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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) is a legal charity in the UK that works on projects focused on protecting and promoting Palestinian human rights https://lphr.org.uk Reposts are not endorsements. Support LPHR by becoming a member.

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · Nov 16

Introduction: we are a lawyer-based legal charity in the UK that implements key legal projects to protect and promote Palestinian human rights. We are dedicated to upholding international law, pursuing justice, and honouring the dignity of the Palestinian people.

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Who we are - Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) is a lawyer-based legal charity in the UK (Charity Number: 1175498) that implements key legal projects to protect and promote Palestinian human rights. LPHR...

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 1h

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, with a clear link between Israeli restrictions on supplies entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition, a study published in international medical periodical the Lancet has revealed www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 6d

The Israeli military has issued what it said was its final warning for Gaza City residents to flee as it intensified its bombardment and offensive, as the ICRC announced the offensive had forced it to suspend operations in Gaza City www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel says ‘last opportunity’ for Gaza City residents to leave

Defence minister issues warning, while Hamas reportedly considers seeking amendments to Trump plan

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 10d

A Reuters analysis of visual evidence and other information about the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital on 25 August contradicts Israel’s explanation of what happened in the deadly strike www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital

Israeli troops say they targeted a Hamas camera in an August strike, but a Reuters investigation found the device belonged to one of the news agency’s journalists. An Israeli official now says troops fired without required approval. The five journalists who died in the strike are among 200 killed by Israel that it has yet to fully explain.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10d

"Israeli strikes and shootings kill 57 as assault in Gaza City intensifies. Health officials say most deaths were in the strip’s largest city, where hundreds of thousands are trapped and starving"

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Israeli strikes and shootings kill 57 as assault in Gaza City intensifies

Health officials say most deaths were in the strip’s largest city, where hundreds of thousands are trapped and starving

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 12d

The UN Human Rights Office today issued an update to its database of businesses involved in certain activities in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, listing a total of 158 business enterprises from 11 countries www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN Human Rights Office updates database of businesses involved in Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank

GENEVA – The UN Human Rights Office today issued an update to its database of businesses involved in certain activities in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, listing a ...

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13d

Microsoft has now ruptured its ties to Israeli forces, blocking access in response to the mass surveillance of Palestinians. Unit 8200 violated their terms of service by storing the data on the Azure cloud. Microsoft requested an external inquiry on data usage www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14d

Italy and Spain intervene to ensure Gaza flotilla’s safety in the Mediterranean after drones drop ‘flashbang’ devices.

Italy, Spain send navy ships to protect Gaza flotilla after drone attacks

Italy and Spain intervene to ensure Gaza flotilla’s safety in the Mediterranean after drones drop ‘flashbang’ devices.

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 15d

‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south.‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south

‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 15d

We are deeply alarmed at the statement published today by the UN Human Rights office, which warns that Israel’s military policies in Gaza City are targeting civilians and destroying homes en masse, inflicting killings and terror, and forcing mass displacement lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

Re-publishing statement from the UN Human Rights Office on mass killings and destruction of homes in Gaza City that appear focused on causing permanent displacement - Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rig...

[LPHR is deeply alarmed at the statement published today by the UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory. It warns that Israel’s military policies in Gaza City are […]

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 16d

'Recognition must be the start of a sustained process through which Britain finally fulfils its historic responsibility to advance Palestinian self-determination' - Statement from Britain Palestine Project on the UK's recognition of the state of Palestine britainpalestineproject.org/wp-content/u...

A screenshot of p1 of the statement, which can be read at https://britainpalestineproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BPP-Statement-on-Recognition.pdf

A screenshot of p2 of the statement, which can be read at https://britainpalestineproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BPP-Statement-on-Recognition.pdf

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 17d

‘With attention on Gaza, the [Israeli] government has advanced policies that are driving Palestinians into shrinking pockets of the West Bank.’

A dead teenager, a besieged village and the relentless march of the West Bank settlers - Isabel Coles, Al-Mughayyir

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A dead teenager, a besieged village and the relentless ma...

A killing among the hilltop olive groves raises questions about Israeli military actions in the occupied territory

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 17d

UK recognition of the State of Palestine was a promise made to my great grandfather decades ago. While on its own, recognition won’t solve anything without further action, it is a down payment on peace. Today we have just a little more hope, and hope is contagious.

📻 on BBC world service this AM:

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 21d

LPHR strongly welcomes the legally rigorous & compelling analysis by UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory finding the State of Israel is responsible for committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023 lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

A screenshot of p1 of the statement, available at https://lphr.org.uk/latest-news/lphr-statement-on-the-un-commission-of-inquirys-legal-analysis-concluding-that-the-state-of-israel-is-responsible-for-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza-since-october-2023/

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 21d

Israel prevents British Jewish MP and Labour Party colleague from entering occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-deports-uk-labour-mps-just-days-after-israeli-presidents-london-visit

Israel prevents British Jewish MP and Labour Party colleague from entering occupied West Bank

Health Secretary Wes Streeting condemns Israel's decision to stop Peter Prinsley, an observant Jew, and Simon Opher from entering as 'shameful' but not 'surprising'

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 21d

The Commission’s 71-page report should be read in its entirety in order to completely comprehend the shattering experience of Palestinians in Gaza and to fully appreciate the forensic approach of the Commission in its technical legal application of the crime of genocide www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 21d

The section on ‘direct targeting of children’ illuminates Commission’s vital legal finding that the only reasonable inference from the pattern of conduct of Israeli security forces in Gaza is evidence of genocidal intent; thereby dismissing Israeli authorities' stated claims of military necessity

A screenshot of p2 of the statement, available at https://lphr.org.uk/latest-news/lphr-statement-on-the-un-commission-of-inquirys-legal-analysis-concluding-that-the-state-of-israel-is-responsible-for-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza-since-october-2023/

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 21d

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 22d

“Economic life in Gaza has been decimated by sheer physical destruction, blockade and siege, and repeated forced displacement” - UN experts warn of economic emergency and catastrophic harm to human rights stemming from Israel’s attacks on Gaza & stranglehold across OPT www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel’s financial stranglehold on the occupied Palestinian territory must end: UN experts

GENEVA — UN experts* today warned of the severe economic emergency and catastrophic harm to human rights stemming from Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip and its wider financial stranglehold across th...

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 24d

Doctors and medical staff at the largest hospital still functioning in Gaza say they will be overwhelmed by a wave of new wounded and sick patients if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee the north in the face of an intensifying Israeli offensive www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Medics in southern Gaza sound alarm over wave of newly displaced Palestinians

Doctors at Nasser medical complex say it will not be able to cope with large numbers of people fleeing Gaza City

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 24d

‘In an instant, this Tuesday, Gaza city was handed a death sentence - leave or be killed.’ Briefing by Olga Cherevko, OCHA Spokesperson in Gaza, to journalists in UN Headquarters in New York

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"When Gaza burned, children starved, hospitals collapsed – did you act?" | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory

Briefing by Olga Cherevko, OCHA Spokesperson in Gaza, to journalists in UN Headquarters in New York

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25d

I can’t believe my eyes, I can’t. Incomprehensible levels of destruction. Worse than wasteland. A once teaming, lively, bustling hub of life, eradicated. There’s no justification for this, none.

Jabalia camp completely destroyed

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 25d

A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000

Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 26d

We @soclawireland.bsky.social issues a statement of solidarity with members of Al-Haq and members of the Palestinian delegation to the UN in response to the US sanctions issued against them for their collaboration with the ICC investigation

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Al-Mezan الميزان @almezan.bsky.social · 27d

🆕🇪🇺 The EU must amend and activate the Blocking Statute to shield Palestinian NGOs and others from US sanctions.

If it truly stands for the rule of law, the EU cannot let these draconian measures obstruct the pursuit of justice for Israel’s crimes at the ICC.

Our statement: mezan.org/en/post/46772

European Union Must Activate the Blocking Statute To Protect Those Pursuing Accountability at the ICC for Israel's Crimes from US Sanctions

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 28d

In light of calls for Herzog's arrest, we are re-sharing a Legal Q&A on Immunities and Gaza Accountability, which we published in September 2015 when PM Netanyahu visited the UK

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