Category: Reports

New UN report: Impacts of war have set back development in Gaza by as much as 69 years

Without lifting economic restrictions, enabling recovery, and investing in development, the Palestinian economy may not be able to restore pre-war levels and advance forward by relying on humanitarian aid alone.

The assessment suggests that a comprehensive recovery and reconstruction plan, combining humanitarian aid with strategic investments in recovery and reconstruction along with lifting economic restrictions and promoting recovery-enabling conditions, could help put the Palestinian economy on a restorative track to realign with Palestinian development plans by 2034. But this scenario can only play out if recovery efforts are unrestricted.

Silencing Voices.. The Plight of Palestinian Journalists Detained by Israeli Occupation

“The data released by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate shows that the crimes of the occupation also included the arrest of 125 journalists in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. However, the terror goes beyond the number of those detained— the methods of physical torture and psychological terror they have endured are indescribable. Testimonies from released journalists and their lawyers, documented by the Syndicate, speak of unprecedented torture in history.

UN Commission finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israeli attacks on Gaza health facilities and treatment of detainees, hostages

Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.

Breaches of obligations arising from peremptory norms of international law: Consequences for institutional cooperation with universities in Israel

Researchers of the Law and Development Group have written the legal brief “Breaches of obligations arising from peremptory norms of general international law and consequences for institutional cooperation with universities in Israel”.