The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG; ) was a

human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...

group led by Bassem Eid, a former fieldworker for B'Tselem. It was active from 1996 to 2011 and largely focused on monitoring human rights violations by the

Palestinian National Authority The Palestinian Authority (PA), officially known as the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a c ...

(PNA).Rubenberg, Cheryl. "Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group." ''Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict''. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, p. 1095. According to B'Tselem, PHRMG "monitors human rights violations by both Israel and the Palestinian National Authority." However, the ''Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,'' edited by Cheryl Rubenberg, points out that despite the potential of PHRMG for that larger scope of reporting according to its official mandate, "in practice, the group has dedicated most of its work to monitoring human rights violations committed by the PNA." In April 2006, the group published its final regular bulletin on human rights, and it closed it doors officially in 2011 due to lack of funding. PHRMG was founded by Eid when he quit B'Tselem over the organization's decision, as an Israeli NGO, to focus on Israeli human rights violations rather than those committed by Palestinian groups. In 1997, ''

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'' described PHRMG as "defying a taboo" among human rights organizations against criticizing violations of human rights by Palestinian governing authorities.

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