Category: Human Interest

A new image of Gaza’s deepening humanitarian tragedy emerges in the story of three young sisters from the Al‑Khatib family, all suffering from a rare genetic immune disorder that cannot…

A Comprehensive Report on How War, Hunger, and Mass Displacement Are Destroying Childhood in Palestine – The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, April 5, Palestine Children’s Day: The latest demographic…

The head of the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Moayyad Sha’ban, said that the 50th anniversary of Land Day, which arrives this year as a renewed affirmation of the centrality…

After two Intifadas, genocide in Gaza, and death of many friends– this is the first time that my home is starting to feel unrecognizable. The missiles prevent us from sleeping,…

While headlines chase missiles and threats elsewhere, people in Gaza and the West Bank are being killed, buried, and pushed from their homes. The world’s attention has drifted; occupation and…

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 be…

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 be ongoing,…

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 be…

By Olla Moqudy — Published in Arabic by WAFA News: From the hilltops overlooking the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit in the central West Bank, the small community of Khirbet…

When Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner‑General of UNRWA, warned this week that Palestinian refugee education has come under “intensifying attacks,” he was not speaking in abstractions. His statement reflects a crisis…

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…

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…

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 Gaza Strip is facing a devastating humanitarian crisis as winter storms flood thousands of displacement tents, leaving families exposed to cold, disease, and despair. Heavy rains in mid-December have…

By Esra’ Ghorani – Published in Arabic By WAFA News: Since the beginning of this year, human rights organizations have documented the killing of more than fifty Palestinian children in the…

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…

Published In Arabic On WAFA, By Rami Samara: In the early hours of dawn, 58-year-old Fidda Mohammad Na’san awoke to the piercing cries of an international solidarity activist staying in the…

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…

Medical sources in Gaza reported Thursday that the death toll from Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip has surpassed 69,500, with the majority of victims being children…

Amnesty International | November 11, 2025 | In response to the passing of the first reading of a controversial new amendment to the Israeli Penal Law making it mandatory for…

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…

Published By Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor – October 14, 2025: Risk of famine hasn’t left Gaza: Israel’s aid cuts reflect insistence on using starvation as a tool of genocide Occupied Palestinian…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (Day 739 of Israel’s Latest War on Gaza) Israel killed 7 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, in spite of the ceasefire; 2 others…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has accused the Israeli occupation of conducting the largest and most deliberate campaign of media extermination in modern history, targeting journalists and press institutions during two…

By Maha Sheikh – WAFA (Arabic):  For two years, Gaza has endured a relentless campaign of annihilation. Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have carried out genocide—killing and injuring nearly…

By Bilal Gheith Kiswani, Published in Arabic by WAFA News: A growing bloc of Western nations, including the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, Malta, Luxembourg, Andorra, and Monaco, has…

By Bilal Ghaith Kisswani – Published in Arabic by WAFA News: The longest emergency call from Gaza’s genocide becomes a global symbol of Palestinian children’s suffering and the sacrifice of…

September 3, 2025: Euro-Med Monitor: Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army’s escalation in targeting displaced people in Al–Mawasi is turning the Israeli-claimed “humanitarian zone” into a death trap. This forms part of…

A Report by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights on the Israeli Occupation’s Perpetuation of Genocide Targeting the Palestinian Existence the Gaza Strip The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)…

Originally published in Arabic by Ma’an News Agency: The West Bank is quietly unraveling. Beneath the surface of daily life, a slow-burning crisis is taking shape, political immobilization, economic suffocation,…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue to intensify the naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, denying fishermen access to the sea and preventing them…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 82 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least 53 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,422 aid seekers since…

Amnesty International has been working with trusted, exceptionally professional, and dedicated fieldworkers in Gaza. Despite all odds, they have continued to document violations, visit sites of strikes, collect evidence, and…

Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, Theodosius Atallah Hanna: Yesterday, Tel Aviv witnessed a massive demonstration calling for an end to the war of extermination and…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): In Ongoing Campaign of Genocide and Forced Displacement: Israel Targets Displaced People Collecting Water in Nuseirat In another serious escalation within the broader…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff: Israel killed at least 82 Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, including at least 9 aid-seekers. Also among the dead were 10 children (see below)…

With bodies as thin as skeletons, children Mohammed, Razan, and Amal lie in hospitals in the Gaza Strip, exhausted by diseases resulting from hunger and severe malnutrition, as a result…

June 27, 2025 – Doctors Without Borders The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza that was launched one month ago is forcing Palestinians to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minuscule amounts of…

In a new report, three human rights organizations that advocate for the rights of Palestinians kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces detailed the horrific conditions and brutal torture carried…

The ongoing assaults and violations and by groups of fanatic illegal paramilitary colonizers in the occupied West Bank have escalated further, now encompassing the obstruction of emergency medical services. This…

by Sami Abu Salem, WAFA In the Al-Karama neighborhood in northern Gaza, tens of thousands of hungry civilians gather almost daily, waiting for the humanitarian aid that is supposed to…

Report by Reem Swaisy, Published in Arabic By WAFA News: Despite the harrowing surgeries he performs on victims of Israeli strikes, Dr. Ali Odah, a maxillofacial surgeon, says the horrors…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has strongly condemned the ongoing violations committed by the Israeli occupation forced against Palestinian journalists in both Gaza and the West Bank. According to the Syndicate,…

Nearly 20 months into Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, the territory’s fishing sector stands among the hardest hit, its workforce devastated and productivity nearly extinguished. According to the Palestinian Fishermen’s…

By Mohammad Dahman, Published in Arabic On WAFA: On the morning of Eid al-Adha Muslim feast, June 6, photojournalist Abdel Rahim Khader left his home in Jabalia, northern Gaza, to cover…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces displaced 60 Palestinians after demolishing 12 structures in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. Mohammad Rab’i, the head of the At-Tuwana…

By Mohammad Dahman – Originally published in Arabic by WAFA News: On May 19, Israeli forces issued a mass evacuation order for Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, instructing residents…

The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza deepens as another child dies from severe malnutrition on Saturday, raising the total number of starvation-related deaths in the besieged enclave to 58. Medical sources…

Report by The Palestinian Center For Human Rights: For the past ten days, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have imposed a tight siege and collective punishment on Bruqin village, west…

Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar never imagined that the farewell to her ten children on Friday morning, before heading to work at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, would be…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) attack on security officers and civilians, who were securing the passage of humanitarian…

From Quds News: Yaqeen Hammad was more than a child. At just 11 years old, she was Gaza’s youngest media activist and the youngest volunteer in a charity team. With…

By Abdul-Qader Badawi – Madar Center: After Google and Amazon: Microsoft Deploys Open Ai’s GPT-4 in Service of the Israeli Military in the War on Gaza! Over the years, Israel…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of a group of Palestinian volunteers and activists by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Sunday,…

Gaza, May 12, 2025 – Mohammad Dahman, WAFA: Among the rubble of destroyed residential towers in Hamad City, west of Khan Younis, where the only shade comes from the wreckage of…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff: NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…

By PCHR: In a report released today, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights [PCHR] warns of the Israeli occupying forces’ persistent denial of cancer patients’ rights to treatment both within…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PRCH: “We Will Leave Them Nothing”: New PCHR Report Reveals Israeli Destruction of Gaza’s Agricultural Sector and Food Systems Aims to Erase Palestinian…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 56 Palestinians, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. 21-year-old Ahmad Ibrahim Nassasra of the…

April 28, 2025 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) expresses its deep concern over the exacerbating humanitarian disaster resulting from the Israeli…

By Mohammad Dahman – This article was published By WAFA News in Arabic: Amid the prolonged Israeli military offensive that has gripped Gaza since October 7, 2023, civilian suffering deepens with…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the escalating mass killings and systematic extermination of families as part of Israel’s ongoing military offensive against the…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli missiles killed at least 42 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including several bombings of tents that resulted in Palestinians being burned alive in…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls for immediate and urgent international intervention to reopen crossings and allow the entry of humanitarian…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): The crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip has never ceased; it was merely lurking under a fragile truce and continued slowly claiming lives…

Translated from WAFA, Gaza, April 15, 2025 – By Mohammad Dahman: Sunday, March 23, 2025, was no ordinary day in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. At 3:30 a.m., the Rafah Ambulance Center…

Accounts from Israeli soldiers who participated in the genocide in the Gaza Strip reveal a deliberate and extensive campaign of destruction aimed at establishing what Israel calls a “vast buffer…

Translated From WAFA News: Today, March 30, marks the 49th anniversary of the “Palestinian Land Day,” a momentous event symbolizing the ongoing struggle to protect Palestinian land since 1976. On…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff 15,613 children have been confirmed killed during Israel’s genocidal war, 31 per cent of the martyrs in the Gaza Strip, which stands at…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff The ministry of health in Gaza said in a statement that on Wednesday 30 bodies were retrieved from under the rubble, one person…

IsraelPalestineNews Notes: To read about how Israel partisans such as Alan Dershowitz and the Zionist Organization of America worked to censor the Al Jazeera exposé film The Lobby USA: IAKN.org/TheLobbyCensored…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff In the West Bank, two Palestinian children, aged 12 and 13, were killed by Israeli army gunfire in two separate incidents on Friday,…

Original Arabic Feature Story By Ala’ Moqadi – WAFA News A farmer’s despair On the damp soil, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the tracks of the cart owned…

Feb. 9, 2025 By Mahmoud Majadalah for Arab 48 – In a new testimony, released prisoner, Adham Mansour revealed serious violations against Palestinian detainees, including physical and sexual assaults using…

by Jon Rami Mroz I arrived a few minutes past 11:00. Alex, our driver, her partner Jesus and our interpreter Meda had just contacted me to let me know they…

Translated from WAFA report by Ali Al-Farra: Since the onset of the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, individuals with physical and mental disabilities have faced…

A Palestinian detainee died in Israeli custody, on Saturday, after being held in Israeli prison for more than one year under Administrative Detention, without charges or the possibility of a…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least 50 people on Wednesday, while UNICEF said at least 74 Palestinian children have been killed during…

by Kathryn Shihadah – If Americans Knew: Today, instead of reporting on the genocide, here are some photos and videos of Christmas and the Christian community in Gaza. Tomorrow we…

By: Ruwaida Amer in Gaza, occupied Palestine – Middle East Eye Earlier this year, when a rumour spread that Palestinians could travel from southern Gaza to the north, Sabreen Lashin was one…

by Kathryn Shihadah We’re taking a short break from reporting on the genocide in Gaza to focus on sumud – that quality that enables Palestinians to carry on day after…

from the Middle East Eye A Palestinian man whose touching tribute to his dead granddaughter went viral on social media last year has now also been killed by the Israeli military. According to Palestinian…

by Waseem Harbid The market was bustling with movement, filled with the noise of vendors and the cries of children. I wandered through the crowd, my frail body weighed down…

Nothing in Gaza is simple. Today is the first installment of a local family’s narrative on the challenge of getting something to eat during a genocide. (According to the Gaza…

By Sami Abu Salem, Wafa News (translated from Arabic version): Since October 5, 2024, the Israeli occupation has continued its ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip, with continuous bloody…

Jon Mroz – Correspondent – IMEMC News: Save the Children reported on October 10, 2024, that 14,100 children have been confirmed dead in Gaza since October 2023. Unofficial estimates are far…

Report By Maan News (Arabic): In Gaza, hunger has become a devastating weapon as the ongoing Israeli blockade continues to obstruct the entry of essential goods and humanitarian supplies into…

EuroMed Human Rights Monitor – Palestinian Territory – More than 70 Palestinian civilians were killed in an Israeli massacre last November, the majority of whom were women, children, and elderly individuals…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Surge in State-Backed Settler Violence: PCHR Condemns Settler Attack on Two Villages and Burning of 19 Vehicles in Ramallah The Palestinian Centre for Human…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Neveen Mohammed al-Dawawsah (21), a female paramedic and resident of Beit Lahia, north Gaza. Date of Testimony: 23 October 2024 When the Israeli war…

A Report by Rami Samara – Translated From WAFA News: The Israeli Knesset is expected to vote within hours on the second and third readings of two bills that threaten…

Joint Statement: Standing with the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Face of Israeli-Led, Western-Backed, Intensified Attacks Amid Ongoing Genocide – PCHR While Israel continues its relentless genocidal campaign in…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Tuesday was the eighteenth consecutive day of the Israeli occupation forces’ aerial, ground, and naval bombardment of northern Gaza. The siege has included blocking supplies of…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Gaza’s health ministry stated, “The Israeli occupation committed two massacres of families in Gaza, resulting in 29 deaths and 93 injuries in the past 24…

Compilation by IAK staff of news reports: Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 10-Year-Old Quintuplets Associated Press reports: The latest Israeli bombardment included a strike on a home in Deir al-Balah that…

Food aid in southern Gaza next to zero; Israel has killed over 2,000 Palestinian babies; Israel’s intensifying attacks on Gaza’s schools; West Bank violence; Israel approves new, punitive settlement –…