Month: August 2021

The Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, issued a statement denouncing the latest Israeli crime, leading to the death of four Palestinians in Jenin, in northern West Bank, on…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Monday, an agricultural room on Palestinian land in Deir Ballout town, west of Salfit, in central West Bank. Yahia Mustafa, the Mayor of Deir Ballout, said the…

Israeli soldiers uprooted, Monday, dozens of Palestinian olive trees in Bardala village, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank. Zayed Sawafta, the head of Bardala Village Council, said…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, a young Palestinian man from his home in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and installed many roadblocks.…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, three Palestinians, including a father and his son, in Qusra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and at the…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Monday at dawn, three Palestinians and abducted one, in Tammoun town, south of Tubas city, in northeastern West Bank. Local sources said several Israeli…

Israeli soldiers killed, on Monday at dawn, four Palestinians, and seriously wounded at least one, in Jenin, in northern West Bank, after the army and its undercover forces, invaded Jenin…

Israeli colonizers, illegally squatting on stolen Palestinian lands, installed an outpost and expanded another, Sunday, in Khirbat Zannouta Palestinian village, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Ten Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons are ongoing with the hunger strike in protest of their arbitrary Administrative Detention without charges or…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, Khirbat Yizra village, east of Tubas in northeastern West Bank, and dismantled solar panels, used by the Palestinians to provide them with electricity. Mokhles Masa’eed, the…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Saturday, that the Israeli occupation authorities issued another Administrative Detention order against a hunger-striking political prisoner. The PPP stated that the detainee, Ahmad…

A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers attacked, on Saturday evening, Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, wounding a woman, and causing…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday at dawn, many Palestinians in the town of Ya’bad, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded…

Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, 39 Palestinians In the Sbeih Mountain area, in Beita town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, during a procession against the illegal colonialist…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, causing dozens of injuries. Morad Eshteiwi, the media coordinator of…

Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, five Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets in Beit Danaj village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, during a procession against the ongoing illegal…

Hundreds of Palestinian muslims congregated, on Friday, for the afternoon prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in southern occupied West Bank, when soldiers stormed the mosque and terrorized worshipers.…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the illegal Israeli colonialist activities in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank,…

An Israeli colonizer attacked, Friday, a Palestinian bus driver in occupied Jerusalem, causing several injuries. The driver, Mohammad al-Qaq, 47, suffered various cuts and bruises to the head, including his…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Friday afternoon, at Palestinian fishing boats near the shore of Gaza city, in the besieged and impoverished coastal region. Media sources said one boat sustained…

On Friday, a group of illegal Israeli colonizers, accompanied by many soldiers, invaded archeological sites on Palestinian lands in Beit Ummar town, north of the northern West Bank city of…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, on Thursday evening, that two detainees have suspended the hunger strike, after reaching agreements with the Israeli Prison Authority regarding ending their arbitrary…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, a Palestinian child in Doha town, west of Bethlehem, south of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West bank. Media sources said several…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday evening, four young Palestinian men from the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Media sources said the soldiers installed…

GENEVA, Thursday, August 12, 2021 (WAFA) – Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressed concern yesterday over arrests, harassment, criminalization, and threats targeting…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) Summary for August 5 – 11, 2021 Israeli forces continued…

Israeli soldiers forced Thursday, five Palestinians to demolish their homes in Beit Hanina, north of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, allegedly for being built without a…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, eleven Palestinians, including siblings, in addition to a father and his son, in Tubas, Jenin, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Hebron, in the occupied West…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, three Palestinians from their homes in Nablus, in northern West Bank. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded Beita town, south of Nablus,…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian man from Hebron, in southern West Bank, only hours following his release from prison after he spent sixteen years behind bars,…

A Palestinian young man, on Wednesday, was pronounced dead from serious wounds he suffered a week ago after the army shot and seriously injured him in the northern West Bank…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Wednesday, Muslim Palestinian worshipers and detained three at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Ma’an News Agency reported. After performing the…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday, three young Palestinian men, and assaulted one of them, in Hizma and Silwan towns, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Local sources said the soldiers…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a Palestinian home, a well, and agricultural structures east of Yatta town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Fuad al-Amour,…

The Israeli army and the navy fired, Wednesday, many live rounds at Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the Gaza Strip. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed in military towers and…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a chicken farm in Ein Jweiza neighborhood, in the al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Khader al-A’raj, the head…

BETHLEHEM, Wednesday, August 11, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today notified Palestinian landowners of their intention to evict them from their land in Teqoua’ town, east of the…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, on Tuesday evening, that a hunger-striking detainee has suspended the hunger strike. The PPS stated that the detainee, Ahmad Nazzal, from the northern…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, a young man, while illegal colonizers assaulted a Palestinian family, in the Hebron district, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.…

Israeli soldiers demolished, on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian carwash facility in the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Eyewitnesses said several Israeli military jeeps,…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, three Palestinians in addition to invading and ransacking homes and shops in Nablus, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the town of Jaba’, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, before abducting two young men, and wounding dozens…

The Israeli occupation army, on Tuesday, accompanied by heavy machinery, razed land near the al-Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Sheikh Hifthi Abu Isneineh, the…

Israeli forces, on Monday at night, shot and detained a Palestinian woman near Huwara town, south of Nablus in northern occupied West Bank. Local security sources told Palestinian News &…

 By WAFA News: Israeli occupation forces today detained at least nine Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, including an activist from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, according…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, the town of Battir, west of Bethlehem city, south of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and bulldozed a paved road. Omar al-Qaisi,…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Tuesday, a two-story Palestinian home in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) stated that the…

On Monday evening, dozens of Israeli colonizers, accompanied by soldiers, invaded the archeological area in Sebastia Palestinian town, north of Nablus, in northern West Bank. Mohammad Azem, the mayor of…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, twelve Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, including the occupied capital, Jerusalem. The soldiers invaded the al-Am’ari…

Israeli soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded Palestinian farmlands, Monday, east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, and bulldozed them. Local sources said six tanks and armored bulldozers, stationed…

Several Israeli army vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the town of Ya’bad, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, earlier on Monday morning, and demolished three commercial structures and…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinians from the al-Am’ari refugee camp, in Ramallah, in central West Bank. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the refugee camp…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, six young Palestinian men in Beita town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Media sources said dozens of soldiers invaded…

Israeli soldiers and colonialist settlers attacked, Sunday, many Palestinians, causing several injuries, while the army also abducted two Palestinians, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. In Nablus, in…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Sunday morning, many Palestinian detainees in the Negev Desert Detention camp, causing injuries. The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that the soldiers invaded Section 2 of…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 08, 2021 (WAFA) – A total of 13 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a…

On Saturday at night, several Israeli colonizers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, assaulted a man and destroyed his car, while he was on his farmland, south of the northern West…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, a senior political leader of the Fateh movement in Hebron, in southern West Bank, and a young man in Bethlehem, south of occupied…

Israeli soldiers shot, on Saturday at night, one Palestinian with live fire, and nine with rubber-coated steel bullets, in addition to causing to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation in…

Israeli colonizers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, attacked many Palestinian cars, on Saturday at night, near Taiseer Israeli military roadblock, east of Tubas in northeastern West Bank. Mo’taz Bisharat, a…

Israeli forces shot, and killed an unarmed Palestinian man, and injured several more in the northern West Bank village of Beita, south of Nablus, during a demonstration in rejection of…

Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Morad Eshteiwi, the media spokesperson of…

A group of fanatic Israeli colonizers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, cut and uprooted dozens of Palestinian olive trees, Friday, in the al-Jab’a village, southwest of Bethlehem, south of occupied…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Friday, two residential tents, one shed, and a barn in the Ka’abna Bedouin community in the al-Mo’arrajat area east of Ramallah, in central West Bank, in addition…

Israeli forces, on Thursday, demolished the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib for the 191st time, Quds News Network reported. The army destroyed the tents and makeshift tin shelters built by residents,…

Built in the 16th century, at the western entrance to Jerusalem lies Lifta, the well-preserved remains of a Palestinian village. Archeological and architectural remains attest to a continuity of thousands…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday evening, a young Palestinian man, who is also a former political prisoner, during his engagement party in the al-Isawiya town, in occupied Jerusalem. Local sources…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, thirteen Palestinians, including a father and his two sons, and injured at least two, when the army invaded several communities in the occupied…

Israeli soldiers injured, Thursday, one Palestinian and caused dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation, in Sa’ir town, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, during…

Israeli soldiers demolished Thursday, two residential tents and one residential shed, in addition to two barns, in the Ka’abna Bedouin village, near the al-Mo’arrajat area, east of the central West…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Thursday, five agricultural rooms in Wadi Rahhal village, south of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Hasan Breijiyya, the head of the Bethlehem office…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has confinement, on Wednesday evening, that the hunger-striking detainee Guevara Nammoura has suspended his hunger striking after an agreement was reaching limiting his Administrative Detention orders.…

On Thursday, Dozens of illegal Israeli colonizers, accompanied by soldiers, invaded the archeological area in Sebastia Palestinian town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Mohammad Azem, the…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Thursday, two Palestinian under-construction homes in Sa’ir town, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Several Israeli army jeeps and a bulldozer invaded the Wad…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, August 5, 2021 (WAFA) – Israel destroyed, raided, and ransacked 11 Palestinian-owned printing presses, media offices, and bookstores in the first seven months of this year, today said…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Wednesday, that the Israeli authorities are still refusing to allow its lawyers to visit with seventeen hunger-striking political prisoners. The Committee stated that sixteen…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Thra’ Awwad area, north of al-Hamra area, in the northern part of the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, and demolished three structures. Media sources…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least ten Palestinians, including one woman and a child, in addition to summoning many others for interrogation, in several parts of the…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, eight commercial structures in the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Local sources said the soldiers surrounded and invaded the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Sebastia Palestinian town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, before demolishing an agricultural room and bulldozing farmlands surrounding it. Mohammad Azem, the mayor…

TUBAS, Wednesday, August 04, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today conducted large-scale demolitions of Palestinian property in Khirbet Ibzeiq village, northeast of Tubas, according to an official. Mu‘taz Besharat, a Palestinian official…

Israeli forces, on Tuesday, shot six Palestinians in Jenin, assaulted four in Beita, south of Nablus, in northern occupied West Bank, medical and security sources reported. In Jenin, Israeli soldiers…

The Israeli army handed, on Tuesday evening, the body of a slain young Palestinian man to his family, a month after killing him and holding his corpse. Ahmad Jibril, the…

Israeli soldiers seriously injured, Monday, a young Palestinian man near the Annexation Wall, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Media sources said the soldiers opened fire at…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday evening, three Palestinians and assaulted several others in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Local sources said the…

Israeli soldiers shot, on Monday at night, one Palestinian, and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation, in addition to abducting two, in the al-Yamoun town, west…

RAMALLAH, Monday, August 2, 2021 (WAFA) – As four Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem today await a critical ruling from the Israeli High Court regarding…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a political prisoner from Bethlehem, started a hunger strike three days ago, protesting being held under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without…

A paramilitary Israeli colonizer opened fire, Monday, at a young Palestinian man and injured him, during a nonviolent activity in solidarity with the families of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in the…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Monday morning, Palestinian farmlands in Khan Younis and al-Maghazi, in the besieged Gaza Strip. Media sources said four armored military vehicles, including a bulldozer,…

Israeli soldiers and the navy attacked, Monday, many Palestinian farmers, and fishermen, in the Gaza strip, causing damage, and forcing the Palestinians to leave. Media sources said Israeli navy ships…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, at least thirteen Palestinians from their homes, after the army invaded many communities and ransacked homes in several parts of the occupied West…

The Israeli army claimed, on Monday morning, that the soldiers abducted four Palestinians overnight after they allegedly tried to breach the perimeter fence in the southern part of the besieged…

Israeli soldiers conducted, on Sunday evening, military drills in Khalayel al-Louz area, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Rateb Obeyyat, the head of Hindaza Local…