An award for the voiceless in Gaza
The siege of Gaza has many layers. I work here as a journalist, amid near-daily air and land assaults from Israel, amid the unending killings and destruction of land and…
PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians killed, 12 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 29 May – 04 June 2008, 2 Palestinians, including an elderly woman and a civilian…
Blockade Worsens Gaza Malnutrition
‘Can you imagine that when a child of mine asks me for one Shekel (USD 0.3), I can’t afford to give it to him? That’s why I remain hidden from…
UN Fact-finding mission investigates 2006 massacre of 19 Palestinian civilians
A United Nations mission, led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, met with Palestinian human rights organizations in Gaza this week to begin their investigation of a 2006 Israeli attack…
PCHR Weekly Report: 9 Palestinians killed, 34 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 22 – 28 May 2008, 9 Palestinians, including a child and an elderly farmer, were…
Israeli siege on Gaza claims the lives of 54 children
Rami Abdo, spokesperson of the Popular Committee Against the Siege stated that the Israeli occupation is committing crimes against the children in the Gaza Strip, as a large number of…
Jews refuse to celebrate the Israel’s 60, until peace prevails
At least 200 Jews, including peace and human rights activistis, writers and artists and others, representing themselves and a number of groups and organizations from a number of countries around…
President Abbas says he intends to issue a decree barring torture
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated on Tuesday that he intends to issue a presidential decree barring torture in Palestine. The statements of Abbas came following his meeting with the Palestinian…
670 University students trapped in Gaza, cannot go back to their universities abroad
The Education Committee at the Israeli Knesset discussed on Wednesday the Israeli rejection of barring university students from the Gaza Strip from leaving the coastal region to study in European…
UN Report: 3,000 Palestinian homes under threat of demolition
A report by the United Nations released on Wednesday revealed that 3,000 homes in the West Bank are under the imminent threat of destruction by Israeli forces. The homes in…
163 patients die due to the 11 months Israeli siege on Gaza
Palestinian sources reported on Monday that a Palestinian patient died in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening due to Israeli siege imposed on the Palestinian coastal region.Hind Al Ashkar, from…
Israeli siege leads to soaring anemia in Gaza newborns
The Israeli siege of Gaza that has restricted access to food, water, and medicine is beginning to cause serious problems for newborn babies and pregnant mothers. “Many babies are born…
Gaza patients in need of treatment sue Israel over siege
The United Nations News Agency, IRIN, issued a report on Thursday documenting the cases of several Palestinians who have filed petitions in Israel's High Court challenging their imprisonment inside the…
British, US Agencies: Israel’s siege on Gaza causing severe economic, health crisis
With the people of the Gaza Strip beginning their third year of living under siege, a representative of the US Agency for International Development told the Palestinian news agency Ma'an…
PCHR Weekly Report: 6 Palestinians killed, 14 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 15 – 21 May 2008, 4 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza…
A Nakba inherited
At the southernmost area of the Gaza Strip, where the Philadelphia route separates the coastal enclave from Egypt, there are scores of knocked down buildings. The destruction dates back to…
Human rights group documents Israeli use of illegal force against civilians in Gaza
The Al Haq Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza, has issued a report documenting numerous violations of international law by Israeli forces during a May 14th invasion of the…
Palestinian groups to sue Israeli police for incitement during protest last week
Two groups representing Palestinian citizens of Israel have announced their plans to sue the Israeli government for violently attacking Palestinian protesters ten days ago, during a rally to commemorate the…
PCHR Weekly Report: 16 Palestinians killed, 27 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 8 – 14 May 2008, 13 Palestinians, two of whom were civilians, were killed by…
Human Rights groups deliver medical aid to Gaza
Human Rights and Peace groups managed to send a convoy of medical supplies to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The convoy arrived at the Sofa Trade Crossing, the Palestine News…
After three days of opening, Rafah border crossing has been closed
Egyptian media sources reported that the Egyptian authorities closed until further notice the Rafah border crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian Authorities who re-opened the…
Rafah crossing to be opened for three days starting on Saturday
Palestinian sources reported that the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Eygpt to be opened for three days starting on Saturday. The Rafah crossing, the only was in or…
PCHR Weekly Report: 9 Palestinians killed, 35 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 30 April- 07 May 2008, 9 Palestinians, including a woman, were killed by Israeli forces…
Mezan Center: “69, including 20 children and 16 women, killed by the army in April in Gazaâ€
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights issued a report on Sunday revealing that Israeli soldiers killed 69 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in April. The Center added that among…
On World Press Freedom Day, Mezan Center issues a report on violations against reporters
Saturday May 3 is the World Press Freedom Day, The Al Mezan Center For Human Rights issued a report highlighting the important role of the reporters and media institutions in…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies demands the release of six detained reporters
On the World Press Freedom Day, May 3, the Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies demanded Reporters Without Borders Organization and the International Journalists Union to defend six Palestinian reporters imprisoned…
PCHR Weekly Report: 9 Palestinians killed, 29 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 24 – 29 April 2008, 9 Palestinians, including 5 children and a woman, were killed…
Infant dies after being denied medical treatment outside of the Gaza Strip
The ongoing Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip led to the death of a sick four-month old Palestinian infant after the Israeli authorities barred his transfer to a specialized hospital…
B’Tselem demands a criminal probe into the killing of five family members in Gaza
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) demanded the advocate general of the Israeli Army to open a criminal investigation into the circumstances which led…
Palestinian patient dies as a result of Israeli siege imposed on Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian patient from Beit Hanoun, located in the northern Gaza Strip, died on Tuesday because she was prevented by the Israeli army from leaving…
PCHR Weekly Report: 17 Palestinians killed, 36 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 17 – 23 April 2008, 15 Palestinians were killed, and two children died of earlier…
UN Agency: If Israel doesn’t supply fuel, food distribution will stop
The head of the United Nations Refugee Works Agency commented on Wednesday that the Agency's food distribution program in the Gaza Strip will have to be halted unless Israel supplies…
Dutch journalist deported from Israeli airport
A Dutch journalist who arrived at the Israeli Ben-Gurion Airport on Monday was detained by Israeli forces there for 24 hours, then deported to Holland and not allowed to enter…
Israeli military refuses entry of food aid to Gaza
A shipment of food aid for the people of the Gaza Strip was denied entry by Israeli military forces on Monday. The shipment consisted of several trucks full of food…
Testimonies from Hebron: Soldiers choke, beat Palestinians
"Everyone there feels like they are doing something wrong. At least my friends felt they were doing something wrong." This was the opening sentence in a pamphlet over 100 pages…
Vice Presidents European Parliament urges for end of Gaza siege
Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament issued a press release demanding cease-fire and an end to the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and slammed Israels decision to…
PCHR Weekly Report: 29 Palestinians killed, 89 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 10 – 16 April 2008, 29 Palestinians, including 10 children and a journalist, were killed…
Al Mezan Center slams Israel’s targeting of reporters
The Al Mezan Center For Human Rights issued a report on Thursday slamming the ongoing Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people and the targeting of reporters in the occupied Palestinian…
Reuters news agency condemns Israeli assassination of cameraman in Gaza
After Israeli forces dropped a missile on the vehicle of a Reuters cameraman, killing 12, the head of the Reuters News Agency issued a statement condemning the attack, and calling…
Four Major Universities in Gaza closed due to ongoing fuel shortages
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday that four major universities had to shut down due to shortages of fuel as the students became unable to travel from…
Egyptian government cuts supplies to areas near Gaza
In a bid to help the Israeli government in their siege of the Gaza Strip, Egyptian officials have agreed to cut off supplies to towns in the Egyptian Sinai peninsula…
PCHR Weekly Report: 9 Palestinians killed, 25 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 03 – 09 April 2008, 8 Palestinians, including a child and a farmer, were killed…
No Checkpoints in Heaven
I still vividly remember my father’s face – wrinkled, apprehensive, warm – as he last wished me farewell fourteen years ago. He stood outside the rusty door of my family’s…
Gaza siege claims the life of another infant, woman
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday evening that an infant and a woman died in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Authorities barred their transfer to…
PCHR Weekly Report: 7 Palestinians killed, 16 wounded in Israeli attacks
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 27 March – 02 April 2008, 6 Palestinians were assassinated by Israeli military forces, and…
PCAS accuses Israel of committing war crimes against Gaza patients
The Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS) issued a statement of Thursday accusing Israel of committing war crimes against the patients of the Gaza Strip as those patients need medical treatment…
Remembering Palestine
On May 15, Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary. Palestinians around the world will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba or the "Catastrophe." Among other things, Al-Nakba marks…
PCHR Weekly Report: 4 Palestinians killed, 5 wounded by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 19 – 26 Mar. 2008, 2 Palestinian farmers were killed by Israeli forces, and 2…
Israeli human rights group orders investigation of Bethlehem assassinations
The Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem issued a letter on Thursday addressed to Israel’s Attorney General and the Advocate General of the Israeli Military, demanding that they carry out criminal…
AMNESTY: “Army denies cancer patient vital treatmentâ€
AMNESTY International issued a press release on Wednesday stating that the Israeli army barred resident Karima Abu Dalal, 34, from leaving the Gaza Strip in order to receive medical treatment…
PCHR Weekly Report: 4 Palestinians killed, 15 wounded by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 13 – 19 Mar. 2008, 4 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. 12 Palestinians, including…
Mossawa Center releases racism report detailing over 169 cases
The Mossawa Center released its annual racism report at a press conference in Nazareth today, detailing 169 incidences of racism against Arab minority of Israel, including the killings of Arab…
A major Highway closed to Palestinians by the High Court of Justice
Ten days ago, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued a temporary decision to close route 443 to Palestinians, now the road is for Israeli use only. Six Palestinian villages,…
PCHR Weekly Report: 9 Palestinians killed, 17 wounded by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 6 – 12 Mar. 2008, 9 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. 4 of the…
PLO: “Israel killed 274 residents, including 50 children, 18 women, since the beginning of 2008â€
The National and International Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) reported that the Israeli army killed 274 Palestinians, including 50 children and 18 women since the beginning of 2008.…
American activist and feminist Starhawk denied entry and deported from Israel.
Starhawk, well known American activist was deported by the Israeli government on Thursday. Starhawk, author of many works celebrating the Goddess movement and Earth-based, feminist spirituality arrived in Tel Aviv…
Israeli Occupation exposes Palestinian Women to harassement and abuse
The Al Haq Institute, a human rights center based in Palestine, issued a statement marking International Womens' Day yesterday, stating that Palestinian women are subjected to continual abuse of their…
PCHR Weekly Report: 114 Palestinians killed, 236 wounded by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 28 Feb.- 05 Mar. 2008, 114 Palestinians were killed, and 28 were injured by the…
Al Mezan Center: “Soldiers killed a resident after he was injuredâ€
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights issued a press release stating the its investigations revealed that Israeli soldiers shot and killed Yousef Suleiman Al Sameery, 40, on Thursday morning,…
PCAC published a report on the psychological effects on Palestinian children
The Palestinian Child Arts Center (PCAC) published a report on the effects on the ongoing Israeli attacks, especially the latest offensive against the Gaza Strip, on the physiological situation of…
B’Tselem: “At least half of the causalities in the Gaza Strip are children and non combatantsâ€
The Israeli Information Center For Human Rights In The Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) issued a report on Monday expressing grave concern over the large number of civilian casualties who were killed…
PCHR Weekly Report: 20 Palestinians killed, 28 wounded by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 21 – 27 February 2008, 20 Palestinians were killed, and 28 were injured by the…
Hamas convoy heads to Egypt for talks about the Rafah crossing
A Hamas convoy headed by Dr. Mahmoud Al Zahar, a leader in the Islamic movement, is expected to leave the Gaza Strip and head to the nearby Egyptian town of…
PCHR Weekly Report: 8 Palestinians killed, 13 wounded by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 14 – 20 February 2008, 6 Palestinians were killed, 2 died from earlier injuries, and…
Concluding a visit to the region, UN chief concerned over Palestinian conditions
Concluding a visit to Palestine and Israel, United Nations’ undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, Mr. Jhon Holmes, said in a press conference in Jerusalem today that he is extremely concerned…
98 Palestinian patients, including 17 Children, die due to the Gaza siege
Palestinian medical sources announced on Tuesday evening that one child died at a Gaza hospital after the Israeli Authorities barred his transfer to a hospital abroad for further medical treatment…
PCHR Weekly Report: 10 Palestinians killed, 40 wounded by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 7 – 13 February 2008, 10 Palestinians were killed and 40 were injured by the…
Druze Consciences objector sentenced by the Israeli army to 75 days in person
the Israeli military court in Haifa city sentenced Arabi Salalha, from the Druze village of Beit Junn located in Galilee on Saturday for 75 days imprisonment for refusing to serve…
PCHR Weekly Report: 12 Palestinians killed, 22 injured by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 31 January – 6 February 2008, 12 Palestinians were killed and 22 were injured by…
A Palestinian patient looses arm as treatment refused by Israeli hospital
Israeli media sources reported that an injured Palestinian man lost his arm as Israeli hospital refused treat him. Israeli sources have reported that Theyab Mahmoud, a resident of Ramallah city…
Starting Thursday, Israel will reduce electricity supplies to Gaza
The Israeli government decided that as of Thursday February 7 it will reduce electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, a measure which will affect the civilian population regionThe decision to…
Fueling disaster
At the bus stop at Palestine Square, in the bustling heart of Gaza City, 25-year-old Said Ramadan cried to passersby, ‘Fuel, fuel, fuel! Come and buy!’Last week Ramadan took advantage…
After clashes that left one killed and 20 injured, Egypt asks for more troops on the Gaza borders
Egyptian and Israeli sources reported on Tuesday that Cairo asked Israel to allow more Egyptian troops on the Gaza Egypt borders. The Egyptian government said that the additional troops are…
Hamas’s leader, aL-Zahar, says Rafah crossing will remain Palestinian-Egyptian
Senior Hamas leader, Mahmoud aL-Zahar, said on Saturday that his movement reiterates its determination that the Rafah crossing terminal will remain ‘Palestinian-Egyptian with no intervention from a third party. Al-Zahar,…
Thousands of Arab residents protest against Israeli Attorney-general ruling
Approximately 20.000 Arab residents of Israel protested on Friday against the decision of the Israeli Attorney-general to close the file of the 2000 uprising without seeking indictments against the soldiers…
PCHR Weekly Report: 6 Palestinians killed, 13 injured by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 24- 30 January 2008, 6 Palestinians were killed and 13 were injured by the Israeli…
Egypt’s Popular Committee for Supporting the Intifada to hold a protest on Friday
The Popular Committee For Supporting the Intifada, in Egypt, voiced a call to the Egyptians to participate in a solidarity protest in Nasr Egyptian city in support to the besieged…
Israel bars a Gaza cancer patient from entering Israel for Chemical treatment
The Israeli Security Services refused to grant a permit to a Palestinian patient, suffering from Intestines Cancer, to leave the Gaza Strip in order to receive medical treatment in an…
The Israeli High Court approves Israeli army fuel and power cuts to Gaza
The Israeli High Court of Justice approved on Wednesday afternoon the Israeli army reduction in fuel and power supplies to the Gaza strip.The court decided that the reduced shipments of…
Al Mezan Center: “Israel continues its violations, Security Council fails to condemnâ€
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights issued a press release on Wednesday commenting on the failure of the Security Council in issuing a statement condemning the Israeli violations and…
Arabs, Russians, protest against Israel’s siege over the Gaza Strip
Hundreds of Arabs and Russians protested in Moscow on Tuesday against the unjust Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip and demanded the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem…
In Protest of Israeli siege, fuel companies in Gaza reject reduced fuel supply
Palestinian media sources reported on Tuesday that owners of fuel companies in Gaza refused to receive the Israeli shipments of fuel entering Gaza, in protest of the fuel cuts Israel…
Egyptian troops start to close the Rafah borders
Palestinian sources in Gaza conferment that the Egyptian troops started to close the borders between Egypt and the southern coastal city of Rafah on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday morning Cairo…
Abbas to operate Rafah crossing, Hamas refuse the past agreement with Israel
On Tuesday, the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, refused to allow the decision to re-open the Rafah crossing based on the past signed agreement between the Palestinian Authority…
Israel allows fuel into Gaza; Palestinian officials say the amount insufficient
The Israeli army allowed on Monday a shipment of fuel to enter the Gaza strip to be used in the production of electricity. The move came after Israeli and Palestinian…
EU observers at Rafah terminal may resume work, officials say
European Union official sources told Reuters on Monday that the Union is studying the possibility of redeploying EU observers on Rafah terminal. In 2005 the Rafah crossing, between Gaza and…
Around 5.000 protested opposite Downing Street today to call for end of siege of Gaza
Around 5.000 protested opposite Downing Street in London on Satrurday, residence of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, calling for Israel’s brutal illegal siege of Gaza to be immediately lifted.They were joined…
Members of the Montreal Palestinian community react to the humanitarian crisis provoked by the Block
We, as members of the Palestinian community in Montreal, are worried about the plight of the people in the Gaza strip who are currently under siege. The Israeli government by…
As Egypt seals the borders, Palestinians opens it again to get supplies
On Friday late a night the Palestinian resistance and civilians living in Gaza breached a section of the iron wall surrounding the Gaza Strip after Egyptian troops closed a previous…
Gaza Siege claims the lives of 83 patients, including 16 children
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday at night that two patients died in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli Authorities barred them from leaving the Gaza…
Israel’s blockade poses immediate threat to the lives of Gaza’s sick and elderly
Friday 25 January 2007: The seven-month ongoing Israeli blockade is taking an ever-more severe toll on the health system in the Gaza Strip, says aid agency Oxfam International. The one-off…
PCHR Weekly Report: 22 Palestinians killed, 71 injured by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 17 – 23 January 2008, 22 Palestinians were killed and 71 were injured by the…
Emergency session of UN Security Council called to deal with Gaza crisis
The United Nations Security Council has called for an emergency session on Tuesday to respond to the heightening crisis in the Gaza Strip. The crisis came to a head Sunday…
Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza for one day only; Palestinians condemn ‘token’ gesture
After a widespread international outcry followed Israel's cut-off of all fuel into Gaza on Sunday, Israeli authorities agreed to allow fuel and medicine into the Palestinian coastal region on Tuesday…
Senior Israeli defense official: Collective punishment works
In a statement to the Israeli press Monday, a senior Israeli official claimed that the collective punishment of the entire Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip was an effective way…
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 in solidarity on the Gaza border with a parallel Palestinian…
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 shut down Sunday, when Israel cut fuel supplies to the…
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 winter. "We went four days without having electricity during the…
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 officials admitted that the impacts of Israel's complete cut-off of…
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 has been restricting fuel supplies, which in turn halts pumps…