Category: International Law

By Professor Kamel Hawwash for Middle East Monitor: On 5 February, Palestinians saw a long tunnel open and a light flicker in the distance for justice. The International Criminal Court…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) strongly condemns Israel’s decision to refuse cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it announced opening an investigation into possible war crimes…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) biweekly Protection of Civilians Report On 19 March a 45-year-old Palestinian man who was allegedly throwing stones at Israeli…

Israeli forces, on Friday, suppressed the weekly peaceful procession in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, shooting two photojournalists with sponge-tipped rounds and causing dozens of others to suffocate on teargas,…

Weekly Summary for March 25 – 31, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities…

(MEMO) – In the latest opposition to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, favoured by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, a group of over…

A Palestinian teen has implicated Israeli police and prison guards in assaulting and torturing him during his arrest in December of 2020, and subsequent interrogation and imprisonment. The Palestinian Commission…

Summary for March 18 – 24, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

Geneva (QNN) – Kuwait appealed to the UN Human Rights Council, last week, to activate legal mechanisms to guarantee accountability of the Israeli occupation for continued violations of the Palestinians’…

Since the initial observation of the United Nations World Water Day on 22 March 1993, Israel, as the Occupying Power in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), has continued to consolidate…

GENEVA, Monday, March 22, 2021 (WAFA) – The United Nations should take action against Israel’s discriminatory policies and compel it to respect relevant international laws on equality and non-discrimination, the…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: March 21, 2021: March 21 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It was first proclaimed in 1966 by the United Nations…

A Palestinian man had to demolish his own home, Sunday, in the al-‘Isawiya town, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, to avoid the excessively high fines and fees. Media sources…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, Palestinian protestors at the weekly march in the northern occupied West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, causing dozens to suffer the effects of teargas. Morad Eshteiwi,…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) Protection of Civilians Report for March 2 – 15, 2021 On 7 March, an…

Summary for March 11 – 17, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

By Maher Al-Tabba for Middle East Monitor The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to suffer from the Israeli-led blockade imposed since 2007. Add to this Israel’s military offensives and…

A new report issued last week by B’Tselem and Kerem Navot, “This Is Ours – And This, Too: Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank”, exposes the mechanisms Israel uses…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) – West Bank Demolitions and Displacement Report for February 2021   Highlights 82 structures, including 65…

On 13 March 2021, Al-Haq sent letters to High Representative of the European Commission and European Union (EU) member states, following concerning statements made by various EU member states, rejecting…

Two Palestinian families from occupied Jerusalem were forced to demolish their own buildings, late on Sunday at night, to avoid paying excessively high fines and fees after the City Council…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) condemns the Israeli decisions to evacuate and demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, paving the way for implementing Israeli plans for a massive…

Summary for March 04 – 10, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

The Israeli occupation authorities delivered demolition notices, Tuesday, to ten Palestinian-owned homes and structures in the town of Jib, northwest of occupied Jerusalem. Local activist, Samer Abu Hamoud told Palestinian…

(WAFA) – John Brady, Sinn Fein spokesperson on Foreign Affairs welcomed the decision by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence (JCFAD) to write to Irish Foreign Minister Simon…

The Israeli occupation forces shot and injured, on Monday, two Palestinian children in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) Protection of Civilians Report for February 16 – March 1, 2021 Seventeen Palestinians and…

Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Addameer Association for Supporting Prisoners and Human Rights (the Coalition) acknowledge and welcome the 3…

Responding to the news that Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has opened a formal investigation into the “Situation in Palestine”, Matthew Cannock, Head of Amnesty International’s…

Summary for February 25 – March 03, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities…

The Israeli occupation state, Wednesday, announced their intent to expropriate hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land in Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. According to…

Geneva – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro Med Monitor) welcomed today a letter signed by some 450 European parliamentarians addressed to European Union (EU) foreign ministers calling for pressuring…

(WAFA) – The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, urged Israel to cease the demolition and seizure of Palestinian property throughout the occupied West…

Illegal Israeli colonists, on Friday, uprooted Palestinian-owned olive saplings, in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank. The deputy head of Kisan village council, Ahmad Ghazal,…

With every settlement and military operation, ‘Israel’ has been paving its own road to The Hague, Avner Gvaryahu, the executive director of Breaking the Silence wrote. Avner Gvaryahu was born…

Summary for February 18–24, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized…

Israeli occupation bulldozers razed a large area of Palestinian-owned land in Abu Dis, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, the Palestine News Network reported. Bassam Bahr, the head of the Committee for…

By Asa Winstanley for the Middle East Monitor It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could…

The following is a statement by Lynn Hastings, the Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations Office for the Coordination Humanitarian Affairs for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). Yesterday, I visited…

I was video chatting with my family back in Beit Sahour, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, chatting with my mother and family members back there, despite the 10-hour…