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JERUSALEM, Monday, May 16, 2022 (WAFA) – The top church leaders in Jerusalem today condemned in a statement Israeli police brutality at St. Joseph’s hospital during the funeral of slain…
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…
Israeli soldiers shot, Wednesday evening, a young Palestinian man near Bab al-Qattanin, one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media…
Israeli troops attacked Palestinian civilians near Nablus, shooting thirteen with rubber-coated steel bullets and one with live ammunition near dawn on Tuesday. The confrontation took place when Israeli soldiers invaded…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured a young Palestinian in a police post in Bab al-Amoud in occupied Jerusalem after alleging stabbing officers. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center…
On Wednesday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted the deputy director of the Islamic Waqf and Endowment Department in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers…
Israeli soldiers injured dozens of Palestinians in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the al-Qibli Mosque in the holy compound, in the occupied Palestinian capital Jerusalem, in the…
The Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Theodosios Attallah Hanna, saluted the Palestinian people in occupied Jerusalem for remaining steadfast in defending their city, holy sites,…
On Friday night after midnight, Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinians from Bethlehem while returning from occupied Jerusalem after praying in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers…
On Saturday dawn, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a bus filled with worshipers heading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, wounding several Palestinians. Media sources said the Palestinians came in…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians, including a young woman and a child, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped a young woman while…
Israeli soldiers injured dozens of Palestinians, including a journalist, and attacked medics in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Dozens of soldiers and…
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…
Israeli soldiers abducted Thursday evening, five Palestinians, including a child, a journalist, and a woman, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers abducted a journalist,…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Thursday dawn, many Muslim worshipers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem after dozens of soldiers invaded its courtyards through the al-Magharba gate. The soldiers fired many…
Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians in Qalqilia and Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank on Thursday dawn. The soldiers invaded Qalqilia city before storming and ransacking homes and abducted Wisam…
Thousands of Orthodox Christians from around the world gathered in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Saturday for the ceremony of the Holy Fire in advance of the Orthodox…
Updated: The Israeli attacks against the worshipers in Al-Aqsa, in occupied Jerusalem, led to the injury of at least 67 Palestinians, including women and children, and a young man who…
On Friday night, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian with a live round and caused dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron,…
GENEVA, Friday, April 22, 2022 (WAFA) – The United Nations has voiced deep concern at the worsening security situation in occupied Palestine in the aftermath of Israel’s daily assaults over…
Palestinian Christians who are members of the Eatern Orthodox tradition are waiting for the Israeli High Court to make a decision as to whether they will be allowed to practice…
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…
Israeli soldiers injured, Thursday, at least twenty Palestinians as the army continued for the fifth consecutive day its invasions and violations in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the…
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…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, Thursday morning, the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, in the West Bank, just before hundreds of Israeli colonizers stormed the…
Hundreds of Israeli settlers organized a provocative march in the occupied city of Jerusalem on Wednesday, waving Israeli flags and chanting anti-Palestinian slogans while marching through Palestinian areas. The march…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers abducted eight Palestinians and injured at least six from several parts of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians after the army accompanied hundreds of colonizers into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Eyewitnesses…
The Tunisian Foreign Minister, Othman Grandi, on Monday pledged his country’s readiness to provide support to the people of Palestine in the face of the ongoing Israeli aggression, particularly in…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday morning, the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem to accompany dozens of illegal colonizers into the holy site and attacked many…
Israeli soldiers shot, on Sunday night, one Palestinian and attacked dozens in the at-Tour town in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center…
Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians, assaulted a child, and fired gas bombs at a mosque after the army attacked a nonviolent procession marking April 17, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, in…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers and police officers continued the invasions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, wounding at least nineteen Palestinians, and abducting five. The…
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…
Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight, twelve Palestinians, including at least one child, from their homes in several parts of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the…
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 Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): At least 153 Palestinians were wounded, including six in critical state, three journalists, and three paramedics, during the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raid and…
Updated: Israeli soldiers injured, Friday dawn, at least ninety Palestinians, mainly to the upper body, including at least two who suffered serious wounds, in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque,…
On Friday evening, Israeli soldiers assaulted and injured several Palestinians in the Bab al-‘Amoud area in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and abducted three young men.…
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers assaulted many Palestinians and abducted three young men in the Bab al-Amoud area of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday afternoon, a young Palestinian man from his home in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) said the soldiers…
Israeli soldiers abducted six Palestinians on Wednesday evening and assaulted two of them after leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque following evening prayers in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The WAFA…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday night, five Palestinians and injured many others in Bab al-Amoud in occupied Jerusalem, on the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers chased many Palestinians in…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Sunday night, dozens of Palestinians after leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, wounding nineteen and abducting ten others. The…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers abducted a young Palestinian woman in Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Local sources said dozens of soldiers and police officers…
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…
On Monday morning, the Israeli army attacked Palestinian farmers and their lands with live fire and gas bombs, east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.…
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…
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…
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…
JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 10, 2022 (WAFA) – The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, today denounced the visit of former US Vice President Mike Pence to the Ibrahimi…
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.…
Update: The slain Palestinian has been officially identified as Karim Jamal al-Qawasmi, 19, from the at-Tour town, in occupied Jerusalem. Dozens of Israeli soldiers, police, and intelligence officers invaded his…
On Monday night, Israeli soldiers injured dozens of Palestinians, including children, and abducted many others after the army and the police assaulted the Palestinians In Bab al-Amoud, in the occupied…
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…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked a procession commemorating the 28th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, wounding dozens of Palestinians, including a…
Illegal Israeli settlers invaded, on Thursday, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, under the full protection of occupation police, according to Quds Press. It stated that the occupation police…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday morning, five young Palestinian men and assaulted at least one of them near Bab al-Qattanin, one of the gates leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in…
Illegal Israeli colonists stormed, late Tuesday night, Joseph’s tomb in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported. It stated that dozens…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Saturday, a young Palestinian man from Jenin, in northern West Bank, and briefly detained two others, while in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday, two Palestinians, including one woman, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, after groups of illegal colonizers conducted provocative tours in the holy compound. The Palestinian…
The Israeli authorities have decided to demolish a Palestinian under-construction mosque in the al-‘Isawiya town, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The WAFA Palestinian News Agency…
A group of several hundred armed paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by dozens of Israeli soldiers, stormed the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, on Monday to perform religious rituals at a…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man from the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin, while walking in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied…
The destruction left behind after soldiers searched and ransacked Al-Aqsa guard’s home. Israeli forces detained, on Tuesday, three minors, in addition to assaulting and detaining a guard at the Al-Aqsa…
Israeli soldiers and police officers abducted, on Thursday evening, nine Palestinian women from Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, while heading back to their homes after…
Illegal Israeli colonists stormed, on Wednesday, the Al-Aqsa compound in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, under the full protection of the Israeli police forces, the Palestinian News &…
Israeli soldiers attacked, on Sunday, a non-violent demonstration against the Israeli president’s visit to the al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, Quds News Network reported. Palestinian…
Theodosios Atallah Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, called on all Palestinian politicians and factions to unite regardless of their differences so that they…
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian mosque in Douma town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, October 31, 2021 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates slammed the Israeli occupation’s crimes at the Yusufiya Islamic cemetery, located on the outer bounds of…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, many Palestinians in Bab az-Zawiya area, in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank; the soldiers also…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) Summary for October 14 – 20,2021 Israeli forces continued to commit…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday, one Palestinian and assaulted many others for chanting against the provocative tour of a fanatic Member of Knesset and dozens of colonizers in Bab al-Amoud, one…
Israeli soldiers escalated their violations against the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, on Tuesday evening, and abducted 23 Palestinians, mostly children, in addition to wounding dozens, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) Summary for October 7 – 13, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit…
JERUSALEM, Monday, October 11, 2021 (WAFA) – The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem today condemned the city’s Israeli Magistrate Court’s decision to allow Jews to pray “silently” in…
Israeli soldiers injured, Sunday, three Palestinians during a protest against the desecration of the historic Al-Yusufiya historic Islamic cemetery, and the bulldozing graves, to establish a public garden. The Palestinian…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Friday, four Palestinian children and a young man from the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and the Old City, in occupied Jerusalem. Local sources said the…
Ahmad Samrin lay down in from of an Israeli bulldozer Sunday to try to non-violently prevent the bulldozer from destroying his family’s land in Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem – an…
Israeli soldiers killed, on Thursday morning, a Palestinian woman near the Chain Gate, leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli police claimed the woman, 30, carried a…
Hundreds of illegal Israeli colonizers, accompanied by dozens of soldiers and police officers, stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, while the soldiers imposed restrictions on Palestinian…
Armed gangs of Israeli paramilitary colonial settlers have been invading Palestinian areas in different parts of the West Bank Saturday, terrorizing local residents, shooting at children, firing rifles into Palestinian…
Updated: Israeli soldiers killed, Friday, a Palestinian physician near Bab al-Asbat, one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, after the army claimed that he “attempted to…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, two Palestinians, including a former political prisoner, in Qalandia refugee camp, and Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Local sources in Qalandia, north…
The International Red Cross has announced, on Thursday morning, that the Israeli authorities have canceled all visits to the Palestinian detainees in all of its prisons, detention, and interrogation centers,…
Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, a young Palestinian man from the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in the occupied Palestinian capital Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers abducted…
HEBRON, Tuesday, September 07, 2021 (WAFA) – Israel today decided to ban Muslims from praying at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, citing the Jewish…
JERUSALEM, Sunday, September 5, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities embarked today on levelling parts of the Al-Yusufiya Cemetery in the old city of occupied Jerusalem, in a prelude to…
Father Attallah Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, stated that supporting the Palestinian people in Sheikh Jarrah, and other parts of occupied Jerusalem, is…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday morning, three young Palestinian men while leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the three Palestinians and interrogated them while…
Hundreds of Palestinian muslims congregated, on Friday, for the afternoon prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in southern occupied West Bank, when soldiers stormed the mosque and terrorized worshipers.…
Israeli soldiers attacked, on Wednesday, Muslim Palestinian worshipers and detained three at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Ma’an News Agency reported. After performing the…
The Israeli occupation army, on Tuesday, accompanied by heavy machinery, razed land near the al-Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Sheikh Hifthi Abu Isneineh, the…
Father Atallah Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, issued a statement strongly condemning the Israeli escalation and ongoing invasions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in…
Deifallah al-Fayez, the spokesperson of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, strongly denounced the Israeli violations and escalation in the Al-Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. Al-Fayez stated that these violations against the…
After more than 2100 illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, accompanied by dozens of soldiers, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied capital Jerusalem, on Sunday morning, the soldiers assaulted dozens of…
JERUSALEM, Sunday, July 18, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces and scores of Israeli settler fanatics broke into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday early morning, attacking…
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…