Palestinian Return Centre

📢 PRC issues Gaza and West Bank Situation Report (no.122). This report covers the period from March 8 to 14, 2026, provides daily facts and statistics about the ongoing Israeli aggressions since October 7th, 2023. Available in English and Arabic 🔗 Download here: prc.org.uk/en/post/5253

🔴 PRC hosted a webinar marking Land Day’s 50th anniversary, featuring Dr Salman Abu Sitta and moderated by Dr Gabriel Polley. The discussion revisited the 1976 uprising, framing Gaza within a long colonial context, affirming refugee rights, rejecting Israeli measures, and stressing documentation and UNRWA’s protection as central to preserving Palestinian identity. 📌 Read brief here: prc.org.uk/en/post/5252

🔴 PRC condemns Israel’s new death penalty law as a dangerous escalation targeting Palestinians under occupation. It warns the measure entrenches a discriminatory system lacking fair trials, violates international law, and signals a shift toward state-sanctioned executions, urging urgent global action to prevent impunity and protect justice, rights, and accountability. 📌 Read press release: prc.org.uk/en/post/5249

Land Day 50: Forging the Path to Return | Live with Dr. Salman Abu Sitta x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🔴 Nearly five decades after Land Day, Palestinians face unprecedented land loss across Gaza and the West Bank. PRC warns of escalating displacement and territorial fragmentation, urging an international investigation into alleged genocide and ethnic cleansing, and calling for immediate protection of vulnerable communities, particularly in Gaza and Area C. 📌 Read Press Release: prc.org.uk/en/post/5247

🔴On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Land Day, the Palestinian Return Centre invites you to attend a webinar titled: Land Day at 50: Forging the Path to Return This timely event will reflect on the enduring historical and political significance of Land Day, while reaffirming the centrality of land and the Right of Return in the Palestinian struggle, amid ongoing displacement and dispossession. 📅Tomorrow – 31 March 2026 🕔5:00 PM – 6:30 PM (London Time)

📢 PRC warns of unprecedented restrictions on worship in Jerusalem, saying Israeli measures at Al-Aqsa aim to alter the Status Quo and enforce collective punishment. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council, PRC condemned Israeli restrictions during Ramadan 2026 and warned that global silence enables ongoing violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. 📌 Details: prc.org.uk/en/post/5246

📢 PRC delivered an oral intervention before the United Nations Human Rights Council under Item 7 of the agenda, during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, highlighting grave violations and atrocities committed against Palestinian detainees from Gaza inside Israel’s secret detention facilities. The intervention was delivered on behalf of PRC by lawyer Khaled Mahajneh, a human rights lawyer, who presented a direct testimony from inside “Sde Teiman” detention camp in the Negev desert, one of the secret detention facilities established by Israeli authorities at the outset of the war on Gaza. Mahajneh explained that he entered the camp in his capacity as a lawyer and left carrying a live testimony of a reality that “defies logic and imagination,” documenting methods of torture and abuse inflicted on Palestinian civilian detainees from Gaza, including physical and psychological torture, sexual violence, and systematic assaults on human dignity. 🔗 Details: prc.org.uk/en/post/5244

📢 PRC organised a side event titled: “Israel’s Unlawful Carceral System: The Rights of Palestinian Political Prisoners” at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The event was held on Monday, 23 March 2026, on the margins of the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council. The event highlighted the Israeli violations against Palestinian prisoners, including systematic torture, sexual violence, and the withholding of Palestinian bodies as “bargaining chips.” The event featured interventions from lawyer and human rights advocate Khaled Mahajneh, human rights lawyer and PhD candidate Muna Haddad, and Dr Julie Billaud, Professor of Anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. 🔗 For further details and video recording: prc.org.uk/en/post/5240

📢PRC issues Gaza and West Bank Situation Report (no.120). This report covers the period from February 22 to 28, 2026, provides daily facts and statistics about the ongoing Israeli aggressions since October 7th, 2023. Available in English and Arabic 🔗Read here: prc.org.uk/en/post/5238

📢A new paper submitted by the PRC to the United Nations addressed the humanitarian and human rights implications arising from austerity measures affecting the (UNRWA) in Lebanon, particularly the reduction of salaries and working hours for locally recruited staff, and the resulting direct impact on the continuity of essential services provided to Palestine refugees, most notably education, primary healthcare, and social assistance. PRC called on the Human Rights Council and Member States to ensure sustainable, adequate, and predictable funding for UNRWA, safeguard its UN-mandated role, protect the rights of its locally recruited staff, and strengthen international and civil society efforts to reaffirm the Agency’s indispensable role in protecting the rights of Palestine refugees. 🔗Details: prc.org.uk/en/post/5236

Join us this Monday at the UN Human Rights Council for a side event on Israel’s carceral system and the rights of Palestinian political prisoners. The discussion will highlight ongoing violations inside Israeli prisons and emerging legal measures that threaten the lives of Palestinian prisoners, within the broader context of occupation and apartheid. 📌Full details in the poster below:

📢PRC highlighted the complex legal and humanitarian conditions faced by Syrian refugees residing in Egypt, as well as Syrian Palestinians, warning of the consequences of growing administrative restrictions and increasing measures that directly affect their fundamental rights and deepen their legal and living vulnerability. This came in an oral statement delivered by Fayiz Abu Eid, Director of the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, during the interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, held under Item 4 as part of the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, which runs from 23 February to 31 March 2026. PRC called on the Human Rights Council to urge the relevant authorities to ensure respect for the fundamental rights of Syrian Palestinians in Egypt, provide them with the necessary legal and humanitarian protection. 🔗Details: prc.org.uk/en/post/5234

📢In an oral statement delivered by the PRC during the General Debate under Item 3 at the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held in Geneva, the Centre urged the Council to request the Office of the OHCHR to investigate and systematically monitor patterns of forced displacement in the occupied West Bank, including refugee camps and rural communities, in order to strengthen international accountability and help bring an end to these escalating violations. PRC also drew attention to humanitarian reporting documenting a concerning rise in the number of Palestinian communities forced to leave their areas due to settler violence, access restrictions, and repeated demolitions, particularly in Area C and pastoral communities. 🔗Details: prc.org.uk/en/post/5232

⭕️A new report submitted by the PRC to the United Nations reveals the serious humanitarian and human rights consequences resulting from continued reductions in funding to the UNRWA, stressing that these cuts threaten the fundamental rights of Palestinian refugees, particularly those from Syria. PRC called on the Human Rights Council to urge donor states to resume suspended funding to UNRWA and ensure sustainable and predictable support for its programmes. It also called for a dedicated humanitarian response for Palestine refugees from Syria, including housing, livelihoods support, and the reconstruction of destroyed refugee camps. 📎 Details: prc.org.uk/en/post/5231

📢 PRC issues Gaza and West Bank Situation Report (no.119). This report covers the period from February 15 to 21, 2026, provides daily facts and statistics about the ongoing Israeli aggressions since October 7th, 2023. Available in English and Arabic 🔗 Download here: prc.org.uk/en/post/5228