Israel/Palestine
Israel’s maintains entrenched discriminatory systems that treat Palestinians unequally. Its over half-century-long occupation of the West Bank and Gaza involves systematic rights abuses, including collective punishment, routine use of excessive lethal force against protesters, and prolonged administrative detention without charge or trial for hundreds. It builds and supports illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, expropriating Palestinian land and imposing burdens on Palestinians but not on settlers, restricting their access to basic services and making it nearly impossible for them to build in much of the West Bank without risking demolition. Israel’s more than decade-long closure of Gaza severely restricts the movement of people and goods, with devastating humanitarian impact. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza both sharply restrict dissent, arbitrarily arresting critics and torturing those in their custody

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Gaza: Israeli Restrictions Harm People with Disabilities
Neglect by Hamas Authorities, Armed Conflict Cause Further Hardship
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Israel: Discriminatory Land Policies Hem in Palestinians
Palestinian Towns Squeezed While Jewish Towns Grow
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Gaza: Apparently Unlawful Israeli Strikes Kill At Least 11 Civilians
Palestinian Armed Groups Also Unlawfully Fired Indiscriminately in November Fighting
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Born Without Civil Rights
Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank
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Israel: Provide Vaccines to Occupied Palestinians
Over 4.5 Million in West Bank, Gaza Excluded From Vaccination Push
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Gaza: Israeli Restrictions Harm People with Disabilities
Neglect by Hamas Authorities, Armed Conflict Cause Further Hardship
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Witness: How One Woman with a Disability Builds a Life in Gaza
People with Disabilities Find Strength Despite Discrimination
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Incendiary Weapons: Human Cost Demands Stronger Law
Close Legal Loopholes to Prevent Further Civilian Suffering
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Israel’s Systematic Repression of Palestinians Continues during Pandemic
Item 7 General Debate - HRC45
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A Human Rights Controversy at the University of Toronto
Case Raises Serious Concerns on Threats to Academic Freedom
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Israel: Release Body of Slain Palestinian
Body of Man Killed Apparently Unlawfully at Checkpoint Held for Over 10 Weeks
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Palestinian Authority Jails Journalist Again Over Facebook Post
Arbitrary Arrests Continue Despite Prime Minister Shtayyeh’s Vow to End Practice