killed by Israel’s attack against the Gaza Strip –according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health– as of 2:00 p.m., on 22 October 202...
Genocide Scholars and 100 Palestinian and International Civil Society Organisations Call on Prosecutor Khan to Issue Arrest Warrants, Investigate Israeli Crimes and Intervene to Deter Incitement to Commit Genocide in Gaza
On 19 October 2023, 100 civil society organisations (CSOs), including Palestinian organisations monitoring and documenting violations of international humanitarian law against Palestinian civili...
Legal groups seek halt to UK arms sales to Israel over illegal attacks on civilians, forced displacement, and policies in Palestine
Legal submission comes as new Israel policies explicitly call for collective punishment and forced displacement of Gaza’s trapped population; enacts ever more aggressive settlement activity in t...
Palestinian Civil Society Organisations Submit Recommendations for the European Parliament Motion for a Resolution on Palestine
Today, nine Palestinian civil society organisations and coalitions, sent letters with important recommendations to Members of the European Parliament and to President Metsola of the European Parliamen...
EU leadership must put an end to its double standards and complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people
Palestinian civil society organizations urgently call on the President of the European Commission, Ursula von Der Leyen, and the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the European...
Joint Urgent Appeal to UN Special Procedures on Journalists Killed While Reporting in Gaza, Highlights Israel in Breach of International Law
Today, Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) requested the intervention of UN Special Procedures to investigate the ind...
Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR Send Urgent Appeal to UN Special Procedures and the Commission of Inquiry on Israel’s Total Warfare on Gaza’s Civilian Population
On 11 October 2023, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) sent an urgent appeal to 14 UN Special Procedures, and the UN Commission of Inquiry (Co...
License to Kill: Third States Disregard their International Responsibility to Act to Prevent Israel’s Violation of Jus Cogens Norms
Over the past six days, the Israeli military has employed indiscriminate, excessive and disproportionate force in densely populated residential areas in the Gaza Strip, resulting in at least 1,203 Pal...
Open Letter to UN Security Council: Member States Must Address Root Causes of Palestinian Struggle, and Protect the Palestinian People from Retaliatory Israeli Attacks
Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights call on the UN Security Council to address root causes and protect the Palestinian people from Israeli attacks. As...