Gaza

B’Tselem issues human rights report on OPT with focus on Gaza covering the period 1 January 2009 to 30 April, 2010.The report begins with a focus on Gaza because the writers that "both chronologically and substantively, a review of human rights during this period must begin with Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. The extent of the harm to civilians in Gaza as well as in southern Israel, and the severity of the allegations regarding the conduct of Israel and Hamas dwarf many other human rights concerns. Absurdly,Israel’s decision to prevent imports and exports has encouraged the development of the tunnels economy between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which is controlled by Hamas and increases its power. This report makes important reading even beyong Gaza and examine human righst situations in the West Bank too. Read more on the B'Tselem Website..

International Humanitarian Law program – Diakonia-Sweden: A persistent question in any discourse on the Palestine-Israel conflict is about how international human rights law is practised and/or flaunted. Diakonia-Sweden has developed useful and important resources on the subject as an educational tool and a basis for intervention on questions of humanitarian law in the oPT. Read more on Diakonia-Sweden's website

The Gaza Strip is a fact sheet related to the situation in Gaza following Operation Cast Lead. It is provided by Palestine Monitor, a group of Palestinian writers, commentators and activists committed to a Palestinian narrative and analysis of human rights abuses being carried out by the Israeli Government, and military, across the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. It is recognized as a dynamic and independent voice of Palestinians living under occupation. Read more on the Palestine Monitor's website

Gaza Health Fact Sheet is a report from the World Health Organization (WHO), West Bank and Gaza which highlights how “the Gaza Strip has been the setting of a protracted political and socio‐economic crisis leading to a severe deterioration of the already precarious living conditions of the people in Gaza and has further eroded a weakened health system”. Full text of the WHO's Gaza Health Fact Sheet

A Letter from Palestinian and international non-governmental organizations addressed to the President of the Palestinian Authority calls for compliance to the Goldstone Report recommendations. It asks that the PA take ‘necessary domestic measures to investigate violations of international human rights and humanitarian law and, where appropriate, to hold accountable those who prove to have committed these violations and to prosecute and punish them as recommended by the Goldstone UN Fact Finding Mission during the Gaza War. Read more...

Failing Gaza - No rebuilding, no recovery, no more excuses – a report one year after Operation Cast Lead is jointly published by Amnesty International UK, Broederlijk Delen (Belgium), CAFOD (UK), CCFD Terre Solidaire (France), Christian Aid, Church of Sweden, Diakonia (Sweden), Finn Church Aid (Finland), Medical Aid for Palestinians, medico international (Germany), medico international schweiz (Switzerland), Mercy Corps, MS ActionAid Denmark, Oxfam International, Trocaire (Ireland), United Civilians for Peace (a coalition of Dutch organizations - Oxfam Novib, Cordaid, ICCO, and IKV Pax Christi).

Full text of the report "Failing Gaza

Further information on International Humanitarian Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The Goldstone report is the report issued by the Commission that was appointed by the UN and headed by the eminent jurist Judge Goldstone to analyze Israel’s "Operation Cast Lead" in Gaza (27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009). The Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF) has made the claim that if the recommendations of the Goldstone report were pursued, it would send a strong message to combatants in all conflicts that nations or groups cannot act with impunity. Read more about the Goldstone report