Category: International Law

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…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine today condemned Israel’s revocation of the visa of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings. “This is…

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…

Just before the four day truce was set to end on Monday, the international negotiating team was able to secure an agreement for an additional two days. During the four…

On Tuesday at dawn, Israeli forces detonated a Palestinian-owned home in the village of Orif, southwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Late Monday night, more that twenty…

In London on Saturday, one million people came out in support of a Free Palestine. This is the largest march the UK has ever had in support of Palestinian liberation,…

Israeli forces wired and detonated, on Friday, two apartments belonging to two Palestinian detainees in Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. At dawn Friday, Israeli forces detonated the family…

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…

Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip on October 7, Palestinian detainees in occupation prisons are facing increasingly harsh conditions and inhumane treatment at the hands…

West Bank Palestinian citizens have suffered more attacks by colonizers this Monday, some with Israeli occupation forces providing protection to the aggressors and detaining civilians. Masafer Yatta  South of Hebron,…

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…

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…

A group of armed illegal colonizers attacked, on Wednesday, a European delegation that was visiting the Bedouin community of Wadi As-Seeq, east of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank.…

On Wednesday, illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted a number of Palestinian citizens in the town of Bani Na’im, east of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, and erected a tent…

Large numbers of Israeli forces invaded, on Monday night, the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, causing dozens of injuries and detonating a Palestinian home…

Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 2 Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and 11 others, including 3 children, were wounded, while dozens of others suffocated and sustained…

Illegal Israeli settlers, on Monday, set up a caravan and a water tank on Palestinian-owned lands near Jericho, erected tents near Salfit, and razed lands near Nablus on Sunday, local…

The Palestinian community of Al Baqa’a is on the brink of vanishing, and not by choice. On 10 July 2023, following the establishment of an Israeli settlement within the community…

AMMAN, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)), said today that the Israeli measures in Masafer Yatta in the south of the occupied West…

Illegal Israeli colonizers began, on Thursday, to construct a settlement outpost in the Al-Sawahrah Al-Sharqiya village, east of occupied Jerusalem, and erected a barracks and installed childrens’ play equipment in…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening, a peaceful sit-in against Israel’s policy of forced eviction, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, local sources reported. Participants demonstrated non-violently,…

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…

RAMALLAH, Friday, July 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed in a statement the Human Rights Council’s adoption of the Palestine resolution calling for updating…

Israeli forces bulldozed, on Wednesday, an agricultural road, in Zanuta village, southwest of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, a local official reported. The head of the Zanuta village…

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…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine is appalled by the decision of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to, once again, omit the Israeli occupation…

NEW YORK, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (WAFA) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added Russia’s military forces to his annual “list of shame” of parties to armed conflict who…

On Monday, the Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of 5,623 new colonial settlement units in the occupied West Bank. This moves comes in the midst of a nearly week-long…

RAMALLAH, Monday, June 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Marking the International Day Against Torture, which coincides, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said Israel continues to torture and ill-treat Palestinian detainees and…

The Israeli navy abducted, after midnight Wednesday, five Palestinian fishermen including a child and seized their fishing boat off the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip, local sources reported.…

RAMALLAH, Monday, May 22, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, the latest of which was the storming this…

By Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights – Published On May 15, 2023: On 15 May, Palestinians all over the world mourn 75 years of al-Nakba (‘catastrophe’ in Arabic). The day…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 18, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the Israeli Defense Minister’s decision to start implementing a law calling for canceling the disengagement…

Israel’s unprovoked attack on Gaza should never have started – and now it won’t end because Israel clings to its desire to violate international law indefinitely. by Kathryn Shihadah –…

  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…

GENEVA, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – World Council of Churches general secretary Jerry Pillay today condemned an attack by Jewish extremists that took place in the Church of Gethsemane,…

Israeli paramilitary settler militias invaded the Palestinian village of Huwwara on Sunday night, torching hundreds of Palestinian homes and cars, setting most of the village on fire. Israeli soldiers were…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (WAFA) – Eight-eight Palestinian, regional and international civil society organizations welcomed the announcement by the Barcelona City Council to suspend all institutional relations with apartheid…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today said it rejects what it described as Israel’s “criminal” decision to expand its colonial settlement…

TEL AVIV, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Twelve human rights organizations in Israel have deplored recent statements by European Union High Representative Josep Borrell regarding Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s…

BRUSSELS, Monday, January 23, 2023 (WAFA) – Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said Israel should pay compensation for destroying European Union-funded structures in the occupied West Bank. Speaking to reporters…

Two Palestinians were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets, and four others were beaten on Friday, and 15 vehicles were destroyed, during clashes between Palestinian villagers and invading Israeli forces and…

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…

By Alison Weir: Israeli media report that the 2023 defense spending bill just signed into law contains over $500 million for Israel (just the tip of the iceberg of billions of…

The Israeli government has decided to refuse visas and deny entry to the newly appointed personnel of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, December 1, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing today on nine petitions against the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) – 2022,…

YAFA, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Arab factions in Israel staged a protest today in the Arab city of Yafa against an Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse 1,400 indigenous…

Oct, 19 2022: By Al-Haq independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation: On 18 October 2022, Al-Haq sent an urgent letter to Third States, in light of the recent alarming escalation in…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Prisoners’ Affairs Commission today called for ICRC to intervene immediately to end the ban on family visits for prisoners in Israeli jails.…

Al-Haq: On 17 October 2022, 65 Palestinian, regional and international organisations sent a joint letter to the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk, welcoming him in his…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today welcomed the Australian government’s decision to reverse the decision taken by the previous government recognizing…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs And Expatriates issued a statement denouncing the Israeli army’s execution of a Palestinian and the deliberate targeting of journalists working for Palestine TV in…

The Israeli news channel 13 reported Wednesday that the Israeli Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, ordered the authorization of armored drones to carry out airstrikes against the Palestinian people in…

Report By the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Latest Development (outside the reporting period) On 1 September, one Palestinian man was shot and killed by…

Family members of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli forces in May, were invited to the National Press Club in Washington DC on Wednesday August 31  to…

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…

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…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Initial Update: Gaza under Attack …  In New Israeli Offensive on Gaza Strip: 10 Palestinians Killed, including 3 Civilians: Woman and Girl, and…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, July 13, 2022 (WAFA) – The Department of Human Rights and Civil Society in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) today called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations,…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed this night a statement issued earlier on Tuesday by nine European Union countries rejecting…

GENEVA, Saturday, July 9, 2022 (WAFA) – In a letter sent to President Joe Biden on July 8th, World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Ioan Sauca appealed for Biden’s attention…

Al-Haq Human Rights Organization: During the 50th session of the Human Rights Council taking place from 13 June – 8 July 2022, Al-Haq, along with Palestinian Civil Society Organizations (‘CSOs’),…

The now-released US State Department report on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh makes the absurd claim that the evidence is ‘inconclusive’ regarding who killed Shireen. But the United Nations…

Israel found Mohammed El Halabi guilty of diverting $50 million from World Vision charity, ignoring compelling facts: the total budget for 10 years was under $23 million; El Halabi’s alleged…

Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Submit File to the ICC, Urge Prosecutor to Open Cases from Attack on Palestinians in Gaza in May 2021 – The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR)…

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…

RAMALLAH, May 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Ola Awad, the Chairperson of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), said in a report today on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba that…

GENEVA, Friday, April 22, 2022 (WAFA) – The United Nations has voiced deep concern at the worsening security situation in occupied Palestine in the aftermath of Israel’s daily assaults over…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned today of the danger of the Israeli decision to impose restrictions on the entry…

The Tunisian Foreign Minister, Othman Grandi, on Monday pledged his country’s readiness to provide support to the people of Palestine in the face of the ongoing Israeli aggression, particularly in…

The Palestinian Centre For Human Rights (PCHR): Palestinian Prisoner’s Day: PCHR Demands International Community Take Immediate Action to Pressure Israel towards Improving Prisoners’ Living Conditions, Ending Its Violations, and Releasing…

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…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): IOF Escalated Excessive Use of Force and Killings of Palestinian Civilians with Official Political Support, 4 Palestinians Killed, including Child, and 12 Wounded in…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said the Thursday shootings in Tel Aviv demonstrate Israeli security and political failures and the failure of its apartheid wall.…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Foreign Minister Riyad Malki today welcomed the adoption of two resolutions on Palestine by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms statements made yesterday by the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, regarding his support for Jewish settlement crimes in…

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers injured several Palestinians near Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank after the residents tried to enter their illegally confiscated lands. Media sources…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: At around 10:30 am on Friday, 25 March 2022, medical sources at the Gaza European Hospital announced the death of Fatma Jalal al-Masri, 19 months,…

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…

Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Theodosios Atallah Hanna, denounced the international double standards and the immorality of many regimes condemning the war in Ukraine…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers closed with sand mounds an agricultural road in Qusra village, south of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Hani Odah, the Mayor…

WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 20, 2022 (WAFA) – The Massachusetts-based Harvard Law School has recognized Israel as an apartheid regime, joining an array of organizations labeling Israel as such for its…

In a report released Sunday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said that, while various parts of the world, including Palestine, are preparing to celebrate Mother’s Day (March 21), Israel is…

March 11, 2022: Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI): These trips serve to present Israel in a positive light, whitewashing its regime of military occupation,…

The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel (Adalah): 10/03/2022 – The new temporary order explicitly affirms that its purpose is to ensure a Jewish demographic majority. Adalah: “The…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 10, 2022 (WAFA) – The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, today denounced the visit of former US Vice President Mike Pence to the Ibrahimi…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday evening, three young Palestinian men in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers attacked many Palestinians…

Israeli forces detonated, on Tuesday, the homes of three Palestinian prisoners currently incarcerated for the alleged killing of Israeli settler in December of 2021, the Palestinian news & Information Agency…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, February 27, 2022 (WAFA) – Nearly 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 58 days in protest of their unfair…

On February 23, 2022, senior officials from the Global Ministries released a letter entitled “Compelled to Witness” declaring Israel an apartheid state. The letter from the North American Christian Mission…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, February 22, 2022 (WAFA) – An Israeli occupation court decided today to freeze the eviction of the Salem family from their home in the western part of the…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, on Tuesday morning, the Bedouin village of al-Arakib, in the Negev and demolished it. Media sources said the soldiers forced the Palestinians…

On Sunday, an Israeli Court approved the demolition of the family home of the imprisoned Palestinian Mohammad Youssef Jaradat. This action comes just one week after the demolition of the…

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…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Commenting on the fast-moving serious developments in the Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, Amnesty International (AI) today warned Israel that…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers uprooted Palestinian agricultural lands in Qusra and Jourish towns, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official…

500 Palestinian Administrative Detainees, held in Israeli prisons without charge or trial, have refused to attend their court sessions for 44 days in protest of Israel’s policy of Administrative Detention.…

Israeli soldiers continued Thursday, the bulldozing of Palestinian lands, the uprooting of dozens of trees, and the demotion of retaining walls near Sarta village, west of Salfit, in the central…