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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…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: (Weekly Update 05 – 11 January 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: 10 Palestinians, including 2 children, were…
In a culture of impunity for Israeli police and military (and Israel in general), it should come as no surprise that the killing of Eyad Hallaq, a disabled Palestinian man,…
TEL AVIV, Sunday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced today that he is planning to cancel regulations that allow any lawmaker to meet…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR (Weekly Update 29 December 2022- 04 January 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Three Palestinians, including 2 children,…
‘ARA, Thursday, January 5, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Thursday released the longest-serving Palestinian freedom fighter Karim Younis after spending 40 years behind Israeli bars. Younis, 66, from the Arab…
Ref: 1/2023, Date: 02 January 2023, The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Today at dawn, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed two Palestinians, including a child, and wounded six others during IOF’s…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: (Weekly Update 22-28 December 2022) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: A Palestinian civilian was killed, and 18 others,…
On Monday, an Israeli military court denied an appeal filed by a family of a slain Palestinian man against demolishing their home in Hebron city, in the southern part of…
Just two days after her release from an Israeli prison and being denied medical treatment while imprisoned, a Palestinian female detainee with Hydrocephalus suffered a stroke and was rushed to…
Late on Saturday night, the Israeli army opened levees along the perimeter fence east of Gaza, causing accumulating heavy rainwater to flood homes and agricultural lands in Gaza. Media sources…
The Israeli police reported on Friday that its officers shot a Palestinian man, Naim Mahmoud Theeb Bedir, 23, before dawn on Friday, in Kafr Qassem in the Southern Triangle area…
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli “Defense” Minister Benny Gantz Wednesday morning decided not to return the body of a veteran prisoner who died in Israeli custody to his…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee confirmed Tuesday that the cancer-stricken Palestinian detainee, Nasser Abu Hmeid, imprisoned by Israel and serving several life terms, has died at an Israeli medical center. The…
Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: The discriminatory movement restrictions and the arbitrary permit regime imposed by Israeli authorities on Palestinian patients from Gaza, which obstruct their access to hospitals outside…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Nasser Abu Hmeid, 49, a critically ill Palestinian freedom fighter and cancer patient serving a life sentence in Israeli jails, was rushed to…
The Israeli government has decided to refuse visas and deny entry to the newly appointed personnel of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the…
On Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation government approved the punitive demolition of the family’s home of a young Palestinian man who was killed after exchanging fire with Israeli soldiers near…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Two Palestinian civilians were killed, and 18 others, including 3 children, were injured, while…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): IOF killed 3 Palestinians, including a civilian, while he was trying to pull out the two dead bodies who were members of the Palestinian…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, December 6, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli court decided today to continue retaining Palestinian-French human rights defender and administrative detainee, Salah Hammouri, 37, in Israeli jails until January…
On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers demolished the Al-Arakib village in the Negev for the 14th time this year and the 210th time since July 2010. Media sources said several military…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 4, 2022 (WAFA) – Sada Social Center, a Ramallah-based social media rights group, said in a fresh report it has documented more than 72 digital violations against…
On Saturday, Israeli forces invaded a number of Palestinian areas with massive military force. In the Nablus area, a number of Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation during clashes with…
(Weekly Update 24-30 November 2022) The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Five Palestinian civilians, including 2 brothers, were killed…
JERUSALEM, Thursday, December 1, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing today on nine petitions against the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) – 2022,…
On Wednesday, the Israeli Prison Authority informed imprisoned Palestinian-French lawyer, held under Administrative Detention without charges or trial, that it revoked his Jerusalem ID card and stripped him of all…
Derry City, Ireland. November 29, 2022: for IMEMC NEWS, Niall Ó Brolcháin: A large crowd was in attendance on Tuesday, November 29 at Guildhall Square, Derry, Ireland, for a vigil…
On Wednesday, a Palestinian child from the Negev died during surgery at the Israeli Soroka Medical Center a month after an Israeli police officer shot him with live fire in…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers attacked a Palestinian political prisoner held at the Negev Detention Camp, the uncle of two siblings killed by the army Tuesday, and forced him into solitary…
On Monday evening, the Israeli Navy released six Palestinian fishermen, including four injured by the Israeli navy fire, and their boats were confiscated. The six fishermen were sent to the…
The Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights issued a statement denouncing the Israeli Navy’s abduction of six Palestinian fishermen, the confiscation of two boats in the southern part of the Gaza…
RAMALLAH, Monday, November 28, 2022 (WAFA) – Mohammad Masarwa, 25, from Tulkarem, lost sight in his right eye after the Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted him during his arrest at his…
YAFA, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Arab factions in Israel staged a protest today in the Arab city of Yafa against an Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse 1,400 indigenous…
RAMALLAH, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian political prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 27 days to protest being placed in solitary confinement on Friday suspended…
A group of Palestinian resistance fighters seized the body of an Israeli Druze man who had died in a car accident in the West Bank, believing him to be a…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, November 22, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh, 30, from Jerusalem, was hoping an Israeli court hearing in her case scheduled for today would end her house…
RAMALLAH, Monday, November 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israel is keeping a cancer-stricken Palestinian man in administrative detention despite his urgent need for medical attention, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) stated.…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Ref: 145/2022, Date: 21 November 2022, Time: 18:00 GMT This morning, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian child and injured 4 civilians during IOF’s…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): (Weekly Update 10 – 16 November 2022) Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: A Palestinian girl was killed and six Palestinians,…
On Monday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee said that political prisoner Samer Al-Isawi started a hunger strike fifteen days ago and was moved to solitary confinement in the Ramon Israeli prison.…
On Thursday evening, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the Israeli occupation authorities moved a detained Palestinian woman to a hospital due to her need for professional medical attention. The…
On Friday, two Palestinian families from Jabal Al-Mokabber and At-Tour towns in occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank were forced to demolish their homes after the Israeli occupation authorities denied…
Date: 21 October 2022, Time: 10:00 GMT: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights: A Palestinian civilian was killed, and three others were wounded by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) fire during the…
On Thursday morning, Israeli military and police vehicles invaded Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and handed a demolition order to a Palestinian elder. Media sources…
Oct, 19 2022: By Al-Haq independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation: Israel has been implementing collective punishment measures against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) with the…
Oct, 19 2022: By Al-Haq independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation: On 18 October 2022, Al-Haq sent an urgent letter to Third States, in light of the recent alarming escalation in…
On Wednesday, the Palestinian Detainees And Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said that prisoner a political prisoner held by Israel started a hunger strike 17 days earlier, protesting harsh sanctions imposed on…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: A patient, Akram Ahmad Mohammad Al-Sultan, 62, from the northern Gaza Strip, died after he was denied travel for treatment at Al-Muttala’…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Prisoners’ Affairs Commission today called for ICRC to intervene immediately to end the ban on family visits for prisoners in Israeli jails.…
Al-Haq: On 17 October 2022, 65 Palestinian, regional and international organisations sent a joint letter to the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk, welcoming him in his…
By The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel – Adalah: Israeli troops have sealed off 130,000 Palestinians in five residential areas, imposing sweeping collective punishment including power cuts,…
The Palestinian Health Ministry said a female nurse was injured after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers who invaded Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, assaulted her,…
By Kathryn Shihadah: Over 1 million Palestinians have been held in Israeli prisons over the years. Thousands have been held in “administrative detention,” which means imprisonment without a trial or…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: 5 Palestinian civilians were killed, including 3 children; one of them succumbed to his wounds,…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Yesterday evening, a Palestinian child was killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) fire in al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron, south of the West Bank.…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): For the fifth day in a row, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue to impose a siege on Shu’fat refugee camp and ‘Anata…
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Detainee’s Committee confirmed that fifty Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention camps are continuing the hunger strike despite the health deterioration of a few…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has confirmed that fifty political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention camps are continuing the hunger strike after twenty detainees joined the strike Sunday, protesting their…
On Saturday evening, the City Council in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, forced a Palestinian family to demolish its home. Media sources said the family’s home is in the…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR (Weekly Update 29 September- 05 October 2022) Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Five Palestinian civilians, including a child, were…
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs And Expatriates issued a statement denouncing the Israeli army’s execution of a Palestinian and the deliberate targeting of journalists working for Palestine TV in…
Late Monday night, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian ambulance near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, while transporting a patient to a hospital in Ramallah,…
On Monday, the Israeli authorities demolished the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev for the 207th time since 2010. Many military vehicles and police cars surrounded and invaded the village,…
An unknown assailant shot toward a taxi and bus near the ‘Itamar’ settlement east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank on Sunday morning. The driver of the taxi was…
Palestinian health Minister, Dr. Mai al-Kaila, denounced the Israeli army’s attack on Palestinian medics near Beit Furik military roadblock, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West…
RAMALLAH, Saturday, October 1, 2022 (WAFA) – The Palestinian News and Information Agency, WAFA, documented 26 Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists and media in the occupied territories during September. It…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians, including a child, during processions in several parts of the occupied West Bank. In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers injured a…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said thirty Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial are ongoing with a hunger strike their started six…
The Israeli army transferred, late Thursday night, the corpse of a Palestinian to his family for burial. The fatally shot Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham, 21, on August 15, from point-blank range…
The Israeli news channel 13 reported Wednesday that the Israeli Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, ordered the authorization of armored drones to carry out airstrikes against the Palestinian people in…
On Sunday, 30 Palestinian detainees, imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial, started a hunger strike. A few days earlier, the detainees stated that they…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Date: 21 September 2022: Yesterday, 20 September 2022, a patient namely, Tayseer Daoud Yousuf Al-Sayegh (67), died at dawn when the Israeli authorities denied…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Date: 20 September 2022: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli decision to impose a distorted version of the official Palestinian curriculum…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Ein Samia Bedouin community, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and demolished two residential sheds. Hasan Mleihat, the general supervisor of…
On Monday dawn, several Israeli army vehicles and bulldozers invaded the Rashayda Bedouin village, southeast of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished three residential…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Ref: 116/2022. Date: 15 September 2022: This morning, a Palestinian child was killed, and 3 other Palestinians were wounded, including a child, by Israeli Occupation Forces…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: A child was killed, 8 others were wounded, and dozens of others suffocated in Israeli…
On Tuesday evening, Israel released the imprisoned Palestinian journalist, Lama Ghosha, after imposing restrictions on her, including house arrest and barring her from Social Media outlets. Ghosha will still have…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – Weekly Report: Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Five Palestinians were killed, and 31 others were injured, including 9 children, a…
On Thursday, the Israeli authorities in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, forced a Palestinian man to demolish his under-construction home, in Silwan town. The Wadi Hilweh Information…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished three livestock farms on Palestinian lands near the main entrance of Anata town, northeast of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Taha Refa’ey,…
The Palestinians Detainees’ Committee has reported that two siblings imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial are ongoing with the hunger strike they started 31…
JERUSALEM, Wednesday, September 7, 2022 (WAFA) – An Israeli court today extended until tomorrow the detention of a Palestinian journalist from occupied East Jerusalem and a mother of two, according…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Palestinian was killed, and 17 others, including 6 children, a woman, and a paramedic, were injured by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) at…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) Ref: 113/2022. Date: 05 September 2022, Time: 10:30 GMT This morning, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian civilian during the suppression of protests…
In the Jordan Valley, in the eastern part of the West Bank near Jericho on Sunday, unknown assailants opened fire at an Israeli bus transporting soldiers to a military base,…
Report By the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Latest Development (outside the reporting period) On 1 September, one Palestinian man was shot and killed by…
On Sunday, a Palestinian child suffered a heatstroke when Israeli soldiers detained many schoolchildren and activists while distributing free books and school supplies to children in Masafer Yatta, south of…
In the small village of Taybeh, located in the Nazareth district, dozens of local villagers marched, held signs, and chanted slogans to demand that Israeli authorities end their practice of…
On Saturday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that two siblings imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial continue a hunger strike they started 27 days…
Family members of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli forces in May, were invited to the National Press Club in Washington DC on Wednesday August 31 to…
On Saturday, Palestinian sources confirmed that a Palestinian political prisoner held by Israel has died at an Israeli medical center. The sources said Mousa Haroun Abu Mahameed, 40, died at…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 31, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian detainee in Israeli jails, Khalil Awawda, suspended tonight his 172-day hunger strike after reaching an agreement with Israel to set a ceiling…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli occupation Forces’ (IOF) continuous obstacles on the travel of Gaza Strip’s patients, denying them…
GENEVA (24 August 2022) – UN experts* today condemned Israel’s escalating attacks against Palestinian civil society in the occupied West Bank, after the Israeli army broke into the offices of…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported on Wednesday that special forces of the Israeli Prisons Administration stormed several sections of the Negev prison in southern Israel. The raid targeted Palestinian prisoners…
On Tuesday, hundreds of Palestinians marched in the funeral ceremony and procession of a woman killed by Israeli soldiers fourteen months earlier, and the military refused to release her corpse…
Despite his deteriorating health condition and the escalating risks to his life, administrative detainee Khalil Awawda said he is ongoing the hunger strike for the 161 day, demanding canceling the Administrative…
As a continuation of its targeting of select Palestinian NGOs, Israeli forces raided, ransacked, confiscated materials, and welded shut their office doors. The raid was part of a series of…