Category: Gaza Siege

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, on Thursday at night, that a young man has died from serious wounds he suffered after Israeli soldiers attacked protesters on Palestinian lands near…

Israeli soldiers injured, Wednesday, many Palestinians during a procession on Palestinian lands near the perimeter fence, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Media sources said…

Israeli soldiers shot, on Tuesday evening, three young men with live fire, and caused dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation, during protests near the perimeter fence, east…

An Israeli sniper died on Monday, August 30th, after having sustained a critical gunshot injury, along the border wall with Gaza nine days earlier. Barel Hadaria Shmueli, 21, an Israeli…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Sunday evening, one Palestinian with live fire, and at least seventeen who suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after the army attacked a procession east…

The Israeli army fired, on Sunday at dawn, several missiles into areas in Gaza City and Beit Hanoun, in the besieged Gaza Strip, causing damage. Media sources said the army…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, eleven Palestinians, including three who suffered moderate wounds, during protests near the perimeter fence, east of Gaza city, in the besieged coastal region. The…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for August 19 - 25, 2021                                                                                         Israeli forces continued…

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that a child died, on Saturday at dawn, from serious wounds he suffered a week earlier after Israeli soldiers shot and seriously…

Fourteen Palestinians were shot, Wednesday, by Israeli forces, while drones dropped teargas canisters at those gathered at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, the Jerusalem Press reported.

Medical sources at the Shifa Medical Center, west of Gaza city, has reported on Wednesday morning, that a young Palestinian man died from serious wounds he suffered, on Saturday, August…

The Israeli army has decided, Tuesday, to increase the deployment of its forces along the perimeter fence, across the eastern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip, in what is called…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, a Palestinian merchant at the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border terminal, in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Media sources said the soldiers abducted a…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Monday at night, many missiles into several areas in the besieged Gaza strip, causing serious damage. Media sources in Gaza said the army fired four missiles…

The Israeli army fired, late on Saturday at night, many missiles into several areas in the Gaza Strip, causing severe damage, while Israeli navy ships opened fire at Palestinian fishing…

Update: Israeli sources report that an Israeli soldier was seriously injured when he was shot by a Palestinian protester through a hole in the perimeter wall where protesters were gathered.…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a teenage boy was injured after Israeli explosive ordnance detonated near him in Gaza city. The sources said the teen, Abdul-Rahman Ribhi Nour,…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for August 12 – 18, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations of international law and international humanitarian law against…

Several Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Palestinian agricultural lands east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, and bulldozed them in addition to firing live rounds and smoke…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Friday afternoon, at Palestinian fishing boats near the shore of Gaza city, in the besieged and impoverished coastal region. Media sources said one boat sustained…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) Summary for August 5 – 11, 2021 Israeli forces continued…

The Israeli army and the navy fired, Wednesday, many live rounds at Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the Gaza Strip. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed in military towers and…

Israeli soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded Palestinian farmlands, Monday, east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, and bulldozed them. Local sources said six tanks and armored bulldozers, stationed…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Monday morning, Palestinian farmlands in Khan Younis and al-Maghazi, in the besieged Gaza Strip. Media sources said four armored military vehicles, including a bulldozer,…

Israeli soldiers and the navy attacked, Monday, many Palestinian farmers, and fishermen, in the Gaza strip, causing damage, and forcing the Palestinians to leave. Media sources said Israeli navy ships…

The Israeli army claimed, on Monday morning, that the soldiers abducted four Palestinians overnight after they allegedly tried to breach the perimeter fence in the southern part of the besieged…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (July 15 – 28, 2021)                                                                                      Israeli forces continued to commit…

The Israeli government held a meeting to assess the security situation in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip and decided to ease some restrictions, including expanding the fishing zone. The…

The Israeli navy attacked, on Thursday morning, several Palestinian fishing boats in the northern part of the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, before abducting two fishermen. Zakariya Bakr of the…

The Israeli occupation authorities released, Wednesday, a Palestinian fisherman who was abducted seven years ago while fishing in Gaza territorial waters. The Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Daoud Bakr, was transferred…

July 27, 2021 – Human Rights Watch Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups carried out attacks during the May 2021 fighting in the Gaza Strip and Israel that violated the…

Several Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Palestinian farmlands, Monday, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and bulldozed them while firing live rounds. Media…

Several Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Palestinian agricultural lands, Tuesday, in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and bulldozed them. Media sources said the military vehicles…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening, three young Palestinian men after they reportedly breached the perimeter fence, in the southern part of the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) Summary for June 1 – 7, 2021 Israeli forces continued…

Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday morning, Palestinian farmlands east of the al-Qarara town, south of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Media sources said the…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, Monday, Palestinian farmlands east of Gaza city, and bulldozed them, in addition to installing sand hills near the perimeter fence, while military drones flew overhead.…

Nine out of ten children in the Gaza Strip suffer some form of conflict-related trauma after the Israeli military attack ended over a month ago. In a new report, the…

The Israeli army fired, on Saturday at night, several missiles into a site, south of Gaza city, and another area northeast of the city. Media sources said an Israeli fighter…

The Israeli air force, on Saturday, pounded the besieged Gaza Strip for the fourth time since the Egypt-brokered ceasefire on May 21, 2021, according to Quds News Network. Israeli jets…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for June 24 – 30, 2021 Israeli forces continued to…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary of Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for June 17 – 23, 2021

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Monday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Media sources said six armored bulldozers and…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the oPt (UNOCHA) – Protection of Civilians Report for June 1 – 14, 2021 Latest developments (after the reporting period)…

The Israeli army bombarded, on Thursday night, several sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Press reported. Quds Press correspondent stated, Israeli warplanes bombed a site of the Palestinian…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report of Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for June 10 – 16, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit…

Israeli warplanes fired missiles into the southern besieged Gaza Strip, early on Wednesday morning, breaking the ceasefire which brought the most recent eruption of violence to an end. Quds News…

Israeli soldiers, stationed across the perimeter fence, fire many live rounds at Palestinian farmers, Sunday, while working on their lands east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the…

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a child was killed, on Thursday morning, when an undetonated Israeli explosive that was dropped during the recent Israeli offensive on Gaza, exploded…

By Yasser Abu Jamei for Scientific American “Have you ever seen a six-month old baby with exaggerated startle response?” One of my colleagues who works on our telephone counseling service…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) Protection of Civilians Report | 24-31 May 2021 Highlights from the reporting period

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations for May 27 – June 2, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations…

In a press statement, Wednesday, the Ministry of Interior and National Security announced the death of two Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip after an Israeli ordnance exploded in Deir…

June 1, 2021 (QNN) – Over 1,000 Canadian artists and cultural workers have signed a statement calling on the Canadian government to impose military and economic sanctions on the occupation…

24 May 2021: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem):  With Israel’s latest round of bombing in the Gaza Strip over, the standard whitewashing is…

May 27, 2021 – (Al-Haq) On 21 May 2021, a ceasefire announced the ending of Israel’s 11-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of at…

Following ten days of massive Israeli bombardment of civilian areas in all parts of the Gaza Strip, over 250 Palestinians were killed – 67 of them children. Now, more bodies…

Palestinian medical sources have confirmed, Monday, that two young men died from serios wounds they suffered when the Israeli army bombarded Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern…

By Robert Inlakesh for Quds News Network When this Friday’s ceasefire was announced between Palestinian resistance groups and ‘Israel’, there was only one side celebrating, the Palestinians, who had taken…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report Summary of Israeli Human Rights Violations from May 11 – 19, 2021 The Israeli army continued to commit crimes and multi-layered…

Four Palestinians were killed, on Thursday evening, and many others were injured, in a series of Israeli strikes and bombings in Gaza city, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia. Media sources…

  In a press release, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) urgently called on the Government of Israel to enable humanitarian…

Israeli forces have displayed a shocking disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians by carrying out a number of airstrikes targeting residential buildings in some cases killing entire families –…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock: Statement on the situation in…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA): Escalation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Israel | Flash Update #8…

The Egyptian government on Tuesday submitted to Israeli government officials and to representatives of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza a proposal for a ceasefire beginning 6 am Thursday morning. Hamas…

The Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Sunday evening that the death toll due to Israel’s offensive targeting the besieged Gaza Strip and the West Bank has reached 209. In the…

MAY 15, 2021: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin:  A huge crowd gathered as The Derry Branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a protest and banner drop at…

The Israeli military invaded the Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem on Friday, in direct violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids military forces from invading hospitals…

Late Thursday night, the fourth day of the current Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military says it has begun ground invasion of Gaza. The announcement came in…

As the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued Thursday for the fourth straight day, thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank poured into the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to…

Israeli soldiers killed, Wednesday, at least twenty Palestinians during ongoing bombardment and shelling targeting all parts of the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli missiles struck homes, residential buildings,…

On Wednesday at dawn, the Israeli army and Air Force carried out extensive bombings and airstrikes targeting dozens of homes, government facilities, police headquarters, security, and intelligence centers, in the…

The Israeli army carried out, Tuesday, a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip, causing excessive property damage, in addition to killing at least seven Palestinians, and…

The Israeli army fired on Monday at dawn, several missiles, and shells into various areas in the northern, central, and southern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip. Media sources in…

Israeli soldiers fired on Sunday at dawn, several missiles into two sites in Deir al-Balah city, in central Gaza Strip. Media sources said an Israeli F16 fighter jet fired missiles…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Saturday at night, at least three Palestinians during protests that took place on their lands near the perimeter fence, east of Gaza city, in…

Israeli soldiers fired, Saturday, many live rounds and concussion grenades at Palestinian farmers near Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, while Israeli navy ships attacked fishing…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Protection of Civilians Report for April 13-26, 2021 Latest development On 29 April, Israel removed the restrictions on the…

  Summary for April 22 – 28, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are…

Press Release: Israel’s arbitrary closure of Gaza fishing zone is a form of collective punishment: Al Mezan condemns the act and warns of further deterioration in humanitarian conditions 27-04-2021: Short Link:…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Tuesday at night, a small Palestinian fishing boat near the al-Waha shore, west of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, wounding a fisherman. On Wednesday morning,…

By Khader Zanoun for Palestinian WAFA News Agency   The Israeli closure of the sea in the Gaza Strip increases the suffering of the fishermen who are paying a heavy…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Tuesday morning, many rounds of live ammunition into Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said…

The Israeli occupation authorities closed, on Monday, the entire fishing zone in the besieged Gaza Strip, under the pretext that Palestinian resistance factions allegedly fired rockets towards Israel Sunday night,…

The Israeli army fired, on Saturday at dawn, several shells, some hitting targets believed to be run by armed resistance groups in the besieged Gaza Strip, after the military claimed…

Summary for April 15 – 21, 2021 Israeli occupation soldiers continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are…

Several Israeli military vehicles, including armored bulldozers, invaded Palestinian lands, Thursday, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and bulldozed them in addition to firing sporadic…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, Wednesday, Palestinian farmlands near the perimeter fence, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and fired many rounds of live ammunition.…

Israeli soldiers fired, Monday, many live rounds at Palestinian farmers and swaths of farmlands near Khan Younis, in the southern part of the impoverished coastal region. Media sources said the…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Protection of Civilian Report for March 30 – April 12, 2021 On 6 April, Israeli forces shot at a car,…

Israeli warplanes attacked, on Saturday at dawn, several sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, injuring at least two Palestinians, after bombarding the coastal region less than one day ago, during…

The Israeli army fired, shortly after midnight, several artillery shells, and missiles into a few sites in the Gaza Strip, causing damage. Media sources said the soldiers fired several artillery…

Summary for April 08 – 14, 2021 Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians…