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UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) press release documenting testimonies submitted by the State of Palestine to the CRPD in August 2025, focused on Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which addresses situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies. The testimonies cover child amputees in Gaza, the destruction of rehabilitation infrastructure, the treatment of disabled Palestinians in Israeli detention, and the collapse of disability services across the OPT. Recommended for disability rights researchers, international human rights lawyers, and public health scholars as the primary UN documentation of the disability crisis in Gaza presented under the CRPD framework, providing official documentation of Israel's obligations under international disability rights law and the State of Palestine's formal testimony before a UN treaty body.
