Category: Israeli Settlement

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) The olive harvest season, which started on 7 October, was disrupted by people believed or known to be Israeli settlers…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) In September, the Israeli authorities demolished, forced people to demolish or seized 76 Palestinian-owned structures, all on grounds of a…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, the weekly demonstration in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia city, injuring five Palestinians with rubber-coated steel rounds, the Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, Khirbat Yizra village, east of Tubas in northeastern West Bank, and photographed many structures. Human rights activist Aref Daraghma stated that the soldiers started taking pictures…

Illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Tuesday and Monday, Palestinian farmlands, and olive orchards, north and east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and flooded them, with sewage water, in…

At least three Palestinians were wounded when a group of Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers as they were harvesting their olives on Saturday in Burqa village, east of Ramallah. They…

A senior official in the City Council of occupied Jerusalem has reported that the United Arab Emirates is “very enthusiastic” about an “investment project” in East Jerusalem. The project has…

Several Palestinian civilians, on Friday, suffered the toxic of effects of tear-gas inhalation at the weekly demonstration in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, the…

Summary of Israeli Violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for October 8–14, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multifaceted violations against Palestinian civilians…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Sebastia town, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, while illegal colonists invaded olive orchards and harvested many trees before steeling…

A group of right-wing Israeli colonial settlers attacked and destroyed hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in al-Jabaa village, west of Bethlehem on Wednesday, at the height of the harvest season.…

Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists chopped, Wednesday, many wooden electricity poles in the eastern area of Jaloud village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a…

Illegal Israeli settlers, on Tuesday, just one day after a similar incident, attacked Palestinian farmers in the village of Burqa, injuring two men, according to the head of the Wall…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, a few areas, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and closed several Palestinian agricultural roads, preventing the locals from entering their olive orchards.…

Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Monday, Palestinians while picking their olive trees in their orchards in Burqa village, south of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, injured five…

The Israeli government has approved the construction of hundreds of units in an illegal colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands in Wadi Fukin village, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) September 22 – October 5, 2020 On 5 October, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian, aged 28, near…

Four Palestinians were shot and injured, Friday, at the weekly anti-settlement march in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in the northern West Bank, according to a local…

Summary for October 1-7, 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 characterized…

Illegal Israeli settlers, Wednesday, attacked Palestinians who were harvesting olives in Hawara village, south of Nablus, injuring three, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The settlers came from the illegal Israeli…

The Higher Planning Council (HPC) of the Civil Administration is set to convene to advance at least 4,430 settlement units in the West Bank in two consecutive meetings on 14…

UPDATE (6 OCTOBER 2020): Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent an urgent letter late yesterday, 5 October 2020, to the commander of the Israeli military’s…

Many Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands east of Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, installed an outpost and a barn on private…

Several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, Monday, two Palestinian land surveyors, working for Huwwara Village Council, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and injured them. Ghassan Daghlas,…

Two Palestinians were injured, Saturday, after being attacked by illegal Israeli settlers in the village of Huwwara, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to a local…

A group of illegal fanatic Israeli colonists invaded, Sunday, a Palestinian orchard in Kafr ed-Deek town, west of Salfit in central West Bank, and uprooted twelve olive trees before fleeing…

A number of Palestinian civilians were shot and injured, Saturday, including four who were shot with rubber-coated steal rounds, when Israeli troops suppressed the weekly anti-settlement demonstration in the northern…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, the village of Ni’lin, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and abducted twelve Palestinian on-duty police officers, in addition to confiscating…

Fifteen Palestinian civilians were injured by Israeli forces, Friday during the weekly protest against Israeli settlements, which has been held every week in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in…

The Israeli forces, on Wednesday, demolished a Palestinian-owned agricultural storehouse in Husan village, west of Bethlehem in the central West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources stated that…

Israeli forces demolished, on Wednesday, a number of Palestinian-owned structures in both the northern and southern occupied West Bank, local sources said. Coordinator of the Popular Committees in Hebron, Rateb…

The Israeli forces, on Monday, and Tuesday morning, detained a number of Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources stated that Israeli soldiers…

The Israeli occupation forces, on Tuesday, demolished two Palestinian-owned homes east of Tubas, in the northern Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem Press reported. In a press…

Israeli forces demolished, on Tuesday, a Palestinian-owned shack in Beita town, south of Nablus city, in the northern occupied West Bank, Palestinian WAFA News reported. Local official in charge of…

The Israeli authorities announced, last week, a military order to confiscate a large area of Palestinian lands in the Tel Rumeida area, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.…

Israeli soldiers injured, Saturday, five Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank. Morad Eshteiwi, the media coordinator…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, many Palestinians in the ath-Thaher area, in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, after several…

Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, seven Palestinians, including a journalist, and caused many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army attacked the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town,…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, many Palestinians while plowing their lands in ‘Asira al-Qibliya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, during a nonviolent activity meant to protect…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday the village of Ma’in to the southeast of Yatta city, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, before delivering a demolition order targeting one…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for September 17 – 23, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties,…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Apartheid is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual criminal responsibility and State responsibility to bring the illegal situation to an end. In May…

Dr. Belal Yasin – Middle East Monitor: In the early 1990s, Wael Al-Tahan submitted an application to the Israeli authorities for a permit to build a house on his land…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, an agricultural wall in Ni’lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, while illegal colonialist settlers invaded Palestinian olive orchards near Salfit, in…

The Al-Haq Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization has written to An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the leader of the Government of Ireland, urging support for the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, two Palestinian children from Qaryout village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and moved them to Shilo nearby illegal colony, built on Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday afternoon, the ath-Thahrat area, north of Douma village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and confiscated a bulldozer while Palestinian workers were…

United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) HIGHLIGHTS Sharp increase in demolition-related displacements in August. 21 stuctures demolished or sized within or next to the E1 settlement…

Israeli bulldozers destroyed 200 fruit trees, on Saturday, in the town of Bidya, west of Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The uprooted fruitful…

Two Palestinians, Friday night, were assaulted by illegal Israeli settlers near al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Security sources…

Israeli soldiers injured, Saturday, four Palestinians with rubber-coated metal bullets, and caused many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation after the army invaded the town and resorted to the…

Three Palestinians were injured, Friday, during the weekly Kufur Qaddoum march in the northern West Bank, after being shot with rubber-coated steel rounds, while dozens suffered the severe effects of…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for September 10 – 16, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties,…

Several Israeli army jeeps invaded, Thursday, the Wad al-Hummus Palestinian community, northeast of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and handed a demolition order targeting a three-story…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, the at-Tiwana village, east of Yatta town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and handed a demolition order targeting one…

Israeli colonists, accompanied by several bulldozers, invaded and uprooted Palestinian lands, Sunday, near Thaher al-Maleh village, southwest of Jenin in northern West Bank. Omar Khatib, the head of Thaher al-Maleh…

Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Sunday, Palestinian lands in Khirbet Ehmayyir village, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank, and started fencing them. Palestinian human rights activist,…

The Israeli government and its so-called “Civil Administration Office,” the executive branch of its illegal occupation, has approved the construction of hundreds of new units in an illegal colony, south…

The Israeli military attacked, Friday, unarmed Palestinians during the suppression of the 3 demonstrations held against Israel’s ongoing colonial ventures in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported.…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly report for September 3 – 9, 2020 Summary Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and…

The Israeli authorities, Tuesday, forced a citizen of Jerusalem to demolish the fourth floor of his home, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported.…

A major Christian Palestinian group yesterday criticized a United States bishop for condoning the recent Israeli-UAE normalization agreement. Kairos Palestine addressed an open letter to Bishop of Rockford and Illinois,…

Dozens of Palestinians foiled illegal Israeli settlers’ attempts, Monday night, to steal Palestinian-owned land to assemble an illegal outpost in the village of Kufr Malik, east of Ramallah, in the…

Israeli occupation bulldozers, Tuesday, razed Palestinian-owned lands of Kifl Hares village, west of Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank, a local official reported. Head of the village council, Sheikh…

A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Tuesday, Palestinian construction workers near the main entrance of Burqa village, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and injured…

For the second day, Israeli soldiers continued to uproot Palestinian farmlands, east of the ath-Thaheriyya town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The ath-Thaheriyya…

An Israeli settler, on Sunday, struck a Palestinian child with his car, near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement, built on Palestinian-owned lands of Hebron, southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian…

Dozens of Palestinians choked on tear-gas, Friday, as Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly demonstration, in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank, according…

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report for August 27 – September 02, 2020 Summary Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians…

Illegal Israeli settlers, Thursday night, set fire to a Palestinian-owned vehicle and sprayed racist graffiti on walls in Asira al-Qibiliya village, south of Nablus city in the northern occupied West…

At least one Palestinian civilian was shot and injured, Friday, when Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel rounds at protesters taking part in the weekly Kufur Qaddoum in the northern West…

The Israeli army, on Wednesday, delivered demolition orders against 3 Palestinian-owned homes and stop-work orders against 6 others in Nahalin town, west of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank,…

Israeli authorities delivered, Monday, a number of stop work orders to Palestinians in the southern West Bank village of Birin, east of Hebron City, according to the Palestinian WAFA News…

Israeli forces, on Saturday, handed demolition notices to Palestinian owners of two buildings in Wadi al-Hummus area, northeast of Bethlehem city, in the southern West Bank, according to a local…

Illegal Israeli settlers, on Saturday, attacked Palestinian shepherds and chopped down olive trees in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, while others set up a mobile home on…

In the northern Qalqilia district of the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces opened fire at dozens of Palestinians taking part in the weekly anti-settlements demonstration in the village of Kufur…

Israeli forces, on Thursday morning, demolished a Palestinian-owned storehouse in Atouf hamlet, south of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local official, Abdullah Bisharat…

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary 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 attacked, Wednesday, dozens of Palestinians participating in the Fourth National Conference against the illegal Annexation and Normalization, in Tormos-Ayya town, north of the central West Bank city of…

A young Palestinian man was killed on Saturday evening, August 15th, 2020, when a speeding Israel colonists’ car struck him near a military roadblock, south of Tulkarem, in northern West…

Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists burnt, on Monday at dawn, thirteen Palestinian cars, and wrote racist graffiti, in Beit Safa town, south of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the…

Israeli soldiers shot, Monday, a Palestinian man with special needs at the Qalandia Terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired live rounds at the man, 60 years…

Israeli military bulldozers began, Sunday, to raze Palestinian-owned lands of the village of Shufa, near the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, according to local sources. Local activist, Tahseen…

According to local sources, a group of right-wing Israeli colonial settlers, accompanied by an Israeli military escort, invaded Palestinian land in the northern West Bank and uprooted dozens of olive…

Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, four Palestinians, and caused dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, during the weekly procession against illegal annexation wall and colonies, and the continued closure…

PCHR Weekly Report for July 29 – August 12, 2020 SUMMARY Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian…

Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists, squatting on stolen Palestinian lands, burnt a bulldozer, and attacked a home, in ‘Aseera al-Qibliyya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.…

Israeli soldiers started, Thursday, the uprooting and bulldozing of Palestinian lands, east of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, in preparation for paving a new segregated road for the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Palestinian olive orchards near Wad Rahhal village, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and uprooted more than 100 saplings. Hasan Breijiyya, the head of…

On Monday alone, Israeli soldiers demolished more than four Palestinian homes, in addition to a water reservoir, under the allegations of being built without permits from the Israeli occupation authorities,…

Israeli soldiers released, Monday, a Palestinian man who was abducted by the army during a nonviolent procession against the constant violations by the soldiers and the illegal colonialist settlers against…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, Khirbit Beit Iskariya village, isolated by the illegal Gush Etzion colonialist bloc, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolished a Palestinian home. Hasan…

Several extremist Israeli colonists attacked, Sunday, many Palestinian cars near Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, causing damage in addition to injuring one Palestinian. Ghassan…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and shot one Palestinian,…

Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, many Palestinians, including a medic, who was shot with a gas bomb in his face, and caused many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, during…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, Masafer Yatta village, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, before demolishing a residential room and bulldozing Palestinian farmlands. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Thursday, many Palestinians after several illegal Israeli colonists invaded their lands and installed a mobile home to establish a new outpost, near the northern West Bank city…

The Israeli authorities, on Wednesday, delivered new demolition orders against Palestinian-owned homes in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, three Palestinian homes, and a hairdressing salon, in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has…

Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, earlier Wednesday, Palestinian orchards near the central West Bank city of Salfit, and uprooted many olive trees and saplings, in addition to stopping the…