Category: Palestine

By Bilal Gheith Kiswani, Published in Arabic by WAFA News: A growing bloc of Western nations, including the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, Malta, Luxembourg, Andorra, and Monaco, has…

In their capacity as co-chairs of the High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia…

As of September 22, 2025, the State of Palestine is formally recognized by at least 155 of the 193 United Nations member states. This marks a decisive shift in global…

On Sunday, Canada, Britain, Australia, and Portugal, officially recognized the state of Palestine, eliciting strong reactions from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and its National Security…

Israeli forces, on Sunday, shot a Palestinian man near Bethlehem, assaulted another in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, and abducted many others in Tulkarem, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Hebron. Media…

Former Knesset member Haneen Zoabi was released Sunday evening following hours of interrogation by Israeli police in Tiberias. Her detention earlier that morning, which involved a pre-dawn invasion of her…

At its 28th session, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress adopted a resolution to enhance the status of the State of Palestine within the organization, granting it broader privileges as…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the international community not to be deterred by Israeli backlash over the expected recognition of Palestinian statehood. In a press interview Guterres…

Thursday September 18th was the deadline set by the General Assembly for Israel to end its occupation of the territory of the State of Palestine. But the date passed with…

Israeli forces carried out an extensive abduction campaign, on Friday night, affecting dozens of Palestinians in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the southern West Bank. Media…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man with live rounds in the city of Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, assaulted another in the village of…

Updated: Israeli forces besieged and bombed a Palestinian home in the town of Surda, north of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, before dawn on Friday, and abducted a…

In a historic session marking the 10,000th meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the United States cast its veto against a resolution calling for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent…

As Israeli bombardment intensifies across Gaza City, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned the mass forced displacement of civilians as a “deadly threat to the most vulnerable.” Speaking from…

On Monday, a coalition of more than 80 international non-governmental organizations, including Oxfam and the Human Rights League, called on governments and corporations, particularly in Europe, to cease all forms…

In a move widely interpreted as political pressure on Israel to halt the genocide in Gaza, the Spanish government has officially canceled a major arms contract with Israeli defense companies…

Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian worker, on Monday, in the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem. Occupation forces killed another worker just hours before, in the…

On Saturday, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian child in the Qalandia refugee camp, in addition to shooting a 57-year-old man in the town of Ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem. Media…

On Saturday morning, Israeli forces shot a 60-year-old Palestinian man in the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS)…

In a decisive overwhelming vote, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration” as a framework for implementing the two-state solution and establishing an independent…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinian young men with live rounds, on Friday, one of whom was critically wounded, after invading the Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem. This comes…

Israeli forces carried out, on Thursday, a massive abduction campaign against a large number of Palestinian young men and children after besieging the city of Tulkarem, in the northwestern part…

On Thursday, Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian family to carry out the demolition of their own home in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank.…

Israeli forces shot and abducted a Palestinian young man, on Thursday, in the town of Ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, and continued its siege on towns to the northwest, and…

Ramallah, September 9, 2025 (WAFA) – More than 138 economists from around the world, including prominent professors, researchers, and academics, condemned Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war against the…

An illegal Israeli colonizer wounded a Palestinian on Tuesday evening, after ramming him with his vehicle in the town of Sa’ir, north of Hebron on the southern West Bank. In…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces shot two Palestinian young men, one in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank, and another in the town of Biddu,…

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian children and injured four citizens, including two seriously, on Monday, after families attempted to enter the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank.…

On Monday, two Palestinian young men allegedly carried out a shooting in occupied Jerusalem, killing six Israelis and injuring many others, before being killed at the scene. Media sources said…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate stated that August 2025 one of the bloodiest months for media workers in Palestine, with Israeli occupation forces killing 15 journalists, including three women: Marwa Muslim,…

Israeli forces assaulted three Palestinian men on Friday, near the Deir Sharaf military roadblock, northwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. On Thursday, the occupation army shot a…

Israeli forces fatally shot a Palestinian citizen, on Friday, after stopping his vehicle at the Al-Murabba’a military roadblock, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The General Authority…

In a move that has sparked outrage across human rights circles, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Thursday against three leading Palestinian organizations known for documenting Israeli violations and pushing…

from DropSite News: Hamas’s political leadership is reaffirming its willingness to make a deal that would see all Israeli captives released immediately in return for a ceasefire agreement that would…

Israeli forces demolished, on Thursday, an agricultural room in the town of Deir Ballout, west of Salfit in the central West Bank, and abducted five citizens in the governorate. Northwest…

On Thursday, Israeli forces shot two Palestinians, including a child, after storming the Al-Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank. Media sources said that occupation…

September 2, 2025 – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – In August 2025, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) and Israeli settlers continued their crimes and violations of human rights…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces abducted at least nineteen Palestinian citizens in various parts of the occupied West Bank, in addition to shooting two young men with live ammunition in Jericho,…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man and abducted another on Wednesday, after invading the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health…

Israeli forces demolished three Palestinian-owned homes, on Tuesday, in the Qalqilia, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem governorates in the occupied West Bank. Khalil Muammar, member of the Battir Municipal Council told the…

Israeli forces abducted four Palestinians in the Nablus and Bethlehem governorates, in the northern and southern parts of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said that occupation forces assaulted and…

Illegal Israeli colonizers carried out several attacks against Palestinian citizens and their property on Tuesday, injuring one and taking over a citizen’s home, in various parts of the occupied West…

On August 29, the U.S. State Department denied visas to approximately 80 Palestinian officials, including President Abbas, citing “national security” concerns. |CBS: Palestinian president’s visa to the U.S. revoked ahead…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has warmly welcomed the announcement by Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot, declaring Belgium’s intention to formally recognize the…

A Palestinian child was injured on Monday, after an illegal Israeli settler struck her with his vehicle, in the town of As-Samu, south of Hebron, while colonizers burned agricultural lands…

Including a woman and three children, Israeli forces shot at least seven Palestinians, abducting a wounded young man, after invading the town of Tammun, south of Tubas in the northeastern…

On Sunday, Israeli forces shot five Palestinians and injured others after invading the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron,…

The U.S. State Department has issued a directive barring Palestinian officials and diplomats, especially President Mahmoud Abbas, from attending next month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York. The decision,…

For months, Israeli hasbarists have pushed a set of “gotcha” tropes to debunk the existence of famine in Gaza. Jeremy Konyndyk of Refugees International published the following thread, showing that…

In a statement released on Wednesday, the National Campaign for the Recovery of Martyrs’ Bodies, announced that the Israeli occupation continues to withhold the bodies of 726 Palestinians from the…

August 25, 2025 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the double compounded crime committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)…

Israeli forces wounded several Palestinian citizens, including children, on Wednesday, and abducted others, after invading and besieging the Old City of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian…

In a decisive move reflecting the growing weight of ethical investment standards, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, valued at over $2 trillion and recognized as the largest of its kind globally,…

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy issued a strong condemnation on Wednesday of Israel’s colonialist expansion plan in the area known as E1, warning that its implementation would constitute a blatant…

Report By AMNESTY International: Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life, Amnesty…

Israeli soldiers and police forces conducted home demolitions Monday morning in the “unrecognized” village of Al-Sirr, located on the outskirts of Shoqeib as-Salam in the Naqab (Negev). The attack targeted…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 47 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including at least 14 aid seekers. In total, Israel has…

Brazil has strongly condemned Israel’s expansionist “E1” illegal colonial project, warning that it poses a grave geopolitical threat to the viability of a sovereign Palestinian state by severing occupied East…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man, on Saturday, in the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank, in addition to shooting a child with live…

Foreign ministers from 31 Arab and Islamic nations, joined by leaders of the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Gulf Cooperation Council, issued a joint statement condemning…

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has sparked widespread outrage following his declaration that the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital would be “tantamount to national…

Israeli paramilitary colonizers killed a Palestinian man, on Wednesday, after invading the village of Douma, southeast of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that…

August 11, 2025 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the horrific crime committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), who assassinated six journalists,…

A well-informed source disclosed to Sky News Arabia on Monday evening that Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with Turkish involvement, are preparing a new initiative aimed at presenting a viable proposal…

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have jointly condemned Israel’s escalating restrictions on legal teams monitoring the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners. These…

August 10, 2025 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns of the catastrophic consequences of Israel’s continued policy of using starvation as a weapon of war against the…

On Sunday, Israeli colonizers burned Palestinian property near Salfit, in the central West Bank, and established illegal settlement outposts, while occupation soldiers assaulted an anti-settlement activist south of Hebron in…

  August 8, 2025 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns of the catastrophic consequences of the recently announced Israeli plan to take full control of Gaza City,…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres voiced grave concern over Israel’s decision to occupy Gaza, describing the move as a dangerous escalation that could deepen the already dire humanitarian crisis facing millions…

The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society have announced the death of Ahmad Sa’id Saleh Tazaz’a, a 20-year-old administrative detainee…

A joint report issued by the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has revealed a serious escalation in…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man and wounded several others, on Sunday, after storming the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while allowing large numbers of illegal Israeli colonizers…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinian children, on Sunday afternoon, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The army also invaded the town of Bruqin, west of the city, and…

Thousands of illegal Israeli colonizers, including Knesset members, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday, in a serious escalation. In response, several world leaders and Palestinian factions have…

On Saturday afternoon, three Palestinians, including a child and two young women, sustained injuries after Israeli forces rammed the vehicle they were in, in the northern West Bank city of…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers and occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man and wounded eight others, on Saturday evening, after invading the town of Aqraba, southeast of Nablus…

On Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers burned six residential barracks in the Arab Mleihat community, northwest of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. WAFA correspondent reported that…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young woman, on Thursday evening, in the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank. The city of Tulkarem and its…

The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ): 1,444 settler attacks this year, 38 communities displaced from their homes Bethlehem, July 31, 2025 (WAFA) – The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem…

On Thursday evening, illegal Israeli colonizers carried out several attacks against Palestinians and their properties in the governorates of Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem, and Salfit, causing damage. In Ramallah, occupation forces…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed the New York Declaration, adopted under the Saudi-French co-chairmanship of the international conference and its working groups. The Ministry described the…

At the conclusion of the High-Level International Conference on the Peaceful Resolution of the Palestinian Question, jointly chaired by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of France, the…

July 2025 – B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine Since October 2023, Israel has shifted its policy toward the Palestinians. Its military onslaught on…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man, on Monday evening, after shooting him with live rounds at the northern entrance to the city of Hebron, in the southern occupied West…

A Palestinian young man was shot and killed by an illegal Israeli colonizer, on Monday, in the village of Umm al-Khair in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron in…

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, today officially endorsed the grassroots organic campaign to boycott ZARA. A statement by the organization proclaimed,…

The Israeli occupation forces attacked the “Handala” ship, which was carrying international activists and desperately needed humanitarian aid, on its way to the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to break…

The so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), a private company based in Delaware and run by a close associate of Donald Trump, set up shop in Gaza in late May with…

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian children and wounded two others, on Wednesday night, after invading the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian…

Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Theodosius Atallah Hanna: Yesterday, Tel Aviv witnessed a massive demonstration calling for an end to the war of extermination and…

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian child and wounded another, on Wednesday night, in the town of Arraba, southwest of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank. In the…

More than 100 international humanitarian organizations called on governments around the world to take immediate action to open all land crossings with the Gaza Strip, restore the full flow of…

In a landmark decision within the European Union, Slovenia has officially barred Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering its territory. The move, announced…

South Africa’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusi Madonsela, condemned Israel’s continued practices that perpetuate occupation and genocide in the Gaza Strip, despite advisory opinions and provisional measures issued by the…

On Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers assaulted and injured a Palestinian worker, abducted dozens of Palestinian citizens and assaulted others, while illegal colonizers stormed several areas, assaulted…

Report from ‘The Cradle’ news agency: The condition of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital who was abducted by Israeli forces at the end of…

July 14, 2025 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) In a serious and compound crime, Israeli settler militias killed two Palestinian civilians, one of them held U.S. citizenship,…

All three members of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating human rights violations in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have resigned, citing the need for a…

Nearly 60 members of Parliament from the British Labour Party have signed a public letter calling on the UK government to immediately recognize the State of Palestine. The lawmakers also…