The Independent Commission for Human Rights - ICHR 85 Table 1: Number of complaints: 2017-2021 Year Total West Bank Gaza Strip 2017 53 16 37 2018 46 38 8 2019 18 3 15 2020 29 29 0 2021 40 35 5 Compared to 35 in 2016, the total number of complaints filed in 2021 indicates a rise (up to 29) in violations of the right of peaceful assembly in the West Bank. 2.1.5.4 Patterns of violations by complaint Violations of the right to peaceful assembly totalled 51 (41 in the West Bank and 10 in the Gaza Strip). All of an overtly political character, patterns of violations reported in the complaints filed to the ICHR included ban on or dispersal of peaceful assemblies, involving detention of or assault on some participants. In the West Bank, while 38 were dispersed, two peaceful assemblies were blocked. Participants were arrested in 25 peaceful assemblies. Protestors in another 24 assemblies were physically assaulted. In the Gaza Strip, nine peaceful assemblies were dispersed. Protestors were prevented from holding a peaceful assembly. Participants were detained and physical assaulted in eight and four peaceful assemblies respectively. Patterns of abuses of the right to peaceful assembly were no different in 2021 than in 2020. Violations were essentially of a political nature and mostly targeted peaceful assemblies demanding an adequate standard of living. Common patterns of impingements usually involved prevention and dispersal of, or physical assaults on and/or detention of participants in, peaceful assemblies. Twenty Seventh Annual Report 2021