A New PCATI Report: Fundamental Shift in the IDF's Combat Doctrine Resulted In Extensive Harm to Civilians in Gaza
PCATI released today a new report which exposes the shifts in Israel's combat doctrine as evidenced in the prosecution of operation "Cast Lead" and from numerous public oral and written statements made by high ranking military officers and senior Israeli Government officials.
More...Global Civil Society Coalition Urges UN General Assembly to Support Goldstone Recommendations on Gaza
A global coalition of civil society organizations, ncluding PCATI, have urged members of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to support the recommendations of the Goldstone Report...
More...Israeli Human Rights NGOs in response to Goldstone Report: Israel Must Investigate 'Operation Cast Lead'
With the publication of the Goldstone Committee report today, human rights organizations in Israel are studying the report and its conclusions, and they call upon the Israeli Government to take the report seriously and to refrain from automatically rejecting its findings or denying its legitimacy.
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Human Rights Organizations in Israel Present a Report to the Goldstone Committee
Seven human rights organizations based in Israel presented a report to the UN Fact-Finding team investigating allegations of war crimes during “Operation Cast Lead” in Gaza, led by Justice Richard Goldstone.
More...Lift the Closure - Give Life a Chance
Two years to the closure on Gaza - watch a video produced bt Israeli human rights NGOs.
More...Israeli Human Rights organizations respond to UN Report on Gaza
Israeli Human Rights organizations respond to UN Report on Gaza:
Without an extra-military objective investigation, international bodies will continue to investigate Israel
HR NGO's: Military exonerates itself
The only way to investigate violations of human rights committed in Gaza is by establishing an external, extra-military investigation mechanism.
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8 Human Rights NGOs sent a letter to the Attorny General Demanding the establishment of an independent investigation mechanism
On January 20, 2009, eight human rights NGOs – the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Bimkom, B'Tselem, Gisha, Hamoked Center for Defense of the Individual, the Public Committee Against Torture in Isael, Yesh Din, and Physicians for Human Rights, sent a letter to the Attorney General demanding the establishment of an independent mechanism to investigate the killing and injuring of civilians during the fighting in Gaza, in cases in which there is a strong suspicion that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) committed serious breaches of the humanitarian law.
More...PCATI united with 8 human rights NGOs held a press conference warning of the clear humanitarian denger looming in Gaza
A Press conference was held in Jerusalem on Wednesday (14/1/09) in which 9 Israeli human ritghs NGOs (including PCATI) read their statement to the Isaeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, warning of the clear humanitarian danger looming in Gaza and pointed out the severe nature of Israeli action in the course of its war in Gaza which blatantly violates the human and humanitarian rights of civilians in Gaza.
More...Israeli Supreme Court Orders State to Explain Gaza Civilian Policy
Israeli Supreme Court Orders State to Explain Gaza Civilian Policy:
1. Why Not Permitting Evacuation of Wounded
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