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Defense For Children International – Palestine- Ramallah, March 20, 2024: Two children have been shot by Israeli forces and left paralyzed in the northern occupied West Bank. 17-year-old Amr Sweidan…
Geneva – EuroMed– “Do not let my family die in vain,” said Euro-Med Monitor’s advocacy officer, Ahmed al-Naouq, in an oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 55th…
Israeli occupation forces stormed, at dawn on Monday, several parts of the West Bank – particularly in the north around Nablus and Tulkarem. Israeli troops invaded the city of Nablus…
Medical sources announced Sunday, that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 31,045 killed, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the…
In just 24 hours, two children and an elderly man starve to death amid rising malnutrition rates in Gaza – Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor Geneva – An alarming hunger, malnutrition, and…
The Israeli occupation forces abducted, at dawn on Thursday, 13 Palestinians from the city of Tubas and the town of Tammoun, south of Tubas, one Palestinian in Jenin, two brothers…
The sun’s rays are burning in Palestine. My name is Shams [Sunshine]. I am 56 years old. I work as the director of an integrated kindergarten with disabled children. I…
With the beginning of the 145th day of the war on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Israeli bombing continued in various areas in the Gaza Strip, especially Deir al-Balah, Khan…
The following report was written by a number of Palestinian human rights organizations (listed below): On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) determined the plausibility that Israel…
This article is from a contributor who asked to remain anonymous Jewish Ethnic Groups and Genealogy: Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews and Ashkenazi Jews Historically, Jewish people have been classified by…
Israeli bombing renewed Friday, on a number of towns in southern Lebanon. Israeli warplanes launched a raid on the town of Bint Jbeil, without causing any casualties. The Israeli occupation…
The Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ajith Sunghay, said that Israel is detaining Palestinians from Gaza on a broad…
In the first six weeks of the Israel-Gaza conflict, major U.S. newspapers disproportionately emphasized Israeli deaths; used emotive language to describe the killings of Israelis, but not Palestinians; and offered…
In addition to the massacres in Gaza Tuesday, Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank, clashing with Palestinian youth in Jenin and destroying Palestinian homes and businesses using…
On January 9th, day 95 of the Israeli assault on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces committed new massacres of civilians in different parts of Gaza. Having…
AMMAN, 28 December 2023 – UNICEF: “This year has been the deadliest year on record for children in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, with conflict-related violence reaching unprecedented levels. “83…
Israeli authorities have cut internet service to the Gaza Strip completely four times since the recent escalation began on October 7th. But each previous time lasted only a couple of…
On 21 December, heavy Israeli bombardments from air, land, and sea, continued across most of the Gaza Strip. Intense ground operations and fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups…
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor – Geneva – Over 71% of participants in a study conducted in the Gaza Strip by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that they suffer from extreme hunger,…
Published On Mondoweiss – Reprinted on IMEMC with Permission from Author: This is the call of all the Palestinian families, the thousands of children who were killed, including my son…
Israeli troops on Monday night bombed the family home of the prisoner Osama Bani Fadl, in the town of Aqraba, southeast of Nablus. The home was located in a three-story…
On 14 December, heavy Israeli bombardments from air, land, and sea across Gaza continued, especially in Jabalya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Between the afternoons…
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday morning New York time to discuss the catastrophic situation in Gaza. The US vetoed a resolution put forward by the United…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health on Thursday confirmed the deaths of over 350 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, and over 1900 injured. Five Israeli soldiers were confirmed killed during…
Updated: Israeli sources reported Thursday morning that two Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem opened fire at a bus stop of Israeli colonizers, killing three and wounding several others, before they…
Over the past 24 hours, rescue teams and volunteers have recovered 160 bodies that were buried under the rubble of homes and businesses bombed by Israel during its 50 straight…
Israeli eyewitnesses have exposed Israel for misleading the world about the killings of 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni, her family, and her neighbors. (This is just the latest correction to Israel’s long…
Updated: Three young men were killed by a missile fired by the Israeli occupation forces from a drone Tuesday before dawn, bringing the number of Palestinians killed in the West…
Israeli forces have killed 13 Palestinians in the cardiac ward of Al-Shifa Hospital on Sunday, with multiple bombs, and snipers shooting directly into the hospital and killing patients. Three nurses…
On Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that 9,572 have been killed and more than 26,000 wounded during the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian civilian population in…
According to the latest update from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Since 27 October at about 18:00, contact with the…
The following is an update of news from the Gaza Strip and West Bank for October 21st, 2023 (courtesy of israelpalestinenews.org) Palestinian death toll 4,466 (4,385 in Gaza (including at least 1,756 children and 1,000…
by Yousef Aljamal Reposted from Politics Today with permission from author. On Sunday, October 15, Israeli warplanes targeted a residential building in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp where dozens of my family…
An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday hit the Al-Ahli Anglican Hospital in Gaza, killing 500 civilians, including patients, staff, family members and other civilians who had taken shelter at the hospital.…
14 October 2023 – World Health Organization: As the United Nation’s agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel’s repeated orders for the evacuation of…
On Monday and Tuesday, Israeli police forced hundreds of Palestinian workers out of Israel and into the West Bank. The workers were among 21,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who…
A video released by Hamas shows an Israeli woman and two children released after they were detained by Hamas resistance fighters. The footage showed a woman holding a child’s hand, with…
On the same day that Israeli troops killed four Palestinians in the northern West Bank, a shooting attack at a gas station resulted in the deaths of four Israelis and…
A 52-year-old Israeli woman, who has been on life support in a coma for 21 years, died in a Tel Aviv hospital on Wednesday. Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, 52, was…
A 19-year-old Palestinian resident of the village of Sandala, part of the Gilboa Regional Council in northern Israel, was shot and killed Saturday by an Israeli paramilitary colonial settler from…
Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan, 45, became the first Palestinian to die in a hunger strike protesting the Israeli occupation and illegal detention of thousands of Palestinian civilians. Khader Adnan,…
The Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued on Sunday, their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property, as the Israeli occupation forces abducted 23 citizens from the West Bank,…
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…
Peace Now – Contrary to its commitment at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit, the Israeli government is publishing tenders for 940 new housing units in the settlements of Efrat and Beitar…
As countries around the world have moved to abandon the death penalty as cruel, ineffective, and costly, Israel’s elected right-wing government took a step in the opposite direction on Wednesday,…
In a small village near Salfit surrounded by five Israeli settlements, the olive farmers and villagers are once again facing an illegal seizure of more of their ancestral farmland by…
On Saturday, an illegal paramilitary colonizer fatally shot a Palestinian man in the Jabal Ar-Reesan area, near Kafr Ni’ma village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The…
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued the following statement after the formation of the fanatic, the extreme right-wing Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also…
A group of Israeli settlers tore through Palestinian areas on Monday, setting fire to vehicles, smashing the windows of family homes, and writing graffiti identifying themselves as part of a…
The Israeli police reported on Friday that its officers shot a Palestinian man, Naim Mahmoud Theeb Bedir, 23, before dawn on Friday, in Kafr Qassem in the Southern Triangle area…
Squadrons of heavily armored Israeli soldiers invaded several parts of the northern West Bank on Saturday, abducting 3 Palestinians and causing a number of Palestinian civilians to suffer from tear…
A group of Palestinian resistance fighters seized the body of an Israeli Druze man who had died in a car accident in the West Bank, believing him to be a…
Israeli soldiers invaded the Aida Refugee Camp, near Bethlehem, on Friday and shot a 14-year-old child with live ammunition. The invasion came in the midst of a flurry of protests…
By The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel – Adalah: Israeli troops have sealed off 130,000 Palestinians in five residential areas, imposing sweeping collective punishment including power cuts,…
An unknown assailant shot toward a taxi and bus near the ‘Itamar’ settlement east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank on Sunday morning. The driver of the taxi was…
In the Jordan Valley, in the eastern part of the West Bank near Jericho on Sunday, unknown assailants opened fire at an Israeli bus transporting soldiers to a military base,…
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…