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RAMALLAH, Sunday, April 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The health of Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, who has been in Israeli prisons for 38 years, has been gradually deteriorating, according to the…
A young man was killed on Saturday evening by Israeli occupation forces near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.…
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers fired a barrage of gas bombs into a stadium during a soccer match in the Al-Ram town, north of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, wounding dozens…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 30, 2023 (WAFA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the occupied Palestinian territories expressed today its concern over an attack by Israeli settlers…
SAKHNIN, Thursday, March 30, 2023 (WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinians took part today in a rally in the city of Sakhnin, north of Palestine, commemorating the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian…
5 civilians were injured, three of them with live bullets, two with gas bombs, and hundreds suffered from tear gas inhalation on Thursday, during the suppression by the Israeli occupation…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded Deir Ballout town, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, and demolished a commercial facility. The Mayor of Deir Ballout, Samir Nimir, said…
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…
On Friday, the Israeli occupation authorities transferred the corpses of two slain Palestinians from Ramallah and Nablus, whom Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonialist settlers killed in January of 2023. The…
On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army confiscated dozens of Dunams of private Palestinian lands near Ramallah and Salfit in the West Bank. Amir Daoud, the head of the Documentation and…
On Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian patient at the Beit Hanoun (Erez) terminal in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Ahmad…
GENEVA, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – World Council of Churches general secretary Jerry Pillay today condemned an attack by Jewish extremists that took place in the Church of Gethsemane,…
On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers demolished two residential structures in the az-Za’ayem town, east of occupied East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Several army vehicles, including bulldozers, surrounded the town…
On Friday morning, Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men, Saher Awad Al-Salaymeh and Adam Mansour Al-Salaymeh, from Al-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem. In addition, Israeli occupation forces abducted…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished two adjoining Palestinian homes in Sur Baher town, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the town before…
JERUSALEM, Monday, March 13, 2023 (WAFA) – An Israeli court today extended the isolation of Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails Ahmad Manasra, who was arrested at age 13 after being…
Last Tuesday, fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a 64-year-old American woman near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, causing her to lose consciousness due to a…
On Saturday, a group of paramilitary Israeli colonial settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds east of Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank. Ratib al-Jabour, the coordinator of the Popular…
Israeli forces on Thursday assaulted two Palestinian children, age 6 and 8, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources. The Palestinian news agency Wafa…
Two Palestinians were wounded on Wednesday when Israeli forces fired artillery shells from tanks stationed at the border of the Gaza Strip. The two were wounded in an area east…
Israeli troops launched another massive invasion of the northern West Bank Palestinian city of Jenin, as well as invading the Jenin refugee camp on the outskirts of the city, on…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished four residential sheds. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers demolished three Palestinian homes in the Wadi Al-Jouz neighborhood in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said several army and police vehicles…
Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank before dawn on Monday and abducted five Palestinians. The soldiers took them with extreme force and brought them to unknown military…
Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued their daily acts of aggression against the Palestinian people and property, injuring one young Palestinian with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the abdomen, causing…
On Saturday, Israeli occupation forces engaged in their daily invasion of Palestinian land throughout the West Bank, injuring a child and abducting several Palestinians after ransacking their homes. These invasions…
Date: 4 March 2023: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On 1 March 2023, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister and co-founder of Regavim, a settler organization, stated during a conference…
On Saturday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Khader Adnan, a political prisoner held by Israel, is ongoing with hunger strike he started 28 ago, protesting his ongoing solitary confinement.…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent procession against ongoing violations and illegal colonialist activities in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem and abducted ten. The protest, held…
JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The office of the European Union Representative in Jerusalem has condemned racist remarks by far-right Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich in which…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) (Weekly Update 23 February- 01 March 2023) Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Three Palestinian civilians were shot dead: two by…
On Thursday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in Ethna town, west of Hebron, in the West Bank’s southern part. Mohammad Hasan Awwad said the soldiers invaded the town and…
As countries around the world have moved to abandon the death penalty as cruel, ineffective, and costly, Israel’s elected right-wing government took a step in the opposite direction on Wednesday,…
NABLUS, Wednesday, March 01, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli settler gangs who rampaged through the occupied West Bank town of Huwwara inflicted damages worth ILS 18 million, according to a…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in Furush Beit Dajan village, northeast of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources said several…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in the Jabal Al-Mukabber town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Also, a Palestinian was forced to demolish his home…
Shortly after midnight, Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian ambulance near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, wounding a woman accompanying her child to a hospital in Jenin. The Palestinian…
Clashes broke out between young Palestinian men and the Israeli occupation forces, on Monday evening, at the “Atara” checkpoint, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank. Local sources reported…
On Monday, an Israeli court denied an appeal against the demolition of a Palestinian in Beit Ta’mir village, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The WAFA Palestinian News…
Israeli paramilitary settler militias invaded the Palestinian village of Huwwara on Sunday night, torching hundreds of Palestinian homes and cars, setting most of the village on fire. Israeli soldiers were…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent procession near the Tayasir military roadblock east of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank. The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, the…
Palestinian sources have reported that a Palestinian, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire in the year 2018 in northern Gaza, died from his wounds on Tuesday,…
The Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad in Palestine, Ziad Nakhalah, stated in response to the Israeli killing of eleven Palestinians in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Dyouk At-Tahta village north of Jericho in the northeastern West Bank, Palestine TV said. Palestine TV added that many army vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (WAFA) – Eight-eight Palestinian, regional and international civil society organizations welcomed the announcement by the Barcelona City Council to suspend all institutional relations with apartheid…
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers attacked a funeral procession in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, causing several injuries. Local media activist…
On Sunday, the Israeli government approved the ‘legalization’ of nine additional Jewish-only colonies on illegally-seized Palestinian land in the West Bank. The colonies have been dubbed by the occupiers as…
Mithqal Suleiman Abdul-Halim Rayan, 27, was shot and killed on Saturday evening, by Israeli paramilitary invaders, in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit. The mayor of Qarawat…
A young man was wounded by live bullets in the foot in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, when Israeli troops attacked protesters gathered for the weekly march to protest the…
On Friday evening, Israeli forces closed the main entrance to Tel Rumeida, the central district of the city of Hebron. The armed Israeli troops detained Palestinian residents of the central…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a detainee from Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, died at an Israeli medical center after he was…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR, (Weekly Update 02 – 08 February 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: 7 Palestinians, including 2 civilians; one…
TEL AVIV, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Twelve human rights organizations in Israel have deplored recent statements by European Union High Representative Josep Borrell regarding Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s…
Date: 7 February 2023, Time: 09:00 GMT: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) sent a submission to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including…
In a small village near Salfit surrounded by five Israeli settlements, the olive farmers and villagers are once again facing an illegal seizure of more of their ancestral farmland by…
A Palestinian man was hospitalized early Saturday morning after he lost control of his vehicle at an Israeli flying (temporary) checkpoint and began hitting other cars with his vehicle. According…
THE JORDAN VALLEY, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces yesterday notified several families from Humsa al-Fouqa, in the occupied northern Jordan Valley, to leave their homes…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished two Palestinian homes in Beit Jala city and the Al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Issa Qassis, the Mayor of Beit…
On Sunday, Israeli forces invaded the town of Jabal al-Mukaber, in the southeastern part of the Jerusalem municipality with an armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer and demolished a two-story home belonging…
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced on Thursday the death of 13-year-old Nayef Al-Aweidat, as a result of serious wounds sustained last year during the Israeli aggression on Gaza.…
On Wednesday, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Ad-Duyuk At-Tahta, village, west of Jericho in the northeastern West Bank, and demolished six Palestinian homes. Palestine TV (Video) said the soldiers…
On Sunday, the Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian to demolish his home in the Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, just a day…
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers forced a Palestinian to demolish his home in the Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said Hussein Qunbar had to…
On Saturday, an illegal paramilitary colonizer fatally shot a Palestinian man in the Jabal Ar-Reesan area, near Kafr Ni’ma village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The…
The Jerusalem activist Mohammad Abu al-Hummus was released from Israeli custody Friday evening after having been arrested earlier Friday near Bab al-Amoud area (Damascus Gate) in occupied Jerusalem. According to…
Israeli forces attacked the weekly non-violent protest in Al-Khader village, near Bethlehem, wounding three young Palestinian protesters with rubber-coated steel bullets. In addition, dozens of protesters suffered from the effects…
Dr.Mai Al-Kaila, the Palestinian Health Minister, denounced the Israeli army’s attack on the Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, especially since many bullets struck inside…
The Israeli authorities in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, are ongoing the bulldozing of Palestinian lands in the Wad Ar-Rababa neighborhood in Silwan town, south of the…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in Beit Safafa town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded Beit Safafa and closed…
North of Jericho on Monday, armed Israeli colonizers attacked an unarmed shepherd girl and stole her entire herd of ninety sheep. The girl had been left by her father to…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) cold-blooded murder of a Palestinian yesterday morning after they directly opened fire…
RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said today that the Israeli occupation authorities have issued 5,820 orders since 2015 to demolish and remove…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: (Weekly Update 05 – 11 January 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: 10 Palestinians, including 2 children, were…
In a culture of impunity for Israeli police and military (and Israel in general), it should come as no surprise that the killing of Eyad Hallaq, a disabled Palestinian man,…
TEL AVIV, Sunday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced today that he is planning to cancel regulations that allow any lawmaker to meet…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR (Weekly Update 29 December 2022- 04 January 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Three Palestinians, including 2 children,…
‘ARA, Thursday, January 5, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Thursday released the longest-serving Palestinian freedom fighter Karim Younis after spending 40 years behind Israeli bars. Younis, 66, from the Arab…
Ref: 1/2023, Date: 02 January 2023, The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Today at dawn, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed two Palestinians, including a child, and wounded six others during IOF’s…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: (Weekly Update 22-28 December 2022) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: A Palestinian civilian was killed, and 18 others,…
On Monday, an Israeli military court denied an appeal filed by a family of a slain Palestinian man against demolishing their home in Hebron city, in the southern part of…
Just two days after her release from an Israeli prison and being denied medical treatment while imprisoned, a Palestinian female detainee with Hydrocephalus suffered a stroke and was rushed to…
Late on Saturday night, the Israeli army opened levees along the perimeter fence east of Gaza, causing accumulating heavy rainwater to flood homes and agricultural lands in Gaza. Media sources…
The Israeli police reported on Friday that its officers shot a Palestinian man, Naim Mahmoud Theeb Bedir, 23, before dawn on Friday, in Kafr Qassem in the Southern Triangle area…
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli “Defense” Minister Benny Gantz Wednesday morning decided not to return the body of a veteran prisoner who died in Israeli custody to his…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee confirmed Tuesday that the cancer-stricken Palestinian detainee, Nasser Abu Hmeid, imprisoned by Israel and serving several life terms, has died at an Israeli medical center. The…
Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: The discriminatory movement restrictions and the arbitrary permit regime imposed by Israeli authorities on Palestinian patients from Gaza, which obstruct their access to hospitals outside…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Nasser Abu Hmeid, 49, a critically ill Palestinian freedom fighter and cancer patient serving a life sentence in Israeli jails, was rushed to…
The Israeli government has decided to refuse visas and deny entry to the newly appointed personnel of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the…
On Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation government approved the punitive demolition of the family’s home of a young Palestinian man who was killed after exchanging fire with Israeli soldiers near…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Two Palestinian civilians were killed, and 18 others, including 3 children, were injured, while…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): IOF killed 3 Palestinians, including a civilian, while he was trying to pull out the two dead bodies who were members of the Palestinian…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, December 6, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli court decided today to continue retaining Palestinian-French human rights defender and administrative detainee, Salah Hammouri, 37, in Israeli jails until January…
On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers demolished the Al-Arakib village in the Negev for the 14th time this year and the 210th time since July 2010. Media sources said several military…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 4, 2022 (WAFA) – Sada Social Center, a Ramallah-based social media rights group, said in a fresh report it has documented more than 72 digital violations against…
On Saturday, Israeli forces invaded a number of Palestinian areas with massive military force. In the Nablus area, a number of Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation during clashes with…
(Weekly Update 24-30 November 2022) The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Five Palestinian civilians, including 2 brothers, were killed…
JERUSALEM, Thursday, December 1, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing today on nine petitions against the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) – 2022,…
On Wednesday, the Israeli Prison Authority informed imprisoned Palestinian-French lawyer, held under Administrative Detention without charges or trial, that it revoked his Jerusalem ID card and stripped him of all…
Derry City, Ireland. November 29, 2022: for IMEMC NEWS, Niall Ó Brolcháin: A large crowd was in attendance on Tuesday, November 29 at Guildhall Square, Derry, Ireland, for a vigil…
On Wednesday, a Palestinian child from the Negev died during surgery at the Israeli Soroka Medical Center a month after an Israeli police officer shot him with live fire in…