Category: International Law

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,…

The Irish Parliament has unanimously passed a motion condemning Israel’s colonial settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem as ‘de facto annexation’. The Palestinian National Authority has hailed this as…

May 24, 2021 – (Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) On 22 April 2021, representatives of 28 Palestinian families constituting approximately 500 Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied…

RAMALLAH, Monday, May 24, 2021 (WAFA) – Around 155 administrative detention orders were issued against Palestinians, including 84 new orders, since the start of May; the highest percentage in years…

Israeli police shot and fatally wounded, on Monday, a Palestinian teen after an alleged stabbing attempt in occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Witnesses stated that the police…

Palestinian medical sources have confirmed, Monday, that two young men died from serios wounds they suffered when the Israeli army bombarded Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report Summary of Israeli Human Rights Violations from May 11 – 19, 2021 The Israeli army continued to commit crimes and multi-layered…

  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…

Israeli forces have displayed a shocking disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians by carrying out a number of airstrikes targeting residential buildings in some cases killing entire families –…

A group of professors, Departments, research groups, unions, student organizations, individual employees, researchers, and lecturers of Ghent University, issued a statement condemning what they called the misleading coverage in the…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock: Statement on the situation in…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA): Escalation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Israel | Flash Update #8…

17-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Kiwan, from the Palestinian town of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, was pronounced dead on Wednesday as a result of gunshot wounds he sustained last week by…

The Egyptian government on Tuesday submitted to Israeli government officials and to representatives of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza a proposal for a ceasefire beginning 6 am Thursday morning. Hamas…

 The Gaza headquarters of The Qatari Red Crescent Society, a medical and humanitarian aid organization was targeted today in an Israeli air strike, according to the Doha News Agency. The director…

The week-long Israeli assault on Gaza, in which over 200 Palestinians have been killed, including 57 children, the Israeli airforce and artillery strikes have also targeted infrastructure, including two high-rise…

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…

Early Saturday morning, the Israeli airforce dropped a missile on a highrise building in Gaza City housing the offices of numerous international media outlets, demolishing it completely and reducing it…

The Israeli military invaded the Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem on Friday, in direct violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids military forces from invading hospitals…

As Israeli forces continued for the fifth straight day their offensive on the Gaza Strip and continued the policy of collective punishment and retaliatory bombing, the Palestinian Centre for Human…

The Israeli army shot and injured a Palestinian journalist and a civilian, on Thursday, during intense confrontations with Palestinian youths resisting the army invasion in Hebron, in the southern occupied…

The International Federation of Journalists issued a statement Thursday, following the Israeli bombing of the al-Jawhara tower building in Gaza, stating: Media offices have been bombed and Palestinian and international…

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…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued the following statement about the recent escalation in the Palestinian Territories and Israel:: Tension in East Jerusalem has…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Monday at night, 32 young Palestinian men in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded the center of Hebron…

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…

By Jeremy Salt for Palestine Chronicle On May 10 this year the state of Israel … but wait a moment … before we go any further … in talking about…

  The United Nations (UN) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, on Thursday, released the following statement regarding the surge in tensions and violence in the…

  Summary for April 29 – May 5, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

The Permanent Observer to the United Nations for Palestine, Riyad Mansour, sent a letter on Wednesday to the UN Secretary-General, President of the UN Security Council, and the President of…

Israel has demolished 31 homes and 27 Palestinian facilities after plans to construct 4,982 new settlement units were approved, since the beginning of this year, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Protection of Civilians Report for April 13-26, 2021 Latest development On 29 April, Israel removed the restrictions on the…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, on Thursday, released a statement. They called on Israeli authorities to release Palestinian journalist Alaa Al-Rimawi, to end its policy of administrative detention, and to…

  Summary for April 22 – 28, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are…

Several world leaders have denounced the Israeli assault and repression used against the Palestinian Muslim worshipers visiting the sacred Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. The Pakistan Foreign Ministry, on…

Crimes Against Humanity Should Trigger Action to End Repression of Palestinians: Report by Human Rights Watch: (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights…

Several Israeli soldiers and police, on Saturday night, used excessive force in an attempt to evacuate hundreds of Palestinian worshipers gathered at the Damascus Gate, one of the entrances into…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Protection of Civilian Report for March 30 – April 12, 2021 On 6 April, Israeli forces shot at a car,…

The United Nation Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) West Bank Demolitions and Displacement Report for March 2021 Overview In March, the Israeli authorities demolished, forced people to…

The Spanish government has been accused of allowing Mossad, the intelligence wing of the Israeli occupation, to interrogate a Palestinian journalist who is seeking refuge in Spain, Al-Araby reported. While…

Violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank has risen markedly in recent months, with assaults and property destruction occurring in an atmosphere of impunity, the…

The New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada has voted to support the rights of the Palestinian people, with an 80% majority voting for the resolution named ‘Justice and Peace for…

On Monday, Israeli colonialist settlers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, invaded farmlands south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and bulldozed them. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official…

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…