Category: Human rights

On Saturday, day 365 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip (because of the 2025 leap year, the year has 366 days), Israeli forces…

On Friday, Israeli forces continued their onslaught against the entire population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza for the 364th straight day. Update 11:59 PM Friday October 4th: Nine Palestinians…

Thousands of Palestinians gathered, on Friday, to bury the eighteen Palestinians, including at least three children, who were executed on Thursday night by an Israeli airstrike in the Tulkarem refugee…

On Thursday, Day 363 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated, starved and destroyed coastal enclave, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians…

NEW YORK, October 2, 2024 (WAFA) – Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Wednesday renewed their support to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after Israel declared him “persona non…

In its daily pre-dawn invasion of various parts of the West Bank, the Israeli military invaded northern, central, and southern parts of the occupied West Bank. Israeli troops abducted, before…

The Israeli occupation aircraft carried out dozens of raids on Wednesday targeting the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut and cities and towns in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa.…

On Monday September 30th, day 360 of Israel’s ongoing assault on the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their massacres of Palestinian…

On Saturday, Day 358 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated, destroyed, and starved Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the besieged coastal…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  In war-battered Gaza, Israeli forces killed 36 Palestinians in the past 24 hours. A major Israeli air strike on a school in the Jabalia refugee…

On Saturday, day 358 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their onslaught against the displaced Palestinians, 1.9 million of…

On Friday, day 257 of the ongoing genocide by Israeli forces against the besieged and devastated Palestinian population of 2.2 million people in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells…

On Thursday, day 356 of the ongoing genocide by Israeli forces against the besieged and devastated Palestinian population of 2.2 million people in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells…

On Wednesday, Day 355 of the ongoing genocide in the besieged, devastated, and destroyed Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women,…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission has released a new report detailing the horrific conditions in the Israeli torture prison in the Negev desert. The testimonies of the eight detainees included…

Updated: Israeli forces continued their assault on the entire population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the 354th straight day on Tuesday September 24th, 2024, with ongoing…

On Monday, Israeli occupation soldiers demolished a Palestinian-owned home in the village of Al-Jiftlik, located north of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported…

On Monday, day 353 of the Israeli military assault on the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza continued with another bombing of a school housing displaced Palestinians.…

Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad announced on Monday evening that 356 Lebanese people were killed and more than 1246 others were injured, as a result of intensive Israeli airstrikes on…

Israeli forces continued their genocide against the Palestinian civilian population of the Gaza Strip for the 352nd straight day on Sunday, launching multiple airstrikes in the early hours of Sunday,…

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities around the world to condemn the ongoing Israeli aggression against the 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza…

On Saturday, for the 351st straight day, Israeli forces continued their onslaught against the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, dropping several bombs in various…

On Friday, Day 350 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, in various parts of…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called on the international community to promptly implement the recently adopted UN General Assembly resolution, submitted by the State of Palestine, and…

On Thursday, Day 349 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, across the starved, besieged,…

On Tuesday, Day 346 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army, Air Force, and navy continued the bombing and shelling of various areas of the devastated,…

On Monday, the UN Security Council will hold a session where members will receive a briefing from Sigrid Kaag, tUN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, regarding the implementation…

On Sunday, Israeli forces continued their assault against the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza, bombing yet another school housing displaced Palestinian families, as well as the…

A new report by Israeli news site Haaretz exposed a practice that the Israeli military has adopted to force African asylum seekers to serve in the military in Gaza in…

On Friday September 13th, 2024, day 343 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their airstrikes, drone strikes and artillery shelling…

Israeli forces continued their relentless assault on the entire Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip for the 342nd straight day on Wednesday September 12, 2024, killing at least 40 people…

On Wednesday, September 11th, 2024, day 341 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their airstrikes, drone strikes and artillery shelling…

RAMALLAH, September 8, 2024 (WAFA) – Several Palestinian associations and institutions issued a position statement calling on the international community to save Palestinian schools from the occupation’s education genocide, as…

Palestinian Civil Society has joined the Turkish and British governments in their calls for an independent investigation of Israel’s killing of an American peace worker in the West Bank this…

As a new school year opens around the world, the children and teens of Gaza remain without their right to education, as schools in the Gaza Strip remain closed for…

On Saturday, September 7, 2024, day 337 of Israel’s brutal, nearly 11-month long assault on the entire population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their bombardment of civilian areas,…

During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed an International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Turkish-American human rights activist…

On Thursday, Day 335 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians across the devastated, starved,…

From Middle East Eye: As the Israeli military operation in Jenin and its environs in the occupied West Bank enters its second week, the situation has only gotten bleaker for Palestinians in the area.…

On Tuesday, September 3, day 333 of the Israeli assault on the entire population of 2.24 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their relentless bombardment of civilians…

Early on Monday, the head of the Jenin Governmental Hospital, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, said Israeli soldiers abused and tortured to death a Palestinian man they…

On Sunday, Day 331 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed at least 27 Palestinians across the starved, devastated, and besieged Gaza Strip, and wounded dozens more. Others…

On Saturday, Day 330 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the devastated, starved, surrounded, and destroyed coastal enclave, killing and…

The Israeli army continued its bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated and destroyed Gaza Strip, ongoing for the 328th consecutive day, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians…

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: Palestinian Territory – To compel Israel to stop the slow and deliberate killing of Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar, who has been in Israeli solitary confinement for…

On Thursday dawn, Day 328 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles, and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, in various parts of the devastated, destroyed,…

On Wednesday, Day 327 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the destroyed, starved, and strangled coastal enclave, killing and wounding…

On Monday afternoon and at night, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians across the…

On Monday, Day 325 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the destroyed, besieged, and starved Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including…

On Sunday, Day 324 of the ongoing genocide, amidst worsening humanitarian crises and the displacement of about 95% of the population, famine, and diseases, Israeli missiles and shells struck various…

On Saturday, day 323 of the ongoing Israeli attack on the entire Palestinian civilian population of Gaza, Israeli forces launched airstrikes on several different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing…

On Friday, Day 322 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the destroyed, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians. The…

On Friday, Day 322 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated, destroyed, and starved Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the coastal…

On Thursday night, Israeli authorities released more than 40 Palestinian political prisoners from various prisons, interrogation centers, and detention camps. These prisoners had completed their sentences and several administrative detainees…

On Thursday, Day 321 of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army intensified the bombing and shelling of various parts of the coastal enclave, killing and wounding…

Updated: On Thursday, Day 321 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells struck many homes and buildings across the destroyed, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens…

Compilation of news reports by IAK staff  Death ‘the only certainty’ for Gazans, says UN official The New Arab reports: In war-ravaged Gaza, death appears to be the “only certainty”…

On Wednesday, Day 320 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed, besieged, and devastated coastal enslave, the Israeli army bombarded various parts of the Gaza Strip, killing…

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, published a new video containing testimonies of Israelis, held captive in Gaza, pleading with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the beginning…

On Tuesday, Day 319 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, in several parts of the besieged, devastated, destroyed,…

Compilation by IAK staff of news reports: Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 10-Year-Old Quintuplets Associated Press reports: The latest Israeli bombardment included a strike on a home in Deir al-Balah that…

On Tuesday, August 20th, day 319 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their relentless assault by air, sea and…

On Monday, Day 318 of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed, besieged, and starved Gaza Strip, the army killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians, including children and…

Israeli occupation forces stormed, on Sunday evening, the villages of Kafr Aboush, Kafr Zibad, and Kafr Jamal, south of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. In addition, the troops invaded…

Israeli airstrikes continued on Sunday for the 317th straight day of Israeli attacks on the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza. In pre-dawn airstrikes targeting civilian homes…

On Saturday, day 316 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles, shells, and live fire killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and…

On Saturday evening, Israeli Channel 12 disclosed the details of the “proposal” that was presented by the United States during the indirect negotiations in Doha, for a ceasefire in Gaza…

Polio epidemic begins; new flyers about Gaza to distribute; just 11 percent of Gaza for Gazans; Israeli settlers carry out pogrom in Palestinian town of Jit; Gaza Freedom Flotilla drawing…

By Jonathan Kuttab – Sabeel: It is outrageous, in the midst of an ongoing genocide where each day brings news of more tragedies and horrors, that we would have the luxury…

The far-right Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu and his fanatic colonial settlers’ coalition partners, has officially published plans to establish a new illegal Israeli colony in the Al-Makhrour Mountain, officially…

The remaining fourteen Palestinian families in the Umm al-Jimal Bedouin community, located in the northern Jordan Valley, have been compelled to dismantle their residences and vacate the area due to…

The Palestinian Health has reported, Friday, the first confirmed case of detected polio in the Gaza Strip, specifically in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, involving a 10-month-old baby who had…

TEL AVIV, Friday, August 16, 2024 (WAFA) – An Israeli military doctor has provided a harrowing account of the inhumane conditions faced by Palestinian detainees at the notorious Sde Teiman…

The Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry stated that the armed assault by fanatic Israeli colonizers on Jeet village, east of Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of the occupied West…

Food aid in southern Gaza next to zero; Israel has killed over 2,000 Palestinian babies; Israel’s intensifying attacks on Gaza’s schools; West Bank violence; Israel approves new, punitive settlement –…

On Wednesday, Day 313 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children, women, and infants, in several parts of the devastated, destroyed,…

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army has killed 2,100 Palestinian infants and toddlers under the age of two, out of the about 17,000 children it has killed…

On Wednesday, Day 313 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells targeted various parts of the devastated and densely populated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens, including children, infants…

Israel’s claims about the school massacre refuted; Germany condones massacre as “self-defense”; 75th anniversary of Geneva Conventions – the Rules of War that no one follows; West Bank deaths; 1,000…

On Tuesday, Day 312 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the besieged, starved and destroyed Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including…

On Monday, Day 311 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli army killed dozens of Palestinians, including children and women,…

Evacuation orders keep exhausted Palestinians on the move; the “Fajr massacre” left no intact bodies behind; Israeli “terrorist” hit list is fake; dwindling numbers of aid trucks means famine; US…

AMMAN, Monday, August 12, 2024 (WAFA) – Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, has strongly condemned the Israeli government’s aggression on Gaza and its continuing disregard of…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 11, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported today that 24% of those killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza are youth,…

IsraelPalestineNews: Israel drops 6,000 pounds of bombs on Gaza school; US poised to send Israel $3.5 billion, including to extremist battalion; two more journalists killed; waiting for “inevitable” polio outbreak…

Saturday dawn, Day 309 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip, the Israeli army targeted a school where dozens of families sheltered in Gaza City,…

On Friday, Day 308 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated and impoverished Gaza Strip, the army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the…

In Gaza, airstrikes continue, food rations drop, polio threat grows; in Israel, calls to punish not the rapists, but the one who filmed them, to make rape of Palestinian prisoners…

On Friday, Day 308 of the genocide of the Palestinian people in the devastated Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including many children and women, and…

EuroMed Human Rights Monitor: Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army is increasingly targeting schools that provide shelter for the displaced population in Gaza City, killing and wounding hundreds of them…

GENEVA, Friday, August 9, 2024 (WAFA) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, condemned the recent statements made by Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, in which he claimed…

GENEVA, Thursday, August 8, 2024 (WAFA) — Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has described recent footage of Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian…

On Wednesday, Day 306 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles, shells, and live fire killed and injured dozens, including children and women, across…

166th Palestinian journalist killed; child malnutrition in Gaza; another evacuation order; Gaza’s official death toll is way too low; news of Israeli torture and rape of Palestinian prisoners keeps coming,…

If Americans Knew – IsraelPalestineNews: Israel hands over bags of decomposed bodies; Amnesty: Israel committing war crimes against Palestinian prisoners; US reportedly signs off on indefinite war; Hamas is in better…

Report By B’Tselem: “Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. The Israeli Information Center In…