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Human Rights Watch: Undue Interference with Rights to Free Expression and Assembly. This week, Palestinians and their supporters across the globe marked Nakba Day, commemorating the more than 700,000 Palestinians who…
A comprehensive report on Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder, and why it played out the way it did. Her story, like that of the Palestinian people, is one of courage in…
NABLUS, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian cancer-stricken former prisoner Monday evening died due to complications from Israeli medical negligence at the time of his detention, according to…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers attacked many Palestinian detainees in Section 6 of the Ramon Israeli prison and conducted violent searches. Hasan Abed-Rabbo, the media spokesperson of the Detainees’ Committee, said…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers injured at least 45 Palestinians at the northern entrance of the al-Biereh city, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society…
RAMALLAH, May 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Ola Awad, the Chairperson of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), said in a report today on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba that…
On Saturday morning, medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man who was shot and seriously injured on April 22nd after Israeli soldiers stormed the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque…
JERUSALEM, Friday, May 13, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli police today attacked the funeral convoy of slain veteran Al Jazeera journalist as Palestinian mourners carried the journalist’s coffin on their way…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) – (This weekly report covers two weeks due to holidays): Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Five Palestinian civilians, including a…
After the Israeli occupation soldiers deliberately targeted Palestinian American journalist Shirin Abu Aqleh, we started hearing various condemnations around the world, which is, in fact, the very least that can…
In pre-dawn raids on Monday, Israeli forces abducted 11 Palestinians from different parts of the West Bank. In Jenin, Israeli forces abducted four young men from the town of Rummana,…
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…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Ref: 51/2022 – Date: 1 May 2022: Time: 10:00 GMT: The first of May is celebrated annually worldwide as the International Workers’ Day in…
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…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: Ref: 49/2022 – Date: 27 April 2022. Time: 10:00 GMT: Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed 2 Palestinians and wounded 6 others, including 2 children, in two…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that the health condition of a Palestinian who was shot in the spine, causing paralysis, before the soldiers abducted him is profoundly serious. After…
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 Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): April 21, 2022: Violations of the right to life and bodily integrity: Five Palestinian civilians, including a child and a girl, were killed…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned today of the danger of the Israeli decision to impose restrictions on the entry…
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…
BEIRUT, Sunday, April 17, 2022 (WAFA) -The Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union condemned today the repeated storming of the al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli occupation forces and settlers. In a statement, the pan-Arab…
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…
As Western Christian churches commemorate Easter weekend, and Eastern Orthodox churches prepare for Holy Week, the Palestinian Christians remain under Israeli military occupation — and church leaders around the world…
The State of Palestine presents a blistering account of Israeli abuses against Palestinian children during the first three months of 2022 – adding to the growing library of reports on…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Update (07- 13 April 2022): Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Eight Palestinians, including 2 children and 2 women, were…
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…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On Friday evening, a Palestinian child lost his left eye after being directly shot with a rubber bullet during Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacks…
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 Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 31 March-06 April 2022): Violation of the right to life and bodily…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Foreign Minister Riyad Malki today welcomed the adoption of two resolutions on Palestine by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).…
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…
Ref: 33/2022, Date: 1 April 2022, Time: 13:30 GMT: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/49/L.26, “Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of Palestinians during the weekly procession in Beita and Beit Dajan, south and east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Update: The Palestinian…
Derry, Ireland, March 30, 2022: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin: Several events have taken place in Derry, Ireland to show solidarity between Ireland and Palestine. The Palestinian Return Centre,…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, March 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Heads of churches in Jerusalem expressed their condemnation and rejection of settlers’ breaking into the Little Petra Hotel, a place of rest of…
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…
RAMALLAH, Monday, March 28, 2022 (WAFA) – In a joint urgent appeal to UN special procedures, rights groups called for addressing Israel’s arbitrary arrest and detention of Palestinian-French human rights…
Israeli forces abducted, on Friday, three Palestinian civilians, including one woman from occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported. Witnesses stated that Israeli police abducted a young…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Protection of Civilians Report Highlights from the reporting period Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians, including one child, and…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 24, 2022(WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons announced today cancelling a major open-ended hunger strike that was scheduled to begin tomorrow, Friday, in protest…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Weekly Update Violation of right to life and bodily integrity:
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…
Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Theodosios Atallah Hanna, denounced the international double standards and the immorality of many regimes condemning the war in Ukraine…
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…
In a report released Sunday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said that, while various parts of the world, including Palestine, are preparing to celebrate Mother’s Day (March 21), Israel is…
Israeli police shot, on Saturday, a young Palestinian man, critically injuring him after he allegedly stabbed and injured an illegal Israeli settler near the Old City of Occupied Jerusalem, local…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers in Megiddo prison assaulted an ailing Palestinian political prisoner, causing various lacerations and severe bruises. The PPS said the detainee, Khalil…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Update Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Two Palestinian Civilians killed, including a child, and 13 others wounded, including a journalist,…
Dr Salman Abu Sitta for Middle East Monitor “Deny you are Palestinian or Perish.” That is the message presented by UNRWA to Palestinian refugees. It is an unbelievably shocking message,…
Israeli occupation authorities issued, on Wednesday, a demolition order targeting a Palestinian-owned home in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, a local official revealed. Anwar…
Israeli occupation authorities issued, on Monday, a demolition order for a school and stop-work orders for eight other Palestinian-owned structures in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern West…
Ramallah (Palestine) – March 13, 2022 (Quds Press) The Journalists Support Committee said that the Israeli occupation targeted more than 260 journalists in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem last…
Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Theodosios Atallah Hanna, said the Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, and every part of occupied Jerusalem, continue to remain determined…
Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) – Jerusalem issued its monthly report for the month of February, during which it monitored the attacks and violations carried out by the occupation authorities…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 13, 2022 (WAFA) – More than 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 72 days in protest of their…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Protection of Civilians Report
Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Atallah Hanna, denounced the media use of the so-called “Christian-Zionism,” affirming that true Christian Churches and Christianity as a…
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,…
Ramallah – March, 10th, 2022– The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom “MADA” issued its annual report about the media freedom in West Bank (Including occupied Jerusalem) and Gaza…
The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel (Adalah): 10/03/2022 – The new temporary order explicitly affirms that its purpose is to ensure a Jewish demographic majority. Adalah: “The…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Update Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Three Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed while the fourth succumbed to…
Illegal Israeli colonialist settlers uprooted, on Wednesday, Palestinian-owned grape saplings and tore down retaining walls near Salfit in the central occupied West Bank, and others razed lands near Bethlehem in…
The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, released on Tuesday, a statement on the situation in the occupied West Bank. “I am deeply concerned…
Israeli forces detonated, on Tuesday, the homes of three Palestinian prisoners currently incarcerated for the alleged killing of Israeli settler in December of 2021, the Palestinian news & Information Agency…
On March 8, 2022, the world will observe International Women’s Day to commemorate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Meanwhile, according to the Prisoner Support and Human…
In March of 2022, Israeli Police erected 10 checkpoints in and around Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem; Israeli Jewish settlers and their supporters move freely, while Palestinians’ movement is restricted. On 6…
Illegal Israeli colonizers invaded, on Sunday, the Islamic Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, amid restrictions against the Palestinian Muslims wishing to enter the holy site, according to Quds Press.…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Nearly 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 65 days in protest of their unfair…
An armed illegal Israeli settler shot and injured, on Friday, four Palestinian civilians, one seriously, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian News & Information Agency…
Occupied Palestine, March 4, 2022 (Quds News Network) – 85 Israeli violations were recorded against Palestinian media and journalists in February 2022. In a new report, the Journalists’ Support Committee,…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Weekly Update (February 24 – March 02, 2022). Violation of right to life and bodily integrity:…
The Israeli authorities ordered to cease construction, on Wednesday, on three Palestinian-owned homes in the al-Juwaya community, south of the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to local…
Armed illegal Israeli colonists forced, on Wednesday, Palestinian farmers to stop working on their own land in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, according to…
Israeli forces attacked, on Tuesday, Palestinians participating in a non-violent protest in the Bab al-Zawiya area, in the center of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, injuring a journalist…
Illegal Israeli colonists, attempted to invade, on Monday, the village of al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported.…
On Monday evening, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed that Israeli soldiers injured more than 37 Palestinians, including children, and abducted twenty-three others, including two young women, after the army attacked…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Protection of Civilians Report
Israeli occupation authorities forced, on Sunday, a Palestinian family to demolish their own home in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA)…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, February 27, 2022 (WAFA) – Nearly 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 58 days in protest of their unfair…
On February 23, 2022, senior officials from the Global Ministries released a letter entitled “Compelled to Witness” declaring Israel an apartheid state. The letter from the North American Christian Mission…
LONDON, Saturday, February 26, 2022 (WAFA) – Former leader of the UK Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has called on his country to immediately and unconditionally recognize the State of Palestine.…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 17 – 23 February 2022)
Israeli bulldozers and tanks infiltrated, on Wednesday, the border of the southern besieged Gaza Strip, razed lands and opened fire, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported. WAFA correspondent…
Depending on which candidates win the Republican and Democratic primaries in Nevada on June 14th, there’s a possibility that Israel partisan David Brog could face off against grassroots Democrat Amy Vilela, who…
The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority announced, on Tuesday, that the Palestinian detainee Abdul-Basest Ma’tan, 49, who suffers from colon cancer, is being denied the necessary medical care. Ma’tan, from…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, February 22, 2022 (WAFA) – An Israeli occupation court decided today to freeze the eviction of the Salem family from their home in the western part of the…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, on Tuesday morning, the Bedouin village of al-Arakib, in the Negev and demolished it. Media sources said the soldiers forced the Palestinians…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, February 20, 2022 (WAFA) – At least 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings since the beginning of the year, in…
Israeli forces abducted, on Sunday, several young Palestinian men from various areas of the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. The Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) said the…
Occupied Palestine, February 19, 2022 (QNN) – 46 Israeli violations were recorded against Palestinian media and journalists in January 2022. The Journalists’ Support Committee, a journalists’ rights group documenting media…
Israeli forces detained, on Friday, two Palestinian young men, one from Ramallah, and one from city of Tubas, Quds Press reported. Soldiers stormed and searched the family home of Qusai…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Joint Statement
JERUSALEM, February 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces imposed today a nearly full lockdown of occupied Jerusalem’s highly-tense Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, shortly after dozens of local Palestinian citizens and…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Update Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Two Palestinian Civilians, including child, killed, 22 others wounded, including 3 children, 2 journalists, and…
Illegal Israeli colonists vandalized, on Tuesday night, several Palestinian-owned vehicles in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA). Correspondent for…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Commenting on the fast-moving serious developments in the Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, Amnesty International (AI) today warned Israel that…
OSLO, Saturday, February 12, 2022 (WAFA) – Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt pledged yesterday to increase its funding to the UN Refugee and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…