Source: Al-Haq

[Al-Haq->http://www.alhaq.org/] is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation based in Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the organisation has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

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Open Letter to United Nations Security Council, Israel is Starving Palestinians in Gaza, Act Now to Save Gaza – Sanction and Expel Israel from United Nations

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Since Israel’s breach and rejection of the ceasefire, and resumption of aerial bombardments on Gaza, Israel has escalated its mass killings (at least 50,810 Palestinians have been killed and 115,688 injured since 7 October 2023), mass forced displacements, and total destruction and annihilation of Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza seeking their total erasure in what has been described as “the fastest starvation campaign in modern history”.

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Al-Haq Publishes New Report, ‘How to Hide a Genocide: The Role of Evacuation Orders and Safe Zones in Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza’

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As we enter 2025, and Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians in Gaza continues to increase in both scale and intensity, Al-Haq publishes a new report. ‘How to Hide a Genocide: The Role of Evacuation Orders and Safe Zones in Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza’ examines the central role played by unlawful “evacuation orders” to alleged “safe zones”, which constitutes the war crime and crime against humanity of forcible transfer, in Israel’s genocidal acts.

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As Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Passes the One-Year Mark, International Inaction Fuels Renewed Wave of Genocidal Violence against Palestinians

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This week, our organisations mark a year of shame in which the international community failed to prevent, punish, or put an end to Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. A year full of mourning, grief, and despair, as the international community offers the Palestinian people nothing but empty words.

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Director of Al-Haq Shawan Jabarin Holds Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera accountable

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Il Corriere Della Sera, one of Italy’s most prominent newspapers, has paid around 15,000 Euros in damages to Shawan Jabarin, the General Director of Al-Haq, for falsely accusing him in 2021 of being a terrorist and murderer, an unfounded allegation based on Israeli propaganda and smear campaigns. Mr. Jabarin will  donate the compensation to Al-Haq and UNRWA. 

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Palestinian Organisations Welcome Landmark ICJ Provisional Measures Order Finding That Israel’s Actions in Gaza Are Plausibly Genocidal

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Our organisations thank South Africa for its leadership in taking the case and commend South Africa’s commitment “to end all acts of apartheid and genocide against the Palestinian people and to walk with them towards the realisation of their collective right to self-determination, for, as Nelson Mandela momentously declared, “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”.

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International Court of Justice (ICJ) Preliminary Hearings 11 and 12 January 2024

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On 11 and 12 January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) —the judicial organ of the United Nations—will hold public hearings in its seat in The Hague with regards to the proceedings instituted by South Africa against Israel on 29 December 2023 (Proceedings against Israel concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the “Genocide Convention”) in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip).

This brief has been put together jointly by staff from The PIPD, Al Mezan, Al Haq and CCR Justice

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Joint Statement General Debate of the 22nd Session of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

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On 8 December 2023, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Defense for Children International-Palestine, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) delivered a joint statement at the General Debate of the 22nd session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, in New York.