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Israeli forces attacked, late Wednesday night, Palestinian civilians who gathered along the eastern border of the besieged Gaza Strip, according to local sources. Media sources said that Palestinian youths gathered…
Israeli forces destroyed, on Wednesday and Thursday, part of a Bedouin school, farmlands, olive trees, and water springs, in various parts of the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. In…
Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead, on Wednesday night, a Palestinian child in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, the Ministry of Health confirmed. The army invaded the “Al-Naqqar…
Occupation forces abducted, on Wednesday, dozens of Palestinian citizens, including children and former prisoners, from across the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. Israeli soldiers stormed Seida town, northeast of…
Israeli forces shot and killed, on Wednesday, a Palestinian young man in the Al-Ein refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Ministry of Health confirmed.…
AMMAN, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)), said today that the Israeli measures in Masafer Yatta in the south of the occupied West…
Israeli forces attacked, on Tuesday, a non-violent demonstration near Salfit, stormed a school near Nablus, and invaded a town near Ramallah, causing many Palestinian citizens to suffer the toxic effects…
Israeli occupation authorities compelled, on Tuesday, a Palestinian family to demolish their home, in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of the occupied city of Jerusalem, local sources reported. Local citizen Mohammad…
Israeli forces, shot dead, on Tuesday, three Palestinian young men after an exchange of fire in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Ministry of Health confirmed. On…
Israeli forces abducted, on Monday, fourteen Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank, and confiscated two Palestinian-owned vehicles, local sources reported. In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces…
The Israeli Navy abducted, on Monday, four Palestinian fishermen while they were sailing off the coast of Gaza City in the north, and levelled lands east of Khan Younis, in…
Israeli occupation forces shot and injured, on Sunday and Monday, four Palestinian young men in Nablus and Jenin, according to local sources. On Monday, the army invaded the Askar refugee…
A large army force invaded, on Monday at dawn, the Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. Dozens…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) unjustified commission of two separate murders yesterday that left two Palestinian civilians dead, including a child,…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday, six Palestinians, including a woman from the occupied Jerusalem and Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources. In the occupied city…
Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Saturday, three Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank, and injured two during confrontations near Hebron, in the southern West Bank, local sources…
Israeli forces abducted, on Friday and Saturday, six Palestinians, including a child from Jenin, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem governorates in the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. At dawn Saturday, occupation…
Illegal Israeli settlers uprooted, on Friday, at least 50 full grown olive trees in the southern occupied West Bank town of Al-Khader, southwest of Bethlehem, according to local sources. Hasan…
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, on Friday night, a Palestinian teenager and injured another, before abducting him, in the northern occupied West Bank town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus,…
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday, three Palestinian young men and injured dozens more, at the weekly anti-settlement procession in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in…
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, on Friday, a Palestinian child, and seriously injured a young man during protests in the village of Um Safa, northwest of the central West…
Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, Palestinians who participated in a sit-in to demonstrate against the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian-owned homes, in the Al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan town in occupied…
Israeli forces abducted, on Thursday, 12 Palestinians, and 4 international solidarity activists, in occupied Jerusalem and the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources. In Hebron, occupation…
Illegal Israeli colonizers began, on Thursday, to construct a settlement outpost in the Al-Sawahrah Al-Sharqiya village, east of occupied Jerusalem, and erected a barracks and installed childrens’ play equipment in…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 5 Palestinians, including a child, were wounded, while dozens of others suffocated and sustained bruises in Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) attacks in…
Israeli forces abducted, on Wednesday, three Palestinian young men in Jenin and Jericho, in the northern and northeastern parts of the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. In the northern…
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…
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…