We are part of a coalition of UK charities that has written to the incoming Prime Minister urging him to take urgent action to protect Palestinians facing an existential threat of erasure, and ensure that the UK meets its legal and moral obligations lphr.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Today, we publish an independent legal opinion on application of complementarity to the ICC Prosecutor's investigation of the Palestine Situation. Its fundamentally important findings should embolden the OTP to take forward further cases for prosecution before the ICC lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

LPHR has today submitted an urgent action letter requesting the UK govt consider issuing urgent guidance to discourage potential UK involvement in pending construction of thousands of housing units in the 'E1' area, which would effectively divide the West Bank into two lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

Following the alarming decision by Israel's security cabinet to significantly expand and accelerate de facto annexation of parts of the West Bank, we have written to the Secretary of State on the need for commensurate action with economic consequences lphr.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Legal briefing: UN Security Council resolution 2803, which endorses the ‘peace plan’ accompanying the often-violated ceasefire in Gaza, appears concerningly disconnected from securing fundamental human rights for Palestinians and ultimately achieving sustainable peace lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

LPHR is deeply saddened by the death of Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, who has passed away at the age of 92. Sir Geoffrey was a founding charity trustee of LPHR who exemplified the qualities and values of integrity, good judgement, humility and kindness lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

After two years of a devastating conflict that has shocked the world’s conscience – and which a UN Commission of Inquiry has significantly assessed to legally amount to the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza – LPHR welcomes a ceasefire agreed today lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

'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...

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

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/...

The Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has confirmed for the first time today that famine is present in Gaza, specifically in Gaza City and affecting approximately 500,000 Palestinians. Our statement: lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

New: LPHR briefing outlines key obligations by ICC member states to enforce arrest warrants and examines Hungary's non-compliance in failing to enforce warrant against Israel’s PM Netanyahu as significantly impeding the Court’s ability to administer justice & end impunity lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

For the third time in three days, scores of starving Palestinians have been unlawfully killed or maimed in southern Gaza en route to food distribution sites established by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Statement on the need for thorough and independent international investigation and accountability

After briefing 18 months ago on how the trajectory, scale & scope of Israel's massive military response in Gaza since 7 October 2023 posed substantial risk of coerced mass deportation of Gaza's civilian population, policy developments have further reinforced our concerns lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

Following the UN World Food Programme's alarming announcement that stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out, we urge all relevant actors to clearly recognise that the international crimes of starvation, persecution, extermination and genocide are on a continuum - statement lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

The overnight resumption of devastating mass atrocities in Gaza – killing and maiming hundreds of Palestinians through Israeli military airstrikes – is deeply horrifying and must stop immediately. Our statement: lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

Following Trump's comments on 'taking over' the Gaza Strip and resettling Palestinians, we are re-sharing our November 2023 briefing on the substantial risk of mass deportation of civilians from Gaza. The statement requires factual updating, but /1 lphr.org.uk/wp-content/u...

After 471 days of a devastating conflict that shocked the world's conscience through its inhumanity, LPHR welcomes the fragile ceasefire & highlights the overwhelming imperative for the international community to pursue transformative change grounded in international law lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

‘The ongoing armed conflict in Gaza has inflicted unprecedented and potentially irreversible harm on Palestinian children, with consequences that threaten… the very fabric of Palestinian society for generations to come’ - Save the Children resource-centre.savethechildren.net/document/mis...

After 13 months of ongoing devastating conflict that continues to shock the conscience of collective humanity, we welcome decision of the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber to issue arrest warrants against Israel and Hamas leadership as a groundbreaking step for legal accountability lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

In January, we published a landmark independent legal opinion by an eminent team of legal experts finding the closure of Gaza since 2007, including its intensification since 7 October 2023, to constitute the crime against humanity of persecution lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...