International Criminal Court

PCHR launches campaign ‘Palestine to the ICC’

Posted on: December 10, 2012

10 December 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

On 10 December 2012, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, PCHR is launching its ‘Palestine to the ICC‘ campaign. The campaign aims to encourage the relevant stakeholders, namely the State of Palestine, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the international community, to fulfil their responsibilities in ensuring justice and redress for Palestinian victims on violations of international law. 10 years after the creation of the International Criminal Court, the institution created to put an end to … Continue reading

Updated on December 11, 2012
Posted under: In the Media, Press Releases
Tags: International Criminal Court

The Al Dalu family. Never forget.

Posted on: December 9, 2012

Shifa hospital, 19 November 2012, bodies of the young victims. By the bodies, Yasser Saluha, the brother of the children’s mother.

by Rosa Schiano

4 December 2012 | il Blog di Olivia

On 18 November 2012, on the fifth day of the Israeli military offensive “Pillar of Defence” against Gaza, a war bulletin reported 72 people killed, including 19 children, 670 wounded, most of them women and children. That day, the Israeli air force bombed a three-storey building in Nasser Street, Gaza City, wiping out an entire family.

I was, like every day, at Shifa hospital. Suddenly ambulances brought the bodies of the young victims of the brutal attack:

Ibrahim Al Dalu, 11 months old
Jamal Al Dalu, 6 years old
Yousif Al … Continue reading

Updated on December 10, 2012
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Civilian Death, Gaza, International Criminal Court

Speaking Truth to Power

Posted on: March 21, 2009

Giving up on irrigating parsley too dangerous to pick

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

We were back at Faraheen this morning accompanying farmers again, eying the jeeps driving along the Israeli border while our farmers removed the irrigation pipes from one of the fields we have visited regularly. Since Mohammed was shot in the leg, the farmer here has decided to give up on this field, its convenient well, and its half-grown parsley crop – 200,000 shekels worth – in case of further injury or death of harvesters. It was a quiet morning, thank goodness.

Tristan is conscious and was breathing on his own until he caught pneumonia. … Continue reading