Category: Human rights

As people around the world celebrate the global football competition known as the World Cup, pro-Palestine activists have called out FIFA for its complicity in Israeli apartheid, and called on…

Israeli warplanes carried out a strike in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening, killing two Palestinians and wounding several others in the city of Khan Younis, as the overall…

The so‑called “Higher Planning Council” of the Israeli military’s “Civil Administration” approved on Wednesday a new package of colonial construction plans, including 576 additional colonial units across several illegal colonies…

The United Nations High Commissioner, Volker Türk spoke before the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, addressing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Türk stated that…

Israeli occupation forces killed seven Palestinians and wounded others across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in a series of shootings, shelling, and demolitions that constitute ongoing violations of the “ceasefire…

Israeli occupation authorities informed the family of Palestinian political prisoner Emad Rajeh Sarhan, 47, from Haifa, that he died on Sunday inside Gilboa Prison, reportedly following a heart attack the…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of attacks on Saturday across the occupied West Bank, invading homes, targeting a utility crew, and stealing essential infrastructure in incidents that…

Jerusalem – June 12, 2026 – Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, warned that the West Bank has effectively turned into “a large prison,” as illegal paramilitary Israeli…

B’Tselem: June 9, 2026 New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both…

A Palestinian man died on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip from wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on Deir al‑Balah in the central Gaza Strip three days earlier, as Israeli…

Fr. Bashar Fawadleh, Parish Priest of LPJ in Taybeh: Yesterday evening, Tuesday at approximately 8:30 p.m., we were subjected to yet another attack – one that was complex, alarming, and difficult…

Eight Palestinians were killed in the occupied Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Gaza Ministry of Health said Tuesday, raising the death toll from Israel’s ongoing assault since…

Israeli occupation forces demolished two structures and a commercial kiosk in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, on Tuesday, in the latest incident…

The Israeli army began, on Monday morning, the demolition of twenty Palestinian homes in the town of Barta’a, southwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, after an…

Israeli occupation aircraft fired two missiles at a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Al‑Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and injuring…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian home and a carpentry workshop on Monday in Khirbet Qalqas, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, leaving two families displaced and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a new wave of attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing 13 Palestinians and injuring 29 others, in continued violations of the ceasefire framework…

Israeli occupation authorities issued a new military order on Sunday to seize 208 dunams of Palestinian‑owned land in the Tubas governorate, in the northeastern West Bank, further expanding long‑standing Israeli…

By Maysa Omar, Published in Arabic By WAFA News: On a hill overlooking the village of Jinsafut, east of Qalqilia, nearly 50 dunams of agricultural land in the western area…

Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire continued across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing nine Palestinians and injuring more than fifteen others in the latest series of attacks targeting displaced families…

A displaced Palestinian man was killed at dawn Saturday when Israeli forces bombed a tent sheltering civilians in central Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, as Israeli attacks continued across multiple…

Israeli forces carried out several attacks across the Gaza Strip on Friday, including the shooting of a Palestinian child east of Gaza City, along with continued shelling and gunfire in…

Israeli authorities have forced Palestinian Bedouin residents of Tel Arad, in the Naqab (Negev), to demolish dozens of homes and structures after rejecting all appeals for alternative solutions. The latest wave…

Israeli occupation forces continued their violations of the “ceasefire” agreement for the 239th consecutive day across the Gaza Strip, where a Palestinian woman was killed, and two men died from…

Israeli occupation forces carried out new strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing and wounding Palestinians in central and western Gaza City, while continued bombardment and demolitions intensified in…

Israeli warplanes bombed four residential apartments across Gaza City at dawn Thursday, killing nine Palestinians and wounding at least fifteen others, in what medical teams and civil defense units described…

A displaced Palestinian man was killed, and a woman succumbed to serious wounds, on Wednesday when an Israeli military drone fired a missile at the Al‑Mughraqa area in central Gaza,…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a two‑story Palestinian home and an adjacent commercial workshop on Wednesday morning in the town of Jaba’, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, displacing…

For the 237th consecutive day, Israeli forces continued to violate the October 10, 2025, ceasefire agreement, carrying out drone strikes, firing on displaced civilians, demolishing homes, and tightening the siege…

Testimonies obtained by the Associated Press from Israeli reservists deployed inside Gaza confirm that killings of Palestinian civilians continued routinely despite the declared ceasefire. The soldiers described the ceasefire as…

Israel carried out a new round of attacks across the Gaza Strip on Monday, in continued violation of the ceasefire agreement that has been in place since October. The assaults,…

UN Special Rapporteurs have issued one of their strongest warnings to date, stating that Israeli‑backed colonizer violence in the occupied Palestinian territory has reached “unprecedented” levels in 2026 and now…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers established a new colonial outpost on Monday near the town of al‑‘Auja, north of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Hassan Mleihat,…

Two Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Sunday evening when an Israeli military Apache helicopter fired missiles at a group of civilians inside the Gaza fishermen’s port west…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that hospitals received one Palestinian killed and eight wounded over the past 24 hours amid the ongoing Israeli violation in the devastated…

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported, Sunday, that 930 Palestinians have been killed, and 2,811 injured, and 781 bodies recovered from destroyed areas since the start of the declared…

Israeli warplanes and artillery carried out multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing a Palestinian doctor and another civilian, and wounding several others in a series of strikes…

Israeli occupation forces continued to violate the “ceasefire” agreement in the Gaza Strip on Friday, carrying out airstrikes, drone attacks, artillery shelling, and live fire that killed and wounded Palestinians…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of deadly airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing many Palestinians, wounding dozens, and causing extensive destruction in multiple areas, as medical…

Multiple international news outlets report that the United Nations has formally notified Israel that it will be included in the UN Secretary‑General’s annual report on conflict‑related sexual violence, a document…

Israeli warplanes carried out multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing at least 18 Palestinians, including children and women, and injuring more than two dozen others, as strikes…

Israeli occupation forces demolished two commercial structures, a farm room, and large areas of agricultural land in the town of Ethna, west of Hebron, on Wednesday, while also bulldozing electricity…

A Palestinian woman died late Tuesday night from critical wounds she sustained in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building west of Gaza City the previous evening, raising the…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of deadly airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least twelve Palestinians, including a fifteen-year-old girl, and wounding several others. In…

Abdullah Al‑Zaghari, head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), said Tuesday that Israel continues to hold more than 9,400 Palestinian and Arab detainees in its prisons and military camps under…

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese announced Monday that she is withdrawing from the Hay Festival in protest of the event’s partnership with…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of strikes and artillery attacks across the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing displaced civilians, wounding others, and causing additional deaths among Palestinians previously…

Newly updated satellite imagery from Google Earth shows the near‑total destruction of large areas of southern Gaza, where entire neighborhoods, cemeteries, and civilian landmarks have been flattened or replaced by…

For the 227th consecutive day, Israeli forces have breached the ceasefire in Gaza, conducting airstrikes, artillery bombardments, controlled demolitions, and naval fire that struck homes, displacement shelters, and the shoreline.…

A Palestinian bus driver from occupied Jerusalem was assaulted late Thursday night by a group of Israelis at the central bus station in Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv. The…

The World Health Assembly, meeting in Geneva from 18–23 May, adopted two resolutions addressing the health situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and the occupied Syrian Golan, with broad international…

Nine Western states issued a joint statement on Friday urging the Israeli government to immediately halt its colonial expansion across the occupied West Bank, warning in particular against advancing the…

The United Nations warned that Gaza’s health system is operating under “extreme and unsustainable pressure,” as continued Israeli attacks, the collapse of basic services, and severe restrictions on medical supplies…

Israeli occupation forces killed six Palestinians and injured dozens more on Thursday in multiple attacks across the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip, including drone fire, shelling of tents sheltering displaced…

Israeli occupation forces carried out several attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in continued violations of the declared ceasefire. Overnight shelling was reported in northern and central Gaza, with…

In a health system pushed to the edge by years of blockade and the devastation of ongoing Israeli attacks, a small but meaningful breakthrough emerged this week in Gaza City.…

The head of the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Minister Muayyad Sha’ban, warned Tuesday that the decision signed by fanatic Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich to advance the eviction and displacement…

Israeli forces carried out a series of airstrikes, drone attacks, and artillery bombardments across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing two Palestinians and injuring several others in Gaza City, Khan…

Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian and wounded another east of Khan Younis on Monday, in yet another breach of the fragile “ceasefire” that Gaza has endured for 221 consecutive…

Israeli naval forces seized at least 28 boats from the Gaza‑bound Freedom Flotilla on Monday, in what organizers described as a violent interception carried out in international waters against an…

Israeli occupation army minister Yisrael Katz and the extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir announced the beginning of procedures to implement Israel’s new death penalty law targeting Palestinian detainees in…

Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed six Palestinians and wounded others, as bombardment, artillery fire, and ground incursions continued in multiple areas of the besieged enclave. Medical…

The United Nations has renewed its call for an independent investigation into the torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinian detainees held by Israeli forces, citing a growing number of credible…

Israeli occupation forces abducted several Palestinians, including two children and an elderly man, late Saturday after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted residents in Jerusalem’s Old City. Media sources said soldiers…

Israeli warplanes carried out deadly airstrikes, Saturday, targeting Jabalia refugee camp and a civilian vehicle in western Gaza City, killing three Palestinians, and injuring at many others, as the death…

Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian resident of Jabal al‑Mukabber in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, to demolish his own home on Saturday, after issuing him a final demolition…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted Palestinian worshippers and residents near the Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Friday, while Israeli occupation forces abducted nine Palestinians from the Old City amid…

News roundup for Tuesday, May 12, 2026, Day 949 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people. Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NEWS & HEADLINES FROM…

Sixteen Palestinians were injured on Wednesday in a series of Israeli violations across northern and central Gaza, including drone strikes, live fire, and the detonation of unexploded ordnance, despite the…

Israeli occupation authorities compelled a Palestinian family to self‑demolish its home in the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, after issuing a demolition order under…

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that Gaza’s water, sanitation, and hygiene systems have undergone a severe and deliberate collapse since October 2023, driven by Israeli policies that have deprived the…

Medical sources in central Gaza confirmed that a Palestinian man was killed and several others were injured on Tuesday evening when an Israeli military drone fired a missile at a…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday that at least one Palestinian child has been killed every week in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, since January 2025,…

Marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that the global Palestinian population has reached 15.5 million, including 7.4 million living in Palestine and…

Israeli occupation forces continued their violations of the ceasefire agreement for the 215th consecutive day across multiple areas of the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians and injuring others during the…

Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian resident of Silwan, south of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, to demolish his own residential room on Tuesday, continuing a long‑standing policy that…

Palestinians marked the 78th anniversary of the Nakba on Tuesday with a central march and public gathering in Ramallah at 11:30 a.m., as part of nationwide events held under the…

The Israeli occupation army has issued a new military order extending the closure of Al‑Jazeera’s office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, for an additional three months,…

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday that four Palestinians were killed since the early morning hours, as the Israeli occupation continues its violations across the besieged and…

Decision Sparks Outrage Among Palestinian Christian Communities: In an emotional farewell scene, Catholic priest Father Louis Salman presided on Sunday over what became his final Mass in the city of…

Israeli occupation forces continued to violate the fragile “ceasefire agreement” in the Gaza Strip for the 214th consecutive day on Monday, carrying out renewed artillery strikes, home demolitions, and heavy…

Israeli forces carried out multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing a Palestinian man in the central Gaza Strip and injuring several others in separate incidents involving artillery…

Israeli occupation authorities have intensified abusive measures against Palestinian women held in the Damon Prison, where female detainees—including two minors and three pregnant women—have reported a sharp rise in systematic…

Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed three Palestinians, including the director of police investigations in Khan Younis, and injured several others in separate incidents…

Palestinian officials condemned the exhumation of a recently buried deceased man in the village of Al-Asa’sa, south of Jenin, after Israeli occupation soldiers and illegal paramilitary colonizers dug up his…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Saturday that five Palestinians were killed and fifteen others injured over the past forty‑eight hours, as rescue teams continue to struggle…

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip warned on Saturday that Palestinians living with thalassemia are facing life‑threatening conditions, as the collapse of medical services under the ongoing Israeli assault has…

Nine Palestinians, including a child, were injured late Friday when an Israeli airstrike targeted a home in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, as Israeli bombardment and military…

Israeli occupation forces forced residents of the village of al‑Asa’sa in Jenin in the northern West Bank on Friday evening to exhume the body of a man who had been…

Three Palestinians were killed and several others were critically wounded on Thursday after Israeli occupation drones carried out multiple strikes west of Gaza City, as humanitarian agencies warned of a…

Israeli airstrikes and ongoing ceasefire violations killed several Palestinians and wounded others on Wednesday across the Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces continued to target civilian areas in Gaza City, northern…

Israeli occupation forces continued to violate the “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip for the 208th consecutive day on Tuesday, carrying out renewed airstrikes, artillery bombardments, and home demolitions that targeted…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian home on Tuesday in the Arab al‑‘Arara area near the Jaba’ Junction north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, displacing a family and…

Israeli airstrikes continued across the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing two Palestinians and wounding several others, as the humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave remains dire months after the declared…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a 2-storey Palestinian home on Monday in the village of ad‑Deerat, east of Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, in the latest incident…

Israeli occupation forces killed a displaced Palestinian man in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, as the army continued to violate the ceasefire agreement for the 207th consecutive day through…

Updated: Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers on Monday in the town of Turmus Ayya, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central region and forced them to…

Israeli forces continued their illegal theft of Palestinian land by force, as well as attacking Palestinians and their property throughout the West Bank on Sunday. Israeli occupation forces shot and…

News roundup for Saturday, May 2, 2026, Day 939 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people. Compilation of news reports – IAK staff GAZA FLOTILLA – NEWS &…