Category: International Politics

Outlier US says No to Palestinian statehood; Biden mulls massive arms sale to Israel; Dems vote to advance $26 billion for Israel to House floor; Israeli “limited” strike in Iran…

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…

NEW YORK, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 (WAFA) -The Arab Group has issued on Wednesday a statement in which it expressed its total support for Palestine’s UN full membership application, calling…

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…

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…

Following the call for an arms embargo on Israel, passed by the United Nations’ top human rights body Friday, international observers have noted that Israel is losing diplomatic support worldwide,…

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…

The following is a statement from the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom: In January, South Africa appealed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and charged Israel with state-led acts…

Egos, assumptions, denialism accompany passage of UN Security Council resolution; meanwhile, another confirmation of genocide by Israel; German support for UNRWA; air drop deaths; hospitals under siege; Israel’s “compliance” with…

NEW YORK, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN Security Council passed today a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan and the…

The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine, UN Committee warns. GENEVA, Thursday, March 21, 2024 (WAFA) – The…

GENEVA, Thursday, March 21, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child warned today that without an immediate ceasefire, thousands of children in the Gaza Strip,…

If Americans Knew – IsraelPalestineNews: Israel suddenly seems capable of moving massive quantities of aid – to Gazans being further displaced; American in Gaza pulled from rubble; Israel targets UN aid…

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, stated that Israel has killed more Palestinian children in Gaza in just four months than all children killed in wars globally over the last four…

In full view of the world, the US is facilitating “some of the worst crimes of our age,” an action that could ultimately cause America’s downfall… Why is this happening…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 7, 2024 (WAFA) –The UN’s humanitarian coordinator ad interim for the Occupied Palestinian Territory James McGoldrick warned Wednesday of “serious acute malnutrition” in northern parts of Gaza.…

IsraelPalestineNews – If Americans Knew: NYT’s “Screams Without Words” galvanized the Israeli war effort at a time when even some allies were expressing concern over its large-scale killing of civilians…

Israeli forces open fire on Gazan aid-seekers, killing over 100, then blame everyone but themselves; US vetoes UN Security Council condemnation of massacre; US mulls air dropping aid – a…

Biden apparently not budging on support for Israel, wants to “help ensure that Israel can defend itself” (to the tune of $14 billion in free money), while announcing US would…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 26, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South…

An active duty US soldier on Sunday set himself on fire as an act of protest against the US and Israeli war against the Palestinian people. According to the Atlanta…

Over a dozen countries suspended donations to the biggest UN aid agency in Gaza after Israel alleged that 12 employees were complicit in Hamas’s 7 October attacks. The cuts undermine…

The US Representative at the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, made an eerie reference to a “Final Solution” in her remarks following the US veto of another resolution that would end…

UN Security Council to vote on ceasefire (US will veto); Israeli snipers open fire on Gazans congregating for food aid; Khan Younis hospital sinking deeper into chaos; the Pope declines…

A week after a shipload of killer drones made by factory workers in India were shipped from a port in India headed to Israel to bomb civilians in Gaza, a…

Israeli is a microcosm of the USA. It’s like a little miniature version of the settler-colonial state that took over the entirety of turtle island from “sea to shining sea”…

Yesterday I received an email from a friend referring to the alleged atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th. My hackles rose. I felt unreasonably annoyed. When I had more time…

The Israeli army bombarded and destroyed the building of Enabel, the development agency of Belgium’s federal government, in Gaza, prompting the country to summon the Israeli ambassador. Caroline Gennez, the…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, January 2, 2024 (WAFA) – A statement issued by around 28 organizations expressed deep concern and outrage that some of the largest donors have united to suspend funding…

ISLAMABAD, Thursday, February 2, 2024 (WAFA) – Pakistan today called for the full implementation of the International Criminal Court (ICJ’s) ruling of provisional measures to stop the Israeli genocidal acts…

In Gaza, starvation has become a reality, not just a risk – still, Israel withholds aid; Khan Younis under intense bombardment as refugees try to flee; UN’s Francesca Albanese says…

The Palestinian Authority issued a statement condemning the countries that decided to pull their funding for the United Nations Refugee and Works Administration (UNRWA). This follows statements by 20+ international…

Biden admin (and Israel) still in denial about genocide in Gaza; Israeli bombardment in Gaza not slowing down; more white-flag deaths, open fire on people waiting for food; responses to…

NEW YORK, Wednesday, January 24, 2024 (WAFA) – The UN Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as top diplomats debated on Tuesday the deepening…

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, January 23, 2024 (WAFA) – A U.S.-based Palestinian rights organization prevailed when the Supreme Court refused to take up a lawsuit brought by the Jewish National Fund (JNF)…

As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met this weekend, more than 300 Palestinian sports clubs and dozens of major Palestinian civil society organizations launched a call to #BanIsrael from the…

The Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ajith Sunghay, said that Israel is detaining Palestinians from Gaza on a broad…

IsraelPalestineNews – If Americans Knew: Israel kills yet another journalist, destroys yet another university; Bosnian genocide survivors take up Gaza cause at ICJ; communication still down in Gaza after almost a…

Famine, desperation in Gaza as Israel continues to restrict aid access; 3 Palestinians killed in West Bank; 1 Israeli killed in car-ramming; Iran bombs Israeli “spy HQ” in Iraq; Houthi…

If Americans Knew – IsraelPalestineNews.org: Biden and Blinken forget about 24,000 dead; Palestinian journalist killed; desperate calls for more humanitarian aid; 5 West Bank deaths; Israeli slapped with “treason” allegation;…

100 days. and I feel numb. It started, this time, with something unusual. Something unheard of. We have become used, over the past 24 years of intifada suppression, to the…

An estimated 400,000 people gathered in Washington DC Saturday afternoon, traveling from all over the East Coast and Midwest to attend the rally and march for Palestine. It was the…

The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands has begun the first day of a two-day trial charging the Israeli government with genocide against the Palestinian people due to…

In the first six weeks of the Israel-Gaza conflict, major U.S. newspapers disproportionately emphasized Israeli deaths; used emotive language to describe the killings of Israelis, but not Palestinians; and offered…

If Americans Knew- IsraelPalestineTimeline.Org: Israeli soldiers cut off food from newborns, release video of “surrendering Hamas members”; Gaza humanitarian crisis worsens; 3-day siege on Jenin ends with 12 Palestinians dead;…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine today condemned Israel’s revocation of the visa of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings. “This is…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, (UNOCHA) issued the following report about the situation in Gaza on the 46th straight day of Israeli bombardment:…

The following is a summary of news for October 20th, 2023 – the 14th day of the Israeli assault on Gaza and the West Bank (compiled by israelpalestinenews.org). Palestinian death…

14 October 2023 – World Health Organization: As the United Nation’s agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel’s repeated orders for the evacuation of…

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…

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…

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…

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, 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…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Foreign diplomats today visited Jub al-Deeb school near Bethlehem, which has received an Israeli demolition order, and urged Israel to reverse its decision.…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The office of the European Union Representative in Jerusalem has condemned racist remarks by far-right Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich in which…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (WAFA) – Eight-eight Palestinian, regional and international civil society organizations welcomed the announcement by the Barcelona City Council to suspend all institutional relations with apartheid…

Israeli Finance Minister and Religious Zionist leader Bezalel Smotrich said the government will be granting the greenlight for approving 10.000 housing units in West Bank colonies and stated that this…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today said it rejects what it described as Israel’s “criminal” decision to expand its colonial settlement…

TEL AVIV, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Twelve human rights organizations in Israel have deplored recent statements by European Union High Representative Josep Borrell regarding Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s…

Date: 7 February 2023, Time: 09:00 GMT: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) sent a submission to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including…

On Tuesday, during an invasion of the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Israeli forces abducted an Italian woman, a Palestine solidarity activist, beating and kicking her before taking her into…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued the following statement after the formation of the fanatic, the extreme right-wing Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also…

By Alison Weir: Israeli media report that the 2023 defense spending bill just signed into law contains over $500 million for Israel (just the tip of the iceberg of billions of…

The Israeli government has decided to refuse visas and deny entry to the newly appointed personnel of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the…

BRUSSELS, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – The European Union has strongly deplored Israel’s demolition of the donor-funded Sfai school in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank province of…

Oct, 19 2022: By Al-Haq independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation: On 18 October 2022, Al-Haq sent an urgent letter to Third States, in light of the recent alarming escalation in…

Al-Haq: On 17 October 2022, 65 Palestinian, regional and international organisations sent a joint letter to the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk, welcoming him in his…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today welcomed the Australian government’s decision to reverse the decision taken by the previous government recognizing…

The family of slain Palestinian-American elder, Omar Abul-Majid As’ad, 80, who was killed by Israeli soldiers invading a village north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah after they…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs And Expatriates issued a statement denouncing the Israeli army’s execution of a Palestinian and the deliberate targeting of journalists working for Palestine TV in…

Family members of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli forces in May, were invited to the National Press Club in Washington DC on Wednesday August 31  to…

In an unprecedented ruling against free speech and the right to boycott, a judge in the United States ruled this week that the Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream company can…

As a continuation of its targeting of select Palestinian NGOs, Israeli forces raided, ransacked, confiscated materials, and welded shut their office doors. The raid was part of a series of…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, July 13, 2022 (WAFA) – The Department of Human Rights and Civil Society in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) today called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations,…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed this night a statement issued earlier on Tuesday by nine European Union countries rejecting…

Al-Haq Human Rights Organization: During the 50th session of the Human Rights Council taking place from 13 June – 8 July 2022, Al-Haq, along with Palestinian Civil Society Organizations (‘CSOs’),…

The now-released US State Department report on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh makes the absurd claim that the evidence is ‘inconclusive’ regarding who killed Shireen. But the United Nations…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, welcomed the Catalonian Parliament’s decision recognizing Israel as guilty of apartheid against the Palestinian people. Dr. Barghouthi said the Catalonian…

BDS Movement: In a historical vote on Thursday, 16th of June, the Parliament of Catalonia recognized Israel as committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people and demanded to…

PARIS, June 16, 2022 (WAFA) – The French Foreign Ministry is mobilizing all its powers to provide Palestinian-French prisoner Salah Hammouri with all possible assistance, spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry,…

GAZA CITY, Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Fifteen years of life under blockade has left four out of five children in the Gaza Strip reporting that they live with…

WASHINGTON, Monday, April 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian-American Hala Gabriel, a production finance executive at the American TV and film production company (Netflix) described Israel as a racist colonial state…

GENEVA, Friday, April 22, 2022 (WAFA) – The United Nations has voiced deep concern at the worsening security situation in occupied Palestine in the aftermath of Israel’s daily assaults over…

As Western Christian churches commemorate Easter weekend, and Eastern Orthodox churches prepare for Holy Week, the Palestinian Christians remain under Israeli military occupation — and church leaders around the world…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said the Thursday shootings in Tel Aviv demonstrate Israeli security and political failures and the failure of its apartheid wall.…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Foreign Minister Riyad Malki today welcomed the adoption of two resolutions on Palestine by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms statements made yesterday by the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, regarding his support for Jewish settlement crimes in…

Ref: 33/2022, Date: 1 April 2022, Time: 13:30 GMT: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/49/L.26, “Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,…

GENEVA (25 March 2022) – A UN expert called today on the international community to accept and adopt the findings in his current report, echoing recent findings by Palestinian, Israeli, and international…

Amnesty International: The Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Michael Lynk, has submitted a report to the Human Rights Council, concluding that the situation in…

Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Theodosios Atallah Hanna, denounced the international double standards and the immorality of many regimes condemning the war in Ukraine…

Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Atallah Hanna, denounced the media use of the so-called “Christian-Zionism,” affirming that true Christian Churches and Christianity as a…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, March 10, 2022 (WAFA) – The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, today denounced the visit of former US Vice President Mike Pence to the Ibrahimi…

Depending on which candidates win the Republican and Democratic primaries in Nevada on June 14th, there’s a possibility that Israel partisan David Brog could face off against grassroots Democrat Amy Vilela, who…

OSLO, Saturday, February 12, 2022 (WAFA) – Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt pledged yesterday to increase its funding to the UN Refugee and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, February 9, 2022 (WAFA) – Strengthening the Palestinian digital economy will require the Government of Israel to remove current restrictions and to allocate the needed spectrum for Palestinian…

The Austrian government signed, on Thursday, a treaty with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for the…