'the Center'; transcribed into Arabic: هموكيد), full legal name Center for the Defence of the Individual (Hebrew: המוקד להגנת הפרט, romanized: HaMoked LaHaganat HaPrat; Arabic: مركز الدفاع عن الفرد, romanized: Markaz ad-Difāʿ ʿani l-Fard), is an Israel-based human rights organization founded by Dr. Lotte Salzberger with the stated aim of assisting "Palestinians subjected to the Israeli occupation which causes severe and ongoing violation of their rights.

[1] HaMoked's aims, as registered with Israel's Registrar of Non-profit Organizations, are to: "Provide assistance to persons who have fallen victim to acts of violence, abuse or deprivation of basic rights by governmental authorities (including local government), especially those needing assistance in conveying their complaints to these authorities, and also to protect basic rights in any other manner, including application to legal instances and among them – petitions to the Supreme Court of Israel in its capacity as High Court of Justice, whether in the name of an individual who claims that his basic right was harmed and whether as a "friend of the court".

[1] As Palestinians from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem turned to HaMoked with additional issues, the organization expanded its activities to handle human rights violations in other spheres as well.

HaMoked also operates an Emergency Human Rights Hotline in order to attempt to offer real time solutions by working vis-a-vis relevant authorities in the field.

Emergency situations include those arising from restrictions on movement within the territories; from violence; from delays in the evacuation of the injured, the sick, and women in labor; and from the blockage of humanitarian aid such as food, medicine and water.

[9] In 2011, following a request submitted by HaMoked under Israel's Freedom of Information Law, the legal advisor for the Justice Ministry's office in the West Bank provided a document that described a covert procedure that Israel used to cancel the residency status of 140,000 Palestinian residents of the West Bank who traveled abroad such as students who studied at foreign universities and people who migrated internationally for work.

[16] Israel's Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, said that HaMoked engages in "apartheid rhetoric" and supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, which she describes as anti-Israel.