On 16 March 2016, Al-Haq sent a letter to HE Minister of Education and Higher Education (hereinafter the Ministry) Dr. Sabri Saydam, following up on the issue of Palestinian teacher Khaled Rashad Mahmoud Shbeita. Khaled received a final warning on 13 March 2016 by the...
On 24 March, the UN Human Rights Council (hereinafter the Council) appointed a new Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and adopted four resolutions under agenda item 7 of the 31st session of the Council. In an unprecedented operative paragraph...
Israel routinely targets Palestinian civilians in and near the buffer zone; the military area surrounding the Gaza Strip by land and sea. On land, the buffer zone is built on Palestinian owned agricultural land, while at sea Israel limits fishing activities for Palestin...
The Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) supports the decision taken by the family of 15-year-old Hassan Khaled Manasrah, from occupied Jerusalem, to not receive his body which was in a humiliating and degrading state. PHROC also denounces Israel's con...