Category: Jerusalem

Israeli occupation authorities forced the Jerusalemite resident Jamal Gheith on Monday to demolish his own home in Silwan town, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of building without a…

A Palestinian man was injured on Monday evening during protests that erupted after Israeli occupation forces invaded the area surrounding the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, leaving behind…

On Monday, Israeli occupation soldiers carried out extensive invasions, abductions, demolitions, injuries, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank, targeting communities in Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarem in the…

Spain’s Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs, and Agenda 2030 has opened a formal investigation into Israeli tourism companies suspected of promoting goods or services linked to Israeli colonies built…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a coordinated series of invasions, home break‑ins, and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers escalated attacks in several…

On Saturday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out numerous attacks resulting in the injury of several Palestinian citizens in the West Bank governorates of Nablus, Ramallah, and Hebron. Settlers invaded…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinian workers on Saturday, in the town of Ar-Ram and the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem. The army also invaded the nearby town of…

Israeli occupation forces launched a new wave of invasions and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank early on Saturday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, and tightening control over key…

Israeli occupation forces carried out invasions in Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, Ramallah in the central West Bank, Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, Jenin in the northern West…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Friday that Israeli occupation authorities are taking steps to forcibly close the Qalandia Training Center, a move…

Israeli forces escalated their field operations across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem over the past week, carrying out more than one thousand documented violations that included killings, abductions,…

The United States has formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), ending a 78‑year partnership with the UN health agency and prompting concern among global health officials…

On Thursday night Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man and assaulted another in Dura town, southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank. A number of citizens sustained injuries…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and occupation forces carried out a coordinated series of violations across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, including the establishment of new colonialist outposts, armed attacks…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a coordinated escalation across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, establishing new outposts near occupied Jerusalem and south of Nablus, attacking residents in Qusra…

Israeli forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Wednesday, breaking into homes, abducting children and adults, installing military roadblocks, and assaulting civilians…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces, led by right-wing Israeli cabinet minister Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir demolished the headquarters of the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian child on Tuesday after invading the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews transported…

Israeli soldiers and armed paramilitary colonizers terrorized Palestinian civilians in the Jerusalem area and throughout the West Bank on Sunday, continuing a pattern of escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians by…

Illegal Israeli settlers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinians on Saturday, burning homes and vehicles, and injuring citizens and international activists in the occupied West Bank. Israeli colonizers…

The European Union urged Israel on Friday to halt the E1 colonial project and freeze additional large‑scale colonialist schemes in and around occupied Jerusalem, warning that the plans would further…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions and abductions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Friday, targeting communities in Ramallah in the central West Bank, where…

UN Secretary‑General António Guterres urged the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately return the UNRWA compound in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the agency’s health center in occupied Jerusalem, calling for…

Israeli forces demolished, on Thursday, the family home of a slain Palestinian in the city of Hebron and knocked down a commercial facility in the town of Jannata, east of…

Israeli forces have continued wide military invasions since Monday, targeting homes of current and former political prisoners and families of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the Shu’fat refugee camp…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces detonated the home of a Palestinian detainee in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. In the southern West Bank,…

Israeli forces carried out widespread invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, targeting multiple areas in occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah in the central West…

Israeli occupation forces abducted six Palestinians at dawn on Tuesday during a series of invasions targeting Ras Khamis, Shu’fat refugee camp, and Kafr Aqab in occupied Jerusalem, in the West…

Israeli occupation forces carried out coordinated invasions, land‑clearing operations, and other violations across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, on Monday evening, targeting various Palestinian communities. Salfit,…

Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinian young men in three separate incidents on Monday, in Ar-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem. Media sources reported that occupation forces shot a…

Israeli forces carried out widespread invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, and demolitions across the occupied West Bank early Monday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah in the central West Bank, Nablus…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions, home incursions, abductions, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah in the central West…

The Jerusalem Governorate said on Sunday that Israel’s “Planning and Construction Committee” in occupied Jerusalem is preparing to advance two major colonial construction plans that would significantly alter the landscape…

The United Nations says violence by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers has become a defining feature of life across the occupied West Bank, reshaping daily routines, uprooting entire communities and deepening…

Israeli occupation forces have seized 140 additional dunams of land from the village of Fandaqumiya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, expanding a previous military order…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian homes, a factory, and agricultural facilities in the Jerusalem and Nablus governorates, while a citizen was coerced to demolish his apartment in the…

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate announced on Monday its annual report on media freedoms in Palestine, confirming that 2025 was the deadliest year ever recorded for Palestinian journalists, amid systematic and…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks, land seizures, home takeovers, and agricultural destruction across the occupied West Bank on Monday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Salfit…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, across the occupied West Bank on Monday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah in the central West Bank,…

Israeli forces, in four separate incidents, shot 6 Palestinians, including children in the occupied West Bank governorates of Jerusalem, Jenin, and Qalqilia.

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, abductions, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting communities in Salfit in the central West Bank, Qalqilia…

Israeli forces conducted a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, storming towns, villages, and a refugee camp, breaking into homes, firing live rounds and gas bombs,…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinian young men on Saturday while they were near the Apartheid wall in Ar-Ram town north of occupied Jerusalem. Media sources reported that occupation forces shot…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called on Israeli authorities to withdraw a new draft law that would impose the death penalty on Palestinian detainees under…

Nineteen Israeli human rights organizations have condemned the government of Benjamin Netanyahu for canceling the registration of 37 international humanitarian organizations operating in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West…

Israeli occupation forces conducted a new wave of destruction across the West Bank on Thursday, demolishing two homes and issuing a third demolition notice east of Jericho while simultaneously invading…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on Thursday that Israeli forces carried out a large‑scale campaign of abductions and field interrogations from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, seizing at least…

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate said on Thursday that the Israeli military and government continued throughout 2025 a systematic policy of targeting Palestinian journalists through arbitrary abductions, administrative detention, physical assaults,…

A joint human rights report released on Tuesday by the Commission of Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association revealed that…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of violations across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, invading towns, destroying agricultural land, assaulting civilians, and targeting vulnerable…

The Israeli Knesset has approved legislation ordering the immediate cutoff of electricity and water to offices and properties used by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

Rulings threaten dozens of Palestinian families in Baten al‑Hawa, in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, as the Ateret Cohanim colonialist organization pushes for expanded colonial…

Injuries, home invasions, and abductions carried out by Israeli occupation forces across Qalqilia, Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah, and occupied Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces injured a young…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the Bedouin community of Khallet ad‑Sidra on Monday evening near the town of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, and cut trees. The Jerusalem Governorate reported…

On Sunday evening, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the Bedouin community of Khallet as‑Sidra, near the town of Mikhmas northeast of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, vandalizing residents’ property.…

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has reported a series of alarming medical cases among prisoners held in Israel’s Ofer and Megiddo facilities, warning that systemic neglect continues…

On Sunday, Israeli violations of international law continued throughout the West Bank, including military invasions, paramilitary colonizer attacks, forced removal of Palestinians from their homes, and abductions of Palestinian civilians.…

By Dr. Jack Sara – Come And See: In his recent Christmas greeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke warmly of Christians in the Holy Land, portraying Israel as a unique…

Monitoring and documentation compiled by the Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, covering the period from 7 October 2023 through the end of 2025, reveal a systematic and escalating…

IsraelPalestineNews – If Americans Knew: Instead of our usual news round-up, If Americans Knew today offers excerpts from a new document approved at an international conference in Bethlehem on November…

Israeli occupation soldiers shot and wounded a 17‑year‑old Palestinian boy in the Jerusalem governorate on Thursday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed. The PRCS said its teams received the…

On Thursday, Israeli forces shot a 17-year old child near Nablus in the northern West Bank, and a young man in Ar-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem. An infant was…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, assaulting civilians, and bulldozing Palestinian-owned land in several governorates. The violations…

Israeli occupation forces carried out extensive invasions, violations, property seizures, demolitions, and abductions across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday. The invasions targeted towns, refugee camps, and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of demolitions on Wednesday across occupied Jerusalem, Hebron in the southern West Bank, and Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, targeting residential homes,…

The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs reported that Palestinians held in Ofer Prison and the Negev (Naqab) Prison are enduring extremely harsh humanitarian conditions, following a recent visit…

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported on Tuesday that 24 Palestinians were injured, and many were abducted, during the Israeli military invasion of Qalandia refugee camp and the nearby…

On Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Qalandia refugee camp and the nearby town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, after several hours of continuous…

On Tuesday, a Palestinian worker died of injuries he sustained days earlier in the town of Ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem. Media sources reported that the young man Youssef Omar…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank, shooting and wounding Palestinians in several different locations. In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces shot and wounded one…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Tuesday, abducting more than thirty Palestinians from Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Tulkarem, Qalqilia, Ramallah, and the…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a multi‑story residential building in the Wadi Qaddum area of Ras al‑Amoud in Silwan, south of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, early Monday morning, displacing…

A surge of coordinated violence and military activity swept across the occupied West Bank on Monday, as illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out shootings, assaults, and large‑scale incursions into the…

On Sunday evening, a Palestinian man was wounded by Israeli forces in the town of Ar‑Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, while Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians in Beit Jala, west…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, home searches, abductions, school closures, and assaults across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting communities in Bethlehem, occupied Jerusalem, Hebron,…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out widespread violations across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, including home invasions, abductions, shootings, among them the killing of two…

In a serious escalation, Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, on Saturday, including a child, in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin. Occupation soldiers shot a young man near Tulkarem…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across multiple West Bank villages on Saturday, invading residential areas, targeting Palestinian vehicles, and damaging property in Ramallah, Nablus,…

Israeli forces shot and seriously wounded a Palestinian young man before dawn Saturday, in the village of Qarawat Bani Zeid, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. The…

The head of the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Minister Muayyad Sha’ban, warned that Israel has begun a new phase of colonial expansion southeast of occupied Jerusalem, converting the small…

Israeli  occupation forces carried out widespread invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, assaults, and movement restrictions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Friday, targeting communities in Hebron, Qalqilia, Tulkarem,…

Israeli occupation forces launched coordinated invasions across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, breaking into homes, abducting dozens of Palestinians, and assaulting residents in Bethlehem, Jericho, Tubas, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem,…

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday held a high‑level plenary session to mark the 65th  anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Thursday condemned the “escalating campaign of organized terror by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers against Palestinian civilians,” including physical assaults, arson targeting…

Catholic rights center fights Arnona hikes imposed on Palestinian communities: Jerusalem Municipality Continues the “Arnona War”: Cancellation of Category “D” and Tax Increase on 14 Palestinian Neighborhoods. According to the…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

Israeli occupation authorities on Wednesday delivered eviction notices to Palestinian citizen Khalil Basbous and his son Bilal in the Baten al-Hawa neighborhood, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers seized the homes…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank, Wednesday, breaking into homes and abducting dozens of Palestinians in cities, towns, and refugee camps stretching from Hebron…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated assaults across the occupied West Bank, Wednesday, December 17, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. The violations targeted multiple…

The Israeli Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has advanced legislation that would bar water and electricity services to properties registered under the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for…

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the occupied Palestinian territory warned on Tuesday that Israel, the occupying power, has intensified its repression against…

Israeli occupation forces intensified demolitions across occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday, destroying homes and structures in Qalandia, al‑Judeira, Rafat and Jabal al‑Mukabber, while issuing new demolition notices. The latest actions come…

At dawn on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces escalated their invasions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, deploying reinforcements toward Nablus in the northern West Bank while continuing widespread…

On Monday evening, Israeli occupation forces shot and wounded two young Palestinian men in the town of ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Local media reported that…

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution reaffirming the Palestinian people’s right to self‑determination. The vote, held Monday, saw 164 countries in favor, only…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem earlier Monday, breaking into homes, abducting civilians, and setting up military roadblocks that disrupted daily…

On Sunday, three Palestinian families were forcibly evicted from their homes in Baten al-Hawa, a neighborhood in Silwan just south of Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in the occupied West…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

On Sunday evening, groups of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers held a provocative procession in Hebron city, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, as Israeli soldiers closed Palestinian streets and…

On Sunday, December 14, 2025, Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions and abductions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting towns, villages, and refugee camps…