Category: International Law

The UN Security Council convened on Tuesday to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, alongside broader discussions on the Middle East and the Palestinian issue. The session was chaired…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff: NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…

On Sunday, Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defense, Simon Harris, called for a review of the European Union-Israel Association Agreement, citing concerns over human rights violations.…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PRCH: “We Will Leave Them Nothing”: New PCHR Report Reveals Israeli Destruction of Gaza’s Agricultural Sector and Food Systems Aims to Erase Palestinian…

The Arab League has called for international protection for Palestinian journalists facing deadly violations and crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces. These crimes have resulted in the deaths of approximately…

Agnès Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, has urged the international community, particularly the European Union, to take decisive steps to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. She condemned…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the repeated attacks by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on community kitchens that have become the final lifeline for…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…

Public hearings continue at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for the fifth consecutive day as the ICJ deliberates on Israel’s obligations toward the United Nations and…

A humanitarian vessel affiliated with the “Freedom Flotilla” heading to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza was attacked by an Israeli drone in international waters off the coast of Malta early…

By the United Nations: The education of 800 students in occupied East Jerusalem is at risk as Israel moves to close their schools next week, a senior official with the…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 53 people were killed in Israeli attacks in the enclave in the last 24 hours, according to medical sources. The ministry…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Ongoing Israeli Bombing Kills And Injures Many In Gaza – Friday  The Israeli army killed at least 57 Palestinians in new strikes Thursday…

Israeli forces ordered a Palestinian citizen to demolish his home under threat, on Friday evening, in the town of Kafr ‘Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem. Media sources said that occupation…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli missiles killed at least 42 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including several bombings of tents that resulted in Palestinians being burned alive in…

On Tuesday, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reaffirmed that the United Nations has no intention of modifying the mandate granted to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

On Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers uprooted hundreds of olive trees and razed lands in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. Marwan Sabah,…

Illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted, on Friday, several Palestinians in the Salfit and Ramallah governorates, in the central part of the occupied West Bank, while occupation soldiers detained others. WAFA correspondent…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) bloody military offensive on the Gaza Strip, including targeting tents for displaced civilians in “humanitarian zones” designated by IOF…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the heinous crime committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) today, 13 April 2025, in the early morning…

On Wednesday, during its 221st session held in Paris, UNESCO’s Executive Board unanimously adopted two resolutions concerning Palestine: “Occupied Palestine” and “Cultural and Educational Institutions.” These resolutions are pivotal in…

An elderly Palestinian man died of a heart attack on Tuesday, while Israeli forces carried out a demolition operation in the village of Wadi Fukin, west of Bethlehem in the…

April 7, 2025 – Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) targeting of…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 86 Palestinians, the Health Ministry said on Friday. Among the dead were at least…

On Wednesday, Jewish students at Columbia University in New York having chained themselves to the university gates in protest against the detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. Meanwhile, at Harvard…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (If Americans Knew) At least 26 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, the Health…

According to local sources in Gaza, 62 Palestinians were killed and 296 injured people arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours. In addition, Israeli occupation…

On Monday, the Israeli army continued bombing and shelling various parts of the devastated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including two journalists, children, and women. Media sources…

IsraelPalestineNews: Gaza deaths pass 50,000 (Israeli war deaths about 400): War on Gaza Day 533 Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli airstrikes killed at least 130 Gazans and wounded…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff The ministry of health in Gaza said in a statement that on Wednesday 30 bodies were retrieved from under the rubble, one person…

IsraelPalestineNews Notes: To read about how Israel partisans such as Alan Dershowitz and the Zionist Organization of America worked to censor the Al Jazeera exposé film The Lobby USA: IAKN.org/TheLobbyCensored…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in central Gaza Tuesday, while a toddler died of hypothermia. Also on Tuesday, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians,…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces demolished the home of a Palestinian detainee, in the village of Rafat, north of occupied Jerusalem, and wounded a Palestinian journalist. Media sources said that a…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Palestinian medics and rescue teams recovered 23 more bodies from the rubble in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. The…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff An 18-year-old Palestinian was killed Friday in an Israeli drone strike in the central Rafah in southern Gaza Strip. Extent of systematic torture,…

Ramallah, 27-2-2025, WAFA – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the Israeli occupation’s seizure of lands belonging to the town of Tamoun, south of Tubas, under the pretext…

In response to the US President’s statements regarding the future of the Gaza Strip, worldwide condemnation has been expressed by leaders in Palestine, France, Jordan, Egypt, and others. The United…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Rescue teams Tuesday announced the removal of the remains of 19 bodies from an informal cemetery on Ath-Thawra Street, west of Gaza City.…

BRUSSELS, February 4, 2025 (WAFA) – Over 160 NGOs and trade unions Tuesday called on the European Union (EU) to ban trade and business with Israeli colonies in the occupied…

Occupation forces killed two Palestinians, including a child, and injured others, on Monday, near the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The United Nations reported that the onslaught on the Gaza Strip has been especially devastating for children, with more than 13,000 Palestinian children killed. The UN agency’s official website, last…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 339 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Friday. According to…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 21 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Friday, according to medical sources. RECOMMENDED READING: Oxfam director: Conditions in…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 70 Palestinians were killed Thursday in relentless Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry in the enclave said. Newborns…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least 50 people on Wednesday, while UNICEF said at least 74 Palestinian children have been killed during…

On Thursday, January 2, 2025, Day 454 of its brutal and protracted military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military continued its genocidal bombing campaign in various regions, killing…

“The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. And day after day, that brutal reality is reinforced. “Over the past 48 hours, the…

The Palestinian Government Media Office published an update on the most important statistics. The Israeli occupation forces (with US tax money and munitions) did this: – Dropped 88,000 tons of…

On Monday, December 30, 2024, Day 451 of its brutal and protracted military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military continued its genocidal bombing campaign in various regions, killing…

The Commission of Prisoners Affairs issued a report on Sunday that detainees in the Israeli “Manashe” prison live a catastrophic daily reality and harsh and painful conditions around the clock,…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Nearly 50 Palestinians were killed Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on a building opposite the headquarters of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern…

More than 57 years after the attack, the FOIA lawsuit revealed new details and, more importantly, it made it clear that the US government is still refusing to release hundreds…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff: At least 21 Palestinians have been killed and 61 others injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the Health…

The BBC is the most-visited news site on the internet today, and calls itself “the world’s most trusted international news provider.”  But can we count on it to tell the…

UN officials have warned of horrific conditions in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli onslaught, adding that a million Palestinians remain trapped, without access to basic aid and…

By If Americans Knew The seven countries that the U.S. continues to meddle with and antagonize have a shared history and connection: For decades Israel and the Zionists who pushed…

United Nations spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, announced that Secretary-General António Guterres will participate in the Palestinian conflict resolution conference next June, and said that a resolution must be achieves to end…

The United Nations Human Rights Office reported that Israel is accelerating actions to entrench its illegal annexation of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. These actions include seizing Palestinian…

  Monday, December 16, 2024, marks day 437 of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip by air, land, and sea. Since October 7, 2023, 45,028 citizens have been killed…

By Alison Weir, If Americans Knew On November 12th I received a sudden visit at my home from two FBI agents. As I posted in a tweet. FBI agents suddenly…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society issued a report on Friday documenting the fact that thousands of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli occupation prisons, in addition to Gaza detainees in the…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, condemn in the strongest terms as a deliberate and egregious…

On Monday, the Executive Council of UNESCO, during its eighth extraordinary session, adopted a resolution by a significant majority to support the educational activities of the United Nations Relief and…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 38 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza Saturday, according to medical sources. In northern Gaza, more than 2,300 Palestinians have…

Nothing in Gaza is simple. Today is the first installment of a local family’s narrative on the challenge of getting something to eat during a genocide. (According to the Gaza…

The UN’s humanitarian coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territories, Muhannad Hadi, has issued a warning about the potential halt of crucial aid deliveries across Gaza, which include vital food, water,…

On Saturday dawn, fanatic illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers cut down dozens of olive trees in the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.…

Updated: On Saturday, fanatic illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by soldiers, attacked homes and injured one Palestinian in Beit Furik town, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff The Gaza ministry of health reported Thursday that Israel committed five massacres of families in the last 24 hours, resulting in 71 deaths and 176…

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…

On Friday November 22nd, day 413 of Israel’s ongoing assault on the entire population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military attacks continued with no respite…

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Jeremy Laurence urged states party to the Rome Statute to adhere to and implement the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli…

On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. They are accused of committing war…

On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian near Hebron and caused many others to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Media…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff BREAKING: The International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 10 people sheltering at a United Nations-run school in the Shati refugee camp…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 37 Palestinians were killed across Gaza Friday, medical sources said. At least seven were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering…

By Jonathan Kuttab – Friends Of Sabeel North America (FOSNA):  A moral fatigue and paralysis seems to have overtaken much of the world. Individuals, organizations and institutions seem to have reached…

On Wednesday, the United Nations Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) approved a draft resolution titled “Permanent Sovereignty of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem,…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  It’s genocide and starvation as usual throughout Gaza. Another journalist killed by Israeli forces in Gaza Israeli forces have killed yet another Palestinian journalist in…

On Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns of Jabal al-Mukaber and Silwan in occupied Jerusalem. In addition, armed Israeli colonial settlers invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in…

“There’s nothing to sustain life” in northern Gaza city; Biden admin ignores illegal use of US weapons in genocide” – If Americans Knew, IsraelPalestineNews.org Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Wednesday…

At least 37 Lebanese citizens were killed and injured on Monday, due to renewed Israeli shelling on various areas in Lebanon, amid widespread destruction of buildings, facilities and infrastructure. In…

On Sunday, day 387 of the ongoing Israeli genocide directed at the 2.2 million Palestinian people living in the Gaza Strip, as well as continuing the ethnic cleansing of the…

Joint Statement: Standing with the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Face of Israeli-Led, Western-Backed, Intensified Attacks Amid Ongoing Genocide – PCHR While Israel continues its relentless genocidal campaign in…

Israel’s expansion of airstrikes to its northern neighbors, Lebanon and Syria, continued with renewed bombing of civilian areas in both countries on Wednesday. Israeli occupation aircraft launched a series of…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Tuesday was the eighteenth consecutive day of the Israeli occupation forces’ aerial, ground, and naval bombardment of northern Gaza. The siege has included blocking supplies of…

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned that Israeli attacks, imposed restrictions, and forced displacement in northern Gaza could lead to the “end of Palestinian…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Gaza’s health ministry stated, “The Israeli occupation committed two massacres of families in Gaza, resulting in 29 deaths and 93 injuries in the past 24…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): statement date, October 16, 2024: For the 12th consecutive day, the Israeli military has launched a renewed wave of genocidal violence against Palestinians in northern Gaza,…

Dozens of Lebanese citizens were killed and injured on Tuesday evening, as Israeli warplanes bombed various towns in Lebanon, causing widespread destruction to buildings, facilities and infrastructure. According to the…