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Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly non-violent procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia, in thew northern occupied West Bank, firing rubber-coated steel rounds and teargas canisters. The coordinator…
In the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, Israeli paramilitary settlers on Wednesday night attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles, according to local sources. A member…
An open letter the US Biden administration was published, Thursday, demanding the provision of basic human rights for the people of Palestine, with 680 signatures, the New Arab (Al-Araby) reports.…
The Israeli army bombarded, on Thursday night, several sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Press reported. Quds Press correspondent stated, Israeli warplanes bombed a site of the Palestinian…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report of Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for June 10 – 16, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit…
American journalists have signed and are circulating an open letter calling on their peers and colleagues in the media community to start using consistent truth telling speech, rather than language…
Israeli forces shot a Palestinian woman dead, on Wednesday, while she was in her car at the entrance to Hizma town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian WAFA News…
Israeli warplanes fired missiles into the southern besieged Gaza Strip, early on Wednesday morning, breaking the ceasefire which brought the most recent eruption of violence to an end. Quds News…
Two Palestinian toddlers suffered from exposure to pesticides, on Friday, after Israeli settlers invaded a Palestinian-owned grape orchard, in al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West…
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a child was killed, on Thursday morning, when an undetonated Israeli explosive that was dropped during the recent Israeli offensive on Gaza, exploded…
The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem ordered the demolition of a Palestinian-owned home in occupied East Jerusalem, leaving a family of five people displaced, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.…
Lawyers from Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel have collected multiple sworn affidavits testifying to rampant, systemic Israeli police attacks and brutal beatings of Palestinian…
By Yasser Abu Jamei for Scientific American “Have you ever seen a six-month old baby with exaggerated startle response?” One of my colleagues who works on our telephone counseling service…
Muna al-Kurd, a Palestinian activist, was arrested from her home, on Sunday, and her twin brother Mohammad was summoned for interrogation. The siblings are members of one of the eight…
Israeli forces attacked the weekly procession, on Saturday, injuring a Palestinian child and causing dozens more to suffocate in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in northern West Bank, the…
Israeli soldiers assaulted and detained a journalist, on Saturday, from the contentious Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, Quds News Network reported. The Al Jazeera correspondent in Jerusalem, Givara…
June 1, 2021 (Financial Times) – Close to 200 Facebook employees have signed an open letter calling for the company’s leadership to address concerns that pro-Palestine voices on the social…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) Protection of Civilians Report | 24-31 May 2021 Highlights from the reporting period
Israeli forces cracked down on the weekly procession in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, causing dozens of inhalation injuries, and in Ni’lin, two Palestinians were shot with live rounds during…
In opposition to their Administrative Detention, two Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, have declared hunger strike, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) stated Thursday. The first prisoner, Omar Shami, 18, from…
Eleven Palestinians were abducted by Israeli forces on Thursday night, from several parts of the occupied West Bank, and seven others were injured, reported the Palestinian Wafa News Agency. Four…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations for May 27 – June 2, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations…
In the embattled neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Thursday, Israeli military police for the city of Jerusalem snatched a 14-year old girl for the alleged ‘crime’ of flying a Palestinian…
In a press statement, Wednesday, the Ministry of Interior and National Security announced the death of two Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip after an Israeli ordnance exploded in Deir…
Another casualty was added to the death toll of the recent Israeli aggression in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from May 10 – 21, when the Palestinian Ministry of…
The Israeli government on Tuesday demolished the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib, Tuesday, for the 188th consecutive time. Israeli police forces and the “Yoav” unit of the so-called “Negev Development Authority”…
In the early morning hours on Wednesday, Israeli forces invaded a number of West Bank cities and towns and snatched 17 Palestinian men and boys from their homes as they lay…
June 1, 2021 (QNN) – Over 1,000 Canadian artists and cultural workers have signed a statement calling on the Canadian government to impose military and economic sanctions on the occupation…
A battalion of Israeli soldiers invaded the Palestinian village of Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin, in the northern West Bank on Tuesday evening. They opened fire at any Palestinians who were…
Following several weeks of Israeli immigrants leaving their adopted country of Israel to return home due to the increase in violence from May 10 – 20th, Israeli government officials issued…
Political prisoner held by Israel, Khader Adnan, 43, has declared a hunger strike the day he was abducted by the soldiers on May 30th, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) stated…
Israeli forces on Monday uprooted dozens of olive trees from a plot of land in the village of Jayyous, east of the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilia. The military…
An Israeli court on Friday extended the detention of two Palestinian journalists detained by police in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The lawyer representing the Palestinian journalists,…
May 27,2021 (Geneva) – A new report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10 – 21…
24 May 2021: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem): With Israel’s latest round of bombing in the Gaza Strip over, the standard whitewashing is…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, many Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. The Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and…
May 27, 2021 – (Al-Haq) On 21 May 2021, a ceasefire announced the ending of Israel’s 11-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of at…
RAMALLAH, Friday, May 28, 2021 (WAFA) – US organizations are scheduled on Saturday to hold a march in Washington DC in protest of Israel’s settler-colonialism, apartheid and military occupation. The…
The Israeli forces shot and killed, on Friday, a Palestinian young man and injured several others during a peaceful demonstration in Beita village, south of Nablus in the northern occupied…
Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Statement by Michelle Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Madam President,…
JarrahIsraeli soldiers repeatedly attacked, Thursday, two Palestinian journalists in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, before abducting them, and assaulted many others. The soldiers assaulted many journalists, before…
26 May 2021 – for IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin – In a historic move Wednesday, Ireland’s parliament, the Dáil, is thought to have become the first European country to…
The Irish Parliament has unanimously passed a motion condemning Israel’s colonial settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem as ‘de facto annexation’. The Palestinian National Authority has hailed this as…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report for May 20 – 26, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties…
A Palestinian youth died on Thursday, as a result of wounds sustained during the eleven-day-long Israeli bombing of Gaza from May 10th to 21st, before a ceasefire was negotiated by…
Israel has started the digging and preparing for a new segregated road on lands owned by Palestinians from Iskaka and Yasuf village, east of Salfit in central West Bank. Fawzi…
May 24, 2021 – (Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) On 22 April 2021, representatives of 28 Palestinian families constituting approximately 500 Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied…
RAMALLAH, Monday, May 24, 2021 (WAFA) – Around 155 administrative detention orders were issued against Palestinians, including 84 new orders, since the start of May; the highest percentage in years…
Israeli police shot and fatally wounded, on Monday, a Palestinian teen after an alleged stabbing attempt in occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Witnesses stated that the police…
Palestinian medical sources have confirmed, Monday, that two young men died from serios wounds they suffered when the Israeli army bombarded Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern…
The IMEMC has been trying to keep track of all the Palestinians and Israelis killed from May 10th to 20th during the massive bombardment of Gaza. Here is the list…
By Robert Inlakesh for Quds News Network When this Friday’s ceasefire was announced between Palestinian resistance groups and ‘Israel’, there was only one side celebrating, the Palestinians, who had taken…
Israeli troops attacked, on Friday midday, a nonviolent protest at the “Tunnel Roadblock”, north of Bethlehem, before detaining eight activists, four Israelis, and four Palestinians. The protest was organized to…
Report By The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Date: 20 May 2021 Time: 13:00 GMT —- 9 Palestinians, including 3 Women and 2 Children, Killed and 120 Others, Including…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report Summary of Israeli Human Rights Violations from May 11 – 19, 2021 The Israeli army continued to commit crimes and multi-layered…
The Deputy Minister of Housing and Public Works in Gaza Naji Sarhan has reported, Thursday, that Israeli missiles and shells have damaged 16800 residential units and buildings, including the destruction…
In a press release, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) urgently called on the Government of Israel to enable humanitarian…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Ref: 67/2021: Date: 19 May 2021. Time: 13:15 GMT: 8 Palestinians, Including Woman and Child, Killed and 76 Others, including 9 Women and 11 Children,…
Three Israeli extremists severely targeted and beat a number of clerics from the Armenian Orthodox Church Wednesday evening in occupied Jerusalem, witnesses say. The clerics suffered multiple injuries, including one…
Israeli forces have displayed a shocking disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians by carrying out a number of airstrikes targeting residential buildings in some cases killing entire families –…
A group of professors, Departments, research groups, unions, student organizations, individual employees, researchers, and lecturers of Ghent University, issued a statement condemning what they called the misleading coverage in the…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock: Statement on the situation in…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA): Escalation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Israel | Flash Update #8…
17-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Kiwan, from the Palestinian town of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, was pronounced dead on Wednesday as a result of gunshot wounds he sustained last week by…
Report By the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR|): 10 Palestinians Killed, including 1 Woman and 1 Child, and 122 Others Wounded, Including 22 Women and 40 Children Death Toll…
A group of 29 US Senators led by Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont have issued a statement calling on the Biden administration to take…
The Gaza headquarters of The Qatari Red Crescent Society, a medical and humanitarian aid organization was targeted today in an Israeli air strike, according to the Doha News Agency. The director…
The United Nations Security Council met on Sunday to discuss the past week’s escalation of violence by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jerusalem, inside Israel and…
At least six Palestinian youths were injured on Sunday evening by live ammunition fired by the Israeli army during protests in various parts of the occupied West Bank. Two young…
Armed Israeli settlers attacked, on Sunday afternoon, Palestinian farmers and destroyed greenhouses in the village of Kaffa near Tulkarem city in northern West Bank. According to local residents, this is…
A Palestinian man, on Sunday afternoon, drove his car into an Israeli military checkpoint at the entrance of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, injuring seven Israeli soldiers,…
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Sunday evening that the death toll due to Israel’s offensive targeting the besieged Gaza Strip and the West Bank has reached 209. In the…
On Friday night a 12 year old boy was injured and is in critical condition after a firebomb was thrown into his home in Jaffa, injuring also his younger sister.…
Al Mezan condemns the deliberate targeting of civilians and calls for international intervention 15-05-2021 On the sixth day of Israel’s military offensive against the Gaza Strip, Israel escalated its attacks on…
Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, has reported that the ongoing Israeli offensive on Gaza has led, so far, to the death of 145 Palestinians,…
Over 100, 000 people of all backgrounds marched through London May 15 in solidarity and sorrow against the Israeli state’s carnage in Gaza but most compelling and hopeful were the…
One of the most difficult things to grasp in the modern history of Palestine and the Palestinians is the meaning of the Nakba. Is the Nakba to be seen as…
MAY 15, 2021: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin: A huge crowd gathered as The Derry Branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a protest and banner drop at…
On Saturday afternoon in East Jerusalem, Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah were singing, painting murals, and flying balloons when Israeli forces attacked. Occupation forces attack women in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood (video…
Early Saturday morning, the Israeli airforce dropped a missile on a highrise building in Gaza City housing the offices of numerous international media outlets, demolishing it completely and reducing it…
As Israeli forces continued for the fifth straight day their offensive on the Gaza Strip and continued the policy of collective punishment and retaliatory bombing, the Palestinian Centre for Human…
Late Thursday night, the fourth day of the current Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military says it has begun ground invasion of Gaza. The announcement came in…
Illegal Israeli colonists pelted Palestinian-owned vehicles, on Thursday, in Ya’bad town, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Sources said that a…
As Israeli paramilitary settlers continued to rampage through Palestinian cities, towns and neighborhoods in Israel Wednesday night, Israeli police targeted Palestinian youth for arrest and detention. The Israeli paramilitary mobs…
As the Israeli military continued pounding the Gaza Strip with missiles for the third straight day, groups of armed Israelis in different parts of Israel invaded Palestinian neighborhoods and villages…
The UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore issued a statement on Wednesday that read as follows: “At least 14 children in the State of Palestine and 1 child in Israel have…
Israel’s escalation of violence and widespread bombardment, including civilian objects without respecting the principle of proportionality, in the Gaza Strip is utterly appalling, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today in…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued the following statement about the recent escalation in the Palestinian Territories and Israel:: Tension in East Jerusalem has…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Monday at night, 32 young Palestinian men in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded the center of Hebron…
Israeli forces assaulted and detained 4 Palestinians, on Tuesday in occupied Jerusalem, and detained a Palestinian teen in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Soldiers…
As of Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed that Israeli airstrikes have killed 26 Palestinians, including 9 children and one woman, and wounded at least a hundred…
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has issued a press release expressing great concern over the news that Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and started brutally attacking Muslim worshipers. Euro-Med…
Early Monday morning, a group of Israeli paramilitary settlers and two right-wing Knesset (Parliament) members invaded the besieged Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, accompanied by a battalion…
Another Anadolu Agency correspondent in Jerusalem, Esat Firat, was injured Monday after being attacked by the Israeli police at Al-Aqsa Mosque complex. While covering the events on the complex, a…
The United Nations (UN) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, on Thursday, released the following statement regarding the surge in tensions and violence in the…
The detained Palestinian journalist, Ala’ Rimawi, has suspended the hunger strike, Thursday, after reaching an agreement for his release next month. Khaled Zababra, a lawyer representing Rimawi, said the agreement…
Summary for April 29 – May 5, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian child on Wednesday, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, during an invasion of the Palestinian village of Odla. The child…
The Permanent Observer to the United Nations for Palestine, Riyad Mansour, sent a letter on Wednesday to the UN Secretary-General, President of the UN Security Council, and the President of…