Category: Human rights

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says nearly all school buildings in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed during the ongoing Israeli military offensive,…

Israel is set to revoke the Norwegian Refugee Council’s registration within 16 days, part of a broader move that has already stripped dozens of aid groups of their licences under…

Updated: Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing two Palestinians and injuring others in separate incidents, as artillery shelling, drone fire, naval gunfire,…

Palestine has formally requested an urgent extraordinary session of the Arab League Council at the level of permanent representatives to discuss collective Arab and international action against the latest Israeli…

The Israeli Cabinet this week approved changes to land registration in the West Bank, allowing demolition of Palestinian-owned homes and enabling expanded construction of Jewish-only colonies on stolen Palestinian land.…

The Rafah Crossing with Egypt saw only limited movement on Sunday as a small group of Palestinians who had completed medical treatment in Egypt were cleared to return to Gaza,…

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip said that the ongoing Israeli violations in the devastated coastal enclave have killed six Palestinians and caused several injuries. On Sunday evening, Israeli occupation…

On February 6, workers from over 20 Mediterranean ports, led by the USB union in Italy and groups in Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Spain, staged strikes to block vessels including…

Israeli attacks across the devastated Gaza Strip on Sunday resulted in the killing two Palestinians, while a woman succumbed to her serious wounded, in separate incidents in the central and…

Reporter Motasem A Dalloul reported that Israeli occupation forces have raided 17 Palestinian villages since start of this night in the occupied West Bank, kidnapping 16 Palestinians from their homes.…

The Ministry of Health in Gaza released its latest daily update on Saturday, confirming that two Palestinians were killed and twenty‑five others were injured in the past twenty‑four hours as…

UNICEF says the situation for children in Gaza remains perilous, with conditions continuing to deteriorate despite the declared ceasefire. The agency reports that children are being harmed not only by…

Israeli occupation forces continued their violations across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with renewed shelling, gunfire, and demolition operations reported in several areas despite the declared “ceasefire.” Artillery units again…

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians on Friday in separate attacks in the northern Gaza Strip, while artillery shelling and large‑scale demolitions continued across the enclave despite the so‑called ceasefire that…

On Thursday, Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian homes and razed citizens’ lands near Hebron, in the southern West Bank, in addition to issuing stop-work orders to six houses near Ramallah,…

The Health Ministry reports that the cumulative death toll in the devastated Gaza Strip has climbed to 71,851 Palestinians killed and 171,626 wounded since 7 October 2023. In the past…

Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire killed 24 Palestinians and wounded dozens more on Wednesday in multiple attacks on tents sheltering displaced families and residential areas across the Gaza Strip, while…

Twenty Palestinians, including four children and one medic, were killed and dozens were injured, Wednesday, when Israeli artillery shelled tents and homes east of Gaza City and south of Khan…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza released its daily statistical update on the human toll resulting from the ongoing Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The figures reflect the…

by Jasper Diamond Nathaniel Settlers stage pogroms in the West Bank, Israel flirts with Nazis, Jewish leaders and institutions look away. On Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, as leaders and institutions…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a Palestinian teenager and injuring several civilians, including a child and an elderly man, amid continued…

By Olla Moqudy — Published in Arabic by WAFA News: From the hilltops overlooking the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit in the central West Bank, the small community of Khirbet…

UNRWA Commissioner‑General Philippe Lazzarini said on Sunday that Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank has reached “record levels.” In a statement, Lazzarini described the situation as “Israel’s silent war—one…

Israeli occupation authorities issued immediate demolition orders on Sunday targeting 14 Palestinian homes in the Al‑Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, south of Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of…

Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours have killed at 32 Palestinians, as Israeli forces continue violating the ceasefire for the 114th consecutive day, while Israeli…

Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed 31 Palestinians, including children, and wounded dozens more, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed. The Ministry reported that seven of the…

On Saturday, a Palestinian citizen was forced to demolish his family’s home in the town of Silwan, in Jerusalem, while another citizen demolished his marble factory in the town of…

Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip has raised the cumulative death toll to 71,769 Palestinians killed and 171,483 injured since the beginning of the genocide on October 7, 2023.…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday that three Palestinians were killed, and several others were injured as Israeli forces continued artillery bombardment, drone strikes, and demolition operations across multiple areas…

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda revealed that her TikTok account, which had 1.4 million followers built over four years, was permanently deleted this week. She expressed frustration, saying she expected a…

The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that two Palestinians were killed, and nine others were wounded, in the past 24 hours as Israeli forces continued to violate the ceasefire across…

Israeli occupation forces continued widespread violations of the “ceasefire” for the 108th consecutive day, carrying out ground incursions, airstrikes, artillery bombardments, and home demolitions across multiple areas of the Gaza…

Mohammed Umer Khalid, 22, the last British ‘Palestine Action’ still on hunger strike, has now stopped drinking water, prompting doctors to warn he could die within days. Khalid, who has…

Despite the declared “ceasefire” that took effect on October 11, 2025, Israeli forces continued to carry out lethal attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing several Palestinians and injuring…

Israeli occupation forces launched a new series of airstrikes and artillery attacks across the devastated Gaza Strip on Sunday, injuring several Palestinians and adding to the mounting toll of the…

Three Palestinians, including two children, were killed by Israeli forces on Saturday, as Israel continues its illegal takeover of more than half of the land of the Gaza Strip and…

When Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner‑General of UNRWA, warned this week that Palestinian refugee education has come under “intensifying attacks,” he was not speaking in abstractions. His statement reflects a crisis…

The Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned that the occupied West Bank is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since 1967,…

Israeli occupation forces launched new strikes and opened fire across several areas of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, injuring Palestinians in the north, center, and south of the enclave as…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Friday that Israeli occupation authorities are taking steps to forcibly close the Qalandia Training Center, a move…

A report from DropSite News and Forensic Architecture has revealed that a U.S.-led military coordination body is advancing plans for a tightly controlled residential zone in Gaza under full Israeli…

The United Nations Humanitarian Office OCHA issued a report Friday documenting attacks by Israeli paramilitary colonizers in the occupied West Bank that forced the displacement of about 100 Palestinian families…

Medical sources in southern Gaza reported on Friday the death of a six‑month‑old infant, Yousef Omar Abu Hammala, who succumbed to severe cold inside his family’s tent in the Mawasi…

Israeli forces escalated their field operations across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem over the past week, carrying out more than one thousand documented violations that included killings, abductions,…

Five Palestinians were killed on Thursday by Israeli fire in separate violations across the Gaza Strip, while a three‑month‑old infant died from severe cold in Gaza City, underscoring the accelerating…

Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians, among them three journalists and several children, in a series of attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday — one of the deadliest days since…

Israeli occupation forces continued a sweeping military offensive for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Jabal Johar and the southern area of Hebron city in the southern occupied West…

Israeli forces carried out new violations of the ceasefire across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, destroying residential buildings and striking multiple areas in the north, center, and south of the…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces demolished a citizen’s home in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, amid the ongoing large-scale incursion into the city for the second consecutive day. Media…

Israeli occupation forces carried out new attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing one Palestinian and injuring several others in continued violations of the “ceasefire agreement,” while the death…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned Monday of record levels of disease spreading in the Gaza Strip, due to severe cold, wind and rain,…

The Israeli military continued its daily violations of the ceasefire agreement made in October 2025, killing 3 Palestinians and severely wounding 7, in separate attacks in several parts of the…

One Palestinian was killed and another critically injured as a result of Israeli forces targeting a Palestinian police checkpoint at Al-Nabulsi Roundabout, west of Gaza City. They were brought to…

The US House of Representatives has approved a $3.3 billion aid package for Israel as part of the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations act, fulfilling a 2016 agreement. Meanwhile, three new…

Israeli soldiers and armed paramilitary colonizers terrorized Palestinian civilians in the Jerusalem area and throughout the West Bank on Sunday, continuing a pattern of escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians by…

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières – MSF) is warning that its medical operations in the Gaza Strip may be forced to shut down after new Israeli measures placed its…

A twenty-seven-day-old infant died on Saturday in Khan Younis in southern Gaza as freezing temperatures, mass displacement, and the collapse of basic services deepened the humanitarian crisis across the territory.…

Thirteen Palestinians were killed on Friday in multiple Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to medical officials and field reports. The fatalities occurred in Beit Lahia, Khan Younis, Deir…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Executive Director Jorge Moreira da Silva warned that the Gaza Strip is now overwhelmed by more than 60 million tons of rubble,…

UN Secretary‑General António Guterres urged the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately return the UNRWA compound in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the agency’s health center in occupied Jerusalem, calling for…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said that ten Palestinians were killed and many others injured on Thursday, as Israeli strikes continued across several areas of the Strip despite…

Israeli attacks and the structural collapse of basic services in the Gaza Strip continued to generate new violations and deepen the humanitarian crisis on Wednesday. Civil defense crews, medical teams,…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces detonated the home of a Palestinian detainee in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. In the southern West Bank,…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported, Tuesday, that hospitals across the Strip received five Palestinians killed and six injured during the past 24 hours, as ongoing Israeli attacks…

A wave of polar cold has pushed Gaza’s displaced population into an even deeper humanitarian crisis, with health and local officials warning that tens of thousands of families are now…

The United Nations warned Monday that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip “remains critical,” as severe winter weather destroyed shelters, acute malnutrition surged, and the death toll from Israel’s…

The death toll in the Gaza Strip continued to rise on Monday as severe winter weather caused additional building collapses, children died from exposure, and health officials warned of dangerous…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported new deaths and injuries over the past 48 hours, underscoring the deepening humanitarian crisis as emergency services struggle to reach large parts…

Israeli forces carried out a series of airstrikes, artillery bombardments, and naval shelling across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing four Palestinians and injuring several others, according to medical and…

The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society confirmed on Sunday the death of detainee Hamza Abdullah Abdul‑Hadi Adwan, 67, from the Gaza Strip, noting…

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has urged urgent international action to stop Israeli rubble removal and land leveling in Rafah, in southern Gaza, warning that the operations are destroying evidence…

Following a deadly series of attacks Saturday that killed 14 Palestinian civilians, Israeli forces continued their ongoing violations of the October 11, 2025 ceasefire on Sunday, killing 4 Palestinian civilians…

Israeli occupation forces launched new airstrikes and carried out artillery and naval shelling across several areas of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, marking the latest in a series of violations…

The United Nations says violence by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers has become a defining feature of life across the occupied West Bank, reshaping daily routines, uprooting entire communities and deepening…

UNRWA says children in the Gaza Strip are living through conditions no child should ever have to endure, as Israeli restrictions continue to block the entry of essential humanitarian aid.…

Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip late Saturday and into Sunday killed and injured several Palestinians, as artillery fire, drone strikes, and explosive demolitions continued despite the fragile ceasefire announced…

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip reported fourteen Palestinians killed, and seventeen others injured over the past 24 hours as Israeli forces conducted new attacks on Friday, in continued violations of…

UNRWA Commissioner‑General Philippe Lazzarini said on Thursday that three months have passed since the “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, yet humanitarian assistance remains far below what is required to meet…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Wednesday that two Palestinians were killed—one of them recovered from beneath the rubble—and ten others were injured during the past 24…

Israeli occupation authorities have seized 694 dunams of Palestinian land belonging to the towns of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilia, in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern part, in addition to Deir…

Prisoners for Palestine warned that eight hunger strikers, including Heba Muraisi, face risk of organ failure as the protest enters its third month. The organization reported that Palestine Action activist…

Israeli forces carried out a series of violations across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, including a fatal drone strike, renewed bombardment, and continued targeting of civilians and rescue workers, according…

Israel’s Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the West Bank in December 2025 – The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) In December 2025, the Israeli Occupying…

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate announced on Monday its annual report on media freedoms in Palestine, confirming that 2025 was the deadliest year ever recorded for Palestinian journalists, amid systematic and…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported new casualties on Sunday as Israeli forces continued to carry out attacks, demolitions, and movement restrictions across the devastated and besieged Gaza…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called on Israeli authorities to withdraw a new draft law that would impose the death penalty on Palestinian detainees under…

Groups say the measures would set a dangerous precedent by tightening Israeli control over humanitarian operations NGOs call on Israel to immediately stop actions that obstruct aid delivery Donor governments…

Nineteen Israeli human rights organizations have condemned the government of Benjamin Netanyahu for canceling the registration of 37 international humanitarian organizations operating in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

The Ibrahimi Mosque, one of the most ancient and revered holy sites in Islam, has had its municipal governorship taken over by the Israeli military, in direct violation of international…

A Palestinian detainee from the city of Rahat in the Negev, Hassan Issa al‑Qasha’la, 26, died on Thursday evening inside Israel’s Be’er Sheva prison, which is operated by the Israeli…

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate said on Thursday that the Israeli military and government continued throughout 2025 a systematic policy of targeting Palestinian journalists through arbitrary abductions, administrative detention, physical assaults,…

The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported new fatalities and injuries over the past 48 hours as the humanitarian toll of the genocide in the devastated coastal enclave continues to…

A joint human rights report released on Tuesday by the Commission of Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association revealed that…

Four Palestinians, including two young girls and a two‑month‑old infant, were killed and several others were injured over the past two days in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip, as…

A young Palestinian girl was killed, and a child and a woman were injured on Tuesday afternoon in separate incidents in central and southern Gaza, as Palestinians continue to be…

On Sunday, Israeli violations of international law continued throughout the West Bank, including military invasions, paramilitary colonizer attacks, forced removal of Palestinians from their homes, and abductions of Palestinian civilians.…