The Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) calls for an urgent intervention on behalf of the international community to protect civilian victims of the Israeli aerial bombardment and ground invasion – so-called “Operation Protective Edge” – in the Gaza Strip. As of 3 pm on 30 July, at least 1,263 Palestinian civilians had been killed, including 249 […]
Baroness Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Ambassadors of the EU Political and Security Committee Your Excellencies, On 8 July 2014, the European Union (EU) issued a statement addressing the ongoing engagement of hostilities in the occupied Gaza Strip. In its short statement, the EU strongly condemned the “indiscriminate […]
Your Excellency, President Didier Burkhalter, Distinguished Members of the Swiss Federal Council, As Palestinian human rights organizations concerned with respect for international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) calls upon Your Excellency to convene a conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva […]
