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Israeli forces and paramilitary militias launched a widescale invasion of various parts of the West Bank on Sunday before dawn, abducting 41 Palestinians and damaging Palestinian property, including chopping down…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers established a new outpost on Sunday near the Bedouin communities of Abu Ghaliya and al-‘Arara, east of the town of ‘Anata in occupied East Jerusalem. The…

Israeli forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank on Monday, abducting at least nine Palestinians and shooting one, in Ramallah, occupied Jerusalem, and the Tulkarem governorate. In…

from Wafa – Hussein Nazir Sinwar With the intensification of the Israeli genocide that has been waged against the Gaza Strip for nearly two years, the Israeli occupation forces have…

Israeli occupation forces abducted ten Palestinians in the early hours of Monday during various invasions across the occupied West Bank, targeting residential areas and disrupting civilian life. The abductions followed home…

from DropSite News: Hamas’s political leadership is reaffirming its willingness to make a deal that would see all Israeli captives released immediately in return for a ceasefire agreement that would…

by: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The General Assembly voted,…

For months, Israeli hasbarists have pushed a set of “gotcha” tropes to debunk the existence of famine in Gaza. Jeremy Konyndyk of Refugees International published the following thread, showing that…

Statement from Refugees International President Jeremy Konyndyk: “Famine has now been officially declared in Gaza. The long warned worst case scenario is now playing out. This is a staggering failure. Principal responsibility for this…

From Palestine Chronicle: Palestinian journalist Khaled al-Madhoun, who worked for Palestine TV, was killed in a direct Israeli attack while he was covering events in the Zikim area of northern…

From DropSite News: Story by Zaki Awadallah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA—Like hundreds of other young men, Haitham al-Batniji, 28, arrived at the path leading to a so-called…

Report from ‘The Cradle’ news agency: The condition of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital who was abducted by Israeli forces at the end of…

After Hamas agreed to release ten Israeli hostages as part of a ceasefire agreement, Israeli officials abruptly ended the negotiations with a demand to retain control of 40% of the…

The UN Special Rapporteur has published a new report on the economics of occupation, and how the companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine are now increasing their…

With bodies as thin as skeletons, children Mohammed, Razan, and Amal lie in hospitals in the Gaza Strip, exhausted by diseases resulting from hunger and severe malnutrition, as a result…

From the New Arab: Pro-Palestinian activists seeking to march to Gaza with the stated aim of breaking Israel’s blockade on the territory were stopped Friday in both Libya and Egypt,…

by: Ahmed Abu Artema, Middle East Eye Gaza’s tragedy is not limited to the visible victims of massacres or the destruction of homes and cities. Alongside these horrors, Palestinians endure…

Quds Press – June 5, 2025 – More than 130 news organizations and press freedom groups have called on Israel to grant international journalists “immediate, independent, and unrestricted” access to…

Report by the Jerusalem governorate: Israeli violations in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, escalated significantly in May 2025, with a sharp increase in abductions, forced detentions, home…

On Monday, Day 77 since the resumption of the genocide in Gaza, Israeli missiles and shells kills and injured many Palestinians, including children, across the devastated, starved and besieged Gaza…

From Quds News: Yaqeen Hammad was more than a child. At just 11 years old, she was Gaza’s youngest media activist and the youngest volunteer in a charity team. With…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to vast areas of land in Douma village, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, early Sunday morning. Suleiman…

“Sde Teiman, as anyone who was there knows, is a sadistic torture camp. Dozens of detainees entered alive and left in body bags. There are testimonies from guards, doctors, and…

From Wafa news: Inside the neonatal unit of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, tiny bodies of babies barely move inside incubators, covered with light medical…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that more than a month has passed without a drop of aid entering Gaza, and “as aid runs out, the gates of horror…

From Quds News: Egypt, one of the mediators in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, has reportedly received positive signals regarding a new ceasefire proposal that includes a transitional phase. Meanwhile, the…

The Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced the death of 41-year-old Administrative Detainee Khaled Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 41, on February 23, 2025, in Megiddo Prison. Abdullah…

Feb. 9, 2025 By Mahmoud Majadalah for Arab 48 – In a new testimony, released prisoner, Adham Mansour revealed serious violations against Palestinian detainees, including physical and sexual assaults using…

Photographer: Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills February 3, 2025  By Qassam Muaddi for Mondoweiss – Israeli forces conducted an unprecedented escalation in the West Bank over the weekend by detonating 20 apartment buildings…

In response to the US President’s statements regarding the future of the Gaza Strip, worldwide condemnation has been expressed by leaders in Palestine, France, Jordan, Egypt, and others. The United…

Despite a ceasefire implemented Sunday morning, Israeli forces continue to violate the terms of the ceasefire on a daily basis. On Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on the beach…

On Monday, January 13, 2025, day 465 of Israel's ongoing assault on the entire Palestinian population of 2.2 million people, the Israeli military continued its relentless attacks against civilians.

from the Middle East Eye A Palestinian man whose touching tribute to his dead granddaughter went viral on social media last year has now also been killed by the Israeli military. According to Palestinian…

By Sami Abu Salem, Wafa News (translated from Arabic version): Since October 5, 2024, the Israeli occupation has continued its ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip, with continuous bloody…

From Middle East Eye: Lebanon’s Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed after Israel launched a series of air strikes on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission has released a new report detailing the horrific conditions in the Israeli torture prison in the Negev desert. The testimonies of the eight detainees included…

On Sunday, day 303 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of 2.24 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces committed two more school massacres, bombing 2…

Palestinian territory, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor – During its four-day incursion into the western parts of Gaza City, the Israeli army committed horrific atrocities against Palestinian civilians, including willful killings,…

Update as of 10 pm on Saturday, day 275 of Israel’s assault on Gaza: The Israeli bombardment continued in eastern, central and southern Gaza following the Israeli massacre of Palestinian…

Israeli tanks have been moving in to Rafah, on day 259 of the Israeli assault on the entire population of 2.4 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. At least…

A child was killed and others were injured at dawn on Wednesday, after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported…

Just two weeks after banning Al Jazeera, the largest media network in the Arab world, and the main one reporting live from Gaza, Israeli forces are now trying to shut…

On Wednesday, Day 222 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the Gaza-European Hospital in Khan Younis,…

by Dave DeCamp antiwar.com The Israeli military announced on Sunday that it was withdrawing troops from parts of southern Gaza, a step Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said was being…

On Wednesday March 27, day 174 of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the Israeli occupation forces committed eight massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 81 civilians and 93…

One of the injured sheep. Masafer Yatta [February 21, 2024] International Solidarity Movement – On Tuesday, February 20th, armed illegal Israeli settlers attacked a shepherding family and their sheep near…

By Adam Keller (shared by Gush Shalom) What made Hamas launch its devastating attack on October 7, precipitating the most terrible episode in this country’s century of conflict and bloodshed? The…

by: Mazin Qumsiyeh On the 26 of January 2024 (after 112 days of carnage), the International Court of Justice issued a decision/injunction with six provisional measures (available here) and will…

by: The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza are at risk of famine and preventable death from disease as the world’s observant retreat into…

The Israeli occupation forces abducted, at dawn and Monday morning, 33 citizens from the West Bank governorates, including 3 women and a freed prisoner, according to the Palestinian Wafa news…

by: Yousef al-Jamal It is hard to write about Refaat Alareer, the person who instilled in me and so many other young people in Gaza, the love of the written…

GENEVA (3 December 2023) – The brutal resumption of hostilities in Gaza and its terrifying impact on civilians underscore once again the need for the violence to end, and for…

On Sunday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Tammoun town, southeast of Tubas in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, shot two Palestinians with live fire, including one who suffered…

On October 14, I lost nine members of my extended family after Israeli air strikes targeted the house of my father’s cousin Azmi Aljamal, killing him, his wife, three of…

GENEVA (23 October 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called for a broad humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. He also called on the parties to the…

Peace Now: Report | July 13, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, the Israeli government promoted 12,855 housing units in the West Bank, of which 9,805 were for…

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Press Release | July 10, 2023 “Israel’s military occupation has morphed the entire occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air…

On Thursday, the Israeli occupation soldiers and colonizers continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property. These attacks included settler attacks in which armed Israeli paramilitary settlers injured…

  United Nations Office of the High Commissioner – GENEVA (13 April 2023) – The international community must take immediate action to stop Israel’s forced evictions and displacement of Palestinians…

  Earlier Monday morning, many Israeli military jeeps invaded Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and abducted one Palestinian, leading to protests, before the…

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at Palestinian workers returning to their homes, wounding one, west of Qaffin town, north of Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished an under-construction home in Azzoun Atma village, south of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said several military vehicles,…

On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians after assaulting two of them, in Hebron, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. In the southern part of the West…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians during protests against the illegal colonialist activities in Beita and Beit Dajan, near Nablus, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.…

On Friday evening, a squadron of heavily-armed Israeli soldiers invaded the Palestinian “Al Majaz” community in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and conducted a census of residents. The census was…

Dr Salman Abu Sitta for Middle East Monitor “Deny you are Palestinian or Perish.” That is the message presented by UNRWA to Palestinian refugees. It is an unbelievably shocking message,…

Ramallah (Palestine) – March 13, 2022 (Quds Press) The Journalists Support Committee said that the Israeli occupation targeted more than 260 journalists in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem last…

Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) – Jerusalem issued its monthly report for the month of February, during which it monitored the attacks and violations carried out by the occupation authorities…

Ramallah – March, 10th, 2022– The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom “MADA” issued its annual report about the media freedom in West Bank (Including occupied Jerusalem) and Gaza…

The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, released on Tuesday, a statement on the situation in the occupied West Bank. “I am deeply concerned…

Occupied Palestine, March 4, 2022 (Quds News Network) – 85 Israeli violations were recorded against Palestinian media and journalists in February 2022. In a new report, the Journalists’ Support Committee,…

Occupied Palestine, February 19, 2022 (QNN) – 46 Israeli violations were recorded against Palestinian media and journalists in January 2022. The Journalists’ Support Committee, a journalists’ rights group documenting media…

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an incitement campaign against Amnesty International after the latter released a report on Tuesday concluding that Israel’s discriminatory and exclusionary laws, policies…

In a report filed Saturday in Liberation magazine by Reem Zubaidi, the author explains that new information has come to light about the assassination of Alex Odeh, a Palestinian-American human…

Palestinians react as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes in the village of Kasra, in Nablus, West Bank on September 26, 2020. By Dr. Adnan Abu Amer for Middle East Monitor…

Palestinians stage a protest against the Israel’s blockade in Khan Younis, Gaza on 25 August 2021 By Dr. Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor At the onset, 2021 appeared to…

By Ramzy Baroud for The Palestine Chronicle   Haaretz’s investigative report – ‘Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew’ – is a must-read.…

By Motasem A Dalloul for Middle East Monitor Israel announced, last week, the completion of the highly technological security wall on its side of the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip.…

Israel indefensibly prevents dozens of Palestinian journalists from traveling as a punishment for their journalistic work or expression of their opinions, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a report released…

By Marcos Tenório Sayid for Middle East Monitor On 29 November, 1947, the newly-created United Nations (UN) approved the Palestine Partition Plan and started the Nakba process. Nakba, meaning “catastrophe”,…

The Israeli “Construction and Planning Committee” of the City Council in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, has approved the construction of what is called a “new neighborhood” in the illegal…

By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle: The revelation, a few years ago, that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been conducting mass surveillance on millions of Americans has reignited the…

Sayid Marcos Tenório for Middle East Monitor Since its founding in 1948, the “State of Israel” has promoted an intense campaign to erase Palestinian history, culture and resistance on all…

By Catherine Alder- This article was first published by Mondoweiss: The Church is a sleeping giant with enormous power to roar about injustice. If truly awake, the Christian Church will…

Israeli attorney Eitan Mack issued an open letter Saturday stating that a criminal investigation should be opened against Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz and his decision last month to label…

Hunger striking prisoners Kayed Al-Fasfous and Miqdad Al-Qawasmi (Photo: QNN) (November 7, 2021) by Zubayr Alikhan for the Palestine Chronicle   In the face of insurmountable adversity and unquestioned injustice,…

November 9, 2021 – (Palestinian News Network) – Five European countries expressed “serious concern” at Israel’s designation of six Palestinian civil society organizations as terrorist groups after a Security Council…

Bombed building in Gaza (May 2021)-Image: Times of Gaza   By Eman Abusidu for Middle East Monitor A group of Turkish lawyers have filed a request with the Public Prosecutor…

In a move that demonstrates Israel’s contempt and disregard of International Law, Israeli Ambassador at the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, ripped a report by the Human Rights Council, denouncing ongoing…

October 29, 2021 (Quds News Network) – Families of six-hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have sent a letter on Friday to US Congress members and human rights organizations, urging…

Brussels – October 26, 2021 (Palestinian News Network) – The European Union said it is following all Israeli accusations against Palestinian human rights organizations that they support terrorism according to…

GENEVA (26 October 2021) UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian civil society organizations as “terrorist organizations” is an attack on…

The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Samidoun issued the following statement upon the release of Palestinian elected legislator Khalida Jarra from Israeli detention: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Khalida Jarrar,…

The Maan News Agency has reported that a teenage boy was accidentally killed, on Saturday evening, while he and many residents were helping their neighbors who were forced by Israel…