60 The Independent Commission for Human Rights - ICHR Chart 5: Proportion of claimed violations of women and and children’s right to physical integrity Chart 5: Proportion of claimed violations of women children’s right to physical integrity 12 12 76 Males Females Children 3. Complaints by persons with disabilities 3. Complaints by persons with disabilities The ICHR received 12 complaints from persons with disabilities (8 in the West Bank and The ICHR received 12 complaints persons with (8 in theintegrity, West Bank 4 in Gaza). 4 in Gaza). These involved 21from claims of abuses ofdisabilities the right to physical nineand claims These involved 21 claims of abuses of the right to physical integrity, nine claims of physical or of physical or mental violence, seven claims of torture and ill-treatment, and five claims of mental cruel, violence, sevenand claims of torture and ill-treatment, and five claims of cruel, inhuman, and inhuman, degrading treatment. degrading treatment. Some persons with disabilities had their right to physical integrity violated against the Some persons withofdisabilities their right to violated against background background demandinghad rights relating to physical disability.integrity Others were abused in thethe context of demanding rights relating to disability. Others were abused in the context of disputes or criminal of disputes or criminal investigations which they were involved in. For example, A. B., a investigations whichmotor they disability, were involved in. For A. B., and a person with by motor disability, person with reported that example, he was beaten maltreated Police reported that he was beaten and maltreated by Police personnel in front of the Hebron Governor’s personnel in front of the Hebron Governor’s Office. A. B. approached the Governor to Office. A. B. approached the Governor to claim financial assistance after the MoSD had suspended claim financial assistance after the MoSD had suspended his social benefits as a member his social benefits as a member of a beneficiary poor household in line with MoSD programmes. The of a beneficiary poor household in line with MoSD programmes. The ICHR sent a letter to ICHR sent a letter to the Police agency on the citizen’s complaint, calling for opening an investigathe Police agency on the citizen’s complaint, calling for opening an investigation into the tion into the incident he experience outside the Governor’s Office. However, the Police denied that incident hehad experience outside the Governor’s Office. However, Police that the the complainant been beaten or ill-treated. Later, the ICHR sent the a letter to denied the MoSD, which recomplainant had been beaten or ill-treated. Later, the ICHR sent a letter to the MoSD, plied that the complaint concerned the Hebron Governor’s Office, rather than the Ministry. It should which that the complaint concerned Hebron beneficiaries Governor’s Office, than the be noted that replied the complainant and his family arethe registered at therather MoSD. Ministry. It should be noted that the complainant and his family are registered beneficiaries at the MoSD. 2.1.2.4 Offending agencies by complaint According to the complaints received by the ICHR, the majority of claims of abuses of the right to physical integrity were imputed to the Civil Police agency, accounting for 194 and 320 claims in the West Bank and Gaza Strip respectively. 74 Also according to complaints, in the West Bank, 28 claims of violations of the right to physical integrity were perpetrated by the General Intelligence, 11 by the Preventive Security, 35 by the Joint Security Committee (JSC) in the Jericho city, and nine by correction and rehabilitation centres. Additionally, complaints revealed five claims of abuses that took place in social welfare institutions of the MoSD. One claim was filed against the MoE, involving a governmental school teacher who The Situation of Human Rights in Palestine