Articles for Palestine

Occupied Palestinian Territories – Harassment, arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention of Muhannad Salahat, Palestinian Human Rights Defender

Muhannad Salahat, a 29 year old human rights defender from Palestine, was disappeared by the Palestinian Authority Intelligence services in Nablus last Saturday, 1 May 2010. Since 2007, Muhannad has been working with the Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor) exposing human rights violations and the deteriorating humanitarian and security situation in the West Bank and Jordan. He has been repeatedly harassed, slandered and detained by the Palestinian Authorities' security forces without ever been charged or tried for any crimes.

05 May 2010

Palestine: Freedom of speech and expression in Palestine under the spotlight

The unjust sentence issued against journalist, Tariq Abu Zayd must be lifted. He and fellow detainee journalists Yazid Khedr, Moaz Asaluady, Mohammed Besharat, Mustafa Sabri should be immediately released from Security Services prisons in the West Bank.

22 Feb 2010

Israel: Extrajudicial executions of 11 members of the Deeb family.

During the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip between 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009, called "Operation Cast Lead", 1417 Palestinians were killed, of which 926 were civilians, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

On 6 January 2009, the family home of Hussein Deeb, where many civilians had taken refuge, was hit by Israeli shells. 14 family members were hit, of which 11 died.

02 Apr 2009

Ghazza : Call for independent enquiry into Israel's violation of humanitarian law

Alkarama for Human Rights has been following events in the Ghazza strip closely from the beginning of the current crisis to try to establish a factual assessment, via our sources, of what is happening on the ground. We are deeply saddened at the ongoing violence in the occupied territory.

09 Jan 2009