Category: Human rights

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…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that six detainees, held by Israel under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, are ongoing with the hunger strike, including one…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, on Wednesday evening, that Israeli physicians in the Kaplan Medical Center are trying to force-feed hunger-striking detainee Miqdad al-Qawasma, 24, who is ongoing with…

Illegal Israeli colonists, on Wednesday, stole harvesting tools and olive harvest from a Palestinian-owned orchard, in the village of Qaryout, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, local…

The Israeli army detained, on Wednesday, eighteen Palestinian civilians from across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported. Soldiers detained a freed Palestinian prisoner in…

30 Palestinian shop owners in central Israel, lands occupied in 1948, recently received eviction orders from the Israeli Regional Committee for Planning and Building, Arab 48 news reported Tuesday. The…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the hunger-striking detainee, Miqdad al-Qawasma, who continues his strike for the 90th day, was moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the Kaplan Israeli…

Two Palestinians were shot by the army, overnight Tuesday, and detained four others from across the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. Sources stated that soldiers stormed and ransacked several…

Jawad Boulus, a lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Tuesday, that the Israeli High Court has denied an appeal to freeze or end the Administrative Detention order…

Press Release: Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Earlier this morning, the Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked officially notified 36-year-old Palestinian-French human rights defender Salah Hammouri of the revocation of his…

The Israeli government, its “Justice Ministry” and “Interior Ministry” have approved the revocation of the Jerusalem residency and ID card of a native Jerusalemite Palestinian lawyer, who is also a…

Israeli border police detained a Palestinian woman, Monday, when she approached the illegal Israeli Har Adar colony allegedly armed with a knife, according to the Jerusalem Post. The woman, a…

Several Palestinian civilians from across the occupied West Bank were detained by the Israeli army, Sunday evening and overnight Monday, local sources reported. A 70-year-old Palestinian writer and former political…

Palestinian prisoner Kayed Al-Fasfous, 31, has maintained his hunger strike for 95 days in opposition to being held under administrative detention by Israeli authorities, with no charges or trial. The…

Israeli forces targeted, shot and killed the former political prisoner Midhat Saleh al-Saleh while he was on his way home in the Golan Heights on Saturday. Al-Saleh was the head…

Illegal Israeli settlers, on Saturday, attacked Palestinian farmers and injured four in Yasouf village, northeast of Salfit in the northern occupied West Bank, Quds News Network reported. Palestinian farmer, Yousef…

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…

The Israeli High Court issued a ruling, Thursday, freezing the Administrative Detention order against Kayed al-Fasfous, 31, after 92 days of hunger strike, without actually voiding the order, the Palestinian…

The Israeli Jerusalem municipality on Wednesday approved the seizure of a large area (200 dunams) in East Jerusalem to construct a colonial settlement in violation of international law and signed…

On Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a Palestinian detainee, Kayed al-Fasfous, 32, is ongoing with the hunger strike he started 90 days ago, protesting his continued…

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…

On Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that attorney Jawad Boulus managed to visit with three of the six hunger-striking detainees, and stated that they are facing serious…

Many Palestinians reburied, on Monday evening, the skulls and bones in a Muslim cemetery in occupied Jerusalem, after Israeli bulldozers desecrated their graves in the historic Al-Yusufiya historic Islamic cemetery. Sheikh…

The Israeli authorities forced, Monday, a Palestinian citizen from Kafr Qassem, east of Tel Aviv, to demolish his under-construction homes after refusing to grant him a permit. The Arabs48 news…

The Israeli army invaded, Sunday, the Wadi al-Maleh area in the Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, and delivered a demolition order targeting an under-construction…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, October 10, 2021 (WAFA) – A total of six Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a…

Report By Human Rights Watch (HRW)  (Washington, DC) – Facebook has wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians and their supporters, including about human rights abuses carried out in Israel and…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Protection of Civilians Report for September 21 – October 4, 2021 Highlights from the reporting period Israeli forces shot and…

On Thursday, the Israeli Authorities renewed, for the second time, the arbitrary Administrative Detention order against a Palestinian teenage boy. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the teen, Mohammad Ghassan…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for September 30 – October 6, 2021 Israeli forces continued…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said seven Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are ongoing with the hunger strike and added that one of them started his strike 83 days ago.…

Report by 7amleh.org: October, 5, 2021, Ramallah – Tens of human rights organizations have joined together to tell PayPal to stop denying its services on discriminatory grounds to Palestinians in…

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…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Summary September 23 – 29, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed that the Palestinian detainees in all Israeli prisons, detention centers, and interrogation facilities, will start gradual measures to protest the escalating violations against…

Israeli soldiers placed, Sunday, large rocks to close a road near Ya’bad town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and installed a roadblock on a nearby road…

On 1 October 2021, Al-Haq and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer) sent letters to State Representatives calling on them to intervene to prevent Ms. Odeh’s unlawful detention…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, October 03, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli court of Ofer, to the west of Ramallah, rejected an appeal today to release Palestinian detainee Kayed al-Fasfous, who has been…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that seven political prisoners, held by Israel under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial, are ongoing with the hunger strike,…

JEDDAH, Sunday, September 26, 2021 (WAFA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the Israeli forces’ killing of five Palestinians in Jenin and Jerusalem early morning today. The organization…

The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Samidoun issued the following statement upon the release of Palestinian elected legislator Khalida Jarra from Israeli detention: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Khalida Jarrar,…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Protection of Civilians Report | 7-20 September 2021 Highlights from the reporting period One Palestinian was shot and killed and…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for September 16 – 22, 2021 The Israeli occupation authorities continue…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed, Wednesday, that a cancer-stricken former Palestinian political prisoner who was recently released from an Israeli prison after his condition seriously deteriorated, has died…

Statement by Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) “I am very alarmed by two major security developments that happened in Lebanon over…

THE HAGUE, Tuesday, September 21, 2021 (WAFA) – The Appeal Court of The Hague is scheduled to hold a hearing on Thursday on the case brought by Ismail Ziada against…

Hundreds of Palestinians held Monday, various sit-in protests in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offices in various parts of the occupied West Bank, in solidarity…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Monday, that six Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails are ongoing with the hunger strike despite deterioration health conditions and violations. Hasan abed-Rabbo, the…

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights expresses grave concern over Israel’s collective punishment and retaliatory measures against Palestinian prisoners following the escape of six Palestinian inmates from Gilboa Prison on…

RAMALLAH, Monday, September 20, 2021 (WAFA) – Almost 200 human rights networks and organizations held the Israeli occupation state fully responsible for the lives and safety of the prisoners who…

The last two of the six Palestinian political prisoners who escaped last week from Gilboa Prison were captured Saturday in Eastern Neighborhood in Jenin city, in the northern part of…

Hasan Abed-Rabbo, the media consultant of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, has reported, Saturday, that six detainees, held by Israel under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, are…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Thursday evening, that an infant girl, only four months of age, was among many Palestinians who suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation after…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for September, 9 – 15, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit…

Attorney Raslan Mahajna of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) managed to meet with detainee Mahmoud al-‘Arda, one of the Palestinian political prisoners who managed to escape from Gilboa’ Israeli prison,…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that six detainees in Israeli prisons are ongoing with hunger strikes demanding an end to their arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, despite their seriously deteriorating…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that 1380 political prisoners in Israeli prisons will begin an open-ended hunger strike this coming Friday, in protest of escalating Israeli violations against them…

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fateh, issued a statement following the re-capture of four of the six escaped Palestinian prisoners on Friday, stating “Israel’s capture of the heroic prisoner, Revolutionary…

The Israeli air force, late on Saturday night, fired several missiles into different parts of the besieged Gaza Strip, in what the army claimed to be  a “retaliation for a…

Israeli forces, on Saturday, detained 5 Palestinians from Bethlehem and Jenin, including three former prisoners, and seven family members on Friday in Hebron, local sources reported. Three Palestinian former prisoners…

Four of the six Palestinian prisoners who escaped Gilboa prison last Monday, have been captured and re-imprisoned by Israeli police, according to local sources. Zakariya Zobeidi and Mohammad al-‘Aarda were…

In the early hours of Friday morning, Israeli forces invaded several villages in the northern part of the West Bank and abducted six Palestinians who were asleep in their homes…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) Summary for September 2 – 8, 2021 Israeli forces continued…

Israeli soldiers injured, Tuesday, dozens of Palestinians after the army attacked nonviolent protesters in a protest tent in the at-Tiwana village, southeast of Yatta town, south of Hebron, in southern…

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…

On Tuesday, a Palestinian family from the al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, was forced to demolish its home after the City Council denied their appeals. The Wadi…

The Israeli occupation fired missiles, on Monday at night, at two sites in the southern Gaza Strip, causing property damage, the Palestine News and Information Agency (Wafa) reported.

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…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Sunday, a Palestinian man in the ar-Ras al-Ahmar area, southeast of Tubas, in northeastern West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has confirmed that the soldiers abducted…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Sunday, that six Palestinian detainees are ongoing with the hunger strike, protesting their ongoing detention by the Israeli occupation authorities without charges or…

The Israeli army forced Saturday, a Palestinian to demolish his under-construction home in Wadi ar-Rababa neighborhood, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh…

Israeli troops attacked a group of journalists covering a protest in the South Hebron Hills several days ago, with one of the soldiers telling the reporters as they seized their…

Israeli troops attacked a group of Palestinians who were protesting the Israeli settlement expansion in Beita village Friday, wounding at least 20. The soldiers also opened fire on four ambulances…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for August 26 – September 1, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes…

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, on Thursday at night, that a young man has died from serious wounds he suffered after Israeli soldiers attacked protesters on Palestinian lands near…

Report by The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): West Bank Demolitions and Displacement Report Highlights July recorded the second-highest number of structures demolished so far…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the Young Muslim Women School in occupied Jerusalem, before abducting the principal, administrative employees, and confiscated computers. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) stated…

Israeli intelligence officers abducted, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian political prisoner moments following he was released after he served a 13-year prison sentence. Update: After interrogating him for several hours…

An Israeli sniper died on Monday, August 30th, after having sustained a critical gunshot injury, along the border wall with Gaza nine days earlier. Barel Hadaria Shmueli, 21, an Israeli…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Monday, that six detainees, held by Israel under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, are ongoing with the hunger strike,…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Monday, that a hunger-striking detainee in Israeli prisons is facing serious health complications, but is ongoing with the strike for the 23rd day. The…

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…

The Maan News Agency has reported that a teenage boy was accidentally killed, on Saturday evening, while he and many residents were helping their neighbors who were forced by Israel…

The Israeli army fired, on Sunday at dawn, several missiles into areas in Gaza City and Beit Hanoun, in the besieged Gaza Strip, causing damage. Media sources said the army…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for August 19 - 25, 2021                                                                                         Israeli forces continued…

Update from “Palestinian Protests in Beita Attacked by Israeli Troops” In Beita, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society confirmed that 94 Palestinians; 17 shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, three of them…

(WAFA Images / Ayman Noubani) Hundreds of Palestinians participated in the funeral of Imad Hashash in Balata refugee camp. JERUSALEM, Thursday, August 26, 2021 (WAFA) – In mourning of a…

By: Dr. Belal Yasin for Middle East Monitor

Fourteen Palestinians were shot, Wednesday, by Israeli forces, while drones dropped teargas canisters at those gathered at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, the Jerusalem Press reported.

RAMALLAH, Monday, August 23, 2021 (WAFA) – Salem Zeidat, the Palestinian administrative detainee in Israel who has been on hunger strike for 43 days, has suspended teh strike  following an…

For the second day, Israeli soldiers continued Monday, the live-fire military drills in Khirbit Ibziq Bedouin village, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank. Abdul-Majid Khdeirat, the head…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a former political prisoner who was diagnosed with cancer and was released in February of this year after he spent 19 years…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that nine political prisoners, held by Israel under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, are ongoing with the hunger strike.…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a former political prisoner, who was held by Israel and denied medical treatment, has died while receiving the needed medical attention in…

Update: Israeli sources report that an Israeli soldier was seriously injured when he was shot by a Palestinian protester through a hole in the perimeter wall where protesters were gathered.…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for August 12 – 18, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations of international law and international humanitarian law against…