Executive Summary On 4/4/2017, the Cabinet adopted a decision reducing the salaries of public servants in Gaza Strip by 30 to 50 percent on the grounds of payment of the basic salary to the employees in the southern governorates and excluding professional bonus and other bonus. The decision did not state the legal basis on which it was adopted. Further, public servants were assigned for early retirement under the Palestinian Cabinet’s resolution issued in its session held on Tuesday, corresponding to 4/7/2017 which assigned 6145 public servants in the southern governorates (Gaza Strip) to early retirement6. ICHR received 13 complaints related to the fair competition over employment; including 10 complaints in the West Bank and 3 complaints in Gaza Strip. It also received 91 complaints related to administrative disputes (promotion, retirement, financial entitlements); 76 of which were received in the West Bank and 15 in Gaza Strip. ICHR further received 15 complaints on incompliance with the legal norms of suspension and dismissal, and firing from public posts in the West Bank, mostly on the grounds of political affiliation. Further, the Public Employees Union at Gaza Strip banned some of the “objectors” employees from being reinstated in their posts after the National Consensus Government requested some of its employees in the ministries of finance, local governance, and endowment to return to their posts and assume their job duties. The National Consensus Government formed a legal administrative committee chaired by the deputy of the Prime Minister to integrate and regularize the position of Gaza government employees, within the administrative and legal structure of the public servants affiliated to the official agencies of the State of Palestine. This committee was formed as one of the outcomes of the recent reconciliation agreement which entered into force as a result of Hamas Movement disbanding the administrative committee on 17/9/20177 which was responsible for regulating the public post affairs, as well as the civil administrative service, security forces, top grade employees, and supreme military ranks, and for supervising the judicial service. However, the committee failed to produce any outcomes 6 On 7/9/2017 the Palestine Gazette (official Gazette) published Decree-Law No. 17 of 2017 concerning early retirement of civil servants which was concluded with a note stating that it was issued on 22/7/2017. 7 See the statement issued by Hamas Movement on 17/9/2017. The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) 31