Joint Report by Adalah, Al Mezan and PHR-Israel to UN on Torture, Prisoners, the Lack of Investigations into Cast Lead and the Siege on Gaza including the Denial of Health Rights.

PHR-IL sent an urgent request to establish an emergency hotline that would enable families to inquire about the medical and legal status of loved ones: "We ask that contact details be disseminated to Israeli and foreign media channels without delay"

The human rights organizations demanded that the state provide the names of people who were killed and injured on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla by the Israeli navy; the names and locations of those detained, as well as their condition; the legal status of the passengers on the ships; and access to those arrested, detained or in hospital without the restrictive pre-condition of requiring powers of attorney.

Today, May 25, 2010, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel submitted an urgent motion to the District Court in Petach Tikva on behalf of Mr. Ammer Makhoul, the director of "Ittijah", the network of Arab NGOs in Israel. PHR-Israel demands that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the Israeli General Security Service (GSS) allow a PHR-Israel doctor to urgently examine Mr. Makhoul.

An urgent motion submitted demanding that all details regarding the conditions in which Mr. Ameer Makhoul is being detained should be released, as well as the methods of interrogation that have been used against him.