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On Tuesday, Israeli forces shot and killed a 24-year-old Palestinian, identified as ‘Aahed Abdul-Rahman Mahmoud Ekhlayyel, 24, from Beit Ummar village, near the military base of Gush Etzion, in the southern…
Report By The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories B’Tselem: Over the course of 2020, Israeli security forces killed 27 Palestinians, seven of them minors: one…
On Monday, a group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, west of Bethlehem city, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, flooded farmlands with wastewater. Mohammad…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, Anata Palestinian town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, before demolishing structures and walls, only a week after issuing the destruction orders. Taha Refa’ey, the Mayor of…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, three young Palestinian men from occupied East Jerusalem, and one near Bethlehem, in the West Bank. The soldiers stormed and searched homes in…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, seven Palestinians from their homes in Hebron governorate, in southern West Bank, and one Palestinian from Nablus, in the northern part. The soldiers…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, before storming into Thabet Thabet governmental hospital, and fired several concussion grenades. Dr. Haitham Shadeed, the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho Palestinian city in the West Bank, and shot two Palestinians with live fire, one with a…
A group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, attacked on Monday morning Palestinian homes, and punctured the tires of several vehicles, in Sarta village, west of the…
An Israeli settler was injured with a stone, on Sunday, as she was driving through the central occupied West Bank, Israel’s Y-Net News reported. The stone, thrown by unidentified individuals,…
Palestinian villagers from Wad Fukin, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, managed to foil an attack by a group of illegal Israeli colonists targeting their…
Israeli soldiers bulldozed and uprooted, Sunday, large areas of Palestinian olive orchards in Khallet Hassan village, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit. The attack is linked to…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Sunday, twenty Palestinians, from several parts of the occupied West Bank, most of them from Deir Nitham village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah,…
Israeli soldiers injured, Saturday, dozens of Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, after the army attacked the weekly procession. Morad Eshteiwi, the…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening, two Palestinian teenage boys in Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources in Beit Fajjar…
Groups of illegal Israeli colonists continued, Saturday, their violations and escalation against the Palestinians, and attacked farmers near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, in addition to Shepherds in…
Israeli soldiers killed 48 Palestinians, including two women and eight children, during the ongoing and escalating violations against the Palestinian people, in the year 2020, the Martyrs’ Families Coalition has…
Illegal Israeli colonists uprooted, Friday, more than 300 Palestinian olive trees in the at-Taerat area, west of Hares town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Salfit. Media sources…
Illegal Israeli colonists, squatting on Palestinian lands, attacked many Palestinians, including shepherds, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and south of Hebron, in southern West Bank. Ghassan…
The Israeli occupation army opened fire at Palestinian protestors, Friday, injuring dozens, during the weekly anti-settlement march in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank.…
Summary for December 24 – 30, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
The Israeli occupation army, on Wednesday, shot and injured two Palestinian young men southwest of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. The two…
Israeli soldiers handed, on Thursday at dawn, the corpse of a slain Palestinian, who was shot by the army more than ten months ago, back to his family for burial,…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, fourteen Palestinians, including several children, from their homes, and injured a young man with an expanding bullet, in the occupied West Bank, the…
The Israeli army delivered a halt construction order, on Tuesday, to a Palestinian citizen in the southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Ali Mousa’s under-construction home,…
Israeli soldiers uprooted, Tuesday, at least 350 Palestinian olive trees, and demolished three residential structures and attacked journalists in the Arab az-Zayed Bedouin community in the Noweima village, north of…
Israeli soldiers shot, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian worker near Barta’a town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers shot Rafat Yasser Salah, 27,…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, 24 Palestinians, including many former political prisoners and a journalist, after the army invaded and ransacked dozens of…
Dozens of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, attack and caused damage to Palestinian cars, on Tuesday evening, north and west of the northern West Bank city of…
Israeli soldiers demolished Tuesday, a residential shed, and a tent, in Wad Ejheish area, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Media sources said…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Tuesday before noon, five Palestinians, including children, and abducted three others, after the army invaded the al-Khaldiyya area, in Yatta town, south of Hebron city, in…
In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning, hundreds of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes, businesses and vehicles in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. This is a neighborhood that…
The mayor of Deir Jarir village, on Friday, was shot with a rubber-coated steel round, when Israeli troops suppressed a peaceful demonstration northeast of Ramallah, in the central occupied West…
Israeli forces, on Friday, fired rubber-coated steel rounds and tear-gas at the participants of the weekly peaceful procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, injuring two, and causing many others to choke…
Summary for December 17 – 23, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Undercover Israeli forces abducted, Thursday, a Palestinian man believed to be behind the death of an Israeli settler, last Monday, near Nablus, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the…
United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory (UNOCHA) Protection of Civilians Report: December 8-21, 2020 On 21 December, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy from Qabatiya (Jenin)…
On Tuesday night and Wednesday at dawn, Israeli forces detained a number of Palestinian civilians from the occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) seven civilians were…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers summoned for interrogation Omar Sadeq Kamil, the father of the Palestinian teen who was killed by the army, on Monday evening, in occupied Jerusalem, and informed…
Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian land, have escalated their attacks against the Palestinian people, injured one child in addition to attempting to ram three child siblings with a car.…
Israeli forces, on Monday, opened fire at Palestinians in Nablus city, northern occupied West Bank, injuring a number of them, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Medical sources announced that five…
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Monday evening, a young Palestinian man near Bab Hutta Gate, in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, after he reportedly opened fire at…
Palestinian medical sources said a man was injured, Monday, after an illegal Israeli colonist rammed him with his car, east of Sa’ir town, north of the southern West Bank city…
An Israeli settler woman was found dead, Monday, near Tel Menashe illegal colony, near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, in what Israel speculates an attack…
Israeli security services announced the detention, Sunday, of the Palestinian man accused of throwing a molotov cocktail at an Israeli soldier, on Saturday night, east of the northern West Bank…
A large Israeli army force invaded Kufur Qaddoum village, Saturday, during the weekly march, and fired tear-gas canisters, causing dozens to suffocate. The Coordinator of the popular resistance committee, Morad…
A large crowd of illegal Israeli settlers, on Saturday, under the protection of occupation soldiers, led an assault on Palestinian civilians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian…
Summary Record number of demolitions and seizures since OCHA started documenting this practice in 2009. The freeze on the demolition of inhabited homes in East Jerusalem was discontinued on 11…
On Friday afternoon, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian-owned vehicles travelling along the Nablus-Jenin Road, in the northern occupied West Bank, local sources have reported. According to the Palestinian News Agency WAFA,…
A Palestinian teen was shot in the face by Israeli soldiers, on Friday, while dozens more suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation when Israeli troops were confronted by Palestinian…
Scores of Palestinians, on Friday, joined family members at the funeral of Abed Al Fatah Obiyat, the worker who was found dead under suspicious circumstances at his workplace in occupied…
Summary for December 10 – 16, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Israeli soldiers fired, Thursday, many gas bombs into a school in Aneen village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, causing dozens of students and teachers to suffer…
AMMAN, Thursday, December 17, 2020 (WAFA) – The Jordanian Foreign Ministry today condemned the adoption by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in its preliminary reading, of a law legalizing settlement outposts…
A group of illegal fanatic Israeli colonists uprooted, Thursday, 250 Palestinian olive saplings in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Ahmad Ghazal, the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday evening, the village of Aneen, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and handed demolition orders targeting eleven kiosks. Baher Yassin, the head…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at night and Thursday at dawn, eight Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has…
The Israeli occupation bulldozers, on Tuesday evening, leveled Palestinian-owned farmland in the Farsh al-Hawa area, west of southern West Bank city of Hebron. Security sources told Palestinian WAFA News Agency…
Israeli soldiers injured, Wednesday, fourteen Palestinians, including two young women, in Sebastia town, northwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after the army accompanied dozens of illegal colonists…
Illegal Israeli settlers, late Tuesday night, attacked Palestinian-owned homes in Kisan village, while another group assaulted Palestinian shepherds, the Palestinian Information Center reported. East of Bethlehem in the southern occupied…
Israeli police forces, on Wednesday, invaded the home of Mohamed al-Ajlouni of occupied East Jerusalem, and detained the Palestinian young man and his wife, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Police…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least ten Palestinians, including two children, from their homes, and confiscated two tractors, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The…
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has confirmed that another Palestinian detainee, held by Israel, has contracted the coronavirus. The Commission stated that the detainee has been identified…
A large group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, installed tents, Tuesday, in Jabal al-Jomjoma hill north of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied…
Two Palestinian homes were dismantled by Israeli forces, on Monday, near az-Za’ayyem town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, while others received eviction orders. According to Palestinian WAFA News correspondent, occupation…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, December 15, 2020 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities have approved the building of thousands of new colonial settler units at the expense of seized Palestinian land extending…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday evening, a Palestinian teenage boy who was shot below his eye, on December 6th, in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied East Jerusalem. The soldiers also…
Today, 14 December 2020, Al-Haq launches a new report “DEPRIVED A VOICE: An Investigation into Shrinking Space in Area C” which examines the daily harassment of human rights defenders by…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, many Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank, before violently searching them, causing damage, and abducted six Palestinians, including the father of a…
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian teenage boys, after the army invaded the Shweika neighborhood, to the north of Tulkarem, in the northern part of the…
Israeli soldiers and workers of the City Council in the occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, invaded Palestinian lands, and bulldozed walls in addition to a staircase leading near the…
The Israeli Prison Administration forced a Palestinian detainee, who is serving a life term, into solitary confinement only three weeks after he was removed from solitary after spending eight months…
Two Palestinian brothers demolished, Saturday, the second floor of their house, as ordered by the Israeli authorities in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Mohamed and Mahmoud al-Khales,…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, five Palestinians, including former political prisoners, from Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and two near Jerusalem. Several army jeeps…
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Saturday night after midnight, several Palestinian homes the al-Odaisah village, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and threatened…
A report issued by several human rights and information centers groups in occupied Palestine stated that Israeli soldiers abducted at least 413 Palestinians, including 49 children and seven women, in…
A group of illegal fanatic Israeli colonists attacked, Saturday, a Palestinian journalist in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, causing cuts and bruises. Eyewitnesses said…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, several Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, and caused severe damage to the interior walls…
The Israeli occupation authorities slapped, Thursday, a detained Palestinian teen with a new administrative detention order for the fourth consecutive time, holding him for four additional months without charges or…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Protection of Civilians Report | November 24 – December 7, 2020 Israeli forces shot and killed…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, many Palestinians participating in a nonviolent activity to plant olive saplings on their lands which Israeli intends to illegal annex, in Beit Dajan village, east of…
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a deaf and mute man, who was shot by Israeli soldiers on August 17th, 2020, has died from complications related to his wounds.…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, dozens of nonviolent Palestinian protesters in the al-Mughayyir Palestinian village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The residents were protesting the illegal annexation…
Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, earlier Friday, privately-owned Palestinian lands on a hill in the al-Baq’a area, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and installed a…
Summary for December 3 – 9, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
The Palestinian Information Ministry has reported that Israeli soldiers have killed seven Palestinian children in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, since the beginning of this year. The ministry…
Israel military forces issued demolition notices to a number of Palestinian landowners in Yatta village, near Hebron in the southern West Bank. The pretext for the demolition order was that…
The following statement was released by Amnesty International on December 10,2020: As Airbnb prepares to go public in a multi-billion-dollar Initial Public Offering (IPO) it must withdraw listings of rental…
Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Wednesday morning, the town of Jaba’, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, injured six Palestinians, and caused dozens to suffer the effects of…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, nineteen Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. Media sources in Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, said the…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, three Palestinians from their homes, near Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded Harmala…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, the al-Qaboun area, east of the al-al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, before demolishing a barn and confiscating a tent. Ami…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, ten Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, after the army stormed and ransacked many houses and buildings,…
According to Israeli sources, the head of the “Regional Council of Settlements, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, arrived in Dubai two days ago, accompanied by heads…
The Israeli occupation authorities have decided to snatch large areas of privately-owned Palestinian lands, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, to expand the illegal Yitzhar colony. Ghassan…
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured a Palestinian, Monday, reportedly after he attempted to stab them, at the Qalandia terminal, north of occupied East Jerusalem. The Israeli army claimed the…
Israeli soldiers demolished, Monday, two rooms, built on private Palestinian lands in the al-Minya village, southeast of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The army also ordered the removal of…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, three Palestinians from Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, and one from occupied Jerusalem, instantly after his release after he was held captive for more than five…
Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Monday, Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem, shot and injured four Palestinians, including three who suffered serious wounds, and abducted two young men.…