An-Najah News - On 14 July, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 by  Michael Lynk, as an annual  report addressing Israel’s illegal policies of collective punishment targeting the Palestinian people.

Emphasizing Israel's failure to uphold its legal obligations and underlining Israel’s reliance on collective punishment as a “prominent instrument in its coercive toolbox of population control.
Lynk called on Israel to end  all measures amounting to collective punishment, including an end to the closure of Gaza, the punitive demolitions of homes all restrictions on freedom of movement across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, , the punitive residency revocation.

The report provided legal analysis on collective punishment and highlighted policies and practices amounting to illegal collective punishment used by Israel, the Occupying Power, including the 13-year-long closure on the Gaza Strip, punitive house demolitions, withholding of bodies, and restrictions of freedom of movement.