Israeli groups call for lifting the Gaza Blockade
A number of Israeli groups called for Saturday, January 26, to be a countrywide relief convoy and demonstration in Israel…
British group calls for protest of Israeli siege on Gaza
A British peace group has called for protests against the Israeli government, after Gaza’s only power station was forced to…
Gaza power cuts leave people cold physically, emotionally
Israeli fuel cuts in Gaza are affecting daily life, particularly now as the region has been experiencing an uncommonly cold…
Israel admits there’s a crisis as Gaza power plant grids to a halt
On Sunday, due to lack of fuel supplies from Israel, the Gaza power plant stopped operations. Sunday night, Israeli security…
Israel closes Gaza Crossing to UN Aid and Kills 37 Palestinians
According to the UN, about half the strip's 1.5 million people no longer have access to fresh water, because Israel…
Israel seals off Gaza; prevents UN aid from entering
After over six months of closure, the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have come to depend heavily…
PCHR Weekly Report: 27 Palestinians killed, 51 injured by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 10- 16 January 2008, 22…
Human Rights Advocates Meet United Nations Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
On Tuesday, 15 January 2008, Mr. Issam Younis, Director of Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Mr. Khalil Abu Shammaleh,…
GAZA: LIFT THE BLOCKADE!!
Saturday, January 26th, relief convoys will depart from Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva, bearing signs “GAZA: LIFT THE…
Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein
Hedy Epstein is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where…
Food insecurity continues to rise in Gaza
Geneva_(dpa) _ The number of people requiring food aid has risen sharply in the Gaza Strip since the closure of…
Report: Wall construction, settlement expansion and nonviolent resistance in 2007
According to a new report released by the Popular Campaign Against the Wall, during the past year, the Israeli government…
PCHR Weekly Report: 22 Palestinians killed, 117 injured by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of January 3rd – 9th, 2008,…
Israeli medical delegation condemns Israel’s siege of Gaza
A delegation of four Israeli members of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel), including three doctors and PHR-Israel's Clinic Manager, entered…
PCHR Weekly Report: 18 killed, 25 wounded, 35 abducted by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report, in the week of the 27th of December 2007…
PRCS press release highlights the tragedy of continued occupation
In a week that commemorates 40 years of Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has issued a press release…
Amnesty report harshly criticizes 40 years of Israeli occupation
In a special report published on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories…
PCHR report: “Soldiers killed 19 Palestinians, injured 54 and kidnapped 76”
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights, based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the occupied…
Israeli human right group report exposes Israeli violations in detention camps
The Israeli popular committee against torture has issued a reported proving that Israeli interrogators use methods against Palestinian political prisoners…
Palestinian economic growth hindered by restrictions on movement and financial embargo
The growth of the Palestinian economy will continue to be stunted so long as Israel continues to impose restrictions on…
PCHR weekly report: “Army killed 32 Palestinians, including 7 children”
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza published its weekly report on the Israeli violations against the…
Amnesty International report highlights worsening conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Amnesty International, the renowned human rights group, has slammed the actions of the Israeli administration in the Palestinian Territories throughout…
PCHR report: “Six Palestinians, including an infant in the womb of his mother killed by Israeli gunf
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, PCHR, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the occupied territories in…
PCHR weekly report: “Three Palestinians assassinated, 13, including 6 children injured”
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza, published on Thursday its weekly report on the Israeli violations in…
Israeli soldiers search Palestinian mobile phones on checkpoints
Israeli troops, stationed at one of the Military checkpoints near Salfit in the western West Bank, were seen searching through…
PCHR Weekly Report: “Two Palestinians killed, 3 injured, and 55 taken prisoner”
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights, based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the Palestinian…
World Press Freedom Day; reporters working in unsafe conditions
Palestinian and foreigners journalists working in the Palestinian National Authority areas ( PA) Celebrated on Thursday may 3ed, the World…
A Cheerless Labor Day in Gaza
Forty-eight-year-old Riyad Hammad from the Maghazi Refugee Camp in central Gaza woke up on Friday morning whilst his wife sat…
Palestinian workers without employment or income on Labor Day
Tomorrow is May Day when workers of the world are meant to unite, to organize, unionize. Some take to the…
From Jerusalem to Beit Jala: scene similar to that on either side of Israeli occupied Syrian border
Most of the family could not accompany Umm Issam’s body to the cemetery. They were from Hebron and were not…
PCHR Weekly Report: “Israeli army killed 9 Palestinians, including two children”
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report documenting the Israeli violations of human…
European Commission adopts aid decision to assist the Palestinians
The European Commission has adopted a new humanitarian aid decision for €50 million to assist the most vulnerable Palestinians living…
Oxfam Survey: Financial Boycott Pushes Palestinians into poverty
The international development agency, Oxfam International released results of a survey conducted in Palestine, highlighting “how the suspension of Western…
PCHR weekly report: “Two Palestinians killed, 15 including 7 children injured”
The Palestinian center For Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza published on Thursday its weekly report on the Israeli violations in…
Salem military court treats elected members of government like criminals
“I have been kidnapped from home and I have been elected in free and fair elections, This court is not…
Five years after Jenin: family members continue to search for bodies
Five years have elapsed since the battle and massacre in Jenin Refugee Camp. The memories and scars live on in…
Report: “68 women gave birth on checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died”
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli troops stationed at hundreds of roadblocks in the occupied…
Israeli Army Installs More Checkpoints Throughout West Bank
A recent report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revealed that the…
PCHR report on the environmental disaster in Um El Nasser village in the Gaza Strip
The number victims of yesterday’s environmental disaster in Um El-Naser (Bedouin) village increased to five after rescue crews recovered the…
UNCHR Criticizes Israel
The United Nations Council for Human Rights (UNCHR) criticized Israel Tuesday for impeding the dispatch of a special investigation team…
Israeli Army cancels ban on Israelis driving Palestinian residents in the occupied West Bank
An Israeli online daily reported that the Israeli Army GOC Central Command, Yair Naveh, cancelled on Sunday a restriction that…
Israeli Border Guard Policemen caught on camera abusing a Palestinian youth
Israeli border guard policemen were caught on camera beating and abusing a 17-year-old Palestinian youth from Huwwara village, near Nablus,…
PCHR Weekly report: 2 Palestinians killed, 13 injured including 7 children
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations of human…
Report: “Israeli troops committed 1,123 violations last week”
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian National Information Center – State Information Service, revealed that the Israeli army…
Israeli Knesset to extend law baring family unifications
An Israeli online daily reported on Wednesday at dawn that the Knesset is expected to vote on Wednesday on the…
Rachel Corrie’s Voice
Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old peace activist killed by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli army soldier. The time, day…
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints Strip-Searching Children
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades, some of them American citizens. While organizations that focus on Israel-Palestine…
PCHR weekly report on Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied territories
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights, in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations of human rights in…
Report: 68 Israeli army violations against Palestinian medical teams recorded last month
The Palestinian Red crescent Society issued a report on Wednesday stating that the Israeli army committed 68 violations against Palestinian…
Israeli army abducts three civilians from Hebron city
Israeli troops abducted three Palestinian civilians from the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday midday. Soldiers attacked and…
Israel Abruptly Closes Rafah Crossing
Israel abruptly closed Tuesday morning the Rafah crossing terminal, Gaza’s sole outlet to the outside world, after the crossing was…
Palestinian women demonstrate in Bethlehem, demand improved conditions in Israeli prisons
Bihlam Samhan is a woman recently released from Israeli prison. She spoke to the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of…
PCHR weekly report on Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied territories
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights in Gaza published its weekly report on the Israeli violations of human rights in…
B’Tselem report: “Troops used a Palestinian child as a human shield”
The Israeli Information Center For Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, reported on Thursday that the Israeli army used…
Israel imposes restrictions on foreigners entering Palestine
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued new restriction on Internationals visiting the Palestinian areas. The Israeli authorities sent a…
Israeli army prevents Palestinian patients from crossing to Israel for treatment
The Israeli army prevented Palestinian patients from crossing to Israeli in order to get medical treatment in hospitals on Tuesday.…
Palestinians in Gaza are Deprived of a Vital Food Source
Since the abduction by Palestinian resistance groups of an Israeli soldier Gila’d Shalit in June25, 2006, the Israeli gun ships…
Caught on tape: “Army still using civilians as human shields”
A scene caught on tape by the Associated Press raised questions on the Israeli army practices in using Palestinian civilians…
PCHR weekly report on Israeli violations of human rights in the OPT
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the occupied…
Five year old girl terrified to death after Israeli forces arrest her father
Late last night a five year old girl died in a southern West Bank hospital after weeks of struggling with…
PPS Appeals for Saving Life of a Female Palestinian Prisoner
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) appealed Saturday for saving the life of Palestinian female prisoner Noura Jaber, 34, who is…
PCHR Weekly report: one Palestinian killed, 2 died at checkpoints, 12 injured, 46 taken prisoner
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights in Gaza published its weekly report documenting the Israeli authorities’ violations of human rights…
Rafah border crossing reopened
Palestinian sources at Rafah border crossing, in the southren Gaza strip, stated that the crossing was reopened on Monday morning.…
Israeli airline extends racist policies to include transport of deceased passengers
Racial profiling is common practice at airports and is often used against Arabs traveling to and from Palestine and Israel.…
PCHR Weekly report on Israeli violations of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, published on Thursday its weekly report on the Israeli violations of human…
Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem, Israeli Style
Israeli authorities are carrying out a process in East Jerusalem that can accurately be described as ethnic cleansing. It is…
Electronic Intifada website leaks internal Israeli presentation documenting apartheid plan
The following is an article by the founder of the 'Electronic Intifada' website, Ali Abunimah, in which he presents the…
Army renews the administrative detention for a Jenin resident
An Israeli military court renewed the administrative detention period of a Jenin resident, Palestinian sources reported. An Israeli military court…
Rafah border crossing reopened
Palestinian sources reported that the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza strip was reopened on Monday morning and will…
Israeli Army: At least 44 roadblocks allegedly removed, did not exist
An Israeli army source admitted that at least 44 roadblocks that were allegedly removed from around West Bank villages did…
PCHR report on Israel\’s violations of human rights from 11th-17th of January
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights, in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the occupied territories…
After losing his hands and his wife, Palestinian political prisoner sentenced in military Palestine
Although his wife died leaving his children without a parent, Israeli forces refused to release Sadiq Abdul Rahman Basharat from…
According to Human Rights Watch; Israel Excessively Restricts Movement of Palestinians
The Washington-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated that Israel has and continues to restrict the movement of Palestinians. In its…
Israel extends law barring Palestinian family reunification by two months
Israeli sources reported on Thursday that Israel extended a law barring Palestinian family unification by two additional months after the…
Israeli authorities demolish 25 Bedouin homes in the Negev
The Popular Committee for Defense of Land in the Interior reports that the very existence of “unrecognized villages” inside Israeli…
Israeli human rights group calls for repeal of `apartheid driving` rule
The Israeli human rights group B'tselem has issued a call for the repeal of a new Israeli law, set to…
Remember Do`a, martyred by the Occupation on her way from school
Do'a Abdel Khader Naser, a 13 year old girl from Izbet Naser close to Fara'on village south of Tulkarem, was…
Palestinian workers inside Israeli boundaries brutally beaten and forced to strip naked
Palestinian workers who comprise part of the low-wage Israeli labor force are subjected to brutality as they try to reach…
Israeli Army Held Responsible For Two Killings at West Bank Checkpoints
After an extensive investigation, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights found that the Israeli army intentionally killed two Palestinian civilians…
Army conducts a wide scale search campaign in Yatta village near Hebron
The Israeli army conducted on Tuesday at dawn a wide scale search campaign in the village of Yatta near the…