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23/07/2019

Palestinian Detainee Dies in Israeli Custody PHROC: Israeli Authorities Bear Responsibility for Palestinian Prisoners’ Life and Protection from Medical Negligence, Torture and Ill-Treatment

The Palestinian Human Rights Organization Council holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the death of Nasser Taqatqa, 31, who died while being held in Nitzan prison on 16 July 2019. According to the preliminary information available to our organizations, Taqtaqa was arrested from his home in Beit Fajjar on 19 June 2019, a […]

16/07/2019

The increase in the numbers of martyrs of prisoners to 220, with the martyrdom of the prisoner Taqatqa

Ramallah | Hurryyat: The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” confirmed that the number of martyrs of the prisoners national movement in the prisons of the Israeli occupation since 1967 rose to 220 today, Tuesday, after the martyrdom of the prisoner Nassar Majed Omar Taqatqa from the town of Beit Fajjar in […]

03/06/2019

Deportation and re-arrest of the prisoner Abdul Rahman Mahmoud after 17 years in captivity

Ramallah – Hurryyat | After the release of the prisoner Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Khalil Mahmoud, nicknamed “Abed Arefa”, who spent 17 years in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, the occupation authorities prevented him from reaching his hometown of Issawiya, and deported him to the “city of Jericho” for ten days. On his way from […]

02/06/2019

The Palestinian fighter Helmy Al-Araj and the trilogy of study, arrest and resistance

Palestine abounds with many stories woven by children, men and women of their struggle over many years in the prisons of the occupation, among them the prisoner Helmy Muhammad Abed Araj, who spent 11 years of his life away from his family and was deprived of completing his studies, without bowing. The fighter Helmy Al-Araj […]

18/04/2019

Palestinian Prisoners in the Face of Restrictions

Palestinian prisoners at the prisons of the Occupation called off their open hunger strike, which had lasted for eight days, as they made victory by getting their basic rights, after a series of systematic violations that they are subjected to. The violations had aimed to place the Palestinian prisoners under more constraints in detention especially […]

22/01/2019

Hurryyat: Abuse of Prisoners in Ofer Prison is a Blatant Violation of International Legal Standards

The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” condemned the most blatant violation of the prisoners’ rights yesterday in Ofer prison due to the large number of special forces armed with firearms, rubber bullets, tear gas, and violent dogs that stormed into the prison and committed multiple acts of violence and abused prisoners, […]

09/10/2018

NGO STATEMENT: Palestinian Support for Indigenous Peoples’ Day Commemorations and Historical Justice from Palestine to Turtle Island

In August 2018, several Palestinian human rights organizations attended The Red Nation’s annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We, the undersigned Palestinian human rights and community organizations, state as follows: In August 2018, several Palestinian human rights organizations attended The Red Nation’s annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Red Nation, a community organization dedicated […]

24/07/2018

PHROC Condemns Israel’s Latest Deportation of Eminent Dutch Human Rights Defenders, Lydia de Leeuw and Pauline Overeem

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) strongly condemns Israel’s refusal to allow two human rights defenders to enter the country. Lydia de Leeuw and Pauline Overeem, are both esteemed senior legal researchers for the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) in the Netherlands, who work on business and human rights. Although travelling separately, […]

19/07/2018

PHROC Calls for the Opening of a Criminal Investigation into the Assault on Deputy Attorney General Samir Banat

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) condemns the crime that was committed against Palestinian deputy attorney general, Mr. Samir Banat, and calls upon Palestine’s attorney general to open a criminal investigation into his assault and to refer all those involved to the judiciary. According to documentation by PHROC members, at around 3:00 am on […]

12/05/2018

The ongoing Nakba must end: the time has come for the international community to act

For the Palestinian people, 70 years of Nakba means seven decades of subjugation by Israel, characterized by occupation, apartheid and colonial policies and practices. It also attests to the chronic inaction and failure of the international community to fulfill its obligations and responsibilities under international law, to a lack of accountability and protection, and to […]

28/02/2018

Israel’s Occupation Threatens Christian Holy Sites in Jerusalem

On 25 February 2018, the Patriarchs and Heads of Local Churches in Jerusalem announced the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem as a measure of protest against Israel’s deliberate violation of the status quo and its systematic campaign of targeting Churches and the Christian presence therein. Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality, has demanded […]

28/12/2017

MK Oren Hazan and a Right-Wing Israeli Group Assault Palestinian Families on their way to Visit their Detained Relatives at Nafha Prison

On Monday, 25 December 2017, Israeli right-wing Likud Member of Knesset (MK) Oren Hazan assaulted a bus transporting families of Palestinian political prisoners from Gaza to Nafha Prison, beyond the Green Line, to visit their detained relatives. Together with a group of right-wing Israelis, MK Hazan blocked the entrance to Nafha Prison, boarded the bus […]

Palestinian Detainee Dies in Israeli Custody PHROC: Israeli Authorities Bear Responsibility for Palestinian Prisoners’ Life and Protection from Medical Negligence, Torture and Ill-Treatment

The increase in the numbers of martyrs of prisoners to 220, with the martyrdom of the prisoner Taqatqa

Deportation and re-arrest of the prisoner Abdul Rahman Mahmoud after 17 years in captivity

The Palestinian fighter Helmy Al-Araj and the trilogy of study, arrest and resistance

Palestinian Prisoners in the Face of Restrictions

Hurryyat: Abuse of Prisoners in Ofer Prison is a Blatant Violation of International Legal Standards

NGO STATEMENT: Palestinian Support for Indigenous Peoples’ Day Commemorations and Historical Justice from Palestine to Turtle Island

PHROC Condemns Israel’s Latest Deportation of Eminent Dutch Human Rights Defenders, Lydia de Leeuw and Pauline Overeem

PHROC Calls for the Opening of a Criminal Investigation into the Assault on Deputy Attorney General Samir Banat

The ongoing Nakba must end: the time has come for the international community to act

Israel’s Occupation Threatens Christian Holy Sites in Jerusalem

MK Oren Hazan and a Right-Wing Israeli Group Assault Palestinian Families on their way to Visit their Detained Relatives at Nafha Prison

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