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PA human rights org worked 'intensively' with ICC against Israel

Official PA TV News

Official PA TV newsreader: "[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas received the annual report for 2024 from the Independent Commission for Human Rights (i.e., ICHR, under the PA; see note below), while meeting with a delegation led by ICHR General-Commissioner Issam Al-Arouri.

The delegation members presented His Honor the President [Abbas] with the main findings of the ICHR's annual report... and noted that the ICHR is increasingly taking action on the international level, in cooperation with the international legal entities and particularly with the International Criminal Court (ICC), in order to expose the crimes and atrocities of the occupation (i.e., Israel).

The delegation expressed appreciation for the president's efforts and directives that place supreme priority on the cooperation between the ICHR and the public institutions... His Honor the President emphasized the need for full cooperation between the public institutions and legal institutions, with the aim of exposing the ongoing crimes of the occupation."

[Official PA TV News, June 4, 2025]

Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) – a human rights organization under the PA which was established by former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in a presidential decree in 1993.

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