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Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, nonviolent Palestinian protesters marching against Israel’s illegal colonies in Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and Deir Jarir, northeast of…
A Palestinian teenager sustained moderate injuries today after a piece of ordnance left behind the Israeli occupation army exploded in the area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, Palestinian communities in Jenin, Hebron, and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and abducted five Palestinians. The Palestinian Prisoners Society…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Thursday evening, dozens of Palestinians in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Mohammad Awad, a local media…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, a Palestinian Bedouin community near Beit Iksa village, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and dismantled eight residential sheds. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers dismantled the eight…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday evening, a former political prisoner from Khirbat Umm Dar village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Montaser Sammour, the head of the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at night, the village of Tayasir, east of Tubas in northeastern West Bank, and searched many homes. Media sources in Tubas, said several army jeeps…
A report released by the Palestinian Prisoners Society Wednesday found that 226 prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons have died in detention since 1967. This is in addition to hundreds…
In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of December 31, 2020 – January 6, 2021, the Palestinian Center for Human…
The Israeli government approved a colonialist plan aiming at constructing 1406 units on stolen Palestinian lands east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Rafe’ Rawajba,…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, three Palestinians from Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, and in Hebron, in the southern part. Several army jeeps invaded Qalqilia, before the soldiers…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Wednesday evening, many Palestinians in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied Jerusalem. Local sources said the soldiers invaded the town, especially the ‘Obeid neighborhood, before stopping and…
Several illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Thursday, several Palestinians on their lands in Kafr Malik village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and injured three. Eyewitnesses said the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Palestinian communities in Bethlehem and Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, shot a young man and abducted five others. Media sources in Bethlehem,…
Press Release: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and Al Dameer (the organisations) express concern that significant time has passed since the opening of…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Wednesday evening, dozens of Palestinians in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in southern West Bank. Media sources in…
The Israeli occupation authorities uprooted, Wednesday, a plan for the illegal annexation of 1008 Dunams of Palestinian lands near Qalqilia, in northern West Bank. Salfit governor, Abdullah Kamil, has reported…
In an ongoing and serious escalation, Israeli soldiers cut and uprooted more than 3400 Palestinian olive trees and saplings, owned by Palestinian villagers of Deir Ballout, west of Salfit, in…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, two Palestinians in Nablus governorate, two in Hebron, and one in Ramallah, in the northern, southern, and central parts of the occupied West…
Ramallah: Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” issued its monthly observatory for the month of December 2020 regarding the Israeli demolition, confiscation, eviction and seizure operations against Palestinian establishments, whether religious, tourist,…
Groups of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Tuesday, dozens of Palestinian cars near Ramallah, Jenin, and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, causing damage, and burnt tires to block traffic.…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday evening, the al-Khader Palestinian town, south of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and demolished an agricultural room, in addition to uprooting…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, many communities in Tulkarem, Nablus, and Jenin, in northern West Bank, abducted eight Palestinians, and confiscated a bulldozer. Media sources in Tulkarem said the soldiers invaded…
A large group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists, accompanied by dozens of soldiers, invaded the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Tuesday, amidst calls for demolishing it, while the soldiers also…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Monday evening, many Palestinians in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp and Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, in addition to Ya’bad…
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…