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The Israeli occupation army continued the strict siege on the Palestinian city of Jericho for the fourteenth, causing serious economic losses, especially since the closures and restrictions on the city…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: 4 Palestinians were killed, three of them in the West Bank, including 2 children, and…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): May 2: Today in the morning, the death of the detainee Khader Adnan, who has been on a 87-day- hunger strike in protest…
Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan, 45, became the first Palestinian to die in a hunger strike protesting the Israeli occupation and illegal detention of thousands of Palestinian civilians. Khader Adnan,…
On Monday, Israeli navy ships attacked Palestinian fishing boats about three miles off the coast of the Al-Waha area northwest of Gaza City in the besieged and impoverished coastal region,…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers and border police officers invaded the Al-Arakib Beduin village in the Negev and demolished it for the fifth time this year and the 216th time since…
A blind Palestinian detainee who Israel imprisons continues a hunger strike he started eight days ago; protesting being held under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial. The…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity [This report covers 2 weeks due to ‘Eid al-Fitr holiday] Two Palestinians were killed, and 23 others were injured, including 4 children,…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Palestinian political prisoner, Khader Adnan, continues the hunger strike for the 83rd day, despite his deteriorating health, protecting his continued detention. The…
On Thursday, the Israeli occupation soldiers and colonizers continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property. These attacks included settler attacks in which armed Israeli paramilitary settlers injured…
The family of ailing political prisoner Walid Daqqah stated that his wife and daughter, Milad, were able to visit him at the “Barzilai” Israeli hospital in Ashkelon, where he underwent…
JERUSALEM, Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Foreign diplomats today visited Jub al-Deeb school near Bethlehem, which has received an Israeli demolition order, and urged Israel to reverse its decision.…
In pre-dawn raids Monday, Israeli troops abducted 15 Palestinians from several parts of the West Bank, mainly Nablus, Jenin and Hebron. The troops also raided the home of a prominent…
Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan, from the town of Arraba, south of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, continues his hunger strike for the 74th day,…
On Wednesday, illegal Israeli colonizers demolished several Palestinian shops in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, to prepare for new colonialist units.…
On Sunday, the Palestinian Detainees Committee said that the health condition of the cancer-ridden detainee, Walid Daqqah, whom Israel has imprisoned for 38 years, is very serious. Committee spokesperson Hasan…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli State Prosecutor closed today the probe into the police officers who murdered a Palestinian young man in Jerusalem’s Old City…
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner – GENEVA (13 April 2023) – The international community must take immediate action to stop Israel’s forced evictions and displacement of Palestinians…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 12, 2023 (WAFA) – The Higher Presidential Committee for the Follow-up of Church Affairs in Palestine today called on the Palestinian Christians to participate in large…
On Saturday, Palestinian researcher in detainee’s affairs, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, said the Palestinian administrative detainee in Israeli prisons, Khader Adnan, is ongoing a hunger strike he started on February 5th, 2023.…
Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday evening, a young Palestinian main at the entrance to Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank, the Ministry…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 4 Palestinians, one of them from the Negev, were killed, and 16 others were wounded, including two children while dozens of others…
On Wednesday evening, dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, fired gas bombs and concussion grenades, and assaulted dozens of worshipers while forcing them out of…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: 5 April 2023 marks Palestinian Child Day, the day when the late President Yasser ‘Arafat announced the State of Palestine’s voluntary commitment…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: Last night and today at dawn and in the morning, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided al-Aqsa Mosque and its praying halls, violently…
Just a few hours after massive invasions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, the injuring of scores of Muslim worshippers, and the abduction of at least 200, the army…
On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers and border police officers invaded the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev and demolished it for the fourth time this year and the 215th time…
On Sunday, Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property, abducting 8 Palestinians. The Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men: Muhammad Abu…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, April 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The health of Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, who has been in Israeli prisons for 38 years, has been gradually deteriorating, according to the…
A young man was killed on Saturday evening by Israeli occupation forces near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.…
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers fired a barrage of gas bombs into a stadium during a soccer match in the Al-Ram town, north of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, wounding dozens…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 30, 2023 (WAFA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the occupied Palestinian territories expressed today its concern over an attack by Israeli settlers…
SAKHNIN, Thursday, March 30, 2023 (WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinians took part today in a rally in the city of Sakhnin, north of Palestine, commemorating the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian…
5 civilians were injured, three of them with live bullets, two with gas bombs, and hundreds suffered from tear gas inhalation on Thursday, during the suppression by the Israeli occupation…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded Deir Ballout town, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, and demolished a commercial facility. The Mayor of Deir Ballout, Samir Nimir, said…
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…
On Friday, the Israeli occupation authorities transferred the corpses of two slain Palestinians from Ramallah and Nablus, whom Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonialist settlers killed in January of 2023. The…
On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army confiscated dozens of Dunams of private Palestinian lands near Ramallah and Salfit in the West Bank. Amir Daoud, the head of the Documentation and…
On Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian patient at the Beit Hanoun (Erez) terminal in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Ahmad…
GENEVA, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – World Council of Churches general secretary Jerry Pillay today condemned an attack by Jewish extremists that took place in the Church of Gethsemane,…
On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers demolished two residential structures in the az-Za’ayem town, east of occupied East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Several army vehicles, including bulldozers, surrounded the town…
On Friday morning, Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men, Saher Awad Al-Salaymeh and Adam Mansour Al-Salaymeh, from Al-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem. In addition, Israeli occupation forces abducted…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished two adjoining Palestinian homes in Sur Baher town, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the town before…
JERUSALEM, Monday, March 13, 2023 (WAFA) – An Israeli court today extended the isolation of Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails Ahmad Manasra, who was arrested at age 13 after being…
Last Tuesday, fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a 64-year-old American woman near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, causing her to lose consciousness due to a…
On Saturday, a group of paramilitary Israeli colonial settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds east of Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank. Ratib al-Jabour, the coordinator of the Popular…
Israeli forces on Thursday assaulted two Palestinian children, age 6 and 8, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources. The Palestinian news agency Wafa…
Two Palestinians were wounded on Wednesday when Israeli forces fired artillery shells from tanks stationed at the border of the Gaza Strip. The two were wounded in an area east…
Israeli troops launched another massive invasion of the northern West Bank Palestinian city of Jenin, as well as invading the Jenin refugee camp on the outskirts of the city, on…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished four residential sheds. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers demolished three Palestinian homes in the Wadi Al-Jouz neighborhood in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said several army and police vehicles…
Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank before dawn on Monday and abducted five Palestinians. The soldiers took them with extreme force and brought them to unknown military…
Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued their daily acts of aggression against the Palestinian people and property, injuring one young Palestinian with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the abdomen, causing…
On Saturday, Israeli occupation forces engaged in their daily invasion of Palestinian land throughout the West Bank, injuring a child and abducting several Palestinians after ransacking their homes. These invasions…
Date: 4 March 2023: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On 1 March 2023, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister and co-founder of Regavim, a settler organization, stated during a conference…
On Saturday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Khader Adnan, a political prisoner held by Israel, is ongoing with hunger strike he started 28 ago, protesting his ongoing solitary confinement.…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent procession against ongoing violations and illegal colonialist activities in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem and abducted ten. The protest, held…
JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The office of the European Union Representative in Jerusalem has condemned racist remarks by far-right Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich in which…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) (Weekly Update 23 February- 01 March 2023) Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Three Palestinian civilians were shot dead: two by…
On Thursday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in Ethna town, west of Hebron, in the West Bank’s southern part. Mohammad Hasan Awwad said the soldiers invaded the town and…
As countries around the world have moved to abandon the death penalty as cruel, ineffective, and costly, Israel’s elected right-wing government took a step in the opposite direction on Wednesday,…
NABLUS, Wednesday, March 01, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli settler gangs who rampaged through the occupied West Bank town of Huwwara inflicted damages worth ILS 18 million, according to a…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in Furush Beit Dajan village, northeast of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources said several…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in the Jabal Al-Mukabber town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Also, a Palestinian was forced to demolish his home…
Shortly after midnight, Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian ambulance near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, wounding a woman accompanying her child to a hospital in Jenin. The Palestinian…
Clashes broke out between young Palestinian men and the Israeli occupation forces, on Monday evening, at the “Atara” checkpoint, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank. Local sources reported…
On Monday, an Israeli court denied an appeal against the demolition of a Palestinian in Beit Ta’mir village, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The WAFA Palestinian News…
Israeli paramilitary settler militias invaded the Palestinian village of Huwwara on Sunday night, torching hundreds of Palestinian homes and cars, setting most of the village on fire. Israeli soldiers were…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent procession near the Tayasir military roadblock east of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank. The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, the…
Palestinian sources have reported that a Palestinian, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire in the year 2018 in northern Gaza, died from his wounds on Tuesday,…
The Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad in Palestine, Ziad Nakhalah, stated in response to the Israeli killing of eleven Palestinians in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Dyouk At-Tahta village north of Jericho in the northeastern West Bank, Palestine TV said. Palestine TV added that many army vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (WAFA) – Eight-eight Palestinian, regional and international civil society organizations welcomed the announcement by the Barcelona City Council to suspend all institutional relations with apartheid…
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers attacked a funeral procession in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, causing several injuries. Local media activist…
On Sunday, the Israeli government approved the ‘legalization’ of nine additional Jewish-only colonies on illegally-seized Palestinian land in the West Bank. The colonies have been dubbed by the occupiers as…
Mithqal Suleiman Abdul-Halim Rayan, 27, was shot and killed on Saturday evening, by Israeli paramilitary invaders, in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit. The mayor of Qarawat…
A young man was wounded by live bullets in the foot in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, when Israeli troops attacked protesters gathered for the weekly march to protest the…
On Friday evening, Israeli forces closed the main entrance to Tel Rumeida, the central district of the city of Hebron. The armed Israeli troops detained Palestinian residents of the central…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a detainee from Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, died at an Israeli medical center after he was…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR, (Weekly Update 02 – 08 February 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: 7 Palestinians, including 2 civilians; one…
TEL AVIV, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Twelve human rights organizations in Israel have deplored recent statements by European Union High Representative Josep Borrell regarding Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s…
Date: 7 February 2023, Time: 09:00 GMT: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) sent a submission to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including…
In a small village near Salfit surrounded by five Israeli settlements, the olive farmers and villagers are once again facing an illegal seizure of more of their ancestral farmland by…
A Palestinian man was hospitalized early Saturday morning after he lost control of his vehicle at an Israeli flying (temporary) checkpoint and began hitting other cars with his vehicle. According…
THE JORDAN VALLEY, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces yesterday notified several families from Humsa al-Fouqa, in the occupied northern Jordan Valley, to leave their homes…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished two Palestinian homes in Beit Jala city and the Al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Issa Qassis, the Mayor of Beit…
On Sunday, Israeli forces invaded the town of Jabal al-Mukaber, in the southeastern part of the Jerusalem municipality with an armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer and demolished a two-story home belonging…
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced on Thursday the death of 13-year-old Nayef Al-Aweidat, as a result of serious wounds sustained last year during the Israeli aggression on Gaza.…
On Wednesday, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Ad-Duyuk At-Tahta, village, west of Jericho in the northeastern West Bank, and demolished six Palestinian homes. Palestine TV (Video) said the soldiers…
On Sunday, the Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian to demolish his home in the Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, just a day…
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers forced a Palestinian to demolish his home in the Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said Hussein Qunbar had to…
On Saturday, an illegal paramilitary colonizer fatally shot a Palestinian man in the Jabal Ar-Reesan area, near Kafr Ni’ma village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The…
The Jerusalem activist Mohammad Abu al-Hummus was released from Israeli custody Friday evening after having been arrested earlier Friday near Bab al-Amoud area (Damascus Gate) in occupied Jerusalem. According to…
Israeli forces attacked the weekly non-violent protest in Al-Khader village, near Bethlehem, wounding three young Palestinian protesters with rubber-coated steel bullets. In addition, dozens of protesters suffered from the effects…
Dr.Mai Al-Kaila, the Palestinian Health Minister, denounced the Israeli army’s attack on the Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, especially since many bullets struck inside…
The Israeli authorities in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, are ongoing the bulldozing of Palestinian lands in the Wad Ar-Rababa neighborhood in Silwan town, south of the…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in Beit Safafa town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded Beit Safafa and closed…
North of Jericho on Monday, armed Israeli colonizers attacked an unarmed shepherd girl and stole her entire herd of ninety sheep. The girl had been left by her father to…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) cold-blooded murder of a Palestinian yesterday morning after they directly opened fire…
RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said today that the Israeli occupation authorities have issued 5,820 orders since 2015 to demolish and remove…