Balasan Initiative For Human Rights

The Balasan Initiative for Human Rights

Latest Reports

New Report: Israeli Policies of Impoverishment & De-Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

New Report: Israeli Policies of Impoverishment & De-Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Impacts on Youth Emigration

Case Study of Bethlehem

This year marks the convergence of the Easter and Ramadan, as Palestinians observe their religious holidays with great anguish and sorrow for Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, mounting up to an unfolding genocide. Palestinians mourn over 32,600 Palestinians killed in Gaza, 75,000 injured, 1.7 million displaced and the total destruction of the Strip, as well as the collapse of all of its vital sectors, and a looming famine …

Starvation and Sexual Assault as Tools of Warfare in Gaza

Recently, we are witnessing an alarming rise in the death tolls as a result of Israel’s starvation policy, projecting 1.1 million Palestinians to face catastrophic levels of food insecurity. In addition, new testimonies of sexual assault against Palestinian women and girls in Gaza are emerging from a significant number of witnesses and/or victims …

Further Fragmented Reality: The Impacts of the War on Gaza on the Bethlehem Governorate

When addressing the intricacies of the political situation in Palestine, it is critically reductive to consider the West Bank in isolation from the context of the Gaza Strip. Indeed, the aftermath of October 7th has ushered in an unprecedented surge in Israeli aggression against Palestinains in the West Bank…