Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.

The director, Omar Shakir, will depart tonight after Israel’s Supreme Court upheld the government’s deportation order on November 5 and gave him until November 25 to leave.

OMAR SHAKIR: I mean, Israel also denied it in 2009, when Human Rights Watch documented it, and that turned out to be false, as was disproven by numerous other voices.

Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine director, Omar Shakir, says 97% of the groundwater in Gaza is unfit for human consumption after the destruction of pipelines and treatment sources, the ...

"It would be a moral abomination," Omar Shakir, from the international non-government organization that advocates for human rights, told Reuters.

The Israeli Supreme Court on November 5, 2019 upheld the Israeli government’s authority to deport Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director of Human Rights Watch. The decision now shifts ...

Approximately 50 students listened to Shakir outline how analysis by the Human Rights Watch found that the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians qualifies as “apartheid.” ...

Dozens of students and University guests packed into Dwight Hall chapel for a conversation with Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch Omar Shakir. The Monday evening discussion focused ...

A dossier compiled by Israel’s Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Ministry on the activities of Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine Director, which served as the basis ...

Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Israel of blocking aid to Palestinians in violation of a United Nations court order issued last month that ruled Israel must contain civilian deaths in Gaza.

Israeli authorities on May 7, 2018, revoked the work permit for Omar Shakir, the Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director, and ordered him to leave Israel within 14 days. The government ...

In its February 20, 2017 letter denying a work permit for Omar Shakir, the Interior Ministry cited an opinion received from the Foreign Ministry that Human Rights Watch’s “public activities ...