Category: Jerusalem

Israeli forces continued their assault on Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank during the day and evening on Sunday, following the pre-dawn invasions. In the central West Bank: Israeli occupation…

Israeli forces continued their invasions of the Bethlehem area and other parts of the West Bank throughout the day and into the night on Monday, following extensive invasions before dawn…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out new assaults across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, including the seizure of residential buildings in eastern Hebron and violent attacks against Palestinian communities…

Palestine has formally requested an urgent extraordinary session of the Arab League Council at the level of permanent representatives to discuss collective Arab and international action against the latest Israeli…

Israeli soldiers and armed paramilitary colonizers terrorized Palestinian civilians in the Jerusalem area and throughout the West Bank on Sunday, continuing a pattern of escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians by…

The Jerusalem Governorate issued its quarterly report this week, finding that over the third quarter of 2025, from July through September, 6 Palestinians were killed, 216 abducted, and 116 Palestinian…

In the West Bank on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers attacked Palestinian civilians in the north, south and central West Bank. This is in addition to the killing of…

On Friday, Israeli forces and paramilitary colonial settlers continued their daily invasions of Palestinian towns and villages and attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. This is in addition…

Following several killings of Palestinians – one killed by soldiers in Hebron and another killed by Israeli paramilitary colonizers south of Hebron – Israeli soldiers and settlers continued their attacks…

The Jerusalem Governorate warned on Thursday of the dangerous and systematic escalation by Israeli paramilitaries, specifically targeting Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has taken on a more aggressive and organized character by…

On Sunday evening and throughout the night, Israeli forces invaded villages and towns in the northern, central and southern West Bank, as they have done every night for the past…

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers injured a Palestinian and abducted two others, including a child, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said several military jeeps…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces demolished the home of a Palestinian detainee, in the village of Rafat, north of occupied Jerusalem, and wounded a Palestinian journalist. Media sources said that a…

Israeli occupation forces stormed, on Sunday evening, the villages of Kafr Aboush, Kafr Zibad, and Kafr Jamal, south of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. In addition, the troops invaded…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli soldiers shot, Wednesday evening, a Palestinian father and his son in the Old City of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The shooting occurred…

On Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers shot two Palestinians, and abducted one of them along with a few other Palestinians, near Nablus and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. In Nablus,…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man, on Thursday, and abducted two citizens, near occupied Jerusalem, and a young woman near Ramallah, in the central West Bank. On Thursday afternoon, occupation…

In full view of the world, the US is facilitating “some of the worst crimes of our age,” an action that could ultimately cause America’s downfall… Why is this happening…

Israeli occupation forces stormed, at dawn on Monday, several parts of the West Bank – particularly in the north around Nablus and Tulkarem. Israeli troops invaded the city of Nablus…

On Friday, the Israeli army delivered demolition orders targeting eleven structures in the Abu Nuwwar Bedouin community, east of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Residents of the…

2023 will be remembered for its last 3 months, when tens of thousands of Gazans were massacred with the blessing of the US government, when the world watched a “live-streamed…

According to a report put out on November 1st by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (the West Bank and Gaza,…

On Thursday, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians, including one woman, in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. In Bethlehem, the soldiers invaded Husan village, west of the city,…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 07-13 September 2023) Violation of Right to Life and Bodily Integrity

On Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes of political prisoners and ex-detainees in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and confiscated cash and cars, the Wadi Hilweh Information…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – OCHA-OPT Latest Developments (outside the reporting period) This section is based on initial information from…

On Thursday morning, large groups of illegal Israeli colonizers continued their invasions of the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards in the occupied capital Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The colonizers were accompanied…

  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…

On Thursday dawn, the Israeli Air Force fired several missiles at buildings in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central part of the besieged Gaza Strip; Israeli navy ships fired…

A group of 134 paramilitary colonial Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate on Sunday, with heavy security provided by the Israeli occupation police. The invasion…

On Sunday, Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property, abducting 8 Palestinians. The Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men: Muhammad Abu…

On Saturday dawn, a young Palestinian man from Houra Bedouin village in the Negev died from serious wounds suffered Friday evening after Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire at…

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…

Two colonial paramilitary settlers invaded the Church of the Tomb of the Virgin Mary, Gethsemane, in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday and attacked worshipers with a metal pipe, including hitting a…

The Israeli occupation soldiers and paramilitary settlers continued on Saturday their daily attacks on the Palestinian people – abducting 12 Palestinians, assaulting a Palestinian near Bethlehem and seizing a bulldozer.…

On Monday, Israeli soldiers demolished three Palestinian homes in the Wadi Al-Jouz neighborhood in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said several army and police vehicles…

127 armed Israeli colonial settlers stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, on Sunday. The colonial settlers invaded the holy site from the side of…

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…

Israeli Finance Minister and Religious Zionist leader Bezalel Smotrich said the government will be granting the greenlight for approving 10.000 housing units in West Bank colonies and stated that this…

TEL AVIV, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Twelve human rights organizations in Israel have deplored recent statements by European Union High Representative Josep Borrell regarding Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s…

Date: 7 February 2023, Time: 09:00 GMT: The Palestinian Center For Human Rights: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) sent a submission to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including…

On Sunday, Israeli forces invaded the town of Jabal al-Mukaber, in the southeastern part of the Jerusalem municipality with an armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer and demolished a two-story home belonging…

The Jerusalem activist Mohammad Abu al-Hummus was released from Israeli custody Friday evening after having been arrested earlier Friday near Bab al-Amoud area (Damascus Gate) in occupied Jerusalem. According to…

On Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded and ransacked the home of Jerusalem governor, member of the Revolutionary Council of the Fateh Movement, Adnan Gheith, in Silwan town, south of the…

Updated: On Wednesday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted at least twenty-seven Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank. In the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, the soldiers…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers and illegal colonizers attacked a nonviolent procession in Nabi Samuel village, northwest of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and abducted four Palestinians. The…

On Sunday evening, Israeli forces invaded the home of the governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Ghaith, in the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This is the second time…

The Israeli government filed papers to register a swath of land adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in a move which Palestinians say is a blatant attempt to take over and…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, June 11, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian family from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan celebrated today their daughter’s wedding on the rubble of their home, which…

Beginning at 7 am on Sunday, dozens of right-wing Israeli paramilitary settlers, led by the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir and accompanied by squadrons of Israeli soldiers, stormed the courtyards of…

Thousands of Orthodox Christians from around the world gathered in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Saturday for the ceremony of the Holy Fire in advance of the Orthodox…

Palestinian Christians who are members of the Eatern Orthodox tradition are waiting for the Israeli High Court to make a decision as to whether they will be allowed to practice…

Hundreds of Israeli settlers organized a provocative march in the occupied city of Jerusalem on Wednesday, waving Israeli flags and chanting anti-Palestinian slogans while marching through Palestinian areas.  The march…

Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Theodosios Atallah Hanna, said the Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, and every part of occupied Jerusalem, continue to remain determined…

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,…

A new report released Tuesday found that the Israeli government has  developed a plan to forcibly remove the 200 residents of the village of Khan al-Ahmar in order to expand…

Many Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, on Wednesday at night, a coffee shop in the at-Tour neighborhood, in occupied Jerusalem, and abducted at least thirty young men, in addition…

The Dabash Palestinian family, in Sur Baher village southeast of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, has completed the demolition of its home five days after they started the demolition…

Updated: Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, eighteen Palestinians, including former political prisoners, and children, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners’…

Illegal Israeli colonists stormed, on Wednesday, the Al-Aqsa compound in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, under the full protection of the Israeli police forces, the Palestinian News &…

The Israel Committee Against House Demolitions – UK: Shocking pictures and film footage of JCB bulldozers demolishing a Palestinian property were projected in English and Arabic on to a wall…

On Sunday morning before dawn, Israeli troops invaded several parts of the occupied West Bank, ransacking homes, interrogating local residents, and abducting four Palestinians and taking them to unknown destinations.…

The Israeli “Construction and Planning Committee” of the City Council in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, has approved the construction of what is called a “new neighborhood” in the illegal…

Ramallah – WAFA:  Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Malki praised today the overwhelming vote by the United Nations General Assembly in favor of two draft resolutions that…

By Catherine Alder- This article was first published by Mondoweiss: The Church is a sleeping giant with enormous power to roar about injustice. If truly awake, the Christian Church will…

Theodosios Atallah Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, called on all Palestinian politicians and factions to unite regardless of their differences so that they…

On Monday before dawn, Israeli forces invaded various parts of the West Bank and abducted 17 Palestinians, including a University professor. They also issued summons for 2 Palestinian journalists to…

Israeli soldiers escalated their violations against the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, on Tuesday evening, and abducted 23 Palestinians, mostly children, in addition to wounding dozens, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in…

Press Release: Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Earlier this morning, the Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked officially notified 36-year-old Palestinian-French human rights defender Salah Hammouri of the revocation of his…

Many Palestinians reburied, on Monday evening, the skulls and bones in a Muslim cemetery in occupied Jerusalem, after Israeli bulldozers desecrated their graves in the historic Al-Yusufiya historic Islamic cemetery. Sheikh…

Ahmad Samrin lay down in from of an Israeli bulldozer Sunday to try to non-violently prevent the bulldozer from destroying his family’s land in Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem – an…

JEDDAH, Sunday, September 26, 2021 (WAFA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the Israeli forces’ killing of five Palestinians in Jenin and Jerusalem early morning today. The organization…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, a former political prisoner from his home in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied Jerusalem. Local sources said dozens of soldiers invaded the town, before surrounding the…

Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, on Monday morning, a young Palestinian man near Etzion illegal colony, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The army also assaulted the…

JERUSALEM, Sunday, September 5, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities embarked today on levelling parts of the Al-Yusufiya Cemetery in the old city of occupied Jerusalem, in a prelude to…

Built in the 16th century, at the western entrance to Jerusalem lies Lifta, the well-preserved remains of a Palestinian village. Archeological and architectural remains attest to a continuity of thousands…

On Sunday, the Israeli municipal government forced the Darwish family to demolish their home in the town of al-Isawiya , near Jerusalem. The Israeli municipal government with their own hands,…

Two Palestinians were forced, by the Israeli municipality, to knock down their own buildings, in the Silwan neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) reported that…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, five Palestinians, including siblings, in the Old City, in occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers invaded and ransacked homes and shops, in…

Israeli warplanes fired missiles into the southern besieged Gaza Strip, early on Wednesday morning, breaking the ceasefire which brought the most recent eruption of violence to an end. Quds News…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Saturday evening, dozens of nonviolent protesters during a procession at the entrance of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in the occupied Palestinian capital Jerusalem, demanding an end…

In the city of Lod, a state of emergency has been extended due to civil unrest following demonstrations in support of Palestinian safety in Jerusalem and Gaza. On Monday morning,…

On May 15th, the sixth straight day of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Palestinians and their supporters gathered in cities across the US to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Palestinian…

On Saturday afternoon in East Jerusalem, Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah were singing, painting murals, and flying balloons when Israeli forces attacked. Occupation forces attack women in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood (video…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has issued a press release expressing great concern over the news that Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and started brutally attacking Muslim worshipers. Euro-Med…

By Jeremy Salt for Palestine Chronicle On May 10 this year the state of Israel … but wait a moment … before we go any further … in talking about…

As Palestinian citizens of Israel took to the streets Monday to protest the ongoing Israeli assault on the al-Aqsa Mosque and Muslim worshipers in Jerusalem, heavily-armed Israeli settlers began to…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, May 9, 2021 (WAFA) – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Maliki said today he had asked the ambassadors of Palestine to begin joint action with their…

The Permanent Observer to the United Nations for Palestine, Riyad Mansour, sent a letter on Wednesday to the UN Secretary-General, President of the UN Security Council, and the President of…

By Adnan Hmidan for Middle East Monitor Jerusalemites really are the salt of the earth. Their resilience resembles the robust trees standing at the Damascus Gate to the Old City,…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday, five Palestinians from their homes in Hizma town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the town before the soldiers broke…

Israeli settlers chanting “Death to Arabs” marched through the streets of Jerusalem Thursday night, attacking Palestinians, including Palestinian worshipers who were on their way to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, fourteen Palestinians, including a father and his teenage son, in several parts of the West Bank and the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem. Two…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the Palestinian town of Silwad, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and al-’Isawiya in the eastern part of occupied East…

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…