Category: Human rights

Israeli airstrikes continued throughout the day and night on Monday, day 227 of the Israeli attack on Gaza. Four Palestinians were among those killed this evening, Monday, in an Israeli…

The Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said on Monday that his office had applied for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders for alleged crimes committed…

On Sunday, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the Gaza Strip, including entire residential blocs, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians. The Israeli army…

Since the Israeli military closed the Rafah border crossing on May 6th, no supplies have been able to enter the Gaza Strip. The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros…

On Saturday, Day 225 of the ongoing genocide, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated, destroyed, and besieged Gaza Strip, killing and wounding…

EuroMed Human Rights Monitor: Gaza: Israel commits another massacre against civilians trying to access communications and Internet services Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army has committed another horrific massacre against Palestinian civilians in Gaza City who…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, May 15, 2024 (WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinians everywhere in the world today mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948, when nearly 750,000 indigenous Palestinians were ethnically…

On Wednesday, Day 222 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed Gaza Strip, a number of Palestinian civilians were killed and injured at dawn and Wednesday morning,…

Throughout the day on Tuesday, Israeli troops continued their bombardment of Rafah, the city sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians – after dropping leaflets telling the already displaced Palestinians…

(Jerusalem, May 14, 2024) By Human Rights Watch:  – Israeli forces have carried out at least eight strikes on aid workers’ convoys and premises in Gaza since October 2023, even though aid groups…

So… #Gaza is still trending on social media, as the genocide enters its 220th day. And maybe it’s the cynic in me, or I’ve been through this cycle too many…

RAMALLAH, Monday, May 13, 2024 (WAFA) – The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs warned today that female Palestinian detainees incarcerated in Israel’s Damon Prison are held in total isolation…

from mondoweiss.net As Israel presses on its persecution of civilians in Gaza, the good news is that a strong movement has emerged in the United States against the genocide, and this movement is…

The Israeli bombing of Rafah continued throughout the day and evening on Sunday, day 219 of the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip – bringing the official death toll to…

Two years ago, Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot by Israeli forces while reporting in the occupied West Bank, on May 11, 2022. In addition to targeting and executing…

This week Palestinian Evangelical Lutheran pastor Reverend Munther Isaac gave a very compelling talk at a mosque in South Africa, calling on the world, people of every religion, to take…

As US blocks heavy weapons, Israel expands its attack of Rafah. Biden administration reports that Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza “likely violated international humanitarian law”. Food catastrophe looms…

GENEVA, (WAFA) – United Nations experts today condemned US and Israeli threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a press release, the UN experts “expressed utter dismay over statements made…

On Friday throughout the day and night, Israeli bombardment continued in the already decimated Gaza Strip, killing Palestinian families and children, as the Israeli bombs have done every single day…

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said on Thursday that no one has been allowed to enter or leave the Gaza Strip for…

Biden administration pauses shipment of deadliest bombs to Israel; new mass grave holds at least 49 Palestinian bodies; Rafah’s largest hospital shuts down as a result of Israeli invasion, as…

In an unprecedented move for the United States, which is by far the largest weapons supplier to the state of Israel, the US State Department stopped the shipment of a…

On Wednesday morning, Israeli occupation authorities, under heavy police protection, demolished 47 houses belonging to the Abu Asa family, near the village of Umm Butin in the Negev region in…

The following are updates from international human rights observers from the US and Europe who are in the West Bank right now: Content warning: torture 5/4/24 We’ve done a few…

On Monday, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the Gaza Strip, especially in Rafah, in addition to Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and several…

The evacuation of Rafah, in preparation for invasion (long forecast to be a bloodbath, and denounced by the US) – is underway; UNRWA chief Lazzarini’s accusations against Israel; US may…

The Israeli government officially banned the region’s largest news agency on Sunday — and the only news agency that provides consistent coverage in Arabic and English about internal Israeli politics…

Palestinian journalists covering Gaza have been named as laureates of the 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, following the recommendation of an International Jury of media professionals. The Award…

by Tareq S. Hajjaj, mondoweiss.net Those who survived Israel’s deadly bombardment now have to contend with the rising environmental disaster in Gaza’s displacement camps, including insect infestations, dangerous amounts of…

On Friday, day 210 of Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued bombing the Gaza Strip, including the 1.5 million internally displaced Palestinians currently forced to shelter in…

from Middle East Eye Adnan al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon and professor of orthopaedic medicine, was killed by torture while in Israeli detention, according to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoners’…

On Thursday, Day 109 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds, including women and…

On Wednesday, Day 208 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s missiles and shells killed dozens, and injured hundreds, in various parts of the destroyed…

Israeli forces invaded different parts of the West Bank on Tuesday in pre-dawn raids. In the northern West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Askar camp, east of Nablus. According…

On Monday, April 29th, the Israeli military continued its relentless assault on the people of the Gaza Strip for the 206th straight day. In a pre-dawn attack, Israeli artillery shelling…

Christians of Gaza City, north of the Gaza Strip, celebrated “Palm Sunday” in the Eastern Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrios, despite the difficult conditions created by the continued Israeli aggression…

On Sunday night into the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, the Israeli occupation forces invaded Palestinian villages and towns in the Nablus district and Jenin district, bulldozing Palestinian homes and…

Gaza 4/25/2024 Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) – Ambulance and rescue crews who participated in recovering the bodies of martyrs from the mass graves discovered in the Nasser Medical…

On Saturday, Palestine TV said that a young Palestinian man from Husan village, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, suffocated to death after the soldiers locked him in…

Gruesome discoveries on Gaza hospital grounds; Israeli airstrike kills Belgian aid worker and son, 7; premature baby girl Sabreen has died; another US State Dept employee resigns over Gaza policy;…

Five Palestinian civilians were killed on Friday evening, in the shelling of the central and southern Gaza Strip. A correspondent with the Wafa news agency said that the Israeli occupation…

On Thursday, day 202 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians many more, in various parts of…

On Day 201 of the ongoing genocide in the destroyed Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the coastal enclave, killing dozens and…

On Wednesday, Day 201 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in the destroyed Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured many more, in…

On Tuesday, day 200 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed and starved Gaza Strip, the Israeli army killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds in several…

Another shameless moment for Blinken, even as he reveals a long list of Israeli human rights abuses; over 300 Gazan bodies discovered in mass graves; Israel prepping for invasion of…

Today, Tuesday April 23rd, 2024, marks 200 days of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Over 15,000 children have been killed – they are among the more than 34,000 Palestinians who…

Dozens of Israelis, including some refuseniks, who have refused to serve in the Israeli military, as well as former Israeli soldiers who expressed regret at having taken part in the…

Following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza, and the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Palestinian rescue crews have gone in to…

A new report by Human Rights Watch investigated dozens of Israeli paramilitary settler attacks on Palestinian civilians over the past six months, and found that the Israeli military stood by…

On Monday, Day 199 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip, the army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the Gaza…

At least 16 Palestinians, including 9 children, were killed before dawn today, Sunday April 21, as a result of raids carried out by Israeli warplanes and artillery that targeted many…

A family of three: father, toddler and pregnant mother were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Shaboura camp in the center of the city of…

The Israeli occupation forces detained, on Saturday evening, the emergency crew of the Red Crescent Society, and another medical staff, in front of the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem.…

The Israeli invasion of the West Bank district of Tulkarem continued Saturday for the third straight day, with Israeli tanks and armored vehicles invading Nur Shams refugee camp, destroying streets…

GENEVA, Friday, April 19, 2024 (WAFA) – UN independent human rights experts have raised alarm over the “systematic destruction” of the Palestinian education system in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s…

On Friday, day 196 of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, Israeli attacks continued on Palestinian civilians in northern, central and southern Gaza, beginning before dawn and continuing throughout the day…

On Thursday, Day 195 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people in the destroyed Gaza Strip, the army continued the bombing of various parts of the coastal enclave,…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 18, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the United States’ use of its veto power in the UN Security Council, effectively preventing Palestine from…

On Wednesday, day 194 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed and famished Gaza Strip, the Israeli army killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including women…

On Wednesday, Day 194 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in various parts of the destroyed, devastated, and isolated Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continued the bombing and…

The Palestinian people in Palestine and the diaspora commemorate the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, April 17 of each year, after the day was adopted by the Palestinian National Council in the…

By Sami Abu Salem, GAZA, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – As news spread of some displaced individuals successfully crossing the Israeli army barrier on the coastal Al-Rashid Road in…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) has confirmed that the Israeli army abducted at least 100 Palestinian journalists in occupied Palestine since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza…

If Americans Knew – IsraelPalestineNews: Mass graves containing Palestinian bodies found in multiple Gaza locations; released Gazan prisoners report abuse by Israeli forces; humanitarians face “hostile” environment, Israel breaking promise to…

Tuesday marks day 193 of the ongoing relentless Israeli assault on the 2.4 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, who are being collectively punished for an attack in southern…

Comprehensive West Bank Violation Update: On Monday fanatic paramilitary Israeli colonizers and soldiers continued the pogroms and violations, killing three Palestinians, including a child, injuring many, and causing serious damage…

Updated: In just three days, Israeli colonizers killed three Palestinians, and shot 45, including 5 who suffered serious wounds, in the occupied West Bank. Also, a Palestinian detainee from Qalqilia…

On Sunday, day 191 of the Israeli assault on Gaza that has killed over 33,000 and wounded over 76,000 civilians, Israeli forces bombarded different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing…

The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday evening that three Palestinian civilians had been killed in the West Bank, since dawn on Friday, bringing the number of civilians killed in…

In the course of just one month of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army killed sixty Palestinians, mostly children and women, from…

QALQILIIA, Saturday, April 13, 2024 (WAFA) – A Palestinian father-of-seven died, Saturday evening, an Israeli detention center, , according to the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission (PAC) and the Palestine Prisoner’s Society…

Day 190 Update: According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, Israeli troops committed 4 massacres against families in Gaza, killing 43 Palestinian civilians, and injuring 62 others in the…

US official finally uses the f-word (famine); Iran retaliation for provocative Israeli attack possibly this weekend; Washington Post lists Gaza aid items Israel has rejected; Israel assassinates head of police…

On Friday, Day 188 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the destroyed and…

On Thursday, Day 187 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed and starved Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians, including many women and…

Beginning before dawn on Thursday, day 188 of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes intensified their air raids on Gaza City and Nuseirat camp in the central…

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) issued the following statement Tuesday, warning that Palestinians in Gaza are currently experiencing catastrophic hunger, and are on the verge of a completely…

UNICEF: “Children dying of infections”; Israel is making big promises to the people of Gaza; State of Palestine UN application; “it will happen,” Netanyahu says of Rafah invasion; 400 bodies…

On Tuesday, Day 186 of the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in the destroyed Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed hundreds of Palestinians, including women…

On Monday, medical sources said the army killed and injured dozens of Palestinians in a series of bombings and air strikes targeting various parts of the devastated and starved Gaza…

Human rights officials have never seen anything like Gaza; Israel’s AI killer, “Lavender”; Israeli army withdraws from part of Khan Younis; WCK founder says Israel is in a “war against…

RAMALLAH, Monday, April 6, 2024 (WAFA) –Israeli police today raided the funeral tent of the slain Palestinian prisoner Waleed Daqqa and his family’s home in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiya…

After 38 years in Israeli occupation prisons, Palestinian prisoner Waleed Daqqa has died due to years of medical neglect while in Israeli jails. Abu Daqqa was scheduled to be released…

Update: A number of Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were injured, on Sunday evening, when the Israeli occupation forces targeted various areas in Nuseirat camp and in Rafah…

UN leaders reflect on 6 months of slaughter; US on high alert for possible attack by Iran; Israel admits to “grave mistake” in targeting of World Central Kitchen vehicles; Israel…

Israel should be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Gaza, according to the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution, passed on 5 April 2024.…

Thousands of worshippers were forced to dive for cover during dawn Ramadan prayers today when Israeli police used stun grenades and tear gas at the Al Aqsa mosque in occupied…

On Thursday, Day 181 of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds, including many women and children, across…

Palestinian Territory – A new Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor report titled “Killing starving Palestinians and targeting aid trucks: A deliberate Israeli policy to reinforce famine in the Gaza Strip” reveals…

On Wednesday, Day 180 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip, Israel’s missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds, including many…

Charity staff from Australia, the UK, Palestine, Palestine, the US and Canada were killed Monday in what eyewitnesses say were intentional drone strikes by the Israeli military. World Central Kitchen…

Palestinian Territory – Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor:  The Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City over the course of the…

On Tuesday, Day 179 of the genocidal Israeli offensive on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed dozens of Palestinians and injured hundreds, in various parts…

On Tuesday, Day 179 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells struck various parts of the destroyed and besieged coastal…