34 Commission found that they did not hold any security personnel accountable for committing violations of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. Through correspondence with the Security Forces Judiciary Commission24, it was found that it tried (18) security personnel for murder, torture, unlawful detention, and assault on peaceful gatherings. As for the Gaza Strip, ICHR did not receive any response from the relevant authorities about holding any security personnel to account for committing unjust acts on the right to freedom of opinion and expression. ICHR reaffirms its recommendations in its previous annual reports, specifically: • The need for the Council of Ministers to instruct the police and security services to stop detaining and summoning citizens or journalists on the grounds of exercising the right to freedom of opinion and expression through social media, and practicing journalistic and media work. • The necessity for President Mahmoud Abbas to intervene by instructing the security services in the West Bank to stop detaining and summoning citizens or journalists on the grounds of exercising the right to freedom of opinion and expression through social media, and practicing journalistic and media work. • The necessity for the Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip to issue instructions to the police and its security services, especially the Internal Security Agency, to stop detaining and summoning citizens or journalists on the grounds of exercising the right to freedom of opinion and expression. This mainly covers their activity through social media, or speaking through the media, or publishing data, and practicing journalistic and media work. • The necessity for the Ministries of Interior and Information to intervene in the Gaza Strip to remove the restrictions imposed on Palestine TV. They should allow the Palestine TV crews to work freely in the Gaza Strip. 1.5 Developments in the Right to Peaceful Assembly The Commission received (29) complaints about the violation of the right to peaceful assembly, all of them were in the West Bank, but it did not receive any complaint about the violation of the right to peaceful assembly in the Gaza Strip. The number of violations reached (41), all of them in the West Bank, and were all of an economic or political nature. The types of complaints that ICHR received varied from preventing to dispersing peaceful assemblies. This included either detaining or assaulting some of the participants. In addition, (36) peaceful assemblies were 24 ICHR’s letter to Major General Ismail Farraj, Head of the Security Forces Judiciary Authority, dated 12/02/2020. The Status of Human Rights in Palestine

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