Category: International Law

Footage published on Sunday by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir shows him entering a section holding Palestinian women at Damon Prison and defending the restrictions imposed on them.…

On Monday, 17 August 2026, UN News reported that the continuing siege of Palestinian families and attacks by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers in the occupied West Bank were depriving residents…

Israeli activists from Combatants for Peace joined Palestinian landowners in Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, after Israeli colonizers from the nearby Yatziv outpost invaded their land. About 70 Israeli and…

Israel has launched a multi-million-dollar campaign to influence how artificial intelligence systems respond about Gaza, reportedly using hundreds of articles and websites designed to promote Israeli narratives. The campaign includes…

According to a report by the Middle East Eye, employers throughout Israel are increasingly banning the use of the Arabic language in workplaces, on employee group chat and in email, …

The family of imprisoned prominent Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouthi confirmed that he was injured after Israeli prison guards fired a rubber‑coated metal bullet at his leg, causing bleeding and…

UN human rights experts urged Israel to immediately release Palestinian physician Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, and all other health and medical‑care workers held arbitrarily. The experts said Israel’s continued detention…

Israeli attacks and siege measures continued across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, deepening an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis and highlighting how little of the “ceasefire” framework announced in late 2025…

Two Palestinian citizens were killed on Sunday evening when the Israeli occupation forces bombed the center of Gaza City. Local sources in the Gaza Strip reported that an Israeli occupation…

Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, a well-known and respected surgeon in Gaza, is reportedly ‘near death’ due to extensive beatings and torture by Israeli prison authorities, according to his lawyer. His…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Thursday that the Israeli occupation has entrenched a systematic policy of documenting and publicly circulating scenes of torture and abuse against Palestinian detainees, turning…

The Arab League strongly condemned statements attributed to the so‑called “Peace Council” claiming that “there is no place for UNRWA in the new Gaza,” and calling for the termination of…

United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres reaffirmed the critical importance of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), warning that millions of Palestinian refugees — especially in Gaza…

Verified journalistic summary |  Based on Al Jazeera reporting |  June 26, 2026: Gaza has become the deadliest conflict zone for journalists in recorded history. At least 260 Palestinian journalists…

Marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Palestinian Center for the Defense of Prisoners reported a sharp escalation in Israel’s use of physical and psychological torture…

United Nations Human Rights Council | June 23, 2026 “Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the…

As people around the world celebrate the global football competition known as the World Cup, pro-Palestine activists have called out FIFA for its complicity in Israeli apartheid, and called on…

On Thursday, Israeli forces demolished Palestinian homes and ordered the demolition of others in the Jericho, Jordan Valley, and Salfit governorates, in the northeastern and central parts of the occupied…

Israeli occupation authorities on Sunday compelled two brothers from the At‑Tur neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem to demolish their own residential building, the Jerusalem Governorate reported. According to the governorate, the…

France is coordinating with several European countries to impose nationally aligned sanctions on Israeli colonizers involved in attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, diplomats told Reuters, as Western…

Israeli authorities have forced Palestinian Bedouin residents of Tel Arad, in the Naqab (Negev), to demolish dozens of homes and structures after rejecting all appeals for alternative solutions. The latest wave…

Ireland has imposed a travel ban on Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, after the government approved the measure and instructed immigration authorities to deny…

Testimonies obtained by the Associated Press from Israeli reservists deployed inside Gaza confirm that killings of Palestinian civilians continued routinely despite the declared ceasefire. The soldiers described the ceasefire as…

Three Palestinian families were forced, on Saturday, to demolish their homes in the village of Qalandia, and the towns of Silwan and Beit Hanina, in the Jerusalem Governorate. The Israeli…

On Friday, a Palestinian citizen was forced to demolish his own home in Qalandia village, north of occupied Jerusalem, leaving seven people without shelter. Media sources reported that the citizen…

Multiple international news outlets report that the United Nations has formally notified Israel that it will be included in the UN Secretary‑General’s annual report on conflict‑related sexual violence, a document…

Abdullah Al‑Zaghari, head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), said Tuesday that Israel continues to hold more than 9,400 Palestinian and Arab detainees in its prisons and military camps under…

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese announced Monday that she is withdrawing from the Hay Festival in protest of the event’s partnership with…

News roundup for Sunday, May 24, 2026, Day 961 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people. Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NEWS & HEADLINES FROM…

The World Health Assembly, meeting in Geneva from 18–23 May, adopted two resolutions addressing the health situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and the occupied Syrian Golan, with broad international…

Israeli naval forces seized at least 28 boats from the Gaza‑bound Freedom Flotilla on Monday, in what organizers described as a violent interception carried out in international waters against an…

The United Nations has renewed its call for an independent investigation into the torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinian detainees held by Israeli forces, citing a growing number of credible…

Vatican News – By Joseph Tulloch: Vatican News last spoke to Ihab Hassan in July 2025, as a wave of Israeli settler violence was engulfing Taybeh, the last entirely Christian village…

Marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that the global Palestinian population has reached 15.5 million, including 7.4 million living in Palestine and…

European Union foreign ministers reached a political agreement on Monday to impose a new round of sanctions targeting Israeli colonizers involved in attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,…

The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation is scheduled to discuss on Sunday a bill submitted by Deputy Knesset Speaker Limor Son Har Melech calling for the cancellation of the Oslo…

News roundup for Saturday, May 2, 2026, Day 939 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people. Compilation of news reports – IAK staff GAZA FLOTILLA – NEWS &…

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate affirmed that press freedom in Palestine is not a slogan but a daily struggle against the ongoing violations and assaults carried out by the Israeli occupation.…

Israeli naval forces intercepted and seized several Gaza‑bound humanitarian vessels after surrounding the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters near Crete, hundreds of miles from Gaza, during a late‑night operation…

Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem said that the Israeli government’s decision to honor a rabbi who publicly celebrated the destruction of Palestinian homes in Gaza reflects a deeper shift in…

Palestinian prisoner institutions reported that the number of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons has risen by 83 percent since the start of the since October 2023. According to current…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed the unanimous adoption of two resolutions on Palestine by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization…

Organizers of the Global Freedom Flotilla held a press conference in Barcelona on Sunday ahead of their departure toward the Gaza Strip, launching a new international effort to challenge the…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday that humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip remain far beyond what relief agencies can provide, due…

Aida Touma‑Suleiman, a journalist and member of the Knesset for Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) since 2015, announced Tuesday that she and several human rights organizations have…

The Israeli Knesset approved on Monday evening a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian detainees convicted of killings classified by Israel as “acts of terrorism.” The bill passed its…

After more than two years of continuous Israeli bombardment, displacement, and loss, UN agencies warn that Palestine is facing an unprecedented mental‑health emergency, with more than one million children in…

While headlines chase missiles and threats elsewhere, people in Gaza and the West Bank are being killed, buried, and pushed from their homes. The world’s attention has drifted; occupation and…

As the world is busy with the regional war Israel has ignited against Iran, the Israeli military court dropped charges against five soldiers for raping a Palestinian detainee at the…

Local sources have reported that thousands of Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel have been removed from cells and tortured this week, under the pretext of the Israeli-U.S. war with…

The European Union said on Tuesday that the current level of violence carried out by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the occupied West Bank is “unacceptable,” urging Israel to take…

On Monday, illegal Israeli colonizers wounded six Palestinians near Nablus in the northern West Bank and injured a number of others near Hebron in the southern West Bank. Before dawn,…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be…

On Friday, the Israeli Supreme Court temporarily prevented the Israeli government from closing dozens of relief organizations operating in Gaza. The groups had filed a lawsuit challenging new Israeli rules…

Human rights activists and international civil society groups are organizing a large maritime flotilla set to depart on April 12 from ports in Spain, Italy, and Tunisia, in an effort…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing,…

Israel is set to revoke the Norwegian Refugee Council’s registration within 16 days, part of a broader move that has already stripped dozens of aid groups of their licences under…

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) warned that newly announced Israeli measures in the occupied West Bank will speed up the expansion of illegal colonies and tighten Israeli control…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) warned on Monday that recent revelations by Israel’s Channel 13 about preparations and operational planning for implementing the so‑called “Detainee Execution Law” signal a clear…

The Israeli Cabinet this week approved changes to land registration in the West Bank, allowing demolition of Palestinian-owned homes and enabling expanded construction of Jewish-only colonies on stolen Palestinian land.…

On February 6, workers from over 20 Mediterranean ports, led by the USB union in Italy and groups in Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Spain, staged strikes to block vessels including…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday that three Palestinians were killed, and several others were injured as Israeli forces continued artillery bombardment, drone strikes, and demolition operations across multiple areas…

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda revealed that her TikTok account, which had 1.4 million followers built over four years, was permanently deleted this week. She expressed frustration, saying she expected a…

Mohammed Umer Khalid, 22, the last British ‘Palestine Action’ still on hunger strike, has now stopped drinking water, prompting doctors to warn he could die within days. Khalid, who has…

Spain’s Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs, and Agenda 2030 has opened a formal investigation into Israeli tourism companies suspected of promoting goods or services linked to Israeli colonies built…

The Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned that the occupied West Bank is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since 1967,…

A report from DropSite News and Forensic Architecture has revealed that a U.S.-led military coordination body is advancing plans for a tightly controlled residential zone in Gaza under full Israeli…

The United Nations Humanitarian Office OCHA issued a report Friday documenting attacks by Israeli paramilitary colonizers in the occupied West Bank that forced the displacement of about 100 Palestinian families…

Israeli sanctions on the Palestinian Authority, which governs the 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, have prevented the Authority from paying nearly…

The US House of Representatives has approved a $3.3 billion aid package for Israel as part of the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations act, fulfilling a 2016 agreement. Meanwhile, three new…

Israeli soldiers and armed paramilitary colonizers terrorized Palestinian civilians in the Jerusalem area and throughout the West Bank on Sunday, continuing a pattern of escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians by…

A child and a young man were injured on Saturday evening by Israeli occupation army gunfire in the Gaza Strip. In addition, an infant died Saturday, as a result of…

UN Secretary‑General António Guterres urged the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately return the UNRWA compound in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the agency’s health center in occupied Jerusalem, calling for…

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has urged urgent international action to stop Israeli rubble removal and land leveling in Rafah, in southern Gaza, warning that the operations are destroying evidence…

UNRWA says children in the Gaza Strip are living through conditions no child should ever have to endure, as Israeli restrictions continue to block the entry of essential humanitarian aid.…

Prisoners for Palestine warned that eight hunger strikers, including Heba Muraisi, face risk of organ failure as the protest enters its third month. The organization reported that Palestine Action activist…

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has reported a series of alarming medical cases among prisoners held in Israel’s Ofer and Megiddo facilities, warning that systemic neglect continues…

More than 700 relatives killed in Gaza as the Freedoms Committee warns of collective punishment and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, a report by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate reveals.…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing,…

Fourteen countries — including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Japan — condemned on Wednesday Israel’s recent decision to authorize new illegal Israeli colonies in the occupied West Bank, urging…

The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs reported that Palestinians held in Ofer Prison and the Negev (Naqab) Prison are enduring extremely harsh humanitarian conditions, following a recent visit…

A British doctor says she was “strangled” by police officers at a protest outside a British prison demanding an ambulance for a critically ill Palestine Action-linked prisoner on hunger strike.…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday held a high‑level plenary session to mark the 65th  anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Thursday condemned the “escalating campaign of organized terror by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers against Palestinian civilians,” including physical assaults, arson targeting…

Gaza’s humanitarian toll continues to mount despite the October “ceasefire,” with hospitals reporting new casualties and Civil Defense teams unable to reach victims still trapped under rubble. Official figures now…

Israeli forces continued their daily violations of the ceasefire that went into effect at the beginning of October in the Gaza Strip. Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister says ongoing…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

The ‘Filton 24’ have passed day 40 of their ongoing hunger strike – marking the largest, longest hunger strike of prisoners in the UK since Bobby Sands died in a…

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution reaffirming the Palestinian people’s right to self‑determination. The vote, held Monday, saw 164 countries in favor, only…

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday rejected Israel’s latest appeal seeking to halt investigations into alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The ruling confirms that judicial…

On Sunday, three Palestinian families were forcibly evicted from their homes in Baten al-Hawa, a neighborhood in Silwan just south of Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in the occupied West…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

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…

By Esra’ Ghorani – Published in Arabic By WAFA News: Since the beginning of this year, human rights organizations have documented the killing of more than fifty Palestinian children in the…

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Saturday strongly condemned the Israeli government’s decision to approve and “legalize” 19 illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank, describing the…

The Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, welcomed the overwhelming adoption by the UN General Assembly of a resolution calling on Israel,…

The foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Turkey issued a joint statement Friday underscoring the indispensable role of the United Nations…

The Israeli occupation’s political‑security cabinet has approved the establishment of 19 new illegal colonies across the occupied West Bank, in a decision that represents the largest expansion in years. The…