Türk Urges Israel to Drop Death Penalty Bill
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called on Israeli authorities to withdraw a new draft law that would impose the death penalty on Palestinian detainees under…
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called on Israeli authorities to withdraw a new draft law that would impose the death penalty on Palestinian detainees under…
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a child, and injured two others in separate incidents across the devastated Gaza Strip on Sunday. An 11-year-old girl was killed a short while…
On Saturday, illegal Israeli colonizers shot a Palestinian child near Bethlehem and attacked citizens and their properties in several areas of the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that an…
On Friday evening Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man in Ath-Thahiriya town, invaded the Al-Arroub refugee camp, and detained dozens of citizens in the town of Beit Awa, in…
Israeli forces shot and killed a young Palestinian man on Friday evening east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, in yet another sign of how hollow the so‑called “ceasefire” of…
Israeli soldiers abducted six Palestinian citizens on Friday, after storming the West Bank governorates of Hebron, Ramallah, and Jericho. On Friday morning, occupation forces abducted three Palestinian young men after…
Groups say the measures would set a dangerous precedent by tightening Israeli control over humanitarian operations NGOs call on Israel to immediately stop actions that obstruct aid delivery Donor governments…
Nineteen Israeli human rights organizations have condemned the government of Benjamin Netanyahu for canceling the registration of 37 international humanitarian organizations operating in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West…
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 Ibrahimi Mosque, one of the most ancient and revered holy sites in Islam, has had its municipal governorship taken over by the Israeli military, in direct violation of international…
On Thursday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers demolished two agricultural structures and stole their contents in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, while another group chased Palestinian residents and attempted to assault…
Israeli occupation forces conducted a new wave of destruction across the West Bank on Thursday, demolishing two homes and issuing a third demolition notice east of Jericho while simultaneously invading…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on Thursday that Israeli forces carried out a large‑scale campaign of abductions and field interrogations from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, seizing at least…
A Palestinian detainee from the city of Rahat in the Negev, Hassan Issa al‑Qasha’la, 26, died on Thursday evening inside Israel’s Be’er Sheva prison, which is operated by the Israeli…
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate said on Thursday that the Israeli military and government continued throughout 2025 a systematic policy of targeting Palestinian journalists through arbitrary abductions, administrative detention, physical assaults,…
A Palestinian child was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Thursday, as worsening winter conditions and unsafe displacement shelters led to the deaths of a woman, her daughter,…
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man and wounded another on Thursday morning after opening fire towards their vehicle near the village of Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus in the…
On Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities informed 37 international aid organizations that beginning January 1, 2026, they will be prohibited from operating in the Palestinian territories, including the West Bank and…
Tulkarem Governor Abdullah Kamil said Israel’s move to demolish twenty‑five residential buildings inside the Nur Shams refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern region, is part of the ongoing…
On Wednesday Israeli forces commenced the demolition of 25 residential buildings in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank. He…
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported new fatalities and injuries over the past 48 hours as the humanitarian toll of the genocide in the devastated coastal enclave continues to…
Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions, home break‑ins, and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers escalated attacks on Palestinian communities, vehicles, and…
On Wednesday, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teenager and abducted him in the town of Silwad, near Ramallah, in addition to shooting a young man and a school-aged child in…
Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers plowed Palestinian-owned land on Wednesday morning in the Bedouin village of Shallal al‑Auja, north of Jericho in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, in…
A joint human rights report released on Tuesday by the Commission of Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association revealed that…
Israeli occupation forces carried out a wide series of invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Wednesday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, and firing live ammunition in several…
Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of violations across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, invading towns, destroying agricultural land, assaulting civilians, and targeting vulnerable…
The Israeli Knesset has approved legislation ordering the immediate cutoff of electricity and water to offices and properties used by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…
Israeli forces killed a young Palestinian man and wounded two others on Tuesday evening, after opening heavy fire towards their vehicle between the villages of Urif and Einabus, south of…
Four Palestinians, including two young girls and a two‑month‑old infant, were killed and several others were injured over the past two days in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip, as…
A young Palestinian girl was killed, and a child and a woman were injured on Tuesday afternoon in separate incidents in central and southern Gaza, as Palestinians continue to be…
Four Palestinians were injured on Tuesday evening after Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a car near the town of Urif, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern…
Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening invaded the village of Aboud, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in the territory’s central region, where a Palestinian home caught…
Rulings threaten dozens of Palestinian families in Baten al‑Hawa, in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, as the Ateret Cohanim colonialist organization pushes for expanded colonial…
Injuries, home invasions, and abductions carried out by Israeli occupation forces across Qalqilia, Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah, and occupied Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces injured a young…
A child and an elderly man were injured on Monday evening after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers violently assaulted them in the Khalayel al‑Louz area, east of Bethlehem in the occupied…
Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the Bedouin community of Khallet ad‑Sidra on Monday evening near the town of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, and cut trees. The Jerusalem Governorate reported…
A Palestinian citizen was injured on Sunday evening after an Israeli military vehicle crashed into his car in the city of Tulkarem. Local sources reported that an Israeli military vehicle…
Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the town of Huwwara, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, at dawn on Sunday and set fire to a Palestinian vehicle in…
On Sunday evening, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the Bedouin community of Khallet as‑Sidra, near the town of Mikhmas northeast of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, vandalizing residents’ property.…
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has reported a series of alarming medical cases among prisoners held in Israel’s Ofer and Megiddo facilities, warning that systemic neglect continues…
On Sunday, Israeli violations of international law continued throughout the West Bank, including military invasions, paramilitary colonizer attacks, forced removal of Palestinians from their homes, and abductions of Palestinian civilians.…
Gaza – 27 December 2025: The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has released updated casualty figures from the ongoing Israeli violations in the devastated coastal region, reporting new…
Israeli occupation soldiers sealed the family home of wounded detainee Ahmad Abu al‑Rob in the town of Qabatia, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part. Israeli units…
Israeli occupation forces continued to breach the ceasefire agreement on Friday and Saturday, carrying out new airstrikes, artillery fire, and machine‑gun attacks across several areas of the Gaza Strip. The…
Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers escalated coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, carrying out invasions, abductions, home break‑ins, road closures, and assaults on Palestinian…
Israeli military units have imposed a full closure on the town of Qabatia, south of Jenin, conducting mass field interrogations and abductions, converting homes and a school into military posts,…
More than 700 relatives killed in Gaza as the Freedoms Committee warns of collective punishment and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, a report by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate reveals.…
By Dr. Jack Sara – Come And See: In his recent Christmas greeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke warmly of Christians in the Holy Land, portraying Israel as a unique…
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,…
December 27th, 2025 marks one year of imprisonment without charge for the famous Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya. He was kidnapped on 27 December 2024 after Israeli forces raided Kamal…
Monitoring and documentation compiled by the Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, covering the period from 7 October 2023 through the end of 2025, reveal a systematic and escalating…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has issued its latest daily statistical update, on December 26, reporting new casualties and the recovery of bodies from previously inaccessible areas in…
Israeli authorities say two Israelis were killed and six others injured on Friday in what they described as “a combined ramming and stabbing attack” in the Bisan area in the…
A joint report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA), published in the Palestinian Economic Monitor for 2025, found that the Palestinian economy…
Several Palestinians suffered from severe tear‑gas inhalation, Friday, after Israeli occupation forces invaded the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, triggering protests across multiple…
Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, across the Hebron district, abducting an elderly man, a woman, and four children from the towns of Yatta and Beit Ummar.…
On Thursday, Israeli forces demolished a home and a playground, while colonizers razed land and burned a bulldozer in the Bethlehem and Ramallah governorates of the occupied West Bank. Occupation…
IsraelPalestineNews – If Americans Knew: Instead of our usual news round-up, If Americans Knew today offers excerpts from a new document approved at an international conference in Bethlehem on November…
Israeli occupation soldiers shot and wounded a 17‑year‑old Palestinian boy in the Jerusalem governorate on Thursday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed. The PRCS said its teams received the…
Israeli occupation forces continued their violations across the devastated Gaza Strip on Thursday, issuing new forced‑evacuation orders in Gaza City, expanding demolition zones, and continuing attacks that left additional casualties…
On Thursday, Israeli forces shot a 17-year old child near Nablus in the northern West Bank, and a young man in Ar-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem. An infant was…
The Israeli army acknowledged on Thursday evening that a reserve soldier was responsible for shooting Palestinians and ramming another man who was praying along a roadside in the Palestinian village…
Israeli occupation forces uprooted dozens of olive trees on Thursday in the northwestern area of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit in the central occupied West Bank. Local sources said Israeli…
Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, assaulting civilians, and bulldozing Palestinian-owned land in several governorates. The violations…
Fourteen countries — including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Japan — condemned on Wednesday Israel’s recent decision to authorize new illegal Israeli colonies in the occupied West Bank, urging…
Gaza’s Civil Defense teams recovered the bodies of 14 Palestinians on Wednesday from beneath the rubble of a destroyed home, northwest of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, from previous Israeli…
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 carried out extensive invasions, violations, property seizures, demolitions, and abductions across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday. The invasions targeted towns, refugee camps, and…
Christmas celebrations returned to the streets of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, for the first time in two years, as a traditional procession made its…
A Palestinian man was killed, and several others were wounded, on Wednesday after Israeli forces opened fire in multiple areas across the devastated Gaza Strip, in incidents that humanitarian agencies…
Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of demolitions on Wednesday across occupied Jerusalem, Hebron in the southern West Bank, and Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, targeting residential homes,…
The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs reported that Palestinians held in Ofer Prison and the Negev (Naqab) Prison are enduring extremely harsh humanitarian conditions, following a recent visit…
Israeli authorities, backed by police units and special forces, demolished the tents and structures of the unrecognized Palestinian village of al‑Arakib in the Naqab (Negev) region on Wednesday, marking the…
Israeli occupation forces began the demolition the home of the father of Malek Ismael in the town of Bizzariya, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, earlier…
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported on Tuesday that 24 Palestinians were injured, and many were abducted, during the Israeli military invasion of Qalandia refugee camp and the nearby…
Death Toll Reaches 70,942 as Israeli Attacks and Humanitarian Restrictions Persist: Israeli occupation forces carried out new attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking residential areas, displacement camps, and…
Israeli occupation forces carried out new attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, targeting residential areas, displacement camps, and already‑devastated infrastructure amid a worsening humanitarian crisis and…
On Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Qalandia refugee camp and the nearby town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, after several hours of continuous…
On Tuesday, a Palestinian worker died of injuries he sustained days earlier in the town of Ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem. Media sources reported that the young man Youssef Omar…
A British doctor says she was “strangled” by police officers at a protest outside a British prison demanding an ambulance for a critically ill Palestine Action-linked prisoner on hunger strike.…
On Tuesday, Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank, shooting and wounding Palestinians in several different locations. In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces shot and wounded one…
Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Tuesday, abducting more than thirty Palestinians from Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Tulkarem, Qalqilia, Ramallah, and the…
Three Palestinians were injured late Monday night after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the town of al‑Samu’, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, attacking homes and livestock in…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza released its daily statistical report on casualties resulting from ongoing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip for Monday, December 22, 2025. Hospitals in…
Two Palestinians were shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces on Monday near the Shuja’iyya courthouse in eastern Gaza City, in what local sources described as a new violation of…
Israeli occupation forces issued demolition notices on Monday for six under‑construction Palestinian homes in the town of Tarqumiyah, west of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. Journalist Omar Fatafta…
Israeli occupation forces demolished a multi‑story residential building in the Wadi Qaddum area of Ras al‑Amoud in Silwan, south of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, early Monday morning, displacing…
Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions, home break‑ins, shootings, and land destruction across the occupied West Bank on Monday, leaving several Palestinians injured and dozens abducted in coordinated operations…
A surge of coordinated violence and military activity swept across the occupied West Bank on Monday, as illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out shootings, assaults, and large‑scale incursions into the…
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 Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that hospitals across the Strip received 13 Palestinians killed over the past 48 hours, including 6 newly killed individuals and 7 bodies…
On Sunday evening, a Palestinian man was wounded by Israeli forces in the town of Ar‑Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, while Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians in Beit Jala, west…
Israeli forces carried out multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing three Palestinians in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City, while three women from the same family died…
Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, home searches, abductions, school closures, and assaults across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting communities in Bethlehem, occupied Jerusalem, Hebron,…
Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli far‑right “Minister of Settlements” Orit Strock, invaded the Tarousa area between Dura and Deir Samet in the western Hebron district, in the occupied…
Israeli occupation bulldozers razed dozens of dunams of Palestinian agricultural land on Sunday morning north of the village of Yasuf, adjacent to the illegal Israeli colony of Tapuach, east of…
Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out widespread violations across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, including home invasions, abductions, shootings, among them the killing of two…
In a serious escalation, Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, on Saturday, including a child, in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin. Occupation soldiers shot a young man near Tulkarem…