Category: Human rights

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…

The Palestinian Prisoner’ Society (PPS) and the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee have confirmed, Monday, the death of a Palestinian detainee from the Gaza Strip due to torture and medical neglect at…

Updated: On Monday, day 304 of Israel’s relentless assault on the entire Palestinian population of 2.24 million people in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their assault on the besieged…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced Monday that his country will submit its file to The Hague this Wednesday, to join the genocide case filed against Israel at the International…

GENEVA, Monday, August 5, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called today for an urgent de-escalation in the Middle East as tensions mount in the wake…

Israel rains death and destruction on Gaza and West Bank; UNRWA gradually resumes educational activities; anti-Zionist rabbis attend Haniyeh’s funeral; Israeli-American soldier posted videos of Gaza homes, mosque being detonated;…

The following is a report issued recently by Amnesty International calling on Israel to end its unlawful detention and torture of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza: Abusive Israeli law used…

On Sunday, day 303 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of 2.24 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces committed two more school massacres, bombing 2…

Israel rains death and destruction on Gaza and West Bank; UNRWA gradually resumes educational activities; anti-Zionist rabbis attend Haniyeh’s funeral; Israeli-American soldier posted videos of Gaza homes, mosque being detonated;…

Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to start worrying about the ‘consequences’ of…

On Saturday, Day 302 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the besieged, destroyed, and starved Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians,…

BERN, Saturday, August 3, 2024 (WAFA) – The World Council of Churches (WCC) Friday called for ending the Israeli occupation and recognition of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. WCC…

Israel’s assassinations continue – with two more journalists; Palestinian sexual abuse victim returned to scene of the alleged crime; Hezbollah commander, children killed in Israeli airstrike on Beirut; Israeli military…

IsraelPalestineNews: Israeli airstrikes continue to kill in Gaza, Israeli soldiers torture two more Palestinian prisoners to death; Israel falsely accuses assassinated journalist of being in Hamas; Israel perpetrates over 3,400…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed on Thursday evening the death of prisoner Islam Al-Sarsawi (42 years old) from Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood in Gaza, who was…

Updated: 08/02/2023: Thursday marks day 300 of Israel’s ongoing assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip (2.24 million people), and the Israeli assault continued without cease. Five…

On Wednesday, day 299 of Israel’s assault on Gaza, two renowned journalists: Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and photographer Rami al-Rifi in a direct missile strike on their press vehicle…

On Wednesday, day 299 of Israeli forces’ continuous and ongoing assault on the entire, imprisoned 2.24 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, massive Israeli bombardment of Palestinian camps for internally…

In a massive escalation against the Palestinian diplomatic effort and leadership, Israeli special forces on Wednesday assassinated the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, who had been leading the diplomatic effort…

On Tuesday, day 298 of the ongoing Israeli onslaught against the entire civilian population of 2.24 million Palestinians in Gaza, Israeli airstrikes targeted civilians in the al-Bureij and the al-Nuseirat…

Despite condemnation for having killed over 50 civilians, including many children in the bombing of a school on Saturday in Deir al-Balah, Israeli forces continued their assault on the entire…

On Sunday Day 296 of the ongoing genocide in the destroyed, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, Israel missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including many children and…

The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): Ibrahim Ammar Abbas, a 23-year-old Palestinian from Jenin currently under Israeli detention, has suffered partial paralysis while imprisoned at the Negev Detention Camp,…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 28, 2024 (WAFA) – The crackdown on Palestinian detainees at the Israeli occupation’s Ofer Prison has reached a crisis point, with reports of severe mistreatment, including systematic…

On Saturday, day 295 of Israel’s ongoing assault on the entire population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces committed another massacre, which marks the fifth school massacre by Israeli forces…

Calls to end the “unbearable cruelty” inflicted by Israel; death, crowding in Gaza’s shrinking “safe zones”; EU slams Israel over UNRWA “terrorist” label; targeted Israeli killing of a 13-year-old Palestinian…

Washington 7-24-2024 WAFA – American doctor, Mark Perlmutter said that Israeli snipers “deliberately” targeted Palestinian children during the recent attacks on the Gaza Strip. Perlmutter, who spent 30 years in…

On Thursday, Day 293 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in the destroyed, starved, besieged, and devastated coastal region, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of…

2 million Gazans are squeezed into 20% of their land, as Israeli bombers and snipers keep killing; UNICEF vehicles hit by Israeli gunfire; peace activists arrested in US Capitol; Israeli…

JERICHO, Wednesday, July 24, 2024 (WAFA) – A diplomatic delegation today got informed about Israeli occupation violations in the occupied West Bank governorate of Jericho and the Jordan Valley. Comprising…

77 Gazans killed in Khan Younis with no chance to flee; Israeli army admits leaving Palestinian man with Down Syndrome to die; journalists killed by Israel reaches 163; Israeli forces…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, July 24, 2024 (WAFA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that children are paying the highest price of the…

GENEVA, Tuesday, July 23, 2024 (WAFA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today voiced extreme concern over a possible mass outbreak of polio in the war-torn Gaza Strip, the UN…

On Tuesday July 23, 2024, day 291 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of 2.24 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued the relentless bombardment…

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 22, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates slammed the passing of a draft bill designating UNRWA as a “terrorist organization” by the Israeli…

Baby born after mother killed in Gaza; Israeli raids in West Bank tripled; Palestinians at the Olympics; Israel gets weapons from countries that have officially halted arms sales; Israel bombs…

IsraelPalestineNews: The International Court of Justice just handed down a momentous ruling about Israeli occupation and Palestinian rights. Here are the highlights, some helpful analysis, and reactions from key players.…

Polio risk added to long list of crises in Gaza; Amnesty speaks out on Israeli torture, Oxfam speaks out on Israeli water weaponization; LA may hire ex-IDF soldiers to patrol…

On Thursday, July 18th, day 286 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombardment continued from the pre-dawn hours, through the morning, afternoon…

ICJ genocide ruling apparently meaningless to Israel, as Palestinian deaths, torture continue apace; Gaza pier debacle comes to an end; water crisis for Palestinian residents of Jerusalem; Israel demolishes high…

NEW YORK, Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Palestine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, said during an open debate on the ongoing crisis in Gaza at…

UN Press Release: Humanitarian Situation in Gaza ‘a Moral Stain on Us All’, Secretary-General Tells Security Council, Stressing International Law Must Be Respected by All  Following are UN Secretary-General António…

On Tuesday, July 16th, day 284 of the ongoing Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip. At least 50 Palestinians were killed, and many more wounded.…

Throughout the morning, midday and night on Monday, day 283 of the Israeli assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops continued their bombardment and artillery…

On Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded Hizma town, north of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and demolished a gas station. Media sources said several military vehicles, and bulldozers…

Following a horrific massacre in which Israeli forces killed 90 civilians in al-Mawasi ‘safe area’ on Saturday afternoon, Israeli forces did not cease their relentless and ongoing bombardment of civilian…

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that the death toll of the Israeli massacres of displaced Palestinians in their tents in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in…