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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.…
Derry, Ireland, March 30, 2022: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin: Several events have taken place in Derry, Ireland to show solidarity between Ireland and Palestine. The Palestinian Return Centre,…
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…
The Israeli government approved the construction of 730 units for illegal colonialist settlers in Pisgat Zeev illegal colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands in Beit Hanina, north of the occupied…
The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel (Adalah): 10/03/2022 – The new temporary order explicitly affirms that its purpose is to ensure a Jewish demographic majority. Adalah: “The…
Israeli authorities forced, on Friday, a Palestinian family to demolish their own home in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported.…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, February 27, 2022 (WAFA) – Nearly 450 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 58 days in protest of their unfair…
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…
The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority announced, on Tuesday, that the Palestinian detainee Abdul-Basest Ma’tan, 49, who suffers from colon cancer, is being denied the necessary medical care. Ma’tan, from…
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…
500 Palestinian Administrative Detainees, held in Israeli prisons without charge or trial, have refused to attend their court sessions for 44 days in protest of Israel’s policy of Administrative Detention.…
In the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem, the Israeli government on Thursday approved the theft of 49,000 dunams (21,000 acres) of village land – stretching from the oustkirts of…
The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission released, on Sunday, a statement announcing that Palestinian political prisoners will be engaging in actions to show their objection to the failure of the…
The Israeli government intends to meet within the coming few days to “legalize” and provide infrastructure for illegal colonialist outposts built on stolen Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.…
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an incitement campaign against Amnesty International after the latter released a report on Tuesday concluding that Israel’s discriminatory and exclusionary laws, policies…
Report By Amnesty International: Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, February 01, 2022 (WAFA) – The State of Palestine welcomes the report by Amnesty International on Israel’s apartheid regime and racist policies and practices against the Palestinian people,…
By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle: Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is leading his country’s anti-Palestinian propaganda, this time engaging in pre-emptive hasbara in anticipation of a Palestinian…
SHEFFIELD, Saturday, January 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Sheffield Hallam University has reinstated Palestinian Ph.D. student lecturer and activist Shahd Abu Salama, suspended from work after she was targeted by pro-Israel…
The Israeli-Palestinian peace group ‘Combatants for Peace’ has revealed, through a Freedom of Information petition, a massive Israeli government investment in ‘Jewish-only’ roads through the West Bank. The petition was…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, two former political prisoners, interrogated and assaulted several young men in Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Media…
By Chris MacManus MEP: Sinn Féin MEP Chris MacManus has demanded the European Commission releases documents linked to the suspension of EU funds to Palestinian NGOs. The funds were suspended because…
On Sunday, the Israeli District Court in occupied Jerusalem denied an appeal filed by the Salhiyya Palestinian family to rebuild their historic home that was demolished by the army several…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, five Palestinians and two solidarity activists, during a peaceful sit-in protest denouncing the demolition of two homes belonging to the Salhiyya family in Sheikh…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Sheikh Jarrah Palestinian neighborhood in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, and demolished two homes, in addition to abducting 27 Palestinians,…
The indigenous Palestinians in the occupied Negev desert continue to struggle for their very own existence and future and are facing seriously escalating Israeli police and military brutality, especially the…
JERUSALEM, Monday, January 10, 2022 (WAFA): Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed today evening the East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, according to WAFA correspondent. Dozens of setters, led by far-right Israeli Member…
Report By Adalah (The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel): 06/01/2022: In response to the organizations’ demand, the Military Attorney replied that the “core of the designations” is based…
The condition of cancer-stricken Palestinian detainee, Nasser Abu Hmeid has deteriorated significantly, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on Wednesday. The PPS stated that Nasser Abu Hmeid, 49, has been…
Ben Gvir, far-right Israeli parliament member and follower of Jewish supremacist Meir Kahane was caught on video waving a gun at two Palestinian parking lot attendants and yelling slurs. Both…
JERUSALEM, Monday, December 20, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities notified today a Palestinian family to evict their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, and to…
Ibrahim al-A’raj, a member of the Follow-Up Committee for homes threatened by Israel demolition orders, stated that half of the homes in the Ein Jweiza neighborhood in al-Walaja, northwest of…
By Motasem A Dalloul for Middle East Monitor Israel announced, last week, the completion of the highly technological security wall on its side of the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip.…
The Israeli “Custodian General’s Unit” of the “Justice Ministry” is planning to build hundreds of units in illegal Israel colonies in occupied Jerusalem, including in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, a move…
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is presenting a plan to expand settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan, including two new settlements and the creation of a “Special Committee” aimed at…