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Israeli forces assaulted two Palestinian men, confiscated 2 bulldozers, and delivered stop-work orders for four homes and a shed, near the central West Bank city of Salfit, according to local…
Israeli Navy ships opened fire, on Tuesday evening, at Palestinian fishing boats while they were sailing off the southern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Fishermen’s Committee.…
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…
Illegal Israeli colonizers destroyed, on Tuesday, Palestinian-owned crops in Masafer Yatta, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to a local activist. According to Osama Makhamreh, a…
Israeli forces expropriated, on Tuesday, a Palestinian-owned tractor near the Al-Jalamah military roadblock, north of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. Occupation soldiers…
LONDON, Tuesday, July 18, 2023 (WAFA) – Amid a serious rise in attacks on frontline health workers in the occupied West Bank this year, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has…
Israeli forces and illegal settlers, on Tuesday, razed land and seized residential tents belonging to Palestinians near Hebron and Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. According to…
On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers shot one Palestinian and abducted two from the Aqabat Jaber and Ein al-Sultan refugee camps, in the city of Jericho, in the northeastern part of…
Israeli forces injured, on Sunday, dozens of Palestinians, and abducted three, during a search and arrest campaign in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to local sources.…
Israeli forces abducted, on Sunday, two Palestinian young men in the northwestern part of the West Bank, and injured a number of others near the southern West Bank city of…
Illegal Israeli settlers attacked, on Sunday, a Palestinian home and burned hundreds of olive tress in the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according…
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…
Israeli forces abducted, on Friday and Saturday, a number of Palestinians, and invaded various parts of the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. Late Saturday night, Israeli forces abducted…
Israeli forces shot and injured, on Friday evening, a Palestinian man with live ammunition after settlers invaded the village of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank,…
Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening, a peaceful sit-in against Israel’s policy of forced eviction, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, local sources reported. Participants demonstrated non-violently,…
llegal Israeli colonizers, on Saturday, attacked and injured Palestinian residents and shepherds in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources. According to…
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…
Palestinians and solidarity activists gathered, on Friday, to demonstrate against the proposed expropriation of Palestinian-owned land in the town of Deir Istiya, west of the central occupied West Bank city…
Israeli forces injured, on Friday, several Palestinian civilians, at the weekly procession against Israeli colonization in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the occupied West…
RAMALLAH, Friday, July 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed in a statement the Human Rights Council’s adoption of the Palestine resolution calling for updating…
Israeli forces assaulted, on Thursday, a Palestinian young man, in Al-Rashaida village, east of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, according to a local activist. Fawaz Al-Rashaida, the local…
Illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday evening, the Palestinian village of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, and injured one man, a local official reported. According…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 5 Palestinians, including a civilian, were killed, and 17 others, including a child and a woman, were injured, while dozens of others…
The Israeli army demolished, on Wednesday, two structures belonging to Palestinians in At-Tour village, east of Jerusalem, and the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, local sources reported. In…
Israeli occupation forces razed, on Wednesday, 50 dunams of Palestinian-owned land, and uprooted dozens of olive trees, in the southern part of Kifl Hares village, northwest of Salfit, in the…
Israeli forces bulldozed, on Wednesday, an agricultural road, in Zanuta village, southwest of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, a local official reported. The head of the Zanuta village…
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Press Release | July 10, 2023 “Israel’s military occupation has morphed the entire occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 9, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers who shoot Palestinians on suspicion of carrying out attacks on Israeli targets will no longer have their weapons confiscated by police,…
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…
Three Palestinian detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, are ongoing with a hunger strike they started twelve days ago. The detainees are Anas…
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…
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…
In the West Bank on Saturday and Sunday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked Palestinian civilians and their property, burning Palestinian homes and vehicles. Armed paramilitary Israeli colonizers also invaded the Al-Aqsa…
Israeli troops invaded various parts of the West Bank on Saturday and abducted seven Palestinians. In addition, during their invasion to the Bethlehem area, the soldiers shot tear gas at…
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…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 2 Palestinians, including a Palestinian with disability, were killed, and 31 others, including 4 children and a fisherman, were wounded, while dozens…
Illegal Israeli settlers stormed, on Wednesday, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem while occupation police provided security, according to local sources. According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, at…
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…
The Israeli Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that they will close the investigation into the killing of an 80-year old US citizen in the West Bank in January 2022, with no…
Israeli forces injured, on Friday, a number of Palestinians at the weekly procession in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in the northern occupied West Bank, local sources…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity
Latest Developments (after the reporting period) On 30 May, an Israeli settler was shot and killed in a Palestinian drive-by shooting near the settlement of Homesh between Jenin and Tulkarem…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 2 Palestinians were killed, and 23 others, including 3 children, were wounded, while dozens of others suffocated and sustained bruises in Israeli…
On Tuesday, the Israeli authorities demolished the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev for the sixth time this year and the 217th since 2010. Several Israeli police vehicles, including bulldozers,…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that the ailing Palestinian detainees in the infamous Ramla Prison Clinic have decided to launch a hunger strike, protesting constant violations and bad conditions.…
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…
Derry, Ireland, May 15, 2023: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin: Large crowds gathered throughout Ireland over the past few days to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ when…
Israeli forces shot and killed, on Saturday, a Palestinian young man while he attempted to pass through a military roadblock, southwest of Jenin city in the northern occupied West Bank,…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their wide-scale aggression on the Gaza Strip for the second consecutive day as it began…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – OCHA-OPT Latest Developments (outside the reporting period) This section is based on initial information from…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: 4 Palestinians were killed, three of them in the West Bank, including 2 children, and…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): May 2: Today in the morning, the death of the detainee Khader Adnan, who has been on a 87-day- hunger strike in protest…
Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan, 45, became the first Palestinian to die in a hunger strike protesting the Israeli occupation and illegal detention of thousands of Palestinian civilians. Khader Adnan,…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers and border police officers invaded the Al-Arakib Beduin village in the Negev and demolished it for the fifth time this year and the 216th time since…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity [This report covers 2 weeks due to ‘Eid al-Fitr holiday] Two Palestinians were killed, and 23 others were injured, including 4 children,…
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…
In pre-dawn raids Monday, Israeli troops abducted 15 Palestinians from several parts of the West Bank, mainly Nablus, Jenin and Hebron. The troops also raided the home of a prominent…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians, including a child, and caused damage to homes, in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.…
On Wednesday, illegal Israeli colonizers demolished several Palestinian shops in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, to prepare for new colonialist units.…
Undercover Israeli forces invaded, on Tuesday afternoon, the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank, injured eight people, and abducted three, according to local sources. Eight civilians were…
Update: April 20, 2023 – Hebrew sources reported that the perpetrator of the shooting attack which left two settlers injured was arrested by undercover Israeli forces. The soldiers abducted, on…
On Monday evening, Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian woman after an alleged stabbing attempt near the “Gush Etzion” bloc of settlements, southwest of Bethlehem in the southern…
The Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued on Sunday, their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property, as the Israeli occupation forces abducted 23 citizens from the West Bank,…
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…
On Sunday, the Palestinian Detainees Committee said that the health condition of the cancer-ridden detainee, Walid Daqqah, whom Israel has imprisoned for 38 years, is very serious. Committee spokesperson Hasan…
Israeli occupation soldiers attacked, on Friday, the weekly non-violent protest in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, injuring at least 40. During the peaceful…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli State Prosecutor closed today the probe into the police officers who murdered a Palestinian young man in Jerusalem’s Old City…
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner – GENEVA (13 April 2023) – The international community must take immediate action to stop Israel’s forced evictions and displacement of Palestinians…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 12, 2023 (WAFA) – The Higher Presidential Committee for the Follow-up of Church Affairs in Palestine today called on the Palestinian Christians to participate in large…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers assaulted and injured a young Palestinian man before abducting him in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Media…
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, on Tuesday, two Palestinian men and injured a third near Deir al-Hatab village, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The Maan…
Israeli forces abducted, on Sunday evening, at least three Palestinian young men from the Bab Al-Asbat (Lion’s Gate) area, one of the main gates entering into the Old City of…
Israeli forces shot and injured, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian teens near Ras Karkar village, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources. Palestinian…
On this day in 1948, a couple of hundred armed Zionist militias from the pre-1948 Irgun and Stern gangs stormed the village of Deir Yassin, a few kilometers to…
On Saturday, Palestinian researcher in detainee’s affairs, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, said the Palestinian administrative detainee in Israeli prisons, Khader Adnan, is ongoing a hunger strike he started on February 5th, 2023.…
Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday evening, a young Palestinian main at the entrance to Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank, the Ministry…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, wounding at least six Palestinians. Media sources said the…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent procession against the illegal colonialist activities in Beit Dajan town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, causing several injuries.…
On Friday night, Israeli soldiers shot two young Palestinian men and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation in Burqin town, southwest of Jenin, in the northern…
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday, a Palestinian young man in the village of Wadi al-Far’a, southwest of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, according to local sources.…
Israeli police abducted, on Friday, 15 Palestinian Muslim worshipers, and assaulted others near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, local sources reported. On the third Friday of the…
Israeli soldiers stormed, on Thursday evening, occupied East Jerusalem, and abducted two Palestinian young men, according to local sources. The army invaded and ransacked the family home of Wadih Mahmoud,…
Israeli forces stormed, on Thursday evening, a Palestinian home in Khirbet Humsa Al-Tahta, a Bedouin village in the northern Jordan Valley, local sources reported. According to human rights activist Aref…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 4 Palestinians, one of them from the Negev, were killed, and 16 others were wounded, including two children while dozens of others…
Israeli forces abducted, on Thursday, a Palestinian young man at a flying military roadblock near Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, local sources reported.…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: 5 April 2023 marks Palestinian Child Day, the day when the late President Yasser ‘Arafat announced the State of Palestine’s voluntary commitment…
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…
On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers and border police officers invaded the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev and demolished it for the fourth time this year and the 215th time…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, April 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The health of Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, who has been in Israeli prisons for 38 years, has been gradually deteriorating, according to the…
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…
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…
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…
Peace Now – Contrary to its commitment at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit, the Israeli government is publishing tenders for 940 new housing units in the settlements of Efrat and Beitar…
GENEVA, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – World Council of Churches general secretary Jerry Pillay today condemned an attack by Jewish extremists that took place in the Church of Gethsemane,…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – As the world marks Mother’s Day, the Israeli occupation forces are holding five Palestinian mothers in jail for resisting the occupation, today said…
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev for the 214th time since the community was first demolished on July 27, 2010. Media sources…
RAMALLAH, Monday, March 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The eldest serving Palestinian freedom fighter, Major General Fouad Shobaki, 63, was released from prison today after completing 17 years behind bars, according…
On Saturday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Khader Adnan, a political prisoner held by Israel, is ongoing with hunger strike he started 28 ago, protesting his ongoing solitary confinement.…
JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The office of the European Union Representative in Jerusalem has condemned racist remarks by far-right Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich in which…