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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…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, eleven Palestinians, including three who suffered moderate wounds, during protests near the perimeter fence, east of Gaza city, in the besieged coastal region. The…

By: Dr. Belal Yasin for Middle East Monitor

Tuesday, August 17, 2021 (Doctors Without Borders) – Nearly three months after an escalation in violence in the Gaza Strip left 256 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead, the situation across…

Aug 17, 2021 – (Al-Haq) In the early hours of the morning on 16 August 2021, a special undercover force of the Israeli Forces raided the northern West Bank city…

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…

July 27, 2021 – Human Rights Watch Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups carried out attacks during the May 2021 fighting in the Gaza Strip and Israel that violated the…

By Akram al-Waara for Middle East Eye Aisha Abu Awwad was up at the crack of dawn on 7 July, ready for her usual morning routine. She let her sheep…

RAMALLAH, July 14, 2021 (Anadolu Agency) – Around 100 former Israeli soldiers who were stationed in the occupied West Bank have demanded Israel’s defense and internal security ministers to put…

By Akram Al-Waara for the Middle East Eye Late on Saturday afternoon, not long before sunset, Mohammed Hassan, 21, and a group of local construction workers were wrapping up their…

Nine out of ten children in the Gaza Strip suffer some form of conflict-related trauma after the Israeli military attack ended over a month ago. In a new report, the…

By Oren Ziv for +972 Magazine

Jun 24,2021 – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor expresses its deep shock at the death of the Palestinian opposition political activist Nizar Banat after his arrest and direct attack by…

By Crispin Blunt for the Middle East Monitor 19 June 2021 The situation for Palestinians seems more dire than ever. Parliamentarians around the world have spoken up on this issue…

By Yasser Abu Jamei for Scientific American “Have you ever seen a six-month old baby with exaggerated startle response?” One of my colleagues who works on our telephone counseling service…

June 1, 2021 (Financial Times) – Close to 200 Facebook employees have signed an open letter calling for the company’s leadership to address concerns that pro-Palestine voices on the social…

June 1, 2021 (QNN) – Over 1,000 Canadian artists and cultural workers have signed a statement calling on the Canadian government to impose military and economic sanctions on the occupation…

An Israeli court on Friday extended the detention of two Palestinian journalists detained by police in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The lawyer representing the Palestinian journalists,…

May 27,2021 (Geneva) – A new report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10 – 21…

Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Statement by Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Madam President,…

By Robert Inlakesh for Quds News Network When this Friday’s ceasefire was announced between Palestinian resistance groups and ‘Israel’, there was only one side celebrating, the Palestinians, who had taken…

  In a press release, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) urgently called on the Government of Israel to enable humanitarian…

One of the most difficult things to grasp in the modern history of Palestine and the Palestinians is the meaning of the Nakba. Is the Nakba to be seen as…

The UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore issued a statement on Wednesday that read as follows: “At least 14 children in the State of Palestine and 1 child in Israel have…

Israel’s escalation of violence and widespread bombardment, including civilian objects without respecting the principle of proportionality, in the Gaza Strip is utterly appalling, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today in…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has issued a press release expressing great concern over the news that Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and started brutally attacking Muslim worshipers. Euro-Med…