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Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, a Palestinian orchard in Wad Rahhal village, south of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, before cutting and uprooting dozens of olive trees,…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, large areas of Palestinian lands, in the West Bank’s Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, before cutting and uprooting more than…
A group of Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, invaded privately-owned farmlands, in the eastern meadows’ area of Bethlehem, Wednesday, and plowed them as part of their constant attempts…
Israeli soldiers uprooted, on Tuesday and Wednesday, large swaths of Palestinian lands in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron, to expand an illegal colony, and abducted a man who…
JERUSALEM, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Wednesday morning dismantled two structures in Khan al-Ahmar village, east of Jerusalem, a local activist said. The spokesman for Khan al-Ahmar,…
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, Tuesday, that a Palestinian teenager has died from Israeli fire, near Salfit, in the central West Bank, after the army claimed he attempted to…
A group of illegal Israeli settlers attacked, on Monday, Palestinian shepherds grazing their sheep in Kiysan village, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local sources reported that the…
Many Palestinians, on Monday were shot and wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets, others suffered inhalation injuries, and one teenager was detained after Israeli troops invaded al-Walaja town, 4 kilometers northwest…
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Saturday evening, Palestinian journalists who were documenting their seriously escalating violations, near Susiya illegal colony, south of Hebron city, in the…
Many illegal fanatic Israeli colonists closed, on Saturday evening, the Gush Etzion Junction, south of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, blocking Palestinian traffic. Eyewitnesses said the…
Many fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, attacked Palestinian homes, on Friday afternoon, in the Tawamin community, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city…
Palestinian villagers of the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, managed to foil an attack by a group of illegal Israeli colonists, who attempted…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the nonviolent procession in Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and injured sixteen Palestinians, in addition to causing dozens to…
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh denounced, on Thursday at night, the seriously escalating attacks, carried out by the illegal Israeli colonialist settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank, and…
Israeli colonists hurled Molotov cocktails, on Thursday evening, at two Palestinian homes in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Local sources in the village said…
Groups of fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers closed, on Thursday evening, many roads and junctions, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and attacked homes, before the soldiers…
Several fanatic Illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday at night, a Palestinian family and forced them out of a cave they were using as a residence in Khirbat Tawamin, east…
Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday evening, many Palestinian cars near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing damage and injuring a child in the face. Media…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Summary for January 14 – 20, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF)…
The Spokesperson of the Palestinian Presidency, Nabil Abu Rodeina, denounced the latest Israeli plan to build more than 2500 colonialist units in the occupied West Bank, and described them as…
Many fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, invaded a Palestinian orchard east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and cut about 100…
In response to Israel’s announcement that they have approved an additional 780 colonial settlement units, a number of countries have issued statements condemning the move. They include the UK, Egypt,…
As the US government prepares to inaugurate Joe Biden as President on Wednesday, the Israeli government announced Sunday a plan for 780 additional colonial settlements on Palestinian land. Israeli Prime…
The Israeli army, on Saturday, suppressed a popular demonstration in Kufur Qaddoum village, shooting six Palestinian young men, including a paramedic and causing several others to suffer the effects of…
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Sunday, that a child was injured mainly in her face and head after a number of illegal Israeli colonists assaulted her while trying to kidnap…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, the village of Aneen, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and demolished eleven commercial kiosks. Baher Yassin, the head of ‘Aneen Village Council,…
Israeli colonists hurled stones, on Saturday evening, at many Palestinian cars near Nablus, in northern West Bank, and north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, in addition to…
New position paper by the Israeli Information Center For Human Rights In The Occupied Territories (B’Tselem): More than 14 million people, roughly half of them Jews and the other…
Theodosius Atallah Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, stated that the trade deals between some Arab countries that normalized relations with the illegal…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, a nonviolent procession in Tiwana village, in Masafer Yatta area, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, causing many Palestinians to suffer the effects…
Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, four Palestinians with sponge-tipped bullets and caused dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, shortly before the weekly nonviolent procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of…
Israeli soldiers sealed, Friday, all entrances of the Tiwana village, in Masafer Yatta area, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Fuad al-‘Amour, the coordinator of the Protection…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, a young Palestinian man and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, in the al-Mughayyir village, north of the central West Bank city…
Summary for January 7 – 13, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists infiltrated, on Thursday at dawn, into Turmus Ayya Palestinian village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, burnt two cars, and caused severe…
Despite an official decision from the Israeli Police and the “Civil Administration Office,” several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers tried to occupy and annex a Palestinian land in the al-Baq’a area,…
Israeli military bulldozers uprooted, Wednesday, more than eighty trees and bulldozed 8 Dunams of farmlands, east of Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Media…
A group of fanatic Israeli colonists, squatting on private Palestinian lands near Nablus, in northern West Bank, invaded large areas of farmlands and started plowing them, in addition to assaulting…
Peter Stano, the lead spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy at the European Union, has called on Israel to stop the construction of its colonies in the occupied West…
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists uprooted, Tuesday, dozens of olive trees and grapevines owned by Palestinians from Beit Ummar and Halhoul towns, near Hebron, in the southern part…
Israeli soldiers bulldozed, Tuesday, large areas of Palestinian farmlands in Einabus village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official in charge of monitoring…
Dozens of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Monday evening, many Palestinian cars, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, causing damage and wounding one man in the…
The Israeli government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to approve 850 new units in illegal colonies, built on stolen Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank, this…
Israeli soldiers invaded large areas of Palestinian lands, and attempted to uproot them in Wadi ar-Rababa area in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem before the…
Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Sunday, Palestinian olive orchards in Qusra village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and uprooted 130 olive saplings. Ghassan Daghlas, a…
Palestinian civilians held a demonstration, on Saturday, in Kafr Thuluth village, southeast of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank, in rejection of Israel’s accelerated settlement expansion, the Palestinian Information…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Highlights from December 22, 2020 to January 4, 2021 On 26 December, following the…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, nonviolent Palestinian protesters marching against Israel’s illegal colonies in Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and Deir Jarir, northeast of…
The Israeli government approved a colonialist plan aiming at constructing 1406 units on stolen Palestinian lands east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Rafe’ Rawajba,…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Wednesday evening, many Palestinians in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied Jerusalem. Local sources said the soldiers invaded the town, especially the ‘Obeid neighborhood, before stopping and…
Several illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Thursday, several Palestinians on their lands in Kafr Malik village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and injured three. Eyewitnesses said the…
The Israeli occupation authorities uprooted, Wednesday, a plan for the illegal annexation of 1008 Dunams of Palestinian lands near Qalqilia, in northern West Bank. Salfit governor, Abdullah Kamil, has reported…
In an ongoing and serious escalation, Israeli soldiers cut and uprooted more than 3400 Palestinian olive trees and saplings, owned by Palestinian villagers of Deir Ballout, west of Salfit, in…
Ramallah: Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” issued its monthly observatory for the month of December 2020 regarding the Israeli demolition, confiscation, eviction and seizure operations against Palestinian establishments, whether religious, tourist,…
Groups of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Tuesday, dozens of Palestinian cars near Ramallah, Jenin, and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, causing damage, and burnt tires to block traffic.…
Report By The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories B’Tselem: Over the course of 2020, Israeli security forces killed 27 Palestinians, seven of them minors: one…
On Monday, a group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, west of Bethlehem city, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, flooded farmlands with wastewater. Mohammad…
A group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, attacked on Monday morning Palestinian homes, and punctured the tires of several vehicles, in Sarta village, west of the…
Palestinian villagers from Wad Fukin, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, managed to foil an attack by a group of illegal Israeli colonists targeting their…
Israeli soldiers bulldozed and uprooted, Sunday, large areas of Palestinian olive orchards in Khallet Hassan village, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit. The attack is linked to…
Israeli soldiers injured, Saturday, dozens of Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, after the army attacked the weekly procession. Morad Eshteiwi, the…
Groups of illegal Israeli colonists continued, Saturday, their violations and escalation against the Palestinians, and attacked farmers near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, in addition to Shepherds in…
Illegal Israeli colonists uprooted, Friday, more than 300 Palestinian olive trees in the at-Taerat area, west of Hares town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Salfit. Media sources…
Illegal Israeli colonists, squatting on Palestinian lands, attacked many Palestinians, including shepherds, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and south of Hebron, in southern West Bank. Ghassan…
The Israeli occupation army opened fire at Palestinian protestors, Friday, injuring dozens, during the weekly anti-settlement march in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank.…
Summary for December 24 – 30, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Israeli soldiers uprooted, Tuesday, at least 350 Palestinian olive trees, and demolished three residential structures and attacked journalists in the Arab az-Zayed Bedouin community in the Noweima village, north of…
Dozens of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, attack and caused damage to Palestinian cars, on Tuesday evening, north and west of the northern West Bank city of…
In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning, hundreds of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes, businesses and vehicles in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. This is a neighborhood that…
by: Sami Abu Shehadeh Palestinians have the right to enjoy a future of peace based upon justice, tolerance and respect. The political developments that have taken place in 2020 should…
The mayor of Deir Jarir village, on Friday, was shot with a rubber-coated steel round, when Israeli troops suppressed a peaceful demonstration northeast of Ramallah, in the central occupied West…
Summary for December 17 – 23, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Undercover Israeli forces abducted, Thursday, a Palestinian man believed to be behind the death of an Israeli settler, last Monday, near Nablus, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the…
Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian land, have escalated their attacks against the Palestinian people, injured one child in addition to attempting to ram three child siblings with a car.…
Palestinian medical sources said a man was injured, Monday, after an illegal Israeli colonist rammed him with his car, east of Sa’ir town, north of the southern West Bank city…
An Israeli settler woman was found dead, Monday, near Tel Menashe illegal colony, near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, in what Israel speculates an attack…
A large Israeli army force invaded Kufur Qaddoum village, Saturday, during the weekly march, and fired tear-gas canisters, causing dozens to suffocate. The Coordinator of the popular resistance committee, Morad…
A large crowd of illegal Israeli settlers, on Saturday, under the protection of occupation soldiers, led an assault on Palestinian civilians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian…
On Friday afternoon, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian-owned vehicles travelling along the Nablus-Jenin Road, in the northern occupied West Bank, local sources have reported. According to the Palestinian News Agency WAFA,…
A Palestinian teen was shot in the face by Israeli soldiers, on Friday, while dozens more suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation when Israeli troops were confronted by Palestinian…
Scores of Palestinians, on Friday, joined family members at the funeral of Abed Al Fatah Obiyat, the worker who was found dead under suspicious circumstances at his workplace in occupied…
Summary for December 10 – 16, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
AMMAN, Thursday, December 17, 2020 (WAFA) – The Jordanian Foreign Ministry today condemned the adoption by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in its preliminary reading, of a law legalizing settlement outposts…
A group of illegal fanatic Israeli colonists uprooted, Thursday, 250 Palestinian olive saplings in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Ahmad Ghazal, the…
Local sources have reported that a Palestinian man died under suspicious circumstances in the Israeli settlement of Gilo, near Bethlehem, on Wednesday. The Quds News Network reported that the man,…
The Israeli occupation bulldozers, on Tuesday evening, leveled Palestinian-owned farmland in the Farsh al-Hawa area, west of southern West Bank city of Hebron. Security sources told Palestinian WAFA News Agency…
Israeli soldiers injured, Wednesday, fourteen Palestinians, including two young women, in Sebastia town, northwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after the army accompanied dozens of illegal colonists…
Illegal Israeli settlers, late Tuesday night, attacked Palestinian-owned homes in Kisan village, while another group assaulted Palestinian shepherds, the Palestinian Information Center reported. East of Bethlehem in the southern occupied…
A large group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, installed tents, Tuesday, in Jabal al-Jomjoma hill north of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied…
Two Palestinian homes were dismantled by Israeli forces, on Monday, near az-Za’ayyem town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, while others received eviction orders. According to Palestinian WAFA News correspondent, occupation…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, December 15, 2020 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities have approved the building of thousands of new colonial settler units at the expense of seized Palestinian land extending…
Israeli soldiers and workers of the City Council in the occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, invaded Palestinian lands, and bulldozed walls in addition to a staircase leading near the…
Illegal Israeli settlers, Sunday, burned hundreds of Palestinian-owned olive trees near Yatta town, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. Rateb Jabour, Coordinator of the Popular Resistance, told…
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Saturday night after midnight, several Palestinian homes the al-Odaisah village, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and threatened…
A group of illegal fanatic Israeli colonists attacked, Saturday, a Palestinian journalist in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, causing cuts and bruises. Eyewitnesses said…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, several Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, and caused severe damage to the interior walls…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Protection of Civilians Report | November 24 – December 7, 2020 Israeli forces shot and killed…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, many Palestinians participating in a nonviolent activity to plant olive saplings on their lands which Israeli intends to illegal annex, in Beit Dajan village, east of…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, dozens of nonviolent Palestinian protesters in the al-Mughayyir Palestinian village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The residents were protesting the illegal annexation…