Category: Human rights

IsraelPalesineNews.org: Worsening humanitarian disaster, bombing of northern Gaza approaching scale of WWII, Israel bombs 800-year-old mosque, UN chief hits “panic button,” more guns in Israeli civilian hands, West Bank struggles,…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine today condemned Israel’s revocation of the visa of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings. “This is…

The Israeli army continued the bombing of civilian areas, homes, residential buildings, schools, and various medical and civilian facilities, killing hundreds of Palestinians, mainly women and children, The Israeli army…

Israeli forces demolished, on Sunday, a Palestinian-owned apartment, and three other citizens were forced to demolish their own homes in occupied Jerusalem. On Sunday morning occupation municipality crews and police…

On Monday, the Israeli army fired missiles at homes in the densely populated Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City and the Sheja’eyya neighborhood east of the city, killing at least thirty,…

Just before midnight, Sunday, the Israeli army fired missiles at dozens of Palestinians, mainly women and children, at the northern gate of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia, in the…

IsraelPalestineNews.org: Latest Israeli attacks in Gaza, Catholic Church bombed, humanitarian update, escalating Israeli violence in West Bank, Vermont shooting update, rhetoric from the White House, 250 US financial executives signed…

IsraelPalestineNews: Humanitarian update, evacuation news, Israeli attacks, West Bank news, Biden, CNN under fire, latest statistics, and more Updates to be added throughout the day. Find latest statistics at the bottom…

IsraelPalestineNews.org: Israeli attacks on Gaza resume, hardship for healthcare workers, journalists; West Bank; CNN, Biden support for Israel continues, cheered on by Israel lobby, which is pushing for $50 million…

The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): November 29, 2023: Medical teams found today partially decomposed bodies of five premature babies in Al-Nasr Hospital for Children in Gaza City. Before the truce…

Video message from Bethlehem Municipality, delivered by its Mayor, Mr. Hanna Hanania: As Christmas approaches, Bethlehem remains sad, just like all other Palestinian cities; we at Bethlehem Municipality, along with…

Over the past 24 hours, rescue teams and volunteers have recovered 160 bodies that were buried under the rubble of homes and businesses bombed by Israel during its 50 straight…

Christians in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and all parts of occupied Palestine have decided that Christmas this year will only focus on the religious aspect of this important advent in Christian and…

Israeli eyewitnesses have exposed Israel for misleading the world about the killings of 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni, her family, and her neighbors. (This is just the latest correction to Israel’s long…

IsraelPalestineNews.org: Updates on truce and hostages, hospital, humanitarian, evacuation news, West Bank news, Israel Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. For more news, go here and here. Live broadcast news from…

After the Israeli missiles targeted the home of a Palestinian journalist, killing her and her family in Gaza City, the number of Palestinian journalists slain by Israeli missiles and shells…

The Israeli army continued its bombing and shelling of civilian areas across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, and wounding hundreds, earlier Thursday morning. In…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, (UNOCHA) issued the following report about the situation in Gaza on the 46th straight day of Israeli bombardment:…

The Israeli army continued its bombing of various civilian areas across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, and wounding hundreds, Dozens of Palestinians, including many…

On Monday, the Israeli occupation army continued the indiscriminate bombing and the targeting of homes, residential buildings, schools, and hospitals in several parts of the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds of…

Since October 7, the Israeli army has killed more than 13000 Palestinians, including at least 5500 children and 3500 women in Gaza in 44 days of the ongoing Israeli onslaught…

The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Committee has confirmed Saturday the death of another political prisoner in an Israeli prison, bringing the number of detainees who died in captivity since…

On day 43 of the ongoing Israeli onslaught and indiscriminate bombing of the densely populated Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded hundreds, bringing the…

On Friday dawn, the Israeli army continued the firing of missiles and shells into various parts of the densely populated and devastated Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians and wounding…

Israeli forces dropped fliers on Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, ordering residents — many of whom are evacuees from other parts of Gaza – to evacuate the area. But there…

The death of a Palestinian detainee in Israeli prison, was announced, on Tuesday, the fifth detainee to die in occupation prisons since October 7, 2023. The Commission of Detainees and…

On Tuesday, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds as Israel’s onslaught on the coastal region continued since October 7. The ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza…

Updated: Three young men were killed by a missile fired by the Israeli occupation forces from a drone Tuesday before dawn, bringing the number of Palestinians killed in the West…

In London on Saturday, one million people came out in support of a Free Palestine. This is the largest march the UK has ever had in support of Palestinian liberation,…

On Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported the deaths of dozens of Palestinians and the injury of hundreds more, in addition to dozens who remain missing under the rubble of…

Israeli forces have killed 13 Palestinians in the cardiac ward of Al-Shifa Hospital on Sunday, with multiple bombs, and snipers shooting directly into the hospital and killing patients. Three nurses…

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that three premature babies and five patients in Intensive Care at the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza have died due to Oxygen shortages and…

Updated: Medical sources said three premature babies have died in incubators, and four patients have died due to power blackout as the Al-Shifa hospital ran out of fuel to its electricity…

Israeli forces wired and detonated, on Friday, two apartments belonging to two Palestinian detainees in Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. At dawn Friday, Israeli forces detonated the family…

On Wednesday, the Israeli army fired a missile at a Palestinian home in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing eighteen Palestinians, including ten children. Medical sources…

The Palestinian Health Ministry said in its most recent report that the number of Palestinians Israeli missiles and shells have killed has arrived to 10.468, including 4237 children, in addition…

The Israeli army conducted more than 250 air strikes against the Gaza Strip overnight, killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of children and women. The WAFA Palestinian News…

RAMALLAH, Monday, November 6, 2023 (WAFA) -The Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) confirmed today that detainee Majed Ahmed Zaqoul, 32, one of the Gaza workers who…

On Monday, hundreds of Palestinians were killed and many more injured when Israeli missiles and shells struck homes, buildings, facilities, and medical centers in several parts of the Gaza Strip…

According to a report put out on November 4th by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (the West Bank and Gaza, the two…

On Saturday evening, Israeli missiles killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds, mainly women and children, in the Gaza Strip. Media sources said the army fired missiles at a home…

On Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that 9,572 have been killed and more than 26,000 wounded during the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian civilian population in…

On Tuesday evening, the Israeli army continued the firing of missiles and shells into various civilian areas and medical facilities in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of civilians, including many…

Press Release- RAMALLAH, Saturday, October 28, 2023 – Minister of Health, Dr. Mai Alkaila, said today that the Israeli occupation is killing any hope of survival for the wounded and…

New York 10-27-2023 WAFA – The United Nations General Assembly adopted, this evening, Friday, a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip. 120 countries voted in…

149 Palestinian families lost ten or more of their members in the occupation’s aggression against Gaza.

On Wednesday, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds, including women and children, when the army targeted dozens of structures, residential buildings, homes, and public facilities…

The following is a summary of Day 18 of the latest escalation, as Israeli forces continue the massive, ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and invasions of the West Bank…

Since October 7: 5795 Palestinians have been killed and 18000 injured. %40 of the slain Palestinians are children %30 of the slain Palestinians are Women 1.4 Million Palestinians Displaced Only…

GENEVA (23 October 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called for a broad humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. He also called on the parties to the…

A Palestinian administrative detainee died, on Monday, in an Israeli prison, after being in custody for two weeks. According to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society,…

In a statement Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip and the serious military and colonialist settlers’ escalation in the West Bank…

Gaza has been in the spotlight for two weeks; meanwhile the West Bank has seen more than its share of Israeli violence. Israelis have killed at least 84 people, including…

On Monday, the Israeli army continued the firing of dozens of shells and missiles targeting homes, apartment buildings, and public facilities across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including…

Two Palestinians, including a child, were shot and killed, on Sunday evening, by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets, and others were injured, including one seriously, near the northern West Bank city…

by Yousef Aljamal Reposted from Politics Today with permission from author. On Sunday, October 15, Israeli warplanes targeted a residential building in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp where dozens of my family…

Since October 7th, Israeli forces have airdropped thousands of tons of explosives on the people of Gaza, killing 3,785 and wounding more than 12,000, according to the latest report from…

If Americans Knew – Israel Palestine News: In the midst of Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza that had killed over 3,000 people and injured over 12,000, a Gaza hospital experienced a…

Israeli occupation forces killed, on Thursday, twelve Palestinians, and injured dozens more during an attack on the Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem, in the northwestern part of the…

An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday hit the Al-Ahli Anglican Hospital in Gaza, killing 500 civilians, including patients, staff, family members and other civilians who had taken shelter at the hospital.…

West Bank Palestinian citizens have suffered more attacks by colonizers this Monday, some with Israeli occupation forces providing protection to the aggressors and detaining civilians. Masafer Yatta  South of Hebron,…

On Monday night, Israeli missiles killed many Palestinians, including a journalist, women, and children, in the Gaza Strip. Israeli war jets fired a missile at an apartment in the Zeitoun…

West Bank Palestinians have suffered numerous settler attacks centering around communities mostly near Nablus and Hebron as well as Bethlehem and Jericho. Israeli Occupation forces have been documented and reported…

On Monday afternoon, the Israeli army fired a barrage of missiles at homes, apartment buildings, and facilities in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of civilians and wounding hundreds. Media sources…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has reported that eleven journalists have been killed and more than twenty injured by Israeli missiles and shells since Israel began its onslaught on Gaza on…

WASHINGTON, Monday, October 16, 2023 (WAFA) – Police said that a man from the state of Illinois in the United States last night stabbed a Palestinian-American child 26 times and…

14 October 2023 – World Health Organization: As the United Nation’s agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel’s repeated orders for the evacuation of…

Updated: On Saturday dawn, as the Israeli army continued to fire hundreds of missiles and shells at homes and buildings in the Gaza Strip, including a busy marker in the…

On Monday and Tuesday, Israeli police forced hundreds of Palestinian workers out of Israel and into the West Bank. The workers were among 21,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who…

A video released by Hamas shows an Israeli woman and two children released after they were detained by Hamas resistance fighters. The footage showed a woman holding a child’s hand, with…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights -Date: 12 October 2023: Al Mezan and Adalah mourn the unlawful killing of 24-year-old Attiya Fathi Al-Nabaheen, along with members of his family, in a targeted…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the death toll of the Israeli bombing of Gaza which began on Saturday, and has continued non-stop, has reached 1,537, with 7,212 injured.…

The Israeli army continued its bombardment and shells of Palestinian homes, residential towers, buildings, and infrastructure, killing dozens of Palestinians and causing a large number of injuries. A Palestinian woman…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian political prisoners in Ramon prison during violent searches of section 5 of the detention facility. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the…

On Thursday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that the Israeli Prison Authority moved hunger-striking detainee Kayed Al-Fasfous from Asqalan Prison to the Ramla prison clinic after 57 days of strike.…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev and demolished it for the eleventh time this year and the 222nd time since 2010. Media sources said…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers conducted live-fire military drills in the Khirbat Al-Farisiyya Bedouin Community in the occupied West Bank’s Northern Plains. Media sources said the army started the training in…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights(PCHR): “New War Crime: PCHR Condemns Killing of 2 Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Forces’ Fire in Tulkarem” – Date: 24 September 2023, Time: 11:30 GMT The…

Earlier Sunday, more than fifty Israeli military vehicles invaded Birzeit University in Birzeit city, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked buildings…

Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity

On Wednesday, illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted a number of Palestinian citizens in the town of Bani Na’im, east of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, and erected a tent…

On Wednesday, Palestinian political prisoner Sultan Khallouf, 40, suspended a hunger strike he started 49 days ago, protesting being held under Administrative Detention orders without charges after a ruling for…

Two Palestinian detainees, held by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial, are ongoing with hunger strike they started 45 days earlier, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)…

On Friday, The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli occupation authorities have decided to release Khaled Al-Awawda, who held a hunger strike for 172 in 2022, protesting his…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 07-13 September 2023) Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity

Latest Developments (after the reporting period) [This section is based on initial information from different sources. Further confirmed details will be provided in the next report.] On 5 September, Israeli…

Israeli bulldozers demolished, on Monday, the Arab Bedouin village of Al-Arakib, in the Negev region of Israel, for the 221st time. Since 2010, Israeli authorities have demolished the residential structures,…

Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, on Saturday evening, a Palestinian child at the entrance to the Al-Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, the…

Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity Four Palestinians, including 2 civilians, were killed, and 37 others, including 4 children and 2 female and male foreign solidarity activists, were…

On Wednesday, many Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the Al-Baq’an neighborhood in Anata town, east of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, before demolishing several buildings…

A Palestinian citizen was forced, on Saturday, to demolish a section of his home in the Jabal al-Mokabber neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, after Israeli authorities ordered its destruction, under…

Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity A child was killed and another Palestinian succumbed to his injury, while 9 others, including a woman, were wounded, and dozens of…

Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and 2 others succumbed to their injuries, while 42 other Palestinians, including 9 children, were…

On Tuesday morning, just before dawn, Israeli troops shot and killed 17-year old Othman Atef Abu Kharj, shooting him with live ammunition in the head and shoulder during an invasion…

Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity Four Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and 20 others, including 2 children, were wounded, while dozens of others suffocated and sustained…

Israeli occupation forces seized, on Sunday night, the vehicle of a disabled Palestinian man while he tried to pass through the Jaba’ military roadblock, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, local sources…

Latest Developments (after the reporting period) [This section is based on initial information from different sources. Further confirmed details will be provided in the next report.] On 10 August, undercover…

Large numbers of Israeli forces invaded, on Monday night, the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, causing dozens of injuries and detonating a Palestinian home…