Category: Israeli Politics

Most of the 2.2 million Palestinian civilians living in the Gaza Strip have been without electricity since October 2023. Now, Israeli authorities have ordered the shut-off of an electric line…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in central Gaza Tuesday, while a toddler died of hypothermia. Also on Tuesday, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians,…

Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), stressed that the ceasefire agreement has been a lifeline for countless individuals, offering a ray of hope amidst…

Translated From WAFA, Article by Bilal Gheith Kiswani:  Over 38 years ago, the Scientific Library was established on Salahuddin Street in occupied Jerusalem, in the West bank. Over the years, it…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): While Palestinians in Gaza are still grappling with the devastating consequences of Israel’s 15-month long genocidal campaign following the enforcement of a fragile ceasefire,…

The Palestinian Government Media Office published an update on the most important statistics. The Israeli occupation forces (with US tax money and munitions) did this: – Dropped 88,000 tons of…

More than 57 years after the attack, the FOIA lawsuit revealed new details and, more importantly, it made it clear that the US government is still refusing to release hundreds…

The United Nations Human Rights Office reported that Israel is accelerating actions to entrench its illegal annexation of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. These actions include seizing Palestinian…

RAMALLAH, December 5, 2024 (WAFA) – The Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have confirmed the death of Palestinian detainee Alaa Marwan Hamza Mahlawi, 42,…

The State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have condemned recent statements by an Israeli minister advocating for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank…

Israeli occupation authorities have approved the confiscation of 64 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Um Tuba, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. This would result…

In the coming days, Qatari mediators are set to meet with Hamas leaders to present the proposals discussed at the Doha Summit. The objective is to ascertain whether Hamas is…

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of bills that ban the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

A Report by Rami Samara – Translated From WAFA News: The Israeli Knesset is expected to vote within hours on the second and third readings of two bills that threaten…

On Day 381 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli army continued demolishing homes west of Jabalia camp and in several areas in the northern parts of the coastal…

A former head of the Israeli national security council has called for a siege on northern Gaza, and the forced displacement of all civilians there, effectively ethnic cleansing the entire…

Jerusalem Governorate: Israeli occupation soldiers Killed eight Palestinians, abducted 304, and 16,138 colonizers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to many demolition and expulsion orders, among numerous serious violations against the…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called on the international community to promptly implement the recently adopted UN General Assembly resolution, submitted by the State of Palestine, and…

RAMALLAH, September 8, 2024 (WAFA) – Several Palestinian associations and institutions issued a position statement calling on the international community to save Palestinian schools from the occupation’s education genocide, as…

Israeli soldiers abducted six citizens, including three women, at dawn on Sunday, from the city of Hebron and the towns of Halhoul to the north and Yatta to the south,…

On Wednesday, Jordan has expressed strong condemnation of the Israeli occupation government’s recent decision to approve the establishment of a new colonial outpost on a UNESCO World Heritage Site in…

In Gaza, airstrikes continue, food rations drop, polio threat grows; in Israel, calls to punish not the rapists, but the one who filmed them, to make rape of Palestinian prisoners…

Report By B’Tselem: “Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. The Israeli Information Center In…

Listen to article: Haniyeh lived in Qatar… Israel’s choice to specifically kill him in Iran had several results: ended efforts to improve U.S.- Iran relations, closed the window for addressing…

TEL AVIV,  Thursday, July 25, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli Knesset General Assembly approved on Thursday the Israeli government’s decision to transfer responsibility for the Land Authority to the extremist…

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 22, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates slammed the passing of a draft bill designating UNRWA as a “terrorist organization” by the Israeli…

ICJ genocide ruling apparently meaningless to Israel, as Palestinian deaths, torture continue apace; Gaza pier debacle comes to an end; water crisis for Palestinian residents of Jerusalem; Israel demolishes high…

On Sunday evening, the Israeli army and the police forced a Palestinian family to demolish its home in the Ein Al-Louza neighborhood in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque,…

On Thursday, the Israeli District Court in occupied Jerusalem rejected the appeal of four Palestinian Jerusalemite families against eviction rulings in the Batn Al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan, south of the…

On Saturday, the Qatari Foreign Affairs Ministry condemned the Israeli decision to expand the illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank. The Ministry said that “The State of Qatar strongly…

Public service announcement for folks out there who are indignant about the fact that “Hamas started this trouble, and now Hamas wants to be rewarded with a state.” by Kathryn…

According to a report published by the Palestine Chronicle, the Israeli military’s Chief of Staff Major General Herzi Halevi has reminded his troops that Tel Aviv was in a “prolonged”…

For the 226th consecutive day, the Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression and shelling of several areas in the Gaza Strip, from Beit Lahia in the north to Rafah in…

by Tareq S. Hajjaj, mondoweiss.net Those who survived Israel’s deadly bombardment now have to contend with the rising environmental disaster in Gaza’s displacement camps, including insect infestations, dangerous amounts of…

The Israeli invasion of the West Bank district of Tulkarem continued Saturday for the third straight day, with Israeli tanks and armored vehicles invading Nur Shams refugee camp, destroying streets…

On Thursday, Israeli soldiers invaded Tulkarem city, in the northwestern portion of the occupied West Bank, and the adjacent Nur Shams refugee camp, east of the city, demolished an abandoned…

On Tuesday, the Israeli army, the police and the undercover soldiers invaded the Al-Arakib Bedouin village, in the Negev, and demolished it form the 224th time since 2010. Media sources…

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 Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the construction of at least 3500 units in illegal Israeli colonies in the occupied West Bank, mainly in Maale Adumim, east of…

Israeli conscientious objector Sophia Orr, was detained by Israeli authorities on Sunday after burning the draft order requiring her to join the Israeli military. She told the recruitment bureau in…

Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport have denied entry to a Swedish foreign national and Palestinian human rights defender arbitrarily citing “Public security or public safety or public…

Israeli Human Rights group “Ir Amim” published a report regarding an Israeli plan to build more than 8400 segregated colonialist units for Israeli colonizers, including blueprints for four new colonies,…

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”…

TEL AVIV, Thursday, February 15, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, today passed a bill in its preliminary reading aimed at banning the operations of the UN Relief…

By Adam Keller (shared by Gush Shalom) What made Hamas launch its devastating attack on October 7, precipitating the most terrible episode in this country’s century of conflict and bloodshed? The…

After forcing nearly two million Palestinians to flee their homes in northern, central, eastern and western Gaza, pushing them to the southernmost point of the Gaza Strip (Rafah), the Israeli…

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…

Israeli Defense Minister and the former commander of the “Southern Command” of the Israeli occupation army, Yuav Gallant, said Israel intends to carry out a more concentrated targeting on the…

If Americans New – IsraelPalestinNews – Published December 24, 2023: The little town of Bethlehem is quiet this Christmas, as more and more deaths are reported in Gaza. An Israeli…

Published On Mondoweiss – Reprinted on IMEMC with Permission from Author:  This is the call of all the Palestinian families, the thousands of children who were killed, including my son…

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…

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 Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians, including children, during protests in several parts of the central West Bank governorate of Ramallah. Media sources said the soldiers shot two…

In the West Bank on Saturday and Sunday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked Palestinian civilians and their property, burning Palestinian homes and vehicles. Armed paramilitary Israeli colonizers also invaded the Al-Aqsa…

THE GOLAN HEIGHTS, Wednesday, June 21, 2023 (WAFA) – Dozens of residents and landowners of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights were injured today during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces…

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 Monday, the Israeli Navy released two Palestinian fishermen who were abducted a year ago after navy ships attacked Palestinian fishing boats with live fire and water cannons in Palestinian…

  Israeli occupation authorities seized, on Wednesday, 52 dunams of Palestinian land and issued dozens of stop work orders in separate areas of the West Bank. According to Amir Daoud…

Israeli right-wing Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, agreed with Transportation Minister, Miri Regev, to allocate 3.5 billion Shekels for “developing colonies, roads, and infrastructure” for the colonialist settlers in the occupied…

  RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 12, 2023 (WAFA) – The Higher Presidential Committee for the Follow-up of Church Affairs in Palestine today called on the Palestinian Christians to participate in large…

Peace Now – Contrary to its commitment at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit, the Israeli government is publishing tenders for 940 new housing units in the settlements of Efrat and Beitar…

Last Tuesday, fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a 64-year-old American woman near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, causing her to lose consciousness due to a…

Wafa News Agency reported Thursday that the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) approved a bill to cancel the plan to disengage from four settlements in…

On Monday, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian man at the Erez Border Terminal in northern Gaza and bulldozed agricultural lands in the southern part of the coastal region. Former political…

Date: 4 March 2023: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On 1 March 2023, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister and co-founder of Regavim, a settler organization, stated during a conference…

As countries around the world have moved to abandon the death penalty as cruel, ineffective, and costly, Israel’s elected right-wing government took a step in the opposite direction on Wednesday,…

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…

In a culture of impunity for Israeli police and military (and Israel in general), it should come as no surprise that the killing of Eyad Hallaq, a disabled Palestinian man,…

TEL AVIV, Sunday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced today that he is planning to cancel regulations that allow any lawmaker to meet…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR (Weekly Update 29 December 2022- 04 January 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Three Palestinians, including 2 children,…

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…

Theodosios Atallah Hanna of Sebastia, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said that “the Palestinian response to the new fascist Israeli government should come in…

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…

JERUSALEM, Sunday, December 18, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities have expelled French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri to France after he had been detained without charges or trial since March, said…

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…

JERUSALEM, Thursday, December 1, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing today on nine petitions against the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) – 2022,…

YAFA, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – Arab factions in Israel staged a protest today in the Arab city of Yafa against an Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse 1,400 indigenous…

On Wednesday evening, Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian car near the entrance of Kharsa village, south of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, wounding…

An Israeli report revealed that the military and security leaderships in the country have decided to alter their operations strategies by resuming the assassinations of Palestinian resistance fighters in several…

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 Israeli news channel 13 reported Wednesday that the Israeli Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, ordered the authorization of armored drones to carry out airstrikes against the Palestinian people in…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Date: 20 September 2022: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli decision to impose a distorted version of the official Palestinian curriculum…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli occupation Forces’ (IOF) continuous obstacles on the travel of Gaza Strip’s patients, denying them…

GENEVA (24 August 2022) – UN experts* today condemned Israel’s escalating attacks against Palestinian civil society in the occupied West Bank, after the Israeli army broke into the offices of…

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…

On Wednesday, an Israeli court decided to demolish a Palestinian school in the Ein Samia Bedouin community, east of Ramallah, in the central West Bank. In its ruling, the court…

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’),…

Report By Peace Now: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This report shows that despite its explicit commitment to a status quo with all matters related to the occupation, a year after the government is…

Israel found Mohammed El Halabi guilty of diverting $50 million from World Vision charity, ignoring compelling facts: the total budget for 10 years was under $23 million; El Halabi’s alleged…

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…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded an apartment building in the Wad Qaddoum neighborhood in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, and measured an apartment building in…

Date: 07 May 2022: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli decision to build thousands of settlement units in the West Bank. This announcement coincided with the Israeli…

On Thursday, The Israeli Supreme Court approved the construction of two residential buildings containing 31 colonialist units in the Hizqia illegal colony in the Old City of Hebron, in the…

The Israeli authorities have decided to demolish the family home of a Palestinian who was killed after conducting a shooting attack in Bnei Brak last month, leading to the death…

Israeli soldiers were shot Saturday evening, four Palestinians, including a child, and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in…

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.…