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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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
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…
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…