Category: Israel

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, (UNOCHA) issued the following report about the situation in Gaza on the 46th straight day of Israeli bombardment:…

The death of a Palestinian detainee in Israeli prison, was announced, on Tuesday, the fifth detainee to die in occupation prisons since October 7, 2023. The Commission of Detainees and…

A 25-year-old Palestinian detainee died, on Tuesday, in Israeli custody, the second detainee to die in less that 24 hours. According to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)…

GENEVA (23 October 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called for a broad humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. He also called on the parties to the…

A Palestinian administrative detainee died, on Monday, in an Israeli prison, after being in custody for two weeks. According to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society,…

The following is an update of news from the Gaza Strip and West Bank for October 21st, 2023 (courtesy of israelpalestinenews.org) Palestinian death toll 4,466 (4,385 in Gaza (including at least 1,756 children and 1,000…

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…

On Monday and Tuesday, Israeli police forced hundreds of Palestinian workers out of Israel and into the West Bank. The workers were among 21,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who…

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…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the death toll of the Israeli bombing of Gaza which began on Saturday, and has continued non-stop, has reached 1,537, with 7,212 injured.…

Hamas, the ruling party in Gaza, has launched a major, multi-pronged, surprise attack on Israel – 200 Israelis dead, 900 injured; Israeli forces are now bombing Gaza – 232 Palestinians dead,…

A massive assault by Palestinian resistance fighters infiltrating Israeli military bases around the outer edges of the besieged Gaza Strip led to the killing of between 30 and 70 Israelis…

Israeli bulldozers demolished, on Monday, the Arab Bedouin village of Al-Arakib, in the Negev region of Israel, for the 221st time. Since 2010, Israeli authorities have demolished the residential structures,…

Israeli troops abducted, on Wednesday, several Palestinian young men, including a former prisoner, from separate areas of the West Bank, while undercover Israeli agents, kidnapped two Palestinian children in occupied…

Israeli forces, stationed along the so-called “security fence” between Gaza and Israel, abducted, on Wednesday night, a Palestinian who allegedly crossed through from Gaza into Israel, local sources reported. In…

Israeli occupation forces, abducted, on Thursday evening and Friday, several Palestinian citizens from separate parts of the West Bank, in addition to injuring several people during a military incursion into…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, August 8, 2023 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned today an Israeli court’s decision to release an extremist Israeli terrorist accused of killing…

An Israeli security guard shot and killed, on Saturday evening, a Palestinian man, in an alleged shooting attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, local sources reported. On Saturday…

Ramallah 7-30-2023 WAFA – The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said today, Sunday, that minor prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers suffer from harsh and inhuman conditions of…

[Haifa] July 23, 2023 (WAFA) – Today, Sunday, settlers attempted to storm the Roman Catholic Church and Monastery of Mar Elias on Mount Carmel in Haifa. Eyewitnesses reported that about…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, July 19, 2023 (WAFA) – The Islamic-Christian Committee in Support of Jerusalem and its Sanctuaries today condemned what it called “the barbaric attack” carried out by Jewish religious…

On Tuesday evening, Israeli police abducted a Palestinian young man while he was at his workplace in Israel (Palestinian lands occupied in 1948), according to security sources. It was reported…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, July 15, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli national water company Mekorot has reduced the daily amount of water supply to the provinces of Hebron and Bethlehem in the…

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…

According to Israeli sources, a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank reportedly rammed several Israelis with his car and stabbed one pedestrian before he was fatally shot dead by an…

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 GOLAN HEIGHTS, Wednesday, June 21, 2023 (WAFA) – Dozens of residents and landowners of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights were injured today during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces…

Press Release By Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support And Human Rights Association: Breaking Point Reached: Mass Hunger Strike by Palestinian Administrative Detainees In Israeli Prisons Next Week. A breaking point has been…

Israeli sources have confirmed the death of two Israeli soldiers fatally shot by an Egyptian Border Police officer who was killed later after killing a third Israeli soldier and injuring…

A 52-year-old Israeli woman, who has been on life support in a coma for 21 years, died in a Tel Aviv hospital on Wednesday. Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, 52, was…

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…

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…

An Israeli woman, Inga Avramyan, 80, was killed, and eight people were injured, when a shell fired from the Gaza Strip hit an apartment building in Rehovot, in central Israel.…

A 19-year-old Palestinian resident of the village of Sandala, part of the Gilboa Regional Council in northern Israel, was shot and killed Saturday by an Israeli paramilitary colonial settler from…

The family of ailing political prisoner Walid Daqqah stated that his wife and daughter, Milad, were able to visit him at the “Barzilai” Israeli hospital in Ashkelon, where he underwent…

The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front issued a statement on the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, which takes place on Monday April 17. The statement stressed the need to internationalize the…

According to Israeli sources, an Italian man was killed, and five tourists were injured in what is believed to be a ‘car-ramming and shooting attack” near a beach in Tel…

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers reported that two soldiers were injured, including one who suffered serious wounds in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, and added that the police confirmed Israeli…

SAKHNIN, Thursday, March 30, 2023 (WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinians took part today in a rally in the city of Sakhnin, north of Palestine, commemorating the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian…

5 civilians were injured, three of them with live bullets, two with gas bombs, and hundreds suffered from tear gas inhalation on Thursday, during the suppression by the Israeli occupation…

On Sunday dawn, Israeli police officers killed a Palestinian citizen of Israel in Kafr Yasif, in the Galilee in the northern part of the country. Media sources said an off-duty…

Updated: A Palestinian man was shot and killed on the scene, and an Israeli man died later of his wounds after the 23-year-old Palestinian, identified as Mo’taz Salah Khawaja, 23,…

Palestinian Prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons continued for the 27th day their steps of unified disobedience to the rules of the Israeli prison authorities, as a non-violent method of…

Wafa News Agency reported Thursday that the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) approved a bill to cancel the plan to disengage from four settlements in…

As countries around the world have moved to abandon the death penalty as cruel, ineffective, and costly, Israel’s elected right-wing government took a step in the opposite direction on Wednesday,…

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…

On Sunday, the Israeli government approved the ‘legalization’ of nine additional Jewish-only colonies on illegally-seized Palestinian land in the West Bank. The colonies have been dubbed by the occupiers as…

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…

In Beersheba on Saturday, an unknown Israeli colonial settler stabbed and severely wounded a Palestinian man, identified as Hamza Al-Hraibi. Al-Hraibi is an older man from Hebron, who was targeted…

On Friday evening, seven Israelis were shot and killed, and ten more were wounded, on the street in front of a synagogue in the Nabi Yacoub settlement in the northern…

On Thursday night, air raid sirens sounded in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, warning the Israeli residents to go into shelters as the Palestinian resistance fired two rockets in Gaza.…

In a culture of impunity for Israeli police and military (and Israel in general), it should come as no surprise that the killing of Eyad Hallaq, a disabled Palestinian man,…

TEL AVIV, Sunday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced today that he is planning to cancel regulations that allow any lawmaker to meet…

‘ARA, Thursday, January 5, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Thursday released the longest-serving Palestinian freedom fighter Karim Younis after spending 40 years behind Israeli bars. Younis, 66, from the Arab…

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 police reported on Friday that its officers shot a Palestinian man, Naim Mahmoud Theeb Bedir, 23, before dawn on Friday, in Kafr Qassem in the Southern Triangle area…

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…

On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers demolished the Al-Arakib village in the Negev for the 14th time this year and the 210th time since July 2010. Media sources said several military…

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,…

On Wednesday, the Israeli Prison Authority informed imprisoned Palestinian-French lawyer, held under Administrative Detention without charges or trial, that it revoked his Jerusalem ID card and stripped him of all…

Israeli sources have confirmed, Wednesday, the death of an Israeli-Canadian teen and the injury of about twenty-two Israelis in two separate explosions near a bus stop in Givat Shaul in…

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…

Israeli sources have confirmed that an Israeli colonizer, 63, has died from serious wounds he suffered on October 25, reportedly after a Palestinian stabbed him in the Al-Funduq village east…

The Israeli Army fired missiles targeting several areas in the besieged Gaza Strip after the missile interception system observed the launch of three shells that did not make it across…

The family of slain Palestinian-American elder, Omar Abul-Majid As’ad, 80, who was killed by Israeli soldiers invading a village north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah after they…

On Wednesday, Israeli police said they found the body of a Palestinian believed to have killed an elderly Israeli woman in Tel Aviv the previous day. The man’s body was…

In the small village of Taybeh, located in the Nazareth district, dozens of local villagers marched, held signs, and chanted slogans to demand that Israeli authorities end their practice of…

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…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported on Wednesday that special forces of the Israeli Prisons Administration stormed several sections of the Negev prison in southern Israel. The raid targeted Palestinian prisoners…

An Israeli soldier who was shot last week during an Israeli military invasion of Tulkarem turns out to have been shot by a fellow Israeli soldier — not by Palestinian…

On Friday, a young Palestinian man was seriously injured after an Israeli man repeatedly stabbed him with a knife while working in Haifa, the WAFA News Agency said. The Palestinian…

For the 204th time, the Israeli authorities demolished the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev after surrounding and isolating it. The Local Committee For Defending Al-Arakib said many army and…

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…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, welcomed the Catalonian Parliament’s decision recognizing Israel as guilty of apartheid against the Palestinian people. Dr. Barghouthi said the Catalonian…

BDS Movement: In a historical vote on Thursday, 16th of June, the Parliament of Catalonia recognized Israel as committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people and demanded to…

BDS Movement: Indigenous Palestinians call on documentary filmmakers to show meaningful solidarity with our struggle The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) – a founding…

On Sunday, the Israeli army said it managed to arrest the two Palestinians believed to be behind the deadly attack in Elad, near Tel Aviv, on Thursday evening. The army…

Israeli sources reported that on Thursday night, three men were killed in Elad, and four others injured, in an attack apparently carried out by two Palestinians, who were seen on…

JAFFA, Friday, April 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Friday overnight vandalized a landmark mosque in the ancient city of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv in Israel, according to…

WASHINGTON, Monday, April 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian-American Hala Gabriel, a production finance executive at the American TV and film production company (Netflix) described Israel as a racist colonial state…

The Israeli authorities have decided to demolish the family home of a Palestinian who was killed after conducting a shooting attack in Bnei Brak last month, leading to the death…

April 17th marks Palestinian Prisoner’s Day – and a coalition of Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups issued a report about the current status of Palestinian political prisoners. Israeli authorities currently have…

On Tuesday morning, an Israeli police officer shot and killed a Palestinian construction worker in Asqalan after the Police stormed a construction site, looking for people with no entry or…

A Palestinian man who Israeli police believe was responsible for a shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday was shot and killed by Israeli forces before dawn on Friday. The…

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.…

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…

Israeli sources said five Israelis were shot dead by a Palestinian in a suburb of Tel Aviv before the latter was killed. Israel declared the highest level of alert in…

In the town of Hadera on Sunday evening, two Bedouin men from the unrecognized village of Umm al-Fahm shot and killed two Israeli border officers and wounded four Israeli civilians.…

Amnesty International: The Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Michael Lynk, has submitted a report to the Human Rights Council, concluding that the situation in…

On Tuesday night, a man identified as Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Kian, 34, was shot and killed by a bystander after he killed four Israelis in Beersheba, in southern Israel. According…

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…

Undercover Israeli police killed, at dawn Tuesday, a 27-year-old man in the Bedouin city of Rahat, In the Negev. The slain young father of three children, identified as Sanad Salem…

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,…