Status of Human Rights in Palestine interventions in the West Bank. ICHR also recommends the National Consensus Government to revisit the applicable legislation related to the freedom of opinion and expression, such as the Penal Code and the Press and Publications Law, and to amend the same in consistency with the obligations of the State of Palestine under the international conventions. 2.1.6 26 The Right to Peaceful Assembly ICHR received 53 complaints regarding violating the right to peaceful assembly; including 16 in the West Bank and 37 in Gaza Strip. The Complaints included 58 violations; including 18 violations in the West Bank and 40 violations in Gaza Strip; ranging between assaulting of the participants, disperse of peace assemblies, and ban of peaceful events. Violation of the right to peaceful assemblies of political nature represented the most common violation in the West Bank, while violation of the right to peaceful assemblies held to voice economic or social demands represented the most common violation in Gaza Strip. The related official agencies failed to set any policy or adopt any new measures or procedures to protect the right to peaceful assembly, noting that the competent authorities still enforce restrictions on the public meetings held in confined places in Gaza Strip, in violation of the provisions of the law. In relation to the administrative and criminal accountability measures adopted by the competent authorities to hold the violators of the right to peaceful assembly accountable, the security agencies did not respond adequately to ICHR’s correspondence related to the accountability measures adopted by these authorities. In line with its vision to safeguard the right to peaceful assembly, ICHR recommends that the lawmaking authorities adapt the national legislation regulating the right to peaceful assembly with the international instruments signed and upheld by the State of Palestine. It also recommends that the MOI and security agencies immediately issue a code of conduct for the law enforcement personnel which should be consistent with the international human rights protection and promotion conventions signed and upheld by 23rd Annual Report 1 January - 31 December 2017