Category: Human rights

Israeli forces detained, on Friday, two Palestinian young men, one from Ramallah, and one from city of Tubas, Quds Press reported. Soldiers stormed and searched the family home of Qusai…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Joint Statement

JERUSALEM, February 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces imposed today a nearly full lockdown of occupied Jerusalem’s highly-tense Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, shortly after dozens of local Palestinian citizens and…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Update Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Two Palestinian Civilians, including child, killed, 22 others wounded, including 3 children, 2 journalists, and…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee released a video, Wednesday, showing Israeli soldiers releasing their dog to maul a Palestinian before they abducted him last Monday, and denounced the serious violation. The…

Israeli occupation bulldozers razed, on Tuesday, large areas of Palestinian-owned agricultural lands between Bidya and Kafr ad-Dik, west of Salfit, in the central occupied West Bank, Ma’an News Agency reported.…

Israeli forces demolished, on Monday, an under-construction home belonging to two Palestinian residents in the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood of Al-Biereh city, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, according…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Protection of Civilians Report

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, non-violent protestors at the weekly demonstration in the northern West Bank village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus city, injuring dozens, according to medical sources.…

Israeli soldiers continued Thursday, the bulldozing of Palestinian lands, the uprooting of dozens of trees, and the demotion of retaining walls near Sarta village, west of Salfit, in the central…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update February 3 – 9, 2022) Violation of right to life and bodily integrity…

The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission released, on Sunday, a statement announcing that Palestinian political prisoners will be engaging in actions to show their objection to the failure of the…

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the occupied Palestinian territories, the World Bank announced, on Saturday, its supplementary contribution to the Palestinian Authority for essential health services, the…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, non-violent demonstrators in the northern West Bank village of Beita, southeast of Nablus, causing several injuries, according to medical sources. Ahmed Jibril, director of ambulance…

B’Tselem Report: On Sunday, 12 December 2021, at around 1:00 A.M., soldiers knocked on the door of the apartment in which Mahmoud (57) and Nidaa (55) Salhab live with their…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Weekly Update January 27 – February 2, 2022 In the West Bank, attacks by the…

  Israeli forces demolished, on Thursday, residential structures belonging to Palestinian Bedouins in the village of Deir Nidham, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, the Palestinian News…

Israeli occupation authorities imposed, on Wednesday, stop-work orders for five Palestinian-owned structures in Marda village, north of Salfit in the northern West Bank, according to a local official. Murad Khuffash,…

Israeli forces attacked, on Wednesday, Palestinian fishermen and farmers in the besieged Gaza Strip, causing damage to a fishing boat, and inhalation injuries to farmers, according to the Palestinian News…

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an incitement campaign against Amnesty International after the latter released a report on Tuesday concluding that Israel’s discriminatory and exclusionary laws, policies…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): West Bank Demolition and Displacement Report

About 1.5 million of the Gaza Strip’s total population of 2.3 million have become impoverished due to the Israeli blockade and restrictions imposed on the Strip since 2006. Euro-Mediterranean Human…

At least 150 Israeli soldiers stormed, on Tuesday, the Shu’fat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished the family home of Fadi Abu Shkheidem, the Palestinian man who was…

Report By Amnesty International: Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, February 01, 2022 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine welcomes the report by Amnesty International on Israel’s apartheid regime and racist policies and practices against the Palestinian people,…

A Palestinian family demolished two under-construction apartments, on Monday, in the al-‘Isawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported. Israeli authorities ordered the two…

Israeli authorities dictated, on Monday, that the Shuqeirat brothers demolish their two apartments in the Jabal al-Mokabber neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported.…

On Sunday morning, several Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the village of al-Aqaba, east of Tubas in northeastern West Bank, demolished a Palestinian under-construction home, and abducted one Palestinian.…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has confirmed, Saturday, that Nasser Abu Hmeid, imprisoned by Israel, is in a critical condition, and denounced the Israeli decision that transferred him out of an…

By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle: Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is leading his country’s anti-Palestinian propaganda, this time engaging in pre-emptive hasbara in anticipation of a Palestinian…

If Americans Knew: Our Senators and House members vote to give Israel billions of our tax dollars every year. Therefore, they have a moral obligation to learn what they are…

Israeli forces injured, on Saturday, dozens of Palestinians at the weekly anti-settlement demonstration in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in the northern occupied West Bank, according to…

Israeli soldiers forced, on Saturday, Palestinian shops to close for the fourth day in a row, in the Old City of Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the southern occupied West Bank, according…

Israeli forces detained, on Saturday, two young Palestinian men from Silwan town, south of Al-Aqsa in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local sources. Sources told the Palestinian News & Information…

The Israeli High Court issued a ruling, Friday, canceling a preliminary resolution preventing the Israeli army from demolishing a 250 square/meter Palestinian water reservoir, owned by Thabet Abu Thabet on…

SHEFFIELD, Saturday, January 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Sheffield Hallam University has reinstated Palestinian Ph.D. student lecturer and activist Shahd Abu Salama, suspended from work after she was targeted by pro-Israel…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The Israeli-Palestinian peace group ‘Combatants for Peace’ has revealed, through a Freedom of Information petition, a massive Israeli government investment in ‘Jewish-only’ roads through the West Bank. The petition was…

Israel partisans want a $1 billion handout from Congress on top of the almost $4 billion it already gets – but Israel spends American money recklessly and ruthlessly. Stop funding…

Palestinian political prisoner, held by Israel, Nasser Abu Hmeid, remains in a profoundly serious condition and is constantly sedated due to complications resulting from Pulmonary Edema which is also compounded…

The Palestinian Centre For Human Rights (PCHR): Date: 19 January 2022: On Wednesday morning, 19 January 2021, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished 2 residential houses belonging to a Palestinian…

The indigenous Palestinians in the occupied Negev desert continue to struggle for their very own existence and future and are facing seriously escalating Israeli police and military brutality, especially the…

Israeli police officers and soldiers abducted, Tuesday, at least 40 Palestinians in several villages in the Negev amidst ongoing bulldozing and uprooting of the villagers’ lands in a move that…

Early Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers detained, blindfolded, handcuffed & beat 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad. They claim they left him alive in a building that was under construction. He died…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has confirmed that Palestinian political prisoner, Nasser Abu Hmeid, remains in a coma at the Barzilai Israeli medical center for the eleventh day, hooked to a…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Protection of Civilians Report | December 21, 2021 – January 10, 2022 Highlights from the reporting period Three Palestinians reportedly…

By UNRWA: (January 13, 2022) Amal Muamar Nakhleh is a 17-year-old Palestine refugee from the Jalazone camp. Amal was placed in administrative detention by the Israeli Security Forces (ISF) for…

Israeli forces detained, at dawn Friday, five Palestinian young men from Zeita town, northeast of Tulkarem city in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA)…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, January 13, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities today forced a Palestinian to self-demolish his store in Shufat refugee camp, northeast of Jerusalem, according to WAFA correspondent. She…

Israeli soldiers rearrested, Thursday, two Palestinians from Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied Jerusalem, immediately after their release from prison after spending eight years behind bars. Media sources said the two detainees…

Family and friends of Omar As’ad taking part in his funeral at his home village. (WAFA Images / Baha Nasr) JERUSALEM, Thursday, January 13, 2022 (WAFA) – Tor Wennesland, the…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (06 – 12 January 2022) Summary for January 6 – 12,…

For the fourth day in a row, Palestinian residents of the Negev Desert in the southern part of the country continued their protests of the Israeli government’s attempts to displace…

Israeli forces opened fire, on Tuesday, with tear gas and rubber-coated steel rounds at Palestinian university students who gathered at a military roadblock at the northern entrance to Ramallah, in…

Israeli bulldozers razed, on Tuesday, Palestinian-owned lands, and uprooted dozens of trees in the historical village of Battir, west of Bethlehem city, in the southern occupied West Bank, according to…

Israeli forces opened fire, on Tuesday, towards Palestinian farmers in the central Gaza Strip and fishermen off the coast of Gaza City in the northern besieged enclave, according to local…

The Independent Commission For Human Rights (ICHR) issued a statement, Monday, denouncing the serious Israeli violation against Birzeit University near Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank,…

Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Al-Atrash, Monday, and assaulted and detained a number of Palestinian residents including a journalist, Quds News Network reported. In the Bedouin village of Al-Atrash,…

Illegal Israeli settlers attacked, on Sunday, a tree-planting event which was attended by Palestinian activists near Burqa village, northwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to a…

Israeli forces detained, on Saturday night, and at dawn on Sunday, a number of Palestinian young men from various towns in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wadi Hilweh…

Report By Adalah (The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel):  06/01/2022: In response to the organizations’ demand, the Military Attorney replied that the “core of the designations” is based…

A Palestinian young man was killed, on Thursday morning, after being rammed by a car driver by an illegal Israeli colonist, while heading to his work in the occupied Palestinian…

An elderly Palestinian activist suffered a critical skull fracture, on Wednesday, after an Israeli tow truck ran him over in the Um al-Khair area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron…

The condition of cancer-stricken Palestinian detainee, Nasser Abu Hmeid has deteriorated significantly, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on Wednesday. The PPS stated that Nasser Abu Hmeid, 49, has been…

A group of fanatic Israeli extremists attacked, Wednesday, a Palestinian journalist in front of Assaf Harofeh Hospital in Tel Aviv where a Palestinian detainee in undergoing treatment after ending a…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers and colonialist settlers invaded, Wednesday, the archaeological area in Sebastia Palestinian town, northwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Mohammad Azem, the mayor of…

Israeli forces opened fire towards agricultural land belonging to a Palestinian farmer in the al-Wad area in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian News…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a Palestinian home in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center…

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and ex-Detainees’ Affairs announced, on Tuesday, that the political prisonerHisham Abu Hawwash ended his 141-day hunger strike in rejection of his continued detention without charges…

Israeli forces shot, on Monday and Tuesday, two young Palestinian men at the entrance of the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank and caused…

On Tuesday morning, the occupation army stormed and searched a Palestinian family’s home before abducting a young man from the Deheishe refugee camp south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied…

A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers attacked, on Monday evening, several Palestinian homes, and cars, in Burqa and an-Naqoura villages, west and northwest of the northern West Bank city…

WASHINGTON, Monday, January 03, 2022 (WAFA) – Over 13 thousand Americans have signed a petition calling for the immediate release of all Palestinian administrative detainees on hunger strike in Israeli…

The Dabash Palestinian family, in Sur Baher village southeast of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, has completed the demolition of its home five days after they started the demolition…

In a report filed Saturday in Liberation magazine by Reem Zubaidi, the author explains that new information has come to light about the assassination of Alex Odeh, a Palestinian-American human…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, January 02, 2022 (WAFA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said last night it was seriously concerned about the fate of Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash…

Palestinians react as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes in the village of Kasra, in Nablus, West Bank on September 26, 2020. By Dr. Adnan Abu Amer for Middle East Monitor…

Palestinians stage a protest against the Israel’s blockade in Khan Younis, Gaza on 25 August 2021 By Dr. Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor At the onset, 2021 appeared to…

Israeli forces detained, on Saturday night, two young men from occupied Jerusalem, and summoned a former prisoner for interrogation near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, local sources reported. Security…

(RAMALLAH, Sunday, January 2, 2022WAFA) – Israel issued 1595 administrative detention orders against Palestinians in the occupied territories in 2021, including new and renewed orders, today said the Palestinian Prisoners’…

Illegal Israeli colonists stormed, on Sunday, Palestinian-owned farmlands near the village of Khirbet Samra, in the Jordan Valley, in the northeastern occupied West Bank, chasing sheep herders off of their…

The Israeli military attacked, on Saturday night, a number of sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, causing damage but no casualties, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported. Israeli…

Israeli forces stormed, on Saturday, the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in the northern occupied West Bank and injured several Palestinians who protested the invasion, the Palestinian News…

The Israeli Municipality of West Jerusalem forced, on Saturday, two Palestinians to demolish their properties, one in Silwan, and the other in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, both in occupied Jerusalem, Quds…

On Saturday, the 138th day of hunger strike, protesting his Administrative Detention, Palestinian political prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash, has become unresponsive, Quds Press reported. The brother of the administrative detainee,…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 01, 2022 (WAFA) – The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) said in a report today that a total of 384 Israeli violations against journalists working in…

A Palestinian family was forced, Friday, to demolish its two homes in Sur Baher town, south of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The family had to…

Israeli forces opened fire, on Friday, towards non-violent Palestinians who gathered in Beita town, southeast of Nablus and Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank,…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, demonstrators at the weekly non-violent march in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in the northern occupied West Bank, injuring dozens, including a child, according…

Israeli forces shot and killed, on Friday morning, a Palestinian man who allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack near the illegal Ariel colony, northwest of Salfit in the…

(RAMALLAH, Friday, December 31, 2021WAFA) – The health condition of hunger striking Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, Hisham Abu Hawwash, is in a critical stage and the worst is expected…

Due to the serious deterioration in the health condition of administrative detainee, Hisham Abu Hawash, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) sent an urgent letter to the Special Rapporteur…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (December 23– 29, 2021) Summary for December 23– 29, 2021 Israeli…

After 135 days of hunger strike, political prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash, is facing serious potential complications due to his ongoing hunger strike against his Administrative Detention with no charges and…

Israeli tanks fired artillery shells, on Wednesday afternoon, at two locations in the northern besieged Gaza Strip, injuring three Palestinian farmers, one seriously, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA)…

Teacher Eid Sobeih sustained bruises after being assaulted by the occupation forces Photo: WAFA   Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Wednesday, teachers at the Teqoua’ Secondary Boys School in Teqoua’ town,…

TUBAS, Tuesday, December 28, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today carried out a large-scale demolition of Palestinian structures in Khirbet Ibziq village, northeast of Tubas, according to local sources. The head…

Israeli forces demolished, on Tuesday, a Palestinian-owned home in Al-Sindas area, south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, local sources reported. Eyewitnesses told Palestinian News & Information Agency…

Israeli soldiers stormed, overnight Monday and at dawn Tuesday, several areas of the occupied West Bank, detaining at least fifteen Palestinian civilians, including former prisoners and injuring several others who…