Executive Summary the State of Palestine. ICHR further recommends that the security agencies and MOI abide by the provisions of Law No. 12 of 1998 on Public Meetings and the Public Prosecution and the judiciary immediately to investigate any incident that undermines the right to peaceful assembly in the State of Palestine, and to hold accountable any person who has been proven to assault the participants in peaceful assemblies or use excessive force contrary to the instructions. 2.1.7 The Right to Freedom of Association The Cabinet cancelled the condition requiring the founders of associations to receive a financial acquittal certificate, which is one of the illegal restrictions in force since 2012 that hinder the registration of associations. However, the Cabinet continued subjecting applications to register associations to security checks by the security agencies, a procedure that is not stipulated in the Law concerning the Associations and its implementing regulations and it violates the Cabinet resolution cancelling the security clearance condition, as well as the judgment rendered by the High Court on the case of public servants in 2012 which deemed the condition of security clearance as a violation of the Basic Law. Funding of the nonprofit companies is still monitored by the Cabinet. Such nonprofit companies include the nongovernmental human rights organizations, based on the Cabinet resolution No. 3 of 2010 concerning the Regulations as to Nonprofit Companies, as amended, which compromised the functioning of many nongovernmental organizations that operate in Palestine, which called for cancelling of such condition in more than one occasion, because it represents an interference by the executive authority in the functioning of the nongovernmental organizations and violates the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders who considered funding of the civil society organizations as an essential element to safeguard to right to freedom of assembly and the free action of the civil society organizations. In 2017, the Decree-Law No. 11 of 2017 concerning regulation of the right to conduct strike in public posts was issued and it banned public servants in some professional sectors from conducting strikes, which constituted a restriction on the right to conduct strike and the freedom of union action. The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) 27