Category: Refugees/Immigration

Buildings Collapse, Camps Flood, UNRWA Warns of Preventable Suffering: A powerful winter storm struck the Gaza Strip, causing the collapse of several residential buildings and flooding vast displacement camps, compounding…

Israeli occupation authorities have refused to allow a five‑year‑old Palestinian child, originally from Gaza but residing in Ramallah, to receive urgent medical treatment in a hospital inside the 1948 territories.…

Updated: At least four Palestinians were confirmed dead on Wednesday, three newly killed and one body recovered, as Israeli occupation forces continued assaults across the Gaza Strip, leaving behind a…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned on Wednesday the Israeli occupation authorities’ approval of 764 new colonial housing units and the unveiling of a plan to establish 17 additional…

The head of the United Nations Mine Action Program in the occupied Palestinian territories, Julius van der Walt (also reported as van der Vaart), has warned that remnants of war…

Heavy winter rains swept across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, inundating displacement camps and sinking thousands of tents that house families already uprooted by Israel’s ongoing assault. The flooding struck…

The Palestinian Health Ministry issued a statement with the latest updated regarding the number of slain and wounded Palestinians by the Israeli occupation army by the end of day Tuesday,…

European Union diplomatic missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah, joined by 18 European governments, issued a strong condemnation of Israel’s invasion and occupation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported Tuesday that thousands of children in Gaza have been hospitalized for acute malnutrition since the ceasefire in October. According to UNICEF data, 9,300…

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening shot dead a 35‑year‑old Palestinian man and wounded a child in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip, underscoring the collapse of the ceasefire agreement…

United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres has condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli police invasion of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) compound in occupied East…

Jerusalem — Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, December 8, 2025: Jerusalem has in recent days witnessed a deeply provocative incident that struck at the heart of Christian…

Israeli occupation forces continued their assault on Gaza on Monday evening, killing two civilians and injuring several others in strikes that targeted homes and displacement camps, as the overall death…

A Palestinian child was killed on Sunday by Israeli occupation fire outside the designated deployment zone in al-Mawasi, Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, underscoring the fragility of the “ceasefire”…

The Israeli occupation army continued its violations in the Gaza Strip, and intensified the bombing of buildings in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, overnight on Saturday. A Palestinian…

Israeli occupation forces escalated their attacks on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing several Palestinians and demolishing residential buildings in Gaza city, Jabalia, Beit Lahia, Rafah, and Khan Younis. Medical…

United Nations — The UN General Assembly on Friday adopted five resolutions in support of Palestine, reflecting broad international consensus on refugee rights, accountability for Israeli practices, and the illegality…

National broadcasters in Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands have announced they will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) confirmed Israel’s participation. The decision has…

Israeli occupation forces killed at least seven Palestinians, including two children and one woman, and injured dozens more on Thursday, December 4, 2025, in multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip.…

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced on Thursday the names of three detainees from the Gaza Strip who died in Israeli prisons…

A CNN investigation published on December 3, 2025, has revealed disturbing evidence that Israeli occupation forces used bulldozers to drag and bury the bodies of Palestinians near the Zikim crossing,…

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported Wednesday that nearly 42,000 people in the Gaza Strip are living with severe, life‑altering injuries, a figure that has almost doubled in…

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding Israel’s withdrawal from all Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and reaffirming the inalienable rights of the…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that Israeli occupation authorities are holding back nearly 6,000 trucks loaded with food and relief supplies, enough to…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

Israeli occupation forces escalated their violations of the “ceasefire agreement,” in place since October 10, with heavy bombardments, airstrikes, and demolitions across multiple areas of the Gaza Strip on Monday.…

The Israeli army continued its violations of the declared “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian siblings, both are children, and bombarding several areas of the devastated coastal enclave.…

On Friday, Israeli forces began a demolition campaign targeting 24 residential buildings in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank. WAFA correspondent reported that the military bulldozers embarked…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees “UNRWA” said today, Wednesday, that hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people in the Gaza Strip are struggling to find…

Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian Tuesday morning in shelling east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, while heavy rains at the same time flooded displacement camps, collapsing hundreds of…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Monday that the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip remains catastrophic despite the ceasefire. The agency stressed that…

Israeli occupation forces killed four Palestinians and injured several others on Monday morning in artillery and drone strikes east of Gaza City and Khan Younis. Medical sources identified three of…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinian young men on Sunday, near the Annexation wall in the town of Ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem. On Sunday night, the army shot a Palestinian…

A 9‑year‑old child was injured on Sunday after Israeli occupation soldiers directly fired a sound bomb at her head near Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern…

Several Palestinian civilians were wounded, Saturday, after Israeli forces opened fire east of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza and near al‑Bureij in central Gaza, wounding two Palestinians. Medical sources…

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that humanitarian assistance reaching Gaza remains gravely insufficient, despite the ceasefire announced on October 10. Emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin cautioned that without a significant…

(Human Rights Watch) November 20, 2025 – The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch…

On Palestinian Children’s Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics revealed a staggering toll: more than 39,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents since the start of…

On World Children’s Day, three leading Palestinian prisoner advocacy organizations—The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association—issued a joint…

On November 20, recognized globally as World Children’s Day, Palestine commemorates its children—those whose lives, education, and dreams have been extinguished by Israel’s ongoing war of extermination in Gaza since…

The UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee overwhelmingly adopted seven resolutions in support of Palestine, reinforcing international opposition to Israeli occupation policies and affirming Palestinian rights. Palestine’s Permanent Representative to the…

A Palestinian was killed today, Wednesday, by Israeli occupation forces Khan Younis, in the southern part of the devastated and besieged Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported that the soldiers killed…

Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday demolished a residential structure in the village of Marj Ghazal, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern region, as part of a broader…

The United Nations has reported that more than 17,000 Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip were affected by heavy rainfall that struck the devastated region over the past several days.…

A Palestinian woman and her child were seriously injured on Wednesday morning after an Israeli drone strike targeted them near the “Shireen Abu Aqleh” roundabout in the town of Bani…

Theodosius Atallah Hanna, Palestinian Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem: Palestine is real. Its people are real—whether some choose to recognize that or not. The inciteful and…

Thirteen Palestinian refugees were killed and dozens more wounded on Tuesday evening when an Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle inside the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern Lebanese…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces shot a journalist and a child with live ammunition during a demonstration held by displaced Palestinians in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

At least 15 Palestinian civilians, including children, were injured—one critically—on Monday evening after Israeli military drones dropped explosive devices and opened fire on groups of civilians in the Daraj neighborhood,…

The United Nations Security Council has adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to “end the war in Gaza and initiate a post-conflict transition.” The resolution passed…

A woman, Maysaa Jabir Al-Attar, was killed today when she was struck by fire from an Israeli drone in the Al-Atatra area northwest of Gaza City. Local sources reported that…

Medical sources in Gaza reported Thursday that the death toll from Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has surpassed 69,187 Palestinians, with the vast majority being women…

A Palestinian civilian was shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday evening in the Jabalia refugee camp, located in northern Gaza. The killing occurred amid continued Israeli violations…

On Wednesday, November 12, Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the Gaza Strip, in direct violation of the ceasefire agreement brokered last month. The assaults…

For nearly ten consecutive months, the Israeli occupation army has waged an unrelenting offensive  against the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank’s transforming a…

Hospitals across the devastated Gaza Strip have received the bodies of three slain Palestinians and one injured individual over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Health Ministry has reported. It…

On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, Palestinian rescue teams recovered the bodies of two slain Palestinians from beneath the rubble of a home previously bombed in Khan Younis, in the southern…

Medical sources in Gaza confirmed Monday that the total number of Palestinians killed in by Israel since October 7, 2023, has exceeded 69,179, the vast majority of them children and…

Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed Monday afternoon in an Israeli drone strike targeting a civilian gathering in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.…

Medical sources in Gaza confirmed that Israeli occupation authorities released the bodies of 15 slain Palestinians on Monday, transferred via the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Nasser…

In yet another deadly violation of the “ceasefire” Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian civilian Sunday morning in a drone strike targeting Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis in the…

Two leading UN agencies have issued grave warnings about the accelerating humanitarian breakdown in Gaza, where ongoing Israeli border restrictions are obstructing access to life-saving medical care and essential aid.…

A Palestinian man and a child were killed, and another civilian was wounded, on Saturday amid ongoing Israeli violations in the central and southern parts of the devasted Gaza Strip.…

Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on Gaza City and Khan Younis early Saturday morning, in yet another violation of the “ceasefire” agreement. The attacks targeted eastern neighborhoods in both cities, while…

The Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday that a Turkish criminal court has issued arrest warrants for 37 individuals, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on charges of genocide and…

IsraelPalestineNews.Org– Not a Ceasefire Day 27:  Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If…

The Israeli army continued, Friday, its serious violations of the “ceasefire” agreement, wounding a child, in addition to continuing the demolition of homes and buildings. Medical sources have confirmed that…

On the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in Armed Conflict, the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority issued a stark warning: the environmental situation in Palestine has reached…

The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with the death toll now exceeding 68,872—most of them women and children—since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza since October 7,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out extensive demolitions and airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, targeting residential areas in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah—despite the ongoing “ceasefire” agreement declared…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (It is difficult to characterize the current situation in Gaza a “ceasefire,” when Israel has killed over 200 Palestinians. If Americans Knew considers…

The United Nations has confirmed that nearly nine out of ten agricultural zones in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed due to sustained Israeli military operations throughout 2025. The destruction…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) confirmed it continues to carry out its vital humanitarian mission in Gaza, despite the siege, bombardment, and catastrophic conditions…

Israeli occupation forces continued their violations of the ceasefire agreement, killing three Palestinians and injuring several others in attacks across the Gaza Strip, earlier Friday. The escalation comes amid growing…

Israeli occupation forces have conducted a series of airstrikes and demolitions targeting civilian homes across various areas of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, despite the ongoing “ceasefire” agreement. In Gaza…

Israeli occupation forces resumed aerial assaults on the Gaza Strip early Thursday, striking multiple areas in the north and south despite publicly declaring “a return to the ceasefire agreement.” The…

On Wednesday evening, the 19th day of the declared “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israeli warplanes launched new airstrikes on the northern part of the Strip, killing two Palestinians in Beit Lahia’s…

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry has confirmed that Israeli occupation forces committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.…

In a move emblematic of its erratic approach to ceasefire enforcement, the Israeli army announced Wednesday morning a formal return to the ceasefire in Gaza—mere hours after unleashing a wave…

Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 21 Palestinians, including eight children, and injuring several others. The attacks mark a renewed…

Israeli occupation forces escalated their military offensive in Jenin on Tuesday, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, detonating a home and ordering residents to evacuate homes near…

The European Union has formally urged Israel to comply with the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), emphasizing its legal obligations to facilitate humanitarian aid and…

Updated: On Monday, Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinians, and injured several others, in Khan Younis and launched heavy fire and naval bombardments in Rafah, in Gaza’s southern and southeastern…

On Sunday night, Israeli occupation forces set fire to a home belonging to the Jawabra family in the Al-Manshiyya neighborhood of Nur Shams refugee camp, located east of Tulkarem in…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (It is difficult to characterize the current situation in Gaza a “ceasefire,” when Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians. If Americans Knew considers…

Updated: On Friday, October 13, four Palestinians—including a child—were killed in the Gaza Strip: two by an Israeli drone strike, and two others, including a child, by explosive remnants of…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) called for a sustained ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to enable the return of children to a safe educational…

On Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that the officially documented and verified number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has now reached 68,280, with…

United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres welcomed the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion reaffirming core obligations that, under international law, rest on Israel as the occupying power in the Occupied…

On Wednesday night, the Israeli army fired many artillery shells at areas in the northern outskirts of Bani Soheila town, east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and the Shuja’iyya…

The International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on Wednesday finding that Israel, as the occupying power in Gaza, must facilitate and secure United Nations relief operations and ensure…

An Israeli political source confirmed that the primary objective at this stage is to complete the first phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza “peace initiative,” adding that implementation is now…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) issued a stark warning about escalating Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank, which have led to widespread…

Thirteen days into the declared ceasefire, the Israeli military continues to block access to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, despite a decision to reopen it over a…

The International Court of Justice is expected to issue a pivotal advisory opinion today on Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, intensifying global scrutiny of its conduct. In a…

The British Ministry of Defense has deployed a small group of military planning officers to Israel to join a U.S.-led international task force coordinating postwar stabilization efforts in Gaza following…

Arab lawyers from across the region gathered in the Moroccan capital, Rabat,  to announce the formation of a unified legal coalition aimed at prosecuting Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza…

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…