12 and human rights defender, who was forcibly and illegally deported from his hometown in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) to France. The Israeli occupying authorities continue the policy of deliberate medical negligence against Palestinian political prisoners and detainees. On 20 December 2022, Nasser Abu Humeid died in prison after having long suffered from disease and medical negligence. Abu Humeid would not be the last Palestinian martyr to die as a result of this policy. Since 1967, a total of 233 Palestinian political prisoners have died in Israeli prisons, including 74 as a consequence of systematic medical negligence. Some 4,700 Palestinian prisoners are now held in Israeli prisons, including 150 children and 33 women. In response to these aggressive policies, the ICHR maintained action at all international, regional, and Arab levels. To this avail, the ICHR laid bare the Israeli policies at the United Nations Human Rights Council, held meetings with foreign ambassadors, and sent letters to UN Special Rapporteurs. The ICHR also actively engaged with partners, including through the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions (ANNHRIs) and Association of Mediterranean Ombudsmen (AOM), calling on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities and fulfil its obligations under the International Law. On 11 May 2022, the IOF assassinated Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist, while she was carrying out her work in Jenin. This was coupled with attempts of disinformation and manipulation of accounts by the Israeli occupying authorities. The practice stands out as witness to Israel’s attempts to hide the truth as well as to the impunity of the occupying Power. From the ICHR perspective, Amnesty International’s report, Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: A Cruel System of Domination and a Crime against Humanity, reiterates earlier international reports on the same issue. It reflects consensus by international human rights organisations that Israel, the occupying Power, is maintaining and managing an apartheid regime. The fact that the report is released by a highly credible and recognised international organisation emphasises that the world needs to challenge that regime. In its report, Amnesty International arrives at the fact that the violations committed by the occupying Power constitute apartheid and a crime against humanity, as defined under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. These require that the ICC consider the crime of apartheid in the context of investigations into the case of the oPt. The Court must exercise universal jurisdiction over persons reasonably suspected of perpetrating the crime of apartheid under the International Law. Crippling the Palestinian government, the financial crisis persists as a portion of clearance revenues are withhold by Israel. Many international donors, including Arab States, have also failed to fulfil their financial pledges towards the State The Status of Human Rights in Palestine