Human rights reports
Human rights reports
Human rights reports.
- Amnesty International
- B’Tselem
- Defence for Children International—Palestine Section
- Human Rights Watch
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
- Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
- Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
- Physicians for Human Rights, Israel
- United Nations
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Other Reports
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United States Delivers Massive New Weapons Shipment to Israel | April 1, 2009
Palestinian Anti-Wall Protester Convicted by Israeli Military Court | August 27, 2010
Palestinian Homes Demolished in West Bank Village of Hmayyir | August 6, 2010
Annual Report 2011: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Israel: Cancel plan to forcibly displace Jahalin Bedouin communities | February 8, 2012
Stop creating forests that are destroying Bedouin lives | April 11 2011
Israeli campaign to avoid accountability for Gaza war crimes must be rejected | April 6 2011
Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: US veto effectively gives Israel “green light” to expand illegal settlements | February 22, 2011
Palestinian hunger striker ‘at risk of death’ highlights injustice of administrative detention [AI Press Release] | March 23, 2012
Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, January 1, 2009-April 30, 2010
Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, 2011 Annual Report | March 2012
The Hidden Agenda: The Establishment and Expansion Plans of Ma’ale Adumim and their Human Rights Ramifications | December 2009
No Minor Matter: Violations of the Rights of Palestinian Minors Arrested by Israel on Suspicion of Stone-Throwing | July 2011
Under the Guise of Legality: Declarations on state land in the West Bank | March 2012
Void of Responsibility: Israeli Military Police not to Investigate Killings of Palestinians by Soldiers | September 2010
Statistics on Israeli and Palestinian Fatalities
Dispossession and Exploitation: Israel’s Policy in the Jordan Valley and Northern Dead Sea | May, 2011
Show of Force: Israeli Military Conduct in Weekly Demonstrations in a-Nabi Saleh | September 2011
Kept in the Dark: Treatment of Palestinian Detainees in the Peach-Tikva Interrogation Facility of the Israel Security Agency (Joint report with Hamoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual) | October 2010
A Policy of Discrimination: Land Expropriation, Planning and Building in East Jerusalem | May, 1995
By Hook and by Crook: Israeli Settlement Policy in the West Bank | July 2010.
Defence for Children International—Palestine Section
Under Attack: Settler Violence against Palestinian Children | November 1, 2010
In their own words: a report on the situation facing Palestinian children detained in occupied East Jerusalem | September 22, 2011
Country Profile of the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Review of the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child | August, 2011
Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention | March 20, 2012
Recruitment and Use of Palestinian Children in Armed Conflict | April 23, 2012
Separate and Unequal:Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories | December 19, 2010
“I Lost Everything”: Israel’s Unlawful Destruction of Property during Operation Cast Lead | May 13, 2010
Turning a Blind Eye: Impunity for Laws-of-War Violations during the Gaza War | April 10, 2010
White Flag Deaths: Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead | August 13, 2009
Precisely Wrong: Drone Missile Attacks in Gaza | June 30, 2009
White Phosphorus Use Evidence of War Crimes | March 29, 2009
Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza | March 25, 2009
Forget About Him, He’s Not Here: Israel’s Control of Palestinian Residency in the West Bank and Gaza | February 5, 2012
World Report 2011: Israel / Occupied Palestinian Territories
International Committee of the Red Cross
Israel’s blockade of Gaza is a clear violation of international humanitarian law and constitutes a collective punishment imposed in clear violation of Israel’s obligations under international humanitarian law | June 14, 2010
Gaza detainees barred from family visits | June 23, 2011
Israel and the occupied territories: another year without change | February 6, 2012
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Israel / Occupied Palestinian Territory: Parallel Report to the the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) | February, 2012
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron| September 7, 2010
Statistics: home demolitions in West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza
The Judaization of Palestine: 2011 Displacement Trends | January 25, 2012
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Students from Gaza: Disregarded Victims of Israel’s Siege of the Gaza Strip, A Report on Israel’s Prevention of Gazan Students from Studying at the West Bank Universities | July 2010
Unlawful Combatants: The Violation of Gazan Detainees’ Rights in Israeli Prisons | June 4, 2009
The Targeting of Medical Centers, Ambulance Teams and Civil Defense Teams during the Israeli Offensive “Operation Cast Lead” against the Gaza Strip, 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009 | March 17, 2009
Violation of Gazan Students’ Rigthts Must End Now, Al Mezan: Israel Must Allow Gazan Students to Reach West Bank Universities | November 2, 2011
Torture and other Forms of Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment against the Palestinian Population in Gaza Strip by IOF | July 28, 2011
Joint Paper: False Confessions by Palestinian Children and Adolescents under Coercion | November 29, 2011
Joint Press Release: On International Day Against Torture: Israel Must Immediately End Use of Solitary Confinement of Prisoners | June 26, 2011
Displacement in the “Buffer Zone” Three Years after Operation Cast Lead | January 1, 2012
Factsheet: Israel Abuses of Child Fishers in Gaza: The Need for Protection | December 31, 2011
Factsheet: Access to Education in the Gaza Strip, December 2011 | December 29, 2011
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Weekly and Annual Reports
Education Denied: Israel’s Systematic Violation of Palestinian Children’s Right to Education | July 3, 2011.
Case Review: The State’s obligation to investigate suspected grave violations of international law committed in the Gaza Strip during the 2004 military Operations ‘Rainbow’ and ‘Days of Penitence’ | March 1, 2012
Report on: The Impact of the Closure Policy on Agricultural Exports in the Gaza Strip | June 9, 2011
Physicians for Human Rights, Israel
A Situation Report on the Access to Health of Gaza Residents | July 6, 2010
Legislation proposed in Israeli Knesset undermines human rights work in the occupied Palestinian territory
Who Gets to Go? In Violation of Medical Ethics and the Law: Israel’s Distinction between Gaza Patients in Need of Medical Care | June 30, 2010
Humanitarian Minimum: Israel’s Role in Creating Food and Water Insecurity in Gaza | January 10, 2011
The Impact of Detaining Children in Silwan | November 30, 2011
U.N. General Assembly resolutions since 1946
U.S. vetoes of U.N. resolutions critical of Israel (1972-2006)
U.S. uses U.N. veto to shield Israel from condemnation for its actions
UN Special Rapporteur on OPT urges Israel to protect the rights of Palestinian Children | October 22, 2011
Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) | February 13–March 9, 2011
United Nations Human Rights Council
The Goldstone Report: United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict | September 29, 2009
Human rights violations by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem | April 14, 2010
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Humanitarian Monitor for Occupied Palestinian Territory
How dispossession happens: The humanitarian impact of the takeover of Palestinian water springs by Israeli settlers | March 14, 2012.
The Humanitarian Impact of Gaza’s Electricity and Fuel Crisis | March 23, 2012
West Bank Movement and Access Update | August 6, 2011
East Jerusalem : Key Humanitarian Concerns | March 24, 2011
The humanitarian impact of Israeli-imposed restrictions on access to land and sea in the Gaza Strip | August 19, 2010
Special Focus: Unprotected: Israeli settler violence against Palestinian civilians and their property | December 18, 2008
Special Focus: Lack of Permit Demolitions and Resultant Displacement in Area C | May 27, 2008
ISRAEL-OPT: Helping ex-detainee children cope with trauma [IRIN] | March 26, 2012.
UNRWA and OCHA condemn the forced displacement of 67 Palestine refugees in the occupied West Bank | April 22, 2012.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
NGO Report by Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel | June 23, 2010
Commission on Human Rights Resolutions, Decisions and Chairperson’s Statements (click on “E” for downloads)
Human Rights Council Resolutions, Decisions and Chairperson’s Statements (click on “E” for downloads)
OHCHR Archive through 2012 (press releases / statements)
Al-Haq. Field Reports. Al-Haq Monitoring and Documentation Department | 2005 – 2011
Al-Haq. Weekly Focus Articles. Al-Haq Weekly Focus Archive.
Fatima Itani and ‘Atef Daghlas, eds. Dr. Mohsen Saleh and Rana Sa’adah. “The Suffering of the Palestinian Patient under the Israeli Occupation,” Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations [Beirut] | April, 2011
International Crisis Group. “Back to Basics: Israel’s Arab Minority and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Middle East Report #119 | March 14, 2012.
MA’AN Development Center. “Parallel Realities: Israeli Settlements and Palestinian Communities in the Jordan Valley” [to download PDF] | April 7, 2012






