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In an unprecedented ruling against free speech and the right to boycott, a judge in the United States ruled this week that the Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream company can…

GENEVA (24 August 2022) – UN experts* today condemned Israel’s escalating attacks against Palestinian civil society in the occupied West Bank, after the Israeli army broke into the offices of…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported on Wednesday that special forces of the Israeli Prisons Administration stormed several sections of the Negev prison in southern Israel. The raid targeted Palestinian prisoners…

As a continuation of its targeting of select Palestinian NGOs, Israeli forces raided, ransacked, confiscated materials, and welded shut their office doors. The raid was part of a series of…

On Sunday evening, Israeli forces invaded the home of the governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Ghaith, in the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This is the second time…

Report By Peace Now: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This report shows that despite its explicit commitment to a status quo with all matters related to the occupation, a year after the government is…

By Kathryn Shihadah – Palestine Home: A young Palestinian man was the target of an apparent (failed) assassination attempt by Israeli soldiers last week. His name is Mohammad Fadel Tamimi,…

Human Rights Watch: Undue Interference with Rights to Free Expression and Assembly. This week, Palestinians and their supporters across the globe marked Nakba Day, commemorating the more than 700,000 Palestinians who…

April 17th marks Palestinian Prisoner’s Day – and a coalition of Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups issued a report about the current status of Palestinian political prisoners. Israeli authorities currently have…

As Western Christian churches commemorate Easter weekend, and Eastern Orthodox churches prepare for Holy Week, the Palestinian Christians remain under Israeli military occupation — and church leaders around the world…

The State of Palestine presents a blistering account of Israeli abuses against Palestinian children during the first three months of 2022 – adding to the growing library of reports on…

Israeli naval troops opened fire at Palestinian fishermen who were fishing in small boats near the coast of southern Gaza on Friday. According to local sources, Israeli occupation navy boats…

GENEVA (25 March 2022) – A UN expert called today on the international community to accept and adopt the findings in his current report, echoing recent findings by Palestinian, Israeli, and international…

Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Araqib for the 199th time. The residents of the village have been forced to rebuild their lives from the rubble…

The Israeli municipal government in Jerusalem issued an order forcing the Obaid family to demolish their family home in al-‘Isawiya — an area that is currently under intense Israeli colonization…

About 1.5 million of the Gaza Strip’s total population of 2.3 million have become impoverished due to the Israeli blockade and restrictions imposed on the Strip since 2006. Euro-Mediterranean Human…

Report By Amnesty International: Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details…

By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle: Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is leading his country’s anti-Palestinian propaganda, this time engaging in pre-emptive hasbara in anticipation of a Palestinian…

January 28, 2022: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin:  A large crowd gathered at the iconic Free Derry Corner in the Bogside area of Derry City, Ireland, as the Derry…

By Chris MacManus MEP: Sinn Féin MEP Chris MacManus has demanded the European Commission releases documents linked to the suspension of EU funds to Palestinian NGOs. The funds were suspended because…

By UNRWA: (January 13, 2022) Amal Muamar Nakhleh is a 17-year-old Palestine refugee from the Jalazone camp. Amal was placed in administrative detention by the Israeli Security Forces (ISF) for…

The Israel Committee Against House Demolitions – UK: Shocking pictures and film footage of JCB bulldozers demolishing a Palestinian property were projected in English and Arabic on to a wall…

By Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle: The Belgian government’s decision on November 25 to label products made in illegal Israeli Jewish settlements is welcome, although it will ultimately prove ineffectual.…

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle:  The international uproar in response to Israel’s approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West…

GENEVA (3 November 2021) – United Nations Office of the High Commissioner GENEVA (3 November 2021) – UN human rights experts* today sharply condemned the recent announcement by the Israeli…

Combatants For Peace: This week, the Combatants For Peace Movement (CFP), issued a call for action through its social media platforms calling people to support an open letter to United…

By Sayid Marcos Tenório for Middle East Monitor: Mahmoud Darwish is the most internationally-renowned Palestinian poet and writer, although still little-known in Brazil. He is the author of 30 poetry books…

On Thursday night, Israeli forces invaded the al-Yamun village west of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank. The troops shot a young man in the shoulder near…

On Thursday, Israeli forces stopped the construction of a home in Nahalin town, west of Bethlehem, and seized equipment including a concrete pump and mixer. The troops were accompanied by…

Statment By Al-Haq independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation): Al-Haq strongly rejects the designation made by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, on 19 October 2021, of Al-Haq and five fellow…

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network: Since the beginning of the year, Israeli war criminal and “Minister of Defense” Benny Gantz has repeatedly designated Palestinian and international organizations working to defend…

Statement By Amnesty International: The Israeli Defense Ministry on 19 October 2021 issued a military order declaring six Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to be “terrorist…

Report By Human Rights Watch (HRW)  (Washington, DC) – Facebook has wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians and their supporters, including about human rights abuses carried out in Israel and…

Report by 7amleh.org: October, 5, 2021, Ramallah – Tens of human rights organizations have joined together to tell PayPal to stop denying its services on discriminatory grounds to Palestinians in…

On 1 October 2021, Al-Haq and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer) sent letters to State Representatives calling on them to intervene to prevent Ms. Odeh’s unlawful detention…

As Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, gathered Friday afternoon for a non-violent demonstration against the Israeli theft of their lands, Israeli forces…

On Sunday evening, Israeli troops stationed near the entrance of al-Aroub Refugee Camp, north of Hebron, assaulted and then abducted a young Palestinian man. Soon after this incident, right-wing Israeli…

A group of right-wing fanatic Israeli paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, stormed a Palestinian village outside of Hebron, terrorizing local Palestinian residents, severely beating a Palestinian man, firing guns…

On Saturday, Israeli forces detained three Palestinians, and fired tear gas at a crowd that was protesting the recent Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem. At least three Palestinians…

In the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, Israeli paramilitary settlers on Wednesday night attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles, according to local sources. A member…

Israeli forces shot and critically wounded a 16-year old Palestinian boy on Wednesday in Beita village, and he died of his wounds on Thursday morning. The child, identified as Ahmad…

The Israeli government on Tuesday demolished the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib, Tuesday, for the 188th consecutive time. Israeli police forces and the “Yoav” unit of the so-called “Negev Development Authority”…

Following several weeks of Israeli immigrants leaving their adopted country of Israel to return home due to the increase in violence from May 10 – 20th, Israeli government officials issued…

Israeli forces on Monday uprooted dozens of olive trees from a plot of land in the village of Jayyous, east of the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilia. The military…

May 27, 2021 – (Al-Haq) On 21 May 2021, a ceasefire announced the ending of Israel’s 11-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of at…

The IMEMC has been trying to keep track of all the Palestinians and Israelis killed from May 10th to 20th during the massive bombardment of Gaza. Here is the list…

The Israeli military invaded the Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem on Friday, in direct violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids military forces from invading hospitals…

Late Thursday night, the fourth day of the current Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military says it has begun ground invasion of Gaza. The announcement came in…

Crimes Against Humanity Should Trigger Action to End Repression of Palestinians: Report by Human Rights Watch: (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights…

Security camera footage shows that this Palestinian boy was shot in the eye as he stood in a sheltered place with his cousin, doing nothing. Rights groups have long condemned…

On Sunday evening, a squadron of Israeli troops invaded the Palestinian town of al-Khader, in the southern part of the West Bank, and demolished an agricultural building belonging to a…

IsraelPalestineNews.org: The Washington Post claimed, in spite of clear evidence to the contrary, that Israel had never destroyed Palestinian Covid clinics. In fact Israel is guilty of this and a…

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), and the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) Issue a joint Press Release on the Occasion of World Water Day; on March 22nd, 2021 The…

Israeli forces detained a firetruck in East Jerusalem Monday, preventing it from reaching the burning home of 34-year old Ahmad Dola. As a result, Dola died in the blaze, and…

Israeli forces attacked the weekly non-violent protest marches and rallies in several parts of the West Bank Friday, injuring three Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets and causing dozens to suffer…

A group of armed paramilitary settlers from the “Carmiel” Israeli colony in the southern part of the occupied West Bank attacked a Palestinian family on Friday. The attack followed the…

Defense For Child International – Palestine: Ramallah, January 28, 2021—Israeli authorities issued a six-month administrative detention order on Monday against a 17-year-old Palestinian boy with a rare autoimmune disease, extending…

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor Report: The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called for putting an end to the 15-year-old tragedy of the Gaza blockade; stressing that the current arrangements for holding…

Israeli forces stationed at the northern border of the Gaza Strip opened fire at a Palestinian farmer working on his land in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, on Sunday afternoon,…

On Sunday afternoon, a Palestinian official identified as Sheikh Muhammad Abu Najem, was shot and killed in the city of Jaffa, in the western part of Israel. The Hamas party…

In response to Israel’s announcement that they have approved an additional 780 colonial settlement units, a number of countries have issued statements condemning the move. They include the UK, Egypt,…

Ramallah: Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” issued its monthly observatory for the month of December 2020 regarding the Israeli demolition, confiscation, eviction and seizure operations against Palestinian establishments, whether religious, tourist,…

Local sources have reported that a Palestinian man died under suspicious circumstances in the Israeli settlement of Gilo, near Bethlehem, on Wednesday. The Quds News Network reported that the man,…

Several representatives of the European Union (EU) in Israel and Palestine visited the site of a proposed Israeli settlement on Monday, issuing a strong condemnation of the Israeli plan to…

This is a statement by the Israeli Peace Now Movement The Tender in Givat Hamatos Opened with 1,257 units Press Release – Peace Now Movement This morning (15/11/20), the [Israeli]…

On Sunday, an Israeli court issued a sentence of 10 months in prison to Hamdallah Mardawi, who was abducted in September at the King Hussein border crossing between Jordan and…

The Israeli government approved on Sunday the construction of a new colonial settlement to be built atop the ruins of a Palestinian village whose residents were displaced fifty years ago…

By Neve Gordon for Middle East Eye Facing imminent death, 49-year-old Maher al-Akhras has been refusing to eat in prison for more than three months. The Palestinian father of six…

UPDATE (6 OCTOBER 2020): Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent an urgent letter late yesterday, 5 October 2020, to the commander of the Israeli military’s…

Dr. Belal Yasin – Middle East Monitor: In the early 1990s, Wael Al-Tahan submitted an application to the Israeli authorities for a permit to build a house on his land…

The Al-Haq Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization has written to An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the leader of the Government of Ireland, urging support for the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied…

On Sunday, August 30th, Israeli forces invaded the Damascus Gate area leading into the Old City of Jerusalem, and abducted four Palestinians, three of whom were women, according to local…

On Sunday, a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem was forced by Israeli authorities to demolish his home — despite the fact that the demolition will render the man, his wife and…

Israeli forces invaded the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of al-Isawiya and al-Wad on Saturday before dawn, breaking into the homes of three Palestinians and abducting them. The three abducted men have…

By: Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): For more than eleven consecutive nights, the Israeli military forces have bombed Gaza, terrorizing its two million Palestinian inhabitants. Occupied Palestine, 23 August 2020 – In…

By The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement strongly slammed in a statement the recent normalization agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel,…

According to local sources, a group of right-wing Israeli colonial settlers, accompanied by an Israeli military escort, invaded Palestinian land in the northern West Bank and uprooted dozens of olive…

On Saturday night, Israeli warplanes launched a number of missiles at Palestinian civilian areas in the northern, southern and eastern West Bank, according to local sources. The areas hit include…

By: Marwan E. Toubassi, Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Greece: Press statement issued by the Embassy of the State of Palestine to Greece Regarding the Tripartite Joint Declaration between…

July 30, 2020:  Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): Tens of Israeli occupation soldiers stormed the home of Mahmoud Nawajaa, the General Coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), near…

By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle: As illegal settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron), the people of the Palestinian city continue to mount…

By Ramzy Baroud – Palestine Chronicle:  When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation…

17/06/2020: ADALAH – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights In Israel: UN experts: Annexation would be a crystallization of already unjust reality: two peoples living in same space, ruled…

A new joint report by a coalition of Palestinian NGOs has found that Israeli forces abducted 340 Palestinians in the month of May 2020 and brought them to military bases…

Two prisoners, both of whom were arrested when they were 15 years old, have had extensive sentences handed down by the Israeli Ofer Military Court. The now-19-year-old prisoner, Omar Samir…

On Wednesday morning before dawn, Israeli troops invaded several parts of the northern West Bank near Nablus and destroyed a Palestinian home and a tourism center. This follows the destruction…

Israeli forces invaded the West Bank, early Sunday morning, before dawn, and attacked Palestinians in their homes, including a child. The troops then abducted the Palestinians and took them to…

Israeli forces continue to hold the residents of Ya’Bad village, near Jenin in the northern West Bank, under a tight military siege preventing anyone from entering or leaving, while at…

By: Marwan E. Toubassi, Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Greece: Some memories permeate our very existence and penetrate our collective consciousness for generations. Survivors of Al-Nakba among them…

March 30th marks Palestinian Land Day, commemorating  the day on March 30, 1976, when Palestinians inside Israel protested against the Israeli government announcement of the seizure of 21,000 dunams  (5,189…

Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) has called on the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to provide Gaza with the equipment…

By The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel – Aadalah: Lawyers: IBA move, pushed through in a hasty and underhanded manner, is strictly political in motive and is…

By Samidoun – Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network: The German state has once again escalated its harassment and repression directed against Palestinian speech and advocacy. In the latest order issued by…

Bethlehem, 9 March 2020 – By Keep Hope Alive – Olive Tree Campaign: More than 20 armed Israeli soldiers invaded the land of Mohammad Mustafa Al-Hroub and uprooted more than…

Early Friday morning, Israeli forces raided student dormitories at Birzeit University in Ramallah, in the central West Bank, and abducted five students. According to local sources, Israeli troops kidnapped five…

Friday, 6 March, 2020, Museum of Free Derry, Derry, Ireland – for IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin A free screening of the highly acclaimed Palestinian documentary film Naila and the…

In the al-Isawiyya area of Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israeli forces fired a rubber-coated steel bullet into a schoolyard, injuring 15-year-old student Mohammad Awni Atiya in his hand. The incident took…

The Israeli army imposed a comprehensive closure on the West Bank and Gaza due to the Israeli elections on Monday. The closure was imposed from midnight on Sunday until early…

5 years after a brutal act of terror by a gang of Israelis, who set a family’s home on fire, causing the deaths of the mother, father and baby, and…

The Israeli Supreme Court today gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for the military to demolish the family homes of five Palestinian detainees allegedly involved in the killing of a settler…