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Israeli forces assaulted two Palestinian men, confiscated 2 bulldozers, and delivered stop-work orders for four homes and a shed, near the central West Bank city of Salfit, according to local…
LONDON, Tuesday, July 18, 2023 (WAFA) – Amid a serious rise in attacks on frontline health workers in the occupied West Bank this year, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has…
RAMALLAH, Saturday, July 15, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli national water company Mekorot has reduced the daily amount of water supply to the provinces of Hebron and Bethlehem in the…
llegal Israeli colonizers, on Saturday, attacked and injured Palestinian residents and shepherds in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources. According to…
RAMALLAH, Friday, July 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed in a statement the Human Rights Council’s adoption of the Palestine resolution calling for updating…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 5 Palestinians, including a civilian, were killed, and 17 others, including a child and a woman, were injured, while dozens of others…
The Israeli army demolished, on Wednesday, two structures belonging to Palestinians in At-Tour village, east of Jerusalem, and the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, local sources reported. In…
Israeli occupation forces razed, on Wednesday, 50 dunams of Palestinian-owned land, and uprooted dozens of olive trees, in the southern part of Kifl Hares village, northwest of Salfit, in the…
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Press Release | July 10, 2023 “Israel’s military occupation has morphed the entire occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 9, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers who shoot Palestinians on suspicion of carrying out attacks on Israeli targets will no longer have their weapons confiscated by police,…
On Friday, the City Council in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, forced a Palestinian to demolish his home in Jabal Al-Mokabber town. The Palestinian, Ehab Khalayla, said he was…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): (Weekly Update 22 June – 05 July 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: 15 Palestinians, including 6 children, were…
Three Palestinian detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, are ongoing with a hunger strike they started twelve days ago. The detainees are Anas…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine is appalled by the decision of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to, once again, omit the Israeli occupation…
NEW YORK, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (WAFA) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added Russia’s military forces to his annual “list of shame” of parties to armed conflict who…
Dozens of Palestinian civilians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Rummana, west of Jenin. In response to this…
On Monday, the Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of 5,623 new colonial settlement units in the occupied West Bank. This moves comes in the midst of a nearly week-long…
RAMALLAH, Monday, June 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Marking the International Day Against Torture, which coincides, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said Israel continues to torture and ill-treat Palestinian detainees and…
Israeli troops invaded various parts of the West Bank on Saturday and abducted seven Palestinians. In addition, during their invasion to the Bethlehem area, the soldiers shot tear gas at…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 2 Palestinians, including a Palestinian with disability, were killed, and 31 others, including 4 children and a fisherman, were wounded, while dozens…
Press Release By Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support And Human Rights Association: Breaking Point Reached: Mass Hunger Strike by Palestinian Administrative Detainees In Israeli Prisons Next Week. A breaking point has been…
The Israeli Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that they will close the investigation into the killing of an 80-year old US citizen in the West Bank in January 2022, with no…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, June 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Wednesday continued to raze Palestinian land close to Sinjil town, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, June 8, 2023 (WAFA) – US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr Wednesday evening paid a visit of condolence to the family of a slain Palestinian toddler…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestine home and a barn in the Wad Al-Jouz neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said several military vehicles and…
On Sunday, five Palestinian families from the Wadi Qaddoum neighborhood in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, were forced to empty their homes ahead of…
Latest Developments (after the reporting period) On 30 May, an Israeli settler was shot and killed in a Palestinian drive-by shooting near the settlement of Homesh between Jenin and Tulkarem…
On Tuesday, the Israeli authorities demolished the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev for the sixth time this year and the 217th since 2010. Several Israeli police vehicles, including bulldozers,…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded Deir Ballout town, west of Salfit in the central West Bank, and handed eighteen demolitions and halt construction orders targeting several homes, in addition to…
The Israeli military invaded the village of Sa’ir, in the Hebron district in the southern West Bank, after claiming that an unknown assailant fired shots at an Israeli military vehicle,…
On Saturday, a Palestinian family was forced to demolish its home, and another family had to demolish a kitchen in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem,…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the As-Sal’a neighborhood between Jabal Al-Mokabber and Silwan town,…
On Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers detonated a Palestinian home in Ni’lin town, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, rendering five family members homeless in an act of…
RAMALLAH, Monday, May 22, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, the latest of which was the storming this…
RAMALLAH, Monday, May 22, 2023 (WAFA) – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) today accused Israel of declaring an open war against the Palestinians with the killing this morning of three…
By Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights – Published On May 15, 2023: On 15 May, Palestinians all over the world mourn 75 years of al-Nakba (‘catastrophe’ in Arabic). The day…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 18, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the Israeli Defense Minister’s decision to start implementing a law calling for canceling the disengagement…
On Tuesday, vast areas of Palestinian grazing and farmlands were burnt when the Israeli army used them and surrounding lands for live-fire military training in the Northern Plains of the…
Derry, Ireland, May 15, 2023: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin: Large crowds gathered throughout Ireland over the past few days to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ when…
Many Palestinian with special needs, including children, have lost their homes, medical supplies, and equipment due to Israel’s deliberate bombing of homes and residential buildings in the besieged Gaza Strip…
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israel’s five-day offensive on the Gaza Strip has killed 33 Palestinians, including six children and three women, and injured at least 150. The…
Israeli sources claimed that the Islamic Jihad fired shells into Israeli areas after the ceasefire deal took effect; however, sources in Gaza have confirmed that some fighters fired the shells…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their wide-scale aggression on the Gaza Strip for the second consecutive day as it began…
Medical sources in Gaza said two Palestinians were killed, and at least five were injured after the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at an apartment in the Nasr neighborhood,…
Israel’s unprovoked attack on Gaza should never have started – and now it won’t end because Israel clings to its desire to violate international law indefinitely. by Kathryn Shihadah –…
Salam Marouf, the head of the Government Press Office in Gaza, said the Israeli bombing on Gaza, Tuesday, has led to the destruction of eleven residential units and caused damage…
On Tuesday evening, the Israeli army fired a missile at a Palestinian car in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and wounding two.…
PCHR: In Simultaneous Attacks and Flagrant Disregard for Civilians’ Lives, 13 Palestinians, including 4 Women and 4 Children, Killed in Israeli Airstrikes on 4 Residential Apartments Destroying Them Over Their Residents…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers demolished two Palestinian under-construction homes, a guest house, and a barn, in Al-Awja, Al-Jiftlik, and Fasayel villages near Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers demolished a school in Beit Ta’mir village, southeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said several army vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the village…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – OCHA-OPT Latest Developments (outside the reporting period) This section is based on initial information from…
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…