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February 27, 2025 Commentary

Israeli Authorities Block Health Care Workers from Entering Gaza

Lift Arbitrary Restrictions, Allow Health Care Workers Entry

Minah, a 3-year-old with clubfoot, was casted in October 2024 after an orthopedic surgeon’s visit to Gaza. The casting, which usually requires several changes, was aimed to gradually correct the position of her feet.
February 26, 2025 Dispatches

Bibas Family Funeral in Israel Highlights Illegality of Hostage Taking

Civilians Should Never Be Used as Bargaining Chips

A mourner at the grave of hostages Shiri Bibas, Kfir Bibas and Ariel Bibas after their funeral on February 26, 2025, in Tzohar, Israel.
February 26, 2025 Dispatches

Israel Imports Gaza Abuses into the West Bank

Risk of Atrocities as Repression, Displacement Reach Unprecedented Levels

Israeli tanks are deployed during an ongoing army operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, February 24, 2025.
February 24, 2025 Statement

Submission to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Children in Armed Conflict

February 2025

February 24, 2025 News Release

EU: No ‘Business as Usual’ at Association Council with Israel

Condemn Atrocities, Impose Consequences at Foreign Ministers Meeting

Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, December 16, 2024.
February 17, 2025 Report

Lebanon: Destruction of Infrastructure Preventing Returns

Reconstruction Efforts Should Focus on Housing, Electricity, Water

A returning resident to Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon, stands before the wreckage in the city on November 30, 2024, days after the start of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
February 13, 2025 Commentary

Gaza’s Water Infrastructure Desperately Needs to be Rebuilt

Thousands of Palestinians have died because of Israeli efforts to choke off Gaza’s water supply. Immediate aid — and long-term infrastructure repairs — are essential to save lives.

Palestinians wait to receive clean drinking water distributed by aid organizations in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, June 10, 2024.
February 12, 2025 Statement

Gaza Needs Its Doctors: An Urgent Humanitarian Appeal

A leaked photograph of the detention facility at the Sde Teiman military base shows a blindfolded man with his arms above his head. Interviewed healthcare workers described this image as punishment imposed by Israeli soldiers on Palestinian detainees if they speak or move.
February 10, 2025 Dispatches

Japan Prepares to Accept Medical Evacuees from Gaza

Tokyo Should Press Israeli Government to End Ongoing Grave Violations

Damage caused by an artillery shell that hit the maternity hospital inside the Nasser Medical Complex, in Khan Yunis, Gaza, December 17, 2023.
February 5, 2025 News Release

Trump Indicates Intent to Escalate Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza

U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017.
February 4, 2025 Letter

Ban EU Trade and Business with Israel’s Illegal Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Joint letter by human rights organizations, trade unions and civil society groups

February 4, 2025 Dispatches

NGOs, Trade Unions, Call on EU to Ban Trade with Israel’s Illegal Settlements

Action Needed to Comply with International Law, Address Abuses in the West Bank

Israeli authorities demolish a Palestinian home under construction in the city of Hebron in the Israeli occupied West Bank. July 25, 2024.
February 4, 2025 News Release

Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses

US-Supplied Weapons Linked to Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza

Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 7, 2024.
January 30, 2025 Commentary

Gaza's Seniors Desperately Need Medical Care, Including Evacuations

With a ceasefire in effect, no one else should die in this war — especially not children and older people waiting for medical care, medical evacuations, and safety

A photo of an older woman wearing a keffiyeh as a headscarf.
January 28, 2025 News Release

Gaza: No Safe Pregnancies During Israeli Assault

Limited Prenatal Care; Unsafe Deliveries; Newborns Facing Fatal Conditions

A Palestinian woman pregnant with triplets, suffers from malnutrition and extreme anemia due to food shortages, at a displaced persons camp in Rafah, Gaza, February 14, 2024.

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