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Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights -Date: 12 October 2023: Al Mezan and Adalah mourn the unlawful killing of 24-year-old Attiya Fathi Al-Nabaheen, along with members of his family, in a targeted…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the death toll of the Israeli bombing of Gaza which began on Saturday, and has continued non-stop, has reached 1,537, with 7,212 injured.…
The Israeli army continued its bombardment and shells of Palestinian homes, residential towers, buildings, and infrastructure, killing dozens of Palestinians and causing a large number of injuries. A Palestinian woman…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian political prisoners in Ramon prison during violent searches of section 5 of the detention facility. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the…
On Thursday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that the Israeli Prison Authority moved hunger-striking detainee Kayed Al-Fasfous from Asqalan Prison to the Ramla prison clinic after 57 days of strike.…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev and demolished it for the eleventh time this year and the 222nd time since 2010. Media sources said…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers conducted live-fire military drills in the Khirbat Al-Farisiyya Bedouin Community in the occupied West Bank’s Northern Plains. Media sources said the army started the training in…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights(PCHR): “New War Crime: PCHR Condemns Killing of 2 Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Forces’ Fire in Tulkarem” – Date: 24 September 2023, Time: 11:30 GMT The…
Earlier Sunday, more than fifty Israeli military vehicles invaded Birzeit University in Birzeit city, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked buildings…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity
On Wednesday, illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted a number of Palestinian citizens in the town of Bani Na’im, east of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, and erected a tent…
On Wednesday, Palestinian political prisoner Sultan Khallouf, 40, suspended a hunger strike he started 49 days ago, protesting being held under Administrative Detention orders without charges after a ruling for…
Two Palestinian detainees, held by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial, are ongoing with hunger strike they started 45 days earlier, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)…
On Friday, The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli occupation authorities have decided to release Khaled Al-Awawda, who held a hunger strike for 172 in 2022, protesting his…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 07-13 September 2023) Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity
Latest Developments (after the reporting period) [This section is based on initial information from different sources. Further confirmed details will be provided in the next report.] On 5 September, Israeli…
Israeli bulldozers demolished, on Monday, the Arab Bedouin village of Al-Arakib, in the Negev region of Israel, for the 221st time. Since 2010, Israeli authorities have demolished the residential structures,…
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, on Saturday evening, a Palestinian child at the entrance to the Al-Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, the…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity Four Palestinians, including 2 civilians, were killed, and 37 others, including 4 children and 2 female and male foreign solidarity activists, were…
On Wednesday, many Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the Al-Baq’an neighborhood in Anata town, east of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, before demolishing several buildings…
A Palestinian citizen was forced, on Saturday, to demolish a section of his home in the Jabal al-Mokabber neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, after Israeli authorities ordered its destruction, under…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity A child was killed and another Palestinian succumbed to his injury, while 9 others, including a woman, were wounded, and dozens of…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and 2 others succumbed to their injuries, while 42 other Palestinians, including 9 children, were…
On Tuesday morning, just before dawn, Israeli troops shot and killed 17-year old Othman Atef Abu Kharj, shooting him with live ammunition in the head and shoulder during an invasion…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity Four Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and 20 others, including 2 children, were wounded, while dozens of others suffocated and sustained…
Israeli occupation forces seized, on Sunday night, the vehicle of a disabled Palestinian man while he tried to pass through the Jaba’ military roadblock, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, local sources…
Latest Developments (after the reporting period) [This section is based on initial information from different sources. Further confirmed details will be provided in the next report.] On 10 August, undercover…
Large numbers of Israeli forces invaded, on Monday night, the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, causing dozens of injuries and detonating a Palestinian home…
A special Israeli unit executed, on Sunday afternoon, three Palestinians, including a child, while they were in a vehicle near a roundabout in the town of Arraba, southwest of Jenin,…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 2 Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and 11 others, including 3 children, were wounded, while dozens of others suffocated and sustained…
Israeli occupation forces shot and injured, on Tuesday night, three Palestinian young men, one seriously, and caused dozens more to sustain inhalation injuries, during settlers’ storming of the eastern area…
On Tuesday, an off duty Israeli Border Police officer shot and killed a young Palestinian man near the town of Al-Ezzariyya, east of Jerusalem. According to Israeli forces, the Palestinian…
Israeli forces injured, on Monday, a number of Palestinian young men and abducted two young men, in addition to abducting, on Sunday evening, a young man and a child from…
Israeli forces demolished, on Monday, a Palestinian-owned home in the Masafer Yatta area, in the southern West Bank, and on Sunday, forced a family to demolish their own home in…
Ramallah 7-30-2023 WAFA – The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said today, Sunday, that minor prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers suffer from harsh and inhuman conditions of…
The Palestinian community of Al Baqa’a is on the brink of vanishing, and not by choice. On 10 July 2023, following the establishment of an Israeli settlement within the community…
Israeli occupation forces delivered, on Sunday, several demolition notices against 8 homes, 2 irrigation ponds, and stop work orders against agricultural structures, and roads, in the Nablus and Salfit governorates,…
Latest Developments (after the reporting period) [This section is based on initial information from different sources. Further confirmed details will be provided in the next report.]
Israeli occupation forces opened fire, on Friday, at a Palestinian-owned vehicle before abducting the driver, and confiscating his vehicle, in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus in the northern…
AMMAN, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)), said today that the Israeli measures in Masafer Yatta in the south of the occupied West…
Israeli occupation authorities compelled, on Tuesday, a Palestinian family to demolish their home, in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of the occupied city of Jerusalem, local sources reported. Local citizen Mohammad…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) unjustified commission of two separate murders yesterday that left two Palestinian civilians dead, including a child,…
[Haifa] July 23, 2023 (WAFA) – Today, Sunday, settlers attempted to storm the Roman Catholic Church and Monastery of Mar Elias on Mount Carmel in Haifa. Eyewitnesses reported that about…
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed, on Friday, a Palestinian child, and seriously injured a young man during protests in the village of Um Safa, northwest of the central West…
Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, Palestinians who participated in a sit-in to demonstrate against the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian-owned homes, in the Al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan town in occupied…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 5 Palestinians, including a child, were wounded, while dozens of others suffocated and sustained bruises in Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) attacks in…
Israeli forces assaulted two Palestinian men, confiscated 2 bulldozers, and delivered stop-work orders for four homes and a shed, near the central West Bank city of Salfit, according to local…
LONDON, Tuesday, July 18, 2023 (WAFA) – Amid a serious rise in attacks on frontline health workers in the occupied West Bank this year, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has…
RAMALLAH, Saturday, July 15, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli national water company Mekorot has reduced the daily amount of water supply to the provinces of Hebron and Bethlehem in the…
llegal Israeli colonizers, on Saturday, attacked and injured Palestinian residents and shepherds in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources. According to…
RAMALLAH, Friday, July 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed in a statement the Human Rights Council’s adoption of the Palestine resolution calling for updating…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 5 Palestinians, including a civilian, were killed, and 17 others, including a child and a woman, were injured, while dozens of others…
The Israeli army demolished, on Wednesday, two structures belonging to Palestinians in At-Tour village, east of Jerusalem, and the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, local sources reported. In…
Israeli occupation forces razed, on Wednesday, 50 dunams of Palestinian-owned land, and uprooted dozens of olive trees, in the southern part of Kifl Hares village, northwest of Salfit, in the…
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Press Release | July 10, 2023 “Israel’s military occupation has morphed the entire occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 9, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers who shoot Palestinians on suspicion of carrying out attacks on Israeli targets will no longer have their weapons confiscated by police,…
On Friday, the City Council in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, forced a Palestinian to demolish his home in Jabal Al-Mokabber town. The Palestinian, Ehab Khalayla, said he was…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): (Weekly Update 22 June – 05 July 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: 15 Palestinians, including 6 children, were…
Three Palestinian detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, are ongoing with a hunger strike they started twelve days ago. The detainees are Anas…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine is appalled by the decision of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to, once again, omit the Israeli occupation…
NEW YORK, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 (WAFA) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added Russia’s military forces to his annual “list of shame” of parties to armed conflict who…
Dozens of Palestinian civilians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Rummana, west of Jenin. In response to this…
On Monday, the Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of 5,623 new colonial settlement units in the occupied West Bank. This moves comes in the midst of a nearly week-long…
RAMALLAH, Monday, June 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Marking the International Day Against Torture, which coincides, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said Israel continues to torture and ill-treat Palestinian detainees and…
Israeli troops invaded various parts of the West Bank on Saturday and abducted seven Palestinians. In addition, during their invasion to the Bethlehem area, the soldiers shot tear gas at…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity 2 Palestinians, including a Palestinian with disability, were killed, and 31 others, including 4 children and a fisherman, were wounded, while dozens…
Press Release By Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support And Human Rights Association: Breaking Point Reached: Mass Hunger Strike by Palestinian Administrative Detainees In Israeli Prisons Next Week. A breaking point has been…
The Israeli Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that they will close the investigation into the killing of an 80-year old US citizen in the West Bank in January 2022, with no…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, June 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Wednesday continued to raze Palestinian land close to Sinjil town, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, June 8, 2023 (WAFA) – US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr Wednesday evening paid a visit of condolence to the family of a slain Palestinian toddler…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestine home and a barn in the Wad Al-Jouz neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said several military vehicles and…
On Sunday, five Palestinian families from the Wadi Qaddoum neighborhood in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, were forced to empty their homes ahead of…
Latest Developments (after the reporting period) On 30 May, an Israeli settler was shot and killed in a Palestinian drive-by shooting near the settlement of Homesh between Jenin and Tulkarem…
On Tuesday, the Israeli authorities demolished the Al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev for the sixth time this year and the 217th since 2010. Several Israeli police vehicles, including bulldozers,…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded Deir Ballout town, west of Salfit in the central West Bank, and handed eighteen demolitions and halt construction orders targeting several homes, in addition to…
The Israeli military invaded the village of Sa’ir, in the Hebron district in the southern West Bank, after claiming that an unknown assailant fired shots at an Israeli military vehicle,…
On Saturday, a Palestinian family was forced to demolish its home, and another family had to demolish a kitchen in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem,…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the As-Sal’a neighborhood between Jabal Al-Mokabber and Silwan town,…
On Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers detonated a Palestinian home in Ni’lin town, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, rendering five family members homeless in an act of…
RAMALLAH, Monday, May 22, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, the latest of which was the storming this…
RAMALLAH, Monday, May 22, 2023 (WAFA) – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) today accused Israel of declaring an open war against the Palestinians with the killing this morning of three…
By Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights – Published On May 15, 2023: On 15 May, Palestinians all over the world mourn 75 years of al-Nakba (‘catastrophe’ in Arabic). The day…
RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 18, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the Israeli Defense Minister’s decision to start implementing a law calling for canceling the disengagement…
On Tuesday, vast areas of Palestinian grazing and farmlands were burnt when the Israeli army used them and surrounding lands for live-fire military training in the Northern Plains of the…
Derry, Ireland, May 15, 2023: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin: Large crowds gathered throughout Ireland over the past few days to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ when…
Many Palestinian with special needs, including children, have lost their homes, medical supplies, and equipment due to Israel’s deliberate bombing of homes and residential buildings in the besieged Gaza Strip…
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israel’s five-day offensive on the Gaza Strip has killed 33 Palestinians, including six children and three women, and injured at least 150. The…
Israeli sources claimed that the Islamic Jihad fired shells into Israeli areas after the ceasefire deal took effect; however, sources in Gaza have confirmed that some fighters fired the shells…
Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their wide-scale aggression on the Gaza Strip for the second consecutive day as it began…
Medical sources in Gaza said two Palestinians were killed, and at least five were injured after the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at an apartment in the Nasr neighborhood,…
Israel’s unprovoked attack on Gaza should never have started – and now it won’t end because Israel clings to its desire to violate international law indefinitely. by Kathryn Shihadah –…
Salam Marouf, the head of the Government Press Office in Gaza, said the Israeli bombing on Gaza, Tuesday, has led to the destruction of eleven residential units and caused damage…
On Tuesday evening, the Israeli army fired a missile at a Palestinian car in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and wounding two.…
PCHR: In Simultaneous Attacks and Flagrant Disregard for Civilians’ Lives, 13 Palestinians, including 4 Women and 4 Children, Killed in Israeli Airstrikes on 4 Residential Apartments Destroying Them Over Their Residents…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers demolished two Palestinian under-construction homes, a guest house, and a barn, in Al-Awja, Al-Jiftlik, and Fasayel villages near Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers demolished a school in Beit Ta’mir village, southeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said several army vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the village…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – OCHA-OPT Latest Developments (outside the reporting period) This section is based on initial information from…
The Israeli occupation army continued the strict siege on the Palestinian city of Jericho for the fourteenth, causing serious economic losses, especially since the closures and restrictions on the city…