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…
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 on aid from the United Nations. Although they are willing…
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 Palestinians were killed and 51 were injured by the Israeli…
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, Director of Ad Dameer Association for Human Rights, and Talal…
GAZA: LIFT THE BLOCKADE!!
Saturday, January 26th, relief convoys will depart from Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva, bearing signs “GAZA: LIFT THE BLOCKADE!” Converging at Yad Mordechai at 12 noon, the rally…
Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein
Hedy Epstein is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished. In 1948, Hedy Epstein went to live in…
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 the main Karni border crossing point in June, according to…
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 has continued its construction of the illegal annexation Wall in…
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, 22 Palestinians were killed and 117 injured by the Israeli…
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 Gaza Wednesday as part of an emergency medical caravan.In addition,…
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 to 2nd of January 2008, 18 Palestinians were killed by…
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 condemning Israel’s continued occupation and pursuit of policies that violate…
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 Monday, Amnesty International accused Israel of widespread human rights abuses.…
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 territories in the period between May 24 – May 30,…
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 that contradict with the third Geneva agreement regarding the treatment…
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 the freedom of movement and withhold PA-owned money, a report…
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 Palestinians in the occupied territories in the period between May…
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 2006, stating that “Palestinians in the Occupied Territories suffered wide-ranging…
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 the period between May 10 and May 16.The center reported…
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 the occupied territories. The report is for the period between…
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 mobile phones of the Palestinian passengers without any respect to…
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 occupied territories in the period between April 26 and May…
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 Press freedom Day in the most difficult working conditions of…
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 before a wood-burning stove. He headed for a nearby store,…
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 streets and demonstrate, while others stay at home with their…
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 allowed to pass the Israeli checkpoint in Beit Jala along…
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 rights in the occupied Palestinian territories in the period between…
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 in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The aid…
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 aid and Israel’s refusal to transfer money owed to the…
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 the Palestinian occupied territories in the period between April 5…
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 entitled to charge me with anything,” Dr. Omar Abdel Razik,…
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 the northern West Bank where a mother is still searching…
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 territories barred dozens of pregnant women from crossing the checkpoints…
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 Israeli army- on the contrary of previous promises to ease…
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 body of Fatima Habban Abu Safra (70) yesterday afternoon. The…
UNCHR Criticizes Israel
The United Nations Council for Human Rights (UNCHR) criticized Israel Tuesday for impeding the dispatch of a special investigation team to the occupied Palestinian territories to inspect the Israeli crimes…
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 barred Israelis from transporting Palestinian passengers in their vehicles in…
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, in the northern part of the West Bank on Wednesday.The…
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 rights in the occupied Palestinian territories in the period between…
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 committed 1,123 violations against Palestinians and their property in the…
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 extension of a controversial citizenship law. The law would bar…
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 and place of her death are known, but, the question…
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 have long been aware that Israeli border officials regularly strip…
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 the occupied Palestinian territories during the period between March 8th…
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 medical teams in the month of February, 2007. According to…
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 searched residents’ homes located in Khilit Al Magharbi neighborhood in…
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 reopened yesterday for three days. Israel abruptly closed Tuesday morning…
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 political prisoners during a nonviolent demonstration at the Bethlehem branch…
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 the Palestinian territories in the period between March 1st and…
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 an 11-year old Palestinian girl as a human shield during…
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 guide, IMEMC has received a copy of, to embassies and…
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. Dr. Moawiya Hasanain, the director of the emergency and ambulance…
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 have prevented Palestinians from fishing off the coast. This has…
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 as human shields during its invasion to the Palestinian occupied…
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 territories in the period between February 22 – February 28.…
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 her condition. The Palestinian Prisoner Society's Hebron branch issued the…
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 being imprisoned under administrative detention at the Telmond detention facility.…
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 and attacks in the occupied Palestinian territories in the period…
Rafah border crossing reopened
Palestinian sources at Rafah border crossing, in the southren Gaza strip, stated that the crossing was reopened on Monday morning. Wa’el Dahap, the spokesperson of the Palestinian groups working at…
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. Now an Israeli airline is even refusing to carry the…
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 rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. The report concerns violations…
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 plainly geared to uproot Palestinians from an area that historically…
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 content of an internal Israeli government document that was leaked…
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 renewed the administrative detention period of a Jenin resident, Palestinian…
Rafah border crossing reopened
Palestinian sources reported that the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza strip was reopened on Monday morning and will stay open until five PM. The sources added that…
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 not actually exist, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said on Monday.…
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 in the period between January 11th and January 17th. The…
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 prison where he has been for three years as a…
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 annual report, the HRW explained that Israel has imposed ‘excessive’…
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 Defense Establishment requested a two-year extension. The law bars…
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 boundaries remains under threat. On Tuesday in the Negev Desert…
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 go into effect on January 19th, that will forbid Palestinians…
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 killed on December 20th, 2006, by bullets from the Israeli…
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 work, in their places of employment, and are often arrested,…
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 at military checkpoints inside the West Bank city of Nablus.The…
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 city of Hebron south of the West Bank. Troops and…