Earlier today, 3 June 2022, the Israeli occupation authorities released Mrs. Shatha Odeh after being sentenced by Ofer military court to 16 months of imprisonment. The court approved an early release request by Mrs. Odeh’s lawyer, after finishing two-thirds of her sentence in Damon prison.

Since the State of Palestine acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) in 2017, Palestinian human rights groups and civil society organizations have followed up on the establishment of the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture (NPM).

National, regional, and international civil society organizations,* welcome today’s communication submit

On 29 April 2022, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer) and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School (IHRC) submitted a petition to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the Israeli military authorities’ ongoing unlawful administrative detention of Bashir Khairi, a 79-year-old retired Pal

On 28 April 2022, the Israeli military commander renewed a 6-month administrative detention order against Bashir Khairi, 80 years old, despite the lack of charges, Bashir’s old age, and his ongoing boycott of the Israeli military courts in protest of his arbitrary administrative detention.

Over the past two weeks, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have launched large-scale and brutal attacks against Palestinians across the occupied territories, most notably the repeated storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem during the holy month of Ramadan.