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Israeli occupation authorities issued demolition orders on Thursday targeting large industrial structures at the entrance of Anata, northeast of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. According to Jerusalem Governorate advisor…
Palestinian civil society organizations have condemned the Israeli occupation’s detention and deportation of 32 international volunteers who were accompanying Palestinian farmers during the annual olive harvest in the occupied West…
On Wednesday the Israeli Knesset approved one bill to annex the West Bank and impose Israeli sovereignty over it, and another to impose sovereignty over the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, east…
As Israeli military operations continue across Gaza and the occupied West Bank despite a fragile ceasefire, senior Israeli commanders are warning that “the conflict is far from over.” In a…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (Day 739 of Israel’s Latest War on Gaza) Israel killed 7 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, in spite of the ceasefire; 2 others…
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has confirmed that mediators have deliberately postponed negotiations on the most contentious issues in the Gaza ceasefire talks, citing a lack…
JERUSALEM, October 5, 2025 (WAFA) – The Jerusalem Governorate has released a detailed report documenting the violations and crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces and colonists in Jerusalem since the…
Israel has begun compiling lists of Palestinian political prisoners slated for release as part of preparations to accelerate negotiations with Hamas. Talks are expected to begin Sunday in Cairo, with…
Israeli naval forces have intercepted at least 19 vessels from the “Global Sumud Flotilla,” a civilian convoy carrying foreign activists and humanitarian aid bound for Gaza. The attack occurred in…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday called on member states to urgently support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), warning that the conditions under…
Israeli media outlets have described the recent wave of international recognition of the State of Palestine as a major diplomatic setback, triggering political confusion and strategic uncertainty within Israel. Coverage…
Spain and Italy have dispatched naval vessels to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian convoy delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, after multiple drone attacks targeted the fleet in international…
Following the recent wave of international recognition of the State of Palestine, senior Israeli military officials have recommended imposing targeted sanctions on top Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders, including President Mahmoud…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 36 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday; 5 aid seekers were killed. In total, Israel has killed at least…
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani warned, Tuesday, that the erosion of international norms in favor of brute force risks ushering in a lawless global order. He stressed…
A United Nations Commission of Inquiry stated Tuesday that the Israeli government has demonstrated a clear and consistent intent to establish permanent control over the Gaza Strip and to ensure…
As of September 22, 2025, the State of Palestine is formally recognized by at least 155 of the 193 United Nations member states. This marks a decisive shift in global…
Former Knesset member Haneen Zoabi was released Sunday evening following hours of interrogation by Israeli police in Tiberias. Her detention earlier that morning, which involved a pre-dawn invasion of her…
Occupied Jerusalem — Israeli occupation authorities issued new land confiscation orders on Saturday targeting privately owned Palestinian property in the town of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem. The orders were distributed…
The Arab Parliament has strongly condemned recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he openly called for the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza through the Rafah…
On Friday, Israeli occupation authorities compelled Palestinian, Abdullah Hawwas to demolish his own home in the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The Jerusalem Governorate…
In a renewed statement, Hamas has reiterated its willingness to enter a comprehensive ceasefire agreement that would secure the release of all Israeli captives held by Palestinian resistance factions in…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 90 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 46 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at…
Israeli “National Security Minister” Itamar Ben Gvir has approved a major expansion of his firearm distribution policy, granting around 100,000 additional colonizers the right to obtain private gun licenses. The…
Report: The National Bureau for Land Defense and Resistance to Colonization reported Saturday a record surge in violence perpetrated occupation forces, and by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, affiliated with extremist figures…
The U.S. State Department has issued a directive barring Palestinian officials and diplomats, especially President Mahmoud Abbas, from attending next month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York. The decision,…
In a statement released on Wednesday, the National Campaign for the Recovery of Martyrs’ Bodies, announced that the Israeli occupation continues to withhold the bodies of 726 Palestinians from the…
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned recent calls by Israeli ministers to annex the occupied West Bank and dismantle the Palestinian Authority, describing them as a blatant political…
Originally published in Arabic by Ma’an News Agency: The West Bank is quietly unraveling. Beneath the surface of daily life, a slow-burning crisis is taking shape, political immobilization, economic suffocation,…
EuroMed Human Rights Monitor: Occupied Palestinian Territory — The Israeli army’s deliberate killing of five Palestinian farmers while working on their land in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, reflects a recurring…
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-affiliated global initiative, is expected to formally declare a famine in Gaza City in a position paper submitted to the UN Security…
Twenty-one countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Japan, and Australia, issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning Israel’s decision to approve a large-scale colonial expansion in the E1 zone,…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has grown increasingly dismissive of a proposed partial prisoner exchange with Hamas, despite the group’s recent acceptance of the deal. While he has not formally…
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy issued a strong condemnation on Wednesday of Israel’s colonialist expansion plan in the area known as E1, warning that its implementation would constitute a blatant…
Israeli soldiers and police forces conducted home demolitions Monday morning in the “unrecognized” village of Al-Sirr, located on the outskirts of Shoqeib as-Salam in the Naqab (Negev). The attack targeted…
The Jerusalem Governorate announced Monday that approximately 7,000 Palestinians living in 22 communities across the Jerusalem wilderness are at imminent risk of forced displacement due to the expansion of Israel’s…
Quds News reports: Las Vegas police, working with the FBI, Homeland Security, and Nevada’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, announced the arrest of eight men on Wednesday. One of…
Brazil has strongly condemned Israel’s expansionist “E1” illegal colonial project, warning that it poses a grave geopolitical threat to the viability of a sovereign Palestinian state by severing occupied East…
Foreign ministers from 31 Arab and Islamic nations, joined by leaders of the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Gulf Cooperation Council, issued a joint statement condemning…
Medical sources announced Thursday that four Palestinians have died in the past 24 hours due to severe malnutrition and famine in the besieged Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of…
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has sparked widespread outrage following his declaration that the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital would be “tantamount to national…
Israeli occupation authorities issued demolition and eviction orders on Wednesday targeting over 13 Palestinian residential, agricultural, and industrial structures in the Wadi al-Hoad area of Al-Eizariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem,…
A well-informed source disclosed to Sky News Arabia on Monday evening that Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with Turkish involvement, are preparing a new initiative aimed at presenting a viable proposal…
The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have jointly condemned Israel’s escalating restrictions on legal teams monitoring the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners. These…
August 8, 2025 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns of the catastrophic consequences of the recently announced Israeli plan to take full control of Gaza City,…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres voiced grave concern over Israel’s decision to occupy Gaza, describing the move as a dangerous escalation that could deepen the already dire humanitarian crisis facing millions…
On Friday, Day 672 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli army launched a barrage of missiles and shells across the devastated, starved, and besieged coastal enclave, killing and…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 82 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least 53 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,422 aid seekers since…
A report by the Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission revealed that Israeli occupation authorities have approved three major expansion projects in the illegal colony of Ma’ale Adumim, established on stolen…
The Israeli occupation authorities have initiated an unprecedented administrative maneuver targeting the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, transferring oversight from the Palestinian-run Hebron Municipality…
A report by Al-Jazeera has shed light on the deteriorating health, torture and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees, with a particular focus on Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, a physician held in…
After a pause since 2021, Israeli occupation authorities have reinitiated plans to expand illegal colonial construction in the E1 zone, located east of occupied Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank.…
Israel is advancing plans to construct 2,339 illegal colonialist units across the northern, central, and southern regions of the occupied West Bank, a statement issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization’s…
United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric announced Monday that Israeli authorities, the occupying power, have obstructed critical humanitarian initiatives in Gaza, rejecting three out of eight UN relief missions just one…
Indirect negotiations between Israeli officials and representatives of Hamas have resumed in Doha, Qatar, aiming to finalize a ceasefire and prisoner swap amid the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza…
On Wednesday, Israel’s Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, called for the annexation of the occupied West Bank during a meeting with the settler leader, Yossi Dagan, the head of the…
There were no deliberations. No votes. No pretense of legality. The bombing campaign in Iran bulldozed through international norms without so much as a rhetorical nod to diplomacy.
Before dawn on Tuesday, Israeli forces invaded a number of towns in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin. On Monday, the occupation carried out demolition operations in the Jenin…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated Friday that the search for food in Gaza must never amount to a death sentence, underscoring the deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged and devastated…
From Quds News: Global shipping giant Maersk has temporarily stopped operations at Israeli-occupied Haifa port due to growing security threats tied to the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict. The Danish company made…
The Israeli “Security Cabinet” has secretly approved the construction of 22 new colonies in the occupied West Bank, including the reconstruction of Homesh and Sanur, two colonies previously dismantled under…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…
The Jerusalem Governorate documented Israeli violations in the occupied capital throughout April, focusing on fatal attacks, injuries, abductions, imprisonment orders, demolitions, forced evictions, expulsion orders, house arrest, and daily incursions…
Agnès Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, has urged the international community, particularly the European Union, to take decisive steps to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. She condemned…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…
Public hearings continue at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for the fifth consecutive day as the ICJ deliberates on Israel’s obligations toward the United Nations and…
By the United Nations: The education of 800 students in occupied East Jerusalem is at risk as Israel moves to close their schools next week, a senior official with the…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli missiles killed at least 42 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including several bombings of tents that resulted in Palestinians being burned alive in…
In a move that has drawn widespread condemnation, Israel has revoked the entry visas of 27 French officials, including parliamentarians and municipal representatives, just days before their planned visit to…
Israeli forces suffered casualties on Saturday after Palestinian resistance fighters ambushed one of their units operating in the northern part of the besieged and destroyed Gaza Strip. Hebrew sources said…
The State of Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have criticized Israel’s decision to shut down six schools operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…
Accounts from Israeli soldiers who participated in the genocide in the Gaza Strip reveal a deliberate and extensive campaign of destruction aimed at establishing what Israel calls a “vast buffer…
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 60 Palestinians and wounded 162, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Video Shows Aid…
The Israeli Cabinet has approved a colonialist project to construct a tunnel between the Palestinian towns of Al-Eizariya and Al-Zaim, located east of occupied Jerusalem, in order to link the…
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…