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Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, earlier Friday, privately-owned Palestinian lands on a hill in the al-Baq’a area, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and installed a…
Summary for December 3 – 9, 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…
Israel military forces issued demolition notices to a number of Palestinian landowners in Yatta village, near Hebron in the southern West Bank. The pretext for the demolition order was that…
The following statement was released by Amnesty International on December 10,2020: As Airbnb prepares to go public in a multi-billion-dollar Initial Public Offering (IPO) it must withdraw listings of rental…
According to Israeli sources, the head of the “Regional Council of Settlements, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, arrived in Dubai two days ago, accompanied by heads…
The Israeli occupation authorities have decided to snatch large areas of privately-owned Palestinian lands, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, to expand the illegal Yitzhar colony. Ghassan…
On Monday morning, a group of Israeli colonial settlers invaded privately-owned Palestinian land in the Silwan neighborhood and threatened the Palestinian landowners, pointing a gun in their faces. The settlers…
The Israeli so-called “Planning and Construction Committee” of the City Council in occupied Jerusalem is set to approve 9000 new units in Atarot illegal colony, north of Jerusalem, after it…
Israeli soldiers confiscated, Sunday, two Palestinian bulldozers, and prevented the farmers from entering their own lands in ‘Atouf village, in the Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley, in the occupied…
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, late on Saturday at night, a Palestinian orchard in Bruqin and Kafr ed-Deek towns, west of Salfit, in central West Bank, and…
The City Council in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, approved a new road that would link between the illegal Mordot colonialist outpost with Gilo illegal colony, built on Palestinian lands…
An illegal Israeli settler, on Friday, set fire to the Church of All Nations, also known as Gethsemane Church, in occupied Jerusalem, before being arrested by Israeli police, Anadolu Agency…
Israeli soldiers, on Friday, fired rubber-coated steel rounds, tear-gas, and concussion grenades at Palestinians participating in the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, northern occupied West Bank, east of Qalqilia…
Summary from November 26 – December 02, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities…
Israeli soldiers injured, Thursday, dozens of Palestinians, including senior political leaders, during a nonviolent procession against the ongoing attempts to illegally annex Palestinian lands to expand a colonialist outpost, west…
Israeli soldiers injured, Thursday, many Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after dozens of soldiers and colonists invaded its eastern area. Media sources said many army jeeps…
Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Wednesday, the archeological site in Sebastia Palestinian town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Mohammad Azem, the Mayor of Sebastia, stated…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Sur Baher town, in occupied Jerusalem, and demolished a Palestinian home. Media sources said the soldiers, and undercover officers, invaded the town, and demolished one home,…
Israeli soldiers demolished, Monday, a Palestinian home in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Local activist Ahmad Salah said several army jeeps,…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Monday, a nonviolent procession against the establishment of an illegal colonialist outpost west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, and abducted two Palestinians. Eyewitnesses said…
Israeli soldiers demolished, Sunday, a historic staircase leading the Shuhada Graveyard which is also part of the al-Yousifiyya graveyard, northeast of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, as part of…
Israeli soldiers injured, on Sunday evening, a young Palestinian man in Jabal at-Taweel area, in the al-Biereh city, in central West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers attacked a nonviolent…
Several illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Sunday, Palestinian olive orchards northwest of Salfit, in central West Bank, and bulldozed them. Local sources said the colonists invaded approximately 50 Dunams, in the…
Four Palestinians were injured, on Friday, one seriously, during the weekly peaceful procession in the northern occupied West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Morad…
Published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Posted on 27 November 2020 Protection of Civilians Report | 3-23 November 2020 Latest development (outside the…
Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, seven Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets and caused many others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, during the weekly nonviolent procession in Beit Dajan village,…
Several illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Friday, Palestinian orchards in Bruqin Palestinian village, west of Salfit in central West Bank, before cutting and uprooting dozens of olive trees. The assailants came…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, three Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, and caused dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation after the army attacked two nonviolent processions in Ein Samia…
Summary for November 19 – 25, 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…
Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Paris-Geneva, 26 November 2020 – The United States (US) Secretary of State announced on 19 November, that the US State Department would designate as “anti-Semitic” organisations that engage…
Tzachi Hanegbi, the Israeli Minister of “Settlement Affairs,” has vowed to retroactively legalize dozens of illegal colonialist outposts, installed on Palestinian lands, before the outgoing U.S. President D. Trump leaves…
The Israeli army, Wednesday, provided cover for dozens of extremist Israeli settlers to invade the archeological site in Sebastia, north of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to…
Israeli soldiers displaced, Tuesday, ten Palestinian families from their homes, in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, to conduct military training. Human Rights activist, Aref Daraghma, stated that…
An armed illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Tuesday at night, two Palestinians near Jinsafut Palestinian village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority…
Israeli soldiers ordered, on Tuesday, a Palestinian to halt the construction of his home, in the al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Local…
Armed illegal Israeli settlers, on Sunday, hurled rocks at unarmed Palestinian civilians in the Shushahla hamlet, south of Bethlehem, in south of the West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency…
Israeli forces, Saturday, provided cover for dozens of extremist Israeli colonists, who invaded Palestinian property in al-Tuwana village, south of Hebron in southern West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported.…
Israeli soldiers bulldozed, Friday, large areas of Palestinian lands owned by villagers of the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya and Qaryout, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Local sources said…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, a Palestinian child, during a procession in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers attacked dozens of…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, a procession in Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and injured many Palestinians. Hundreds of residents marched from the village…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, one Palestinian and caused dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation after the army attacked the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of the…
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, many Palestinians, and abducted one medic, when the army and illegal colonists attacked a nonviolent procession protesting the installation of a new outpost on their lands,…
Amnesty: 19 November 2020, 15:49 UTC Responding to the United States Department of State announcement designating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as antisemitic and planning to identify organizations…
Summary for November 12 – 18, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday evening, Palestinian homes, cars, and water tanks, in Sielet ath-Thaher town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, causing damage. Taiseer Abu…
In a move that frequently precedes illegally occupying Palestinian lands, several Israeli colonists invaded farmlands in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and plowed them.…
The following is a portion of the transcript of Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, briefing the UN Security Council on the Situation in the Middle…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, on Wednesday evening, Wadi Hilweh Palestinian neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, to accompany an American delegation visiting an illegal colonialist…
Israeli soldiers assaulted and abducted, on Wednesday evening, two young Palestinian men in the ath-Thoury neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded the neighborhood and assaulted the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Palestinian lands in the az-Zawiya town, west of Salfit in central West Bank, and placed orders informing the owner he must stop working on his land…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Kisan Palestinian village, east of Bethlehem city, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and ordered four Palestinians to stop the construction of their homes.…
Israeli soldiers closed, Wednesday, Palestinian agricultural roads, near the bypass road east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The coordinator of the Popular and…
On Wednesday, dozens of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, accompanied by soldiers, invaded the archeological area in Sebastia Palestinian town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Mayor…
Illegal Israeli settlers, Tuesday, assaulted a Palestinian child, and soldiers assaulted the boy’s father in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian WAFA News reported. Local activist, Imad Abu…
The following is a portion of the transcript of Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Briefing to the UN Security Council on the Situation in the…
By The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): The Arab League rejected today, Israel’s new settlement project north of occupied Jerusalem. In a statement, the Arab League Assistant Secretary-General for…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Sebastia Palestinian town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, before handing orders for the demolition of a home and its garden, in the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, the al-Farisiyya Palestinian Bedouin community in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank, and demolished a residential structure. Human rights activist, Aref Daraghma, stated that…
Several representatives of the European Union (EU) in Israel and Palestine visited the site of a proposed Israeli settlement on Monday, issuing a strong condemnation of the Israeli plan to…
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Tuesday, Palestinian lands in Battir town, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and installed a tent. Hasan…
Israeli soldiers demolished, Monday, a Palestinian home, and bulldozed lands, in Artas village, south of Bethlehem, in addition to an under-construction commercial structure, in Deir Sharaf town, west of Nablus,…
Israeli occupation forces, Saturday, shot and injured two Palestinian demonstrators at the weekly march in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, the Palestinian Information…
Many Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, attacked, Sunday, several farmers east of Yatta town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Rateb Jabour,…
This is a statement by the Israeli Peace Now Movement The Tender in Givat Hamatos Opened with 1,257 units Press Release – Peace Now Movement This morning (15/11/20), the [Israeli]…
Israeli soldiers, on Friday, fired rubber-coated steel rounds and tear-gas canisters at Palestinian demonstrators in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA…
Israeli soldiers demolished, Thursday, the foundations of a Palestinian home in Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Hasan Breijiyya, the head of…
Summary for November 5 – 11, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Israeli soldiers assaulted, Thursday, an elderly Palestinian man while picking his olive trees in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Local…
Israeli soldiers demolished, Thursday, a Palestinian home, a wall, and sheds in the al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem city, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media sources said…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, Palestinian agricultural lands east of Yanoun village, southeast of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and bulldozed them. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who…
In the Governorate of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, on Tuesday, separate attacks by Israeli soldiers and Israeli paramilitary settlers targeted Palestinian olive farmers and their lands — during…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Anata town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished a carwash facility. Taha Refa’ey, the mayor of Anata Municipality, stated that several army jeeps, and bulldozers…
By Yousef Alhelou for Middle East Monitor Last week, Israeli occupation forces carried out the largest demolition in years in the occupied West Bank. Some 76 Palestinian-owned properties, tents, sheds,…
By Ilan Pappe for the Middle East Eye The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that it is not an event, it is a structure. While…
The Israeli government approved on Sunday the construction of a new colonial settlement to be built atop the ruins of a Palestinian village whose residents were displaced fifty years ago…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Highlights from the Reporting Period On 25 October, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy died during an Israeli search-and-arrest operation in…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Saturday, a nonviolent procession against the illegal colonialist activities, in Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Media sources said a large…
Three Palestinian civilians, on Friday, were shot and injured by Israeli soldiers at the weekly march against the illegal construction and expansion of settlements in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of…
Summary for October 29 to November 4, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, the archaeological area in the Palestinian town of Sebastia, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and closed it to…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On Tuesday evening, 03 November 2020, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a large-scale demolition operation against civilian properties in Hemsa al-Foqa area…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Palestinian agricultural lands, southeast of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and informed a Palestinian that the army has confiscated his lands because the military considers…
The Israeli army invaded, Wednesday, a Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, and demolished it, rendering eleven families of 73 persons, including 41 children, without…
Local sources have reported that Israeli authorities posted demolition orders along a 3-kilometer stretch of road, saying that Israeli forces will be coming along within one week to destroy the…
Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Tuesday, Palestinian orchards in Jaloud town, and uprooted dozens of olive trees, in addition to uprooting trees and installing a barn on lands near…
Israeli soldiers demolished, Monday, an under-construction Palestinian home in Masafer Yatta village, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Fuad al-‘Amour, the coordinator of Protection…
JERUSALEM, Monday, November 02, 2020 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today approved the destruction of dozens of Palestinian businesses in Wad al-Jouz neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem as part…
A Palestinian man was injured, on Sunday at night, after several illegal Israeli colonists attacked him in the as-Sawiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan…
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Sunday, the as-Sawiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, before breaking into an agricultural hothouse, and stole dozens…
Several illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Monday, many Palestinians while picking their olive trees in their orchards in Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and fired many gas bombs at Palestinian farmers on their lands, in addition to…
Israeli forces, Friday, suppressed the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in the northern occupied West Bank, injuring several Palestinians. Morad Eshteiwi, the local coordinator of the…
Israeli soldiers fenced, on Thursday evening, Palestinian lands near the illegal Gush Etzion colonialist block, built on Palestinian lands, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Hasan Breijiyya, the…
Summary for October 22- 28, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, the al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem city, south of occupied East Jerusalem in the West Bank, before photographing a home, and barns, in preparation for demolishing…
Several illegal Israeli colonists fenced, Monday, large areas of Palestinian lands in Khirbat Zannouta village, east of the ath-Thaheriyya town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Media…
A Palestinian man sustained a moderate head injury, on Saturday, when a group of illegal Israeli settlers invaded the village of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus in the northern occupied…
Israeli soldiers uprooted, on Monday morning, dozens of Palestinian olive trees in orchards northwest of Salfit city, in central West Bank, and confiscated some of them. The Mayor of Salfit,…
An indigenous Palestinian family from occupied Jerusalem, survived a shooting attack carried out by an illegal Israeli colonist, while driving to their home in Jabal al-Mokabber, in the city. Mahmoud…
Abdullah Obayya, the head of Yasuf Village Council, east of Salfit in central West Bank, stated that several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, accompanied by soldiers, invaded Palestinian lands in the…