organization:palestinian centre for human rights

  • On the 1st anniversary of the #GreatReturnMarch, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights publishes an info-graphic showing the number of civilian casualties from 30 March 2018-28 March 2019 resulting from Israel’s suppression of the #GreatReturnMarch demonstrations. | Palestinian Center for Human Rights
    https://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=12229

    Question and Answer: 1st Year Anniversary of the March of Return Demonstrations
    March 28, 2019

    https://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=12225
    #Marcheduretour #bilan

  • 3 Palestinians shot dead after Jerusalem attack kills Israeli officer
    Feb. 3, 2016 2:55 P.M. (Updated: Feb. 4, 2016 10:50 A.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770107

    JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Three Palestinians were shot dead Wednesday after they killed an Israeli police officer and wounded another in an armed attack near Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli police said.

    Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an that “three attackers were shot dead at the scene” by Israeli Border Police after carrying out an attack with knives and an automatic weapon.

    The three Palestinian youths had attracted the attention of Israeli Border Police officers as they approached Damascus Gate, police spokesperson Luba al-Samri said.

    She said they were stopped by the officers, and as one showed their identification card, another pulled out a gun and opened fire. Two female Border Police officers were wounded and evacuated for medical treatment.

    One of them, 19-year-old Hadar Cohen, was shot in her head and later pronounced dead at Hadassah Hospital.

    A spokesperson for the hospital said that the other police officer, 18 years old, was in moderate condition, having received stab wounds across her body.

    Explosive devices were later found near the site, which was cordoned off following the attack, Rosenfeld said, adding that Israeli forces carried out a controlled explosion of the devices.

    Rosenfeld said following initial investigations that the three Palestinians were armed with three automatic weapons.

    Photo of weapon used at the scene. Photo provided by Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld

    Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli forces fired stun grenades and pepper spray near the Salah al-Deen Street and Al-Sultan Suliman streets near Damascus Gate to prevent Palestinians from approaching the area.

    Witnesses added the forces also stopped a group of people and inspected them in a “humiliating” way.

    The three Palestinians killed were identified as Ahmad Rajeh Ismail Zakarneh, Muhammad Ahmad Hilmi Kamil, and Najeh Ibrahim Abu al-Rub from the village of Qabatiya near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Chaos erupts in hometown of 3 Palestinian attackers as Israeli forces raid village
      Feb. 4, 2016 10:37 A.M. (Updated: Feb. 4, 2016 12:18 P.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770116

      JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces stormed the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin’s Qabatiya village, the home of three Palestinian youth who were shot dead Wednesday after killing one 19-year-old Israeli police officer and seriously injuring another, a PLO spokesman told Ma’an.

      Ali Zakarneh said during the raid, Israeli forces shot and injured four youth with live bullets, one of whom is in critical condition after being shot in the head.

      The spokesperson added that Israeli forces also ran over a 15-year-old boy, identified as Mujahed Zakarneh, with a military jeep. The 15-year-old is also in critical condition.

      The five youth were all evacuated to a nearby hospital for treatment, Zakarneh said.

      Israeli forces also raided the family homes of the three youth who committed the attack and notified the families that their homes would be demolished, requesting they evacuate their belongings in preparation for the demolitions.

    • Palestinian youths slain in deadly attack on Israeli police
      Maureen Clare Murphy | 4 February 2016
      https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-youths-slain-deadly-attack-israeli-police

      Nine youths from Qabatiya village have been killed since the beginning of October.

      One of them was a good friend of the three killed on Wednesday, a relative of one of the youths told The New York Times.

      Ahmad Awad Abu al-Rab, 17, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at Jalameh checkpoint near Jenin during what Israel says was an attempted stabbing attack on 2 November last year. Another boy the same age, Mahmoud Kamil, was wounded and arrested during the incident.

      The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights called the shooting of the boys a crime of excessive force.

      The teens apparently never made contact with the soldiers before they were shot with live fire.

      The Quds news outlet published a photo of Muhammad Kamil participating in a demonstration calling on Israel to return the body Ahmad Awad Abu al-Rab:

  • Israeli forces killing “in cold blood,” Palestinian families say | The Electronic Intifada
    https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-forces-killing-cold-blood-palestinian-families-say
    https://electronicintifada.net/sites/electronicintifada.net/files/styles/original_800w/public/2015-12/031215_mut_00_2.jpg?itok=7IpwDjBT&timestamp=1449806260

    Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man and, after he was dead, fired at his head at point-blank range, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

    Mazen Oraibi, a Palestinian Authority intelligence officer from the Jerusalem-area village of Abu Dis, had stepped out of his car at an Israeli checkpoint last Thursday when soldiers opened fire and killed him on the spot.

    A Palestinian bystander, Khalid Yaqub Abu Jibna, was shot by live fire and taken to hospital in critical condition.

    A soldier was lightly injured during the incident, the Israeli paper Haaretz reported.

    Oraibi’s brother told Haaretz of the married father of four: “It is hard to believe that a man like him would perpetrate a terrorist attack, and we don’t really understand what happened there in the checkpoint, and how he was shot and killed, without anyone Israeli or Palestinian notifying us. We have yet to receive his body.”

    Israel continues to withhold and delay transfer of the bodies of Palestinians its forces have killed during alleged attacks.

    Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI) stated on Wednesday that Israel was withholding the bodies of 12 children, making independent investigation of the circumstances of their deaths nearly impossible.

    The rights group documented one case in which Palestinian youths hid the body of a boy shot dead by Israeli soldiers near a checkpoint, so that the teenager could be properly buried.

  • Case of Gaza family killed in their sleep taken to International Criminal Court | The Electronic Intifada
    https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/case-gaza-family-killed-their-sleep-taken-international-criminal
    https://electronicintifada.net/sites/electronicintifada.net/files/styles/original_800w/public/200814_ash_00_11.jpg?itok=fqiamay3&timestamp=1448299603

    Killed in their sleep

    “On 20 August 2014 at 4:45 AM, Israel attacked our home in Deir al-Balah whilst my family was fast asleep. My son and two stepsons were killed in the attack, as well as my nine-months pregnant daughter-in-law and her three children,” al-Louh says in a statement from Al-Haq, whose director Shawan Jabarin handed the file to Bensouda in The Hague.

    The evidence addresses specific attacks on Palestinian homes, hospitals, schools and high-rise buildings.

    It was submitted by Al-Haq, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Aldameer and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights under a provision of the court’s founding Rome Statute that permits the prosecutor to launch investigations on her own initiative on the basis of information she receives.

    This can include evidence submitted by states, human rights organizations and international bodies.

    Monday’s submission is the first of its kind, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, whose attorney Katherine Gallagher accompanied the Palestinian delegation to the ICC.

    If Bensouda’s preliminary analysis finds there is a “reasonable basis to proceed,” the prosecutor must seek permission from a panel of judges, known as a pre-trial chamber, to open a formal investigation.

    Israel’s 51-day assault on Gaza beginning in early July 2014, left more than 2,200 Palestinians dead, including 551 children, according to the report of an independent UN inquiry published in June.

    Israel injured thousands more, displaced hundreds of thousands of people and devastated large areas of Gaza.

    That inquiry concluded that the death and destruction was the consequence of a “policy, approved at least tacitly by decision-makers at the highest levels of the Government of Israel.”

  • Israel executes Palestinian in hospital room | The Electronic Intifada
    https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-executes-palestinian-hospital-room
    https://electronicintifada.net/sites/electronicintifada.net/files/styles/original_800w/public/121115_wih_00_2.jpg?itok=oYEkQZb0&timestamp=1447431510

    The execution of a man at a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron early Thursday has generated shock even among Palestinians familiar with Israel’s brutality.

    At 2:43am, two dozen Israeli gunmen disguised as Palestinians invaded al-Ahli hospital. They included two dressed as women, one as a pregnant woman in a wheelchair, and others wearing fake beards, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

    Three of the agents obstructed the hospital entrance and ordered medical staff not to move.

    The other Israelis went up to the surgery department on the third floor and detained medical staff.

    At around 2:45, five agents, including two disguised as women, raided a patient’s room.

    Four gunshots were heard and the agents left, taking 20-year-old Azzam Izzat Shaban al-Shalalda, a patient in the hospital.

    In the room they shot dead his 28-year-old cousin Abdallah Azzam Shaban al-Shalalda.

  • Palestinien abattu après avoir foncé sur des policiers à Jérusalem
    ats / 20.05.2015
    http://www.romandie.com/news/Palestinien-abattu-apres-avoir-fonce-sur-des-policiers-a-Jerusalem/595038.rom

    Un Palestinien a foncé sur des gardes-frontières israéliens avec sa voiture mercredi matin à Jérusalem-est, blessant modérément deux d’entre eux, avant d’être abattu, a indiqué la police. Des faits semblables s’étaient déroulés la semaine passée en Cisjordanie.

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    Palestinian Civilian Killed in Jerusalem
    Thursday, 21 May 2015
    http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11037:palestinian-civilian-ki

    According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and statements of eyewitnesses, at approximately 09:30, on the abovementioned day, Omran Omer Abu Dhaim (41), from Jabalal-Mukaber area, east of East Jerusalem, was driving his Land Cruiser vehicle in al-Tour neighbourhood. When he tried to drive through the intersection, his vehicle hit 2 policewomen from the (border guards), who were present there. Israeli forces immediately opened fire at him from a close range, due to which he sustained serious wounds. In spite of his serious health condition, Israeli forces kept him for a while and then transported him to “Cha’ariTsedeq” Hospital in West Jerusalem to receive the necessary medical treatment. Israeli forces also prevented anybody from approaching him. A medical source at the hospital announced later that Abu Dhaim died of his serious wounds. It should be noted that the 2 policewomen who were hit by the vehicle sustained minor wounds according to the Israeli authorities.

    • Family of alleged ’attacker’ receives body, mourns his death
      May 21, 2015
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=765541

      (...) Israeli authorities delivered his body to the family at the Jabal al-Mukabbir police station just after midnight, when the body was transferred via an ambulance to a nearby mosque.

      Relatives and friends bid final farewell to Abu Dheim as mourners carried his body to the town’s cemetery after the funeral prayer.

      The mourners waved Palestinian flags, chanting slogans condemning the killing.

      Omran had left home at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday headed for Jabal al-Zaytoun (Mount of Olives), where he works as school bus supervisor at the neighborhood’s school, his wife said.

      Omran’s brother Shafiq Abu Dheim said eyewitnesses told him that “Omran was trying to make a U-turn in the middle of the road, but was impeded by a truck which was unloading vegetables at a produce shop.”

      At that point a heated argument broke between him and Israeli officers who were on both sides of the road, when the officers opened fire.

      Shafiq told Ma’an that Israeli forces pulled his brother out of the car and “left him lying on the ground for half an hour without receiving any first aid, despite the fact that he was only a few meters away from Al-Maqasid and Augusta Victoria hospitals,” according to eyewitnesses.

      The forces reportedly fired stun grenades at those who attempted to access the man after he was shot, head of a local follow-up committee of al-Tur, Mufid Abu Ghannam, told Ma’an Wednesday.

      As soon as Shafiq discovered his brother’s death, he immediately headed to al-Tur, walking due to blocked roads.

      “My brother had already been evacuated in an ambulance, and the soldiers were inspecting his car. I tried to access the car, which was riddled with bullets, but they pushed me back violently.”

      Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an after the incident that the had man tried to run over two border police officers with his car, leaving them moderately injured.(...)

  • Israel using flechette shells in Gaza | World | The Guardian

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israel-using-flechette-shells-in-gaza?CMP=twt_gu

    The Israeli military is using flechette shells, which spray out thousands of tiny and potentially lethal metal darts, in its military operation in Gaza.

    Six flechette shells were fired towards the village of Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis, on 17 July, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. Nahla Khalil Najjar, 37, suffered injuries to her chest, it said. PCHR provided a picture of flechettes taken by a fieldworker last week.

    The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) did not deny using the shells in the conflict. “As a rule, the IDF only employs weapons that have been determined lawful under international law, and in a manner which fully conforms with the laws of armed conflict,” a spokesperson said in response to a request for specific comment on the deployment of flechettes.

    #gaza

  • C’est aussi à Gaza que la chevelure de Samson fut coupée, sur une intrigue de Dalila, pour qu’il perde sa force et devienne un « homme ordinaire ».

    PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Strongly Condemns the Arbitrary Detention of Young Men and Cutting of their Hair by the Palestinian Police in Gaza

    Sunday, April 7, 2013 9:48

    http://beforeitsnews.com/middle-east/2013/04/pchr-strongly-condemns-the-arbitrary-detention-of-young-men-and-cutti

    “PCHR Strongly Condemns the Arbitrary Detention of Young Men and Cutting of their Hair by the Palestinian Police in Gaza.

    The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the arbitrary detention of a number of young men and the cutting of their hair over the past days, by the Palestinian police in Gaza. The police has detained and attacked several men over the past days, stating that the hairstyle of these men was indecent. PCHR calls upon the Attorney General in Gaza to open investigations into these attacks, cases of arbitrary detention, and violation of civil rights of citizens. PCHR also calls upon the government in Gaza to respect citizens’ liberties, which are guaranteed under international human rights law.

    According to investigations conducted by PCHR, over the three past days, the Palestinian police stopped a number of young men, who were walking in different areas in the Gaza Strip, and took them to police stations under the pretext that their hairstyle was “indecent”. The hair of the men was cut while they were in detention. Some of the men also beaten while in detention. Finally, the detainees were forced to sign a statement declaring they would not grow long hair or have a strange hairstyle, or wear “low-waisted trousers” again.” (…)

  • Video: Survivors of Israeli attack on Gaza says bombs continued to fall on the al-Shoja’iya neighborhood as civilians raised white flags
    Nov 12, 2012 11:22 am | Adam Horowitz

    The video above interviews two survivors of the Israeli attack on the al-Shoja’iya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Here is a summary published by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights over the weekend on what took place in the neighborhood:

    Over the past 72 hours, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aerial and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip. Five Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, have been killed, and 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded. Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shoja’iya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Additionally, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed, and some civilian facilities were destroyed or damaged.

    According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 15:30 on Saturday, 10 November 2012, Israeli military vehicles stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired an artillery shell at a number of Palestinian children who were playing football at al-Mentar Hill east of al-Shoja’iya neighborhood, which is east of Gaza City and nearly 1,500 meters away from the border. As a result, 2 children were instantly killed:

    1- Mohammed Ussama Hassan Harara (16); and

    2- Ahmed Mustafa Khaled Harara (17).

    Following this attack, a number of Palestinian civilians, who were in the consolation house of the Harara family, rushed to the area, where the IOF immediately fired another 3 shells. As a result, 2 Palestinian civilians were instantly killed:

    1- Ahmed Kamel Al- Dirdissawi (18); and

    2- Matar ‘Emad ‘Abdul Rahman Abu al-‘Ata (19).

    Additionally, 38 civilians, including 8 children, were wounded; the wounding of 10 of these civilians was described by medical crews as being serious.

  • Palestinian Center for Human Rights
    http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8970:new-israeli-escalation-a

    New Israeli Escalation against the Gaza Strip, 7 Palestinians, Including 3 Children, Killed and 52 Others, Including 6 Women and 12 Children, Wounded

    Over the past 72 hours, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aerial and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip. Five Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, have been killed, and 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded. Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shoja’iya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Additionally, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed, and some civilian facilities were destroyed or damaged.

    According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 15:30 on Saturday, 10 November 2012, Israeli military vehicles stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired an artillery shell at a number of Palestinian children who were playing football at al-Mentar Hill east of al-Shoja’iya neighborhood, which is east of Gaza City and nearly 1,500 meters away from the border. As a result, 2 children were instantly killed:

    1- Mohammed Ussama Hassan Harara (16); and

    2- Ahmed Mustafa Khaled Harara (17).

    Following this attack, a number of Palestinian civilians, who were in the consolation house of the Harara family, rushed to the area, where the IOF immediately fired another 3 shells. As a result, 2 Palestinian civilians were instantly killed:

    1- Ahmed Kamel Al- Dirdissawi (18); and

    2- Matar ‘Emad ‘Abdul Rahman Abu al-‘Ata (19).

    Additionally, 38 civilians, including 8 children, were wounded; the wounding of 10 of these civilians was described by medical crews as being serious.

    Earlier, on Thursday evening, 08 November 2012, the IOF killed a Palestinian child during an incursion in the ‘Abassan village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 16:30 on Thursday, as a result of the indiscriminate shooting by IOF military vehicles that had moved into the ‘Abassan village, 13-year-old Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa was seriously wounded by a bullet to the abdomen. At the time he was shot, Ahmed had been playing football with his friends in front of his family’s house, located nearly 1,200 meters away from the area where the IOF were present. He was evacuated to the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis, but he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later.

    On Saturday and Sunday, 10 and 11 November 2012, Israeli warplanes targeted a number of members of the Palestinian resistance. As a result, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed in 2 separate attacks in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They were identified as:

    1- Mohammed Fu’ad ‘Obaid (22), from Jabalya; and

    2- Mohammed Sa’id Shkoukani (18).

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    L’émission hebdomadaire francophone de Gaza.

    Bonjour de Gaza

    11 November 2012 at 4h57

    http://www.ustream.tv/channel/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1#/recorded/26908589

    • Nos amis de la préférence nationale frappent de nouveau. Des femmes, des gosses, c’est la marque de la maison :-(
      Où est botul d’ailleurs ? certainement à appeler à bombarder la Syrie ou l’Iran parce que .... c’est bon pour Israël :-(

      Pendant encore combien de temps on va laisser faire cette ignomnie ?
      #nakba #antisémitisme #génocide