Status of Human Rights in Palestine The procedures performed by the different municipal councils, the Palestinian Energy And Natural Resources Authority (PENRA), and the Ministry of Labor (MOL) are far from sufficient in the field of monitoring the public and private places, and ensuring the availability of public safety precautions within the respective geographic borders. Further, there is a need for the municipal councils to perform a bigger role in observing the dangerous places in the regions affiliated thereto and take the public safety procedures to reduce the deaths arising from failure to follow the public safety procedures. 18 ICHR recommended that until the cancellation of the death penalty from the Palestinian legal system, the President of Palestine should continue refraining from approving the death sentences rendered by the Palestinian courts and use his constitutional powers to grant pardons in order to mitigate death sentences rendered by the Palestinian courts to life imprisonment. Further, it is necessary for the Public Prosecution to investigate all cases of killing that occur in non-natural circumstances to find the killers and bring them to justice, especially the unexplained killings, and those known as “family honor killings”, in addition to the cases of females killed due to misuse of weapons, or the female victims who were recorded as deaths arising from failure to follow the public safety procedures, especially in the West Bank, or the deaths recorded as suicide. The Military Prosecution should conduct serious investigations on the allegations related to the right to life which are committed by the law enforcement personnel, especially in the detention centers, and the deaths arising from the misuse of weapons by those personnel. The local councils should practice an active supervisory role in the public and private places, and ensure that public safety precautions are in place within the geographic borders affiliated thereto. The role of these municipal councils observing the dangerous places in each region affiliated thereto and taking public safety procedures that reduce the deaths arising from failure to follow the public safety procedures therein should be activated. PENRA should perform adequate supervisory, inspection, and awareness procedures to reduce the deaths arising from eclectic shocks, whether in workplaces or houses. The Ministry of Health (MOH) should perform a serious role investigating the death cases following receiving of treatment or undergoing surgeries and set serious preventive and treatment measures for such cases. 23rd Annual Report 1 January - 31 December 2017