Category: Gaza Strip

Israeli soldiers fired, on Friday morning, many rounds of live ammunition at Palestinian farmers, on their lands near the perimeter fence east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that four additional detainees, held in the Ramon Israeli prison, have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, raising the number of infected political prisoners…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Summary for January 14 – 20, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF)…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Wednesday, that fifteen more detainees have been officially diagnosed with the coronavirus in Ramon Israeli prison, bringing the number of infected detainees in…

The family of Taiseer Abdul-Jawad (Abu Mazen), living in their home in the eastern part of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, has survived what would have turned…

The Israeli army fired, late on Tuesday at night, many artillery and tanks shells targeting several areas in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, causing damage, and wounding a young…

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights welcomes the decree, issued by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, that announces parliamentary and presidential elections for later this year. The first such elections in…

Israeli navy ships fired, on Tuesday morning, several live rounds at Palestinian fishing boats, in addition to attacking them with water cannons, near the shore of the Sudaniyya sea, northwest…

The Israeli occupation army attacked, early on Monday, the southern besieged Gaza Strip, with missiles and artillery, after what the army claims were rockets fired from the armed resistance in…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Saturday, that three additional detainees, held by Israel, have been officially diagnosed with the coronavirus, raising the total number of infected detainees to…

Summary for January 7 – 13, 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…

Israeli soldiers fired, Sunday, many live rounds at Palestinian farmers on their lands, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Media sources said the…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Highlights from December 22, 2020 to January 4, 2021 On 26 December, following the…

In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of December 31, 2020 – January 6, 2021, the Palestinian Center for Human…

Israeli navy boats attacked with live fire, on Thursday at dawn, several fishing boats in Palestinian waters, north of Gaza city, in addition to farmers on their lands, east of…

Press Release: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and Al Dameer (the organisations) express concern that significant time has passed since the opening of…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday morning, many live rounds into Palestinian farmlands in the southern part of the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired dozens of…

Ramallah: Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” issued its monthly observatory for the month of December 2020 regarding the Israeli demolition, confiscation, eviction and seizure operations against Palestinian establishments, whether religious, tourist,…

Report By The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories B’Tselem: Over the course of 2020, Israeli security forces killed 27 Palestinians, seven of them minors: one…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Monday morning, live rounds at Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the besieged Gaza Strip. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed across the perimeter fence, fired many…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, Sunday, at Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in the southern and northern parts of the coastal region. Zakariya Bakr, the coordinator of the…

Israeli soldiers killed 48 Palestinians, including two women and eight children, during the ongoing and escalating violations against the Palestinian people, in the year 2020, the Martyrs’ Families Coalition has…

Summary for December 24 – 30, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

ِAl-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Israel carried out a series of airstrikes in the early hours of Saturday, 26 December 2020, targeting multiple areas in the Gaza Strip. Three Palestinians,…

The Israeli occupation unleashed, Friday night, a military offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip, injuring a Palestinian child and a young man with shrapnel, according to Palestinian WAFA News Agency.…

Summary for December 17 – 23, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

Al Mezan condemns the act and calls for international intervention – Al Mezan Center For Human Rights 18-12-2020 14:01 On Wednesday morning, 16 December 2020, Israeli military bulldozers crossed the…

Summary for December 10 – 16, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

On Monday at night, December 14th, 2020, Israeli soldiers stationed in their military base across the perimeter fence along the eastern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip, fired a shell…

A report issued by several human rights and information centers groups in occupied Palestine stated that Israeli soldiers abducted at least 413 Palestinians, including 49 children and seven women, in…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Protection of Civilians Report | November 24 – December 7, 2020 Israeli forces shot and killed…

Summary for December 3 – 9, 2020 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 Palestinian Information Ministry has reported that Israeli soldiers have killed seven Palestinian children in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, since the beginning of this year. The ministry…

Several armored Israeli military vehicles carried out, on Wednesday morning, limited invasions in the central and northern parts of the Gaza Strip, and uprooted Palestinian lands. The army vehicles, including…

Summary from November 26 – December 02, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities…

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers, accompanied by prison administration officers, attacked many Palestinian detainees in Section 6 of the Negev Desert detention camp. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers…

Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Palestinian lands, Monday, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, before bulldozing several sections and installing sand hills. Media sources said…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Sunday evening, several Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya area, northwest of Gaza city, in the besieged and impoverished coastal region. The Fishermen Committees of…

Summary for November 19 – 25, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Paris-Geneva, 26 November 2020 – The United States (US) Secretary of State announced on 19 November, that the US State Department would designate as “anti-Semitic” organisations that engage…

Summary for November 12 – 18, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

Several armored Israeli vehicles invaded, Tuesday, Palestinian farmlands near the perimeter fence, east of Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Media sources said the…

In the pre-dawn hours on Sunday, two rockets were launched from Gaza into Israel in what some commentators are saying was a malfunction in the launching mechanism due to the…

Press Release: UN: Between January and October 2020, Israeli forces carried out 42 incursions inside Gaza; Al Mezan, Gisha, Adalah to Israel: Investigate the incursions. 11-11-2020 13:29 Short Link: http://mezan.org/en/post/23849 On 13…

Summary for November 5 – 11, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that the Israeli Prison Authority has sealed, Monday, all sections in Gilboa’ prison, after dozens of detainees tested positive for coronavirus. The Committee said…

On Tuesday, Several Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded Palestinian farmlands east of Deir al-Balah city, in central Gaza, and bulldozed sections close to the perimeter fence. Media sources said the…

The Israeli government approved on Sunday the construction of a new colonial settlement to be built atop the ruins of a Palestinian village whose residents were displaced fifty years ago…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn and morning hours, at least fourteen Palestinians, including siblings, a female journalist, and former political…

The Israeli Navy shot and injured two Palestinian fishermen, on Saturday, off the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local fishermen committee said an…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Highlights from the Reporting Period On 25 October, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy died during an Israeli search-and-arrest operation in…

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned over reports of an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases among Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody. Al Mezan reports that 85 Palestinians…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli Prison Authority has announced that 12 Palestinian political prisoners, held in Section 3 of Gilboa Israeli detention facility, are infected…

Summary for October 22- 28, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are…

On Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers, stationed across the perimeter fence east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, opened fire at Palestinian farmers and shepherds, forcing…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) The olive harvest season, which started on 7 October, was disrupted by people believed or known to be Israeli settlers…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Friday at dawn, several missiles into a few areas in the besieged Gaza Strip causing damage. Media sources said the army fired three missiles into a…

By Muhammad Hussein for Middle East Monitor The Deal: Israel and Hamas conduct a prisoner exchange following the Gilad Shalit deal struck a week earlier, releasing over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls upon the Egyptian authorities to release Fisherman Yaser al- Za’zou’, the sole survivor among his siblings who were killed by Egyptian naval…

Summary of Israeli Violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for October 8–14, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multifaceted violations against Palestinian civilians…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that thirty detainees in Israeli prisons have joined the hunger strike, two days after thirty detainees started the strike in solidarity with Maher al-Akhras.…

The Israeli army razed, on Tuesday, large areas of Palestinian-owned agricultural land, east of Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said…

Israeli navy ships, on Sunday, fired at Palestinian fishermen sailing in the Mediterranean, off the shore of Gaza City, forcing them to return to shore, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) September 22 – October 5, 2020 On 5 October, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian, aged 28, near…

The Al-Qassam Brigades, Saturday, announced the accidental death of a Palestinian resistance fighter in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, according to their official website. The military wing of the Hamas…

Summary for October 1-7, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor sent a letter to EU diplomats and ambassadors in the Palestinian Territories to protest against EU diplomatic delegation’s visit to Israel’s southern region, which borders…

Israeli military drones fired, on Monday at night, missiles at a Palestinian security post, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The army said it was…

Two Palestinian young men, on Thursday, were detained by Israeli forces after crossing Gaza borders into Israel, the Palestinian Information Center reported. An Israeli army spokesman alleged that the youths…

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for September 24 – 30, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties,…

The Egyptian authorities handed over, on Saturday evening, the bodies of two Palestinian fishermen, who were shot by the Egyptian navy, on Friday, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, while…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): 2 Fishermen Killed and Another Injured by Egyptian Naval Forces: PCHR Calls on Egyptian Authorities to Change Open-Fire Regulations on Persons Crossing the…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Biweekly Highlights September 8 – 21, 2020 In two separate incidents in Jenin and Qalqilia governorates, northern West Bank, Israeli…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for September 17 – 23, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties,…

Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Apartheid is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual criminal responsibility and State responsibility to bring the illegal situation to an end. In May…

Several armored Israeli vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Palestinian agricultural lands, and uprooted them, east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, in addition to firing many live rounds at…

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has reported that one of its fighters died, on Sunday evening, and three others were injured, when a siege-busting tunnel collapsed on…

Israeli soldiers detained four Palestinians, on Saturday, after they tried to cross into Israel, from the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Army spokesperson said that its forces…

Israeli forces detained four Palestinians, on Saturday, after they attempted to enter Israel from the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The Israeli military spokesperson stated that soldiers…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for September 10 – 16, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties,…

Israeli jets bombed several areas of the besieged Gaza Strip, Wednesday, which the Palestinian resistance reciprocated with crude rockets, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said, Israeli military jets…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: On Monday evening, 14 September 2020, the Israeli authorities at Erez crossing arrested Mohammed Tayseer Sawali, a 36-year-old cancer patient from Khan Younis, despite having…

The Palestinian resistance in the besieged Gaza Strip, Tuesday, launched rockets north towards Israel, in an expression of contempt for the normalisation agreements between Israel and 2 Arab states, Quds…

Al Mezan published a fact sheet that addresses the deteriorating living conditions in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s 14-year blockade and recent punitive measures, notably the ban…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA): Bi-weekly report (August 25 – September 7, 2020) An Israeli civilian was killed and an…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly report for September 3 – 9, 2020 Summary Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society has reported, Tuesday, that the number of detainees in Ofer Israeli prison, who have been officially diagnosed as Covid-19 positive, has arrived to 12, and added…

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report for August 27 – September 02, 2020 Summary Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians…

The Israeli authorities announced, Monday, the reopening of the “Kerem Shalom” crossing between Israel and the besieged Gaza Strip, in addition to the restoration of the fishing zone to 15…

The Israeli army shelled, Sunday, two alleged resistance sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, the site sustained material damage, but no human casualties were reported. A Palestinian Information Center (PIC)…

On 29 August 2020, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures regarding the deterioration of the situation in the…

The Israeli army, Thursday morning, demolished a Palestinian-owned under construction bakery, and delivered a demolition notice to a carpenter shop in Arraba town, near Jenin, under the pretext of unlicensed…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for August 19 – 26, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties,…

The 2 million Palestinians in Gaza face a “double crisis” as they struggle with an acute electricity shortage just as the coronavirus has spread into the community among the vulnerable…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) July Highlights No casualties reported as a result of hostilities in Gaza for the second month in a row. Exit…

Israeli warplanes, early Wednesday morning, fired missiles at farmland near Khan Younis city, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian WAFA News Agency correspondent. He confirmed that an Israeli…

Israeli jets and tanks, Tuesday at dawn, bombed Palestinian lands in Rafah and Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources told the…

The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has confirmed that four Palestinians, were killed in an explosion in Gaza city, Monday. Medics and rescue teams first found the corpses…

Israeli warplanes and tanks, Monday at dawn, bombed three targets in Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, local sources reported. The sources told the Palestinian Information Center’s reporter…