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The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed, Friday, that another detainee has contracted Covid-19 in Ofer Israeli prison where dozens of detainees are held in dire living conditions, and lack…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest the escalating illegal colonialist activities in Sheikh Jarrah, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, wounding 9 Palestinians, including one journalist. The Palestinian…

Palestinian medical sources have confirmed that a child lost his right eye, Friday, after an Israeli soldier shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet, in Bab az-Zawiya area, in the…

Israeli soldiers detained, Friday, two Palestinian shepherds for several hours, in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem, south of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Nabil Obeyyat, a…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, causing dozens of nonviolent protesters to suffer the effects of…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) strongly condemns Israel’s decision to refuse cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it announced opening an investigation into possible war crimes…

The head of the Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a Palestinian detainee who spent seventeen years in Israeli prisons, especially in solitary confinement in…

  Summary for April 1 – 7, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at night and Thursday morning, six Palestinians, including two children and three former political prisoners, in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, six Palestinians from the same family, including a father and his three sons, after the army invaded a residential building in Hebron city, in the southern…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Thursday, that a detainee, identified as Saed Abu Obeid, 41, from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, started a hunger strike four…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, on Wednesday evening, that the hunger-striking detainee, Emad al-Batran, has suspended his hunger strike after reaching an agreement for his release in July.…

An elderly Palestinian woman was killed, on Wednesday morning, after being rammed by the speeding vehicle of an illegal Israeli colonialist settler at the western entrance of the Sammoa’ town,…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, three Palestinian structures in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied Jerusalem. Jamil Abu al-Hummus, said the soldiers and personnel of the City Council in occupied Jerusalem, accompanied…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday morning, many rounds of live ammunition at Palestinian shepherds near Khan Younis, in the southern part of the besieged Gaza strip. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers,…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Wednesday morning, many Palestinian street vendors, and confiscated their goods, in the Old City of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers assaulted several…

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Wednesday, twenty Palestinians, including former political prisoner, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, during massive invasions and violent searches of homes and property. In…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Wednesday, several homes in Marah Rabah village and the al-Khader town, near Bethlehem, south of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and interrogated…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Tuesday, the funeral procession of a Palestinian man, who was killed by army fire earlier in the day, near Ramallah, in central West Bank. Local sources said…

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees has reported, Tuesday, that the health condition of the hunger-striking detainee, Emad al-Batran, is rapidly worsening, as he continues his strike for the…

Illegal Israeli colonists assaulted, on Tuesday evening, a Palestinian mother, and her toddler, in the Shuhada Street, in the center of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while on…

Illegal Israeli colonialist settlers assaulted, Tuesday, Mohammad Azem, the mayor of Sebastia Palestinian town, northwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after they attacked a child and were…

IsraelPalestineNews.org: The Washington Post claimed, in spite of clear evidence to the contrary, that Israel had never destroyed Palestinian Covid clinics. In fact Israel is guilty of this and a…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, April 6, 2021 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today denounced the Israeli army killing of a Palestinian man near Ramallah and injuring his wife,…

  By Zahran Maali for WAFA 9 bullets penetrated the body of the 17-year-old boy, Muhammad Khader Al-Sheikh Al-Naheil, from the town of Al-Eizariya, east of Jerusalem, on August 15,…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, senior political leaders of the Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, including one woman, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem. The soldiers installed roadblocks around the…

RAMALLAH, Monday, April 05, 2021 (WAFA) – Palestine today urged the Middle East International Quartet to pressure Israel into allowing elections for the legislative council planed on May 22 in…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, five Palestinians, and assaulted one causing various wounds, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded the Hindaza Mountain area,…

Israeli soldiers killed, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian man, and injured his wife, after opening fire at their car near the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday evening, a young Palestinian man near Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, Khirbat Hamsa al-Foqa Bedouin village, in the Northern Plains the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, and photographed several residential tents, and barns. Local sources…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday evening, a young Palestinian woman at a military roadblock near her town, Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Media activist,…

Israeli soldiers installed, Monday, two mobile homes on private Palestinian lands in Asira al-Qibliya town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official…

A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers uprooted, Sunday, more than one hundred olive saplings in Qusra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Emad Hasan, a…

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…

Israeli navy ships fired, Monday, many rounds of live ammunition at Palestinian fishing boats near the shore of Gaza Sea, in the besieged coastal region. The attack came just one…

A Palestinian man was forced to demolish his own home, Sunday, in Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of not obtaining a permit. Local sources said the Palestinian,…

Palestinian farmers from Battir town, west of Bethlehem, south of the occupied Palestinian capital Jerusalem, in the West Bank, confronted and managed to prevent a group of illegal Israeli colonists…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured a young Palestinian man Saturday night in the village of Qatanna, northwest of occupied Jerusalem. Local sources reported that the soldiers abducted him while he lay…

Israeli soldiers summoned, Saturday, a Palestinian child from Masafer Yatta area, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, for interrogation at a military base in Hebron city. Local…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) biweekly Protection of Civilians Report On 19 March a 45-year-old Palestinian man who was allegedly throwing stones at Israeli…

Israeli forces, on Friday, suppressed the weekly peaceful procession in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, shooting two photojournalists with sponge-tipped rounds and causing dozens of others to suffocate on teargas,…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and injured many Palestinians. Local sources said the soldiers resorted…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, dozens of Palestinians holding the weekly nonviolent procession in the al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and injured six Palestinians, in…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Thursday, the eastern area of Nablus city, in northern West Bank, and injured five Palestinians with live fire. Media sources said several army vehicles invaded the…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, three Palestinians, including two teenage boys, in Hebron, in southern West Bank, in addition to one Palestinian, who was abducted late on Thursday…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday evening, a young Palestinian man at the Za’tara military roadblock, south of Nablus, and a young man from Jenin, in northern West Bank. Eyewitnesses said…

Israeli colonialist settlers bulldozed, on Thursday night after midnight, Palestinian lands in Battir town, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Omar al-Qaisi, the owner of…

Israeli soldiers conducted, Thursday, various invasions into many parts of the occupied West Bank, before abducting several Palestinians in addition to injuring many others, while Israeli colonialist settlers continued their…

Weekly Summary for March 25 – 31, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities…

The Israeli army suppressed a non-violent demonstration, on Tuesday, as Palestinians commemorated the 45th Anniversary of Land Day, in Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, in northern West Bank. According to Quds…

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Wednesday, a Palestinian from Tubas, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Kamal Bani Odah, the head of the Tubas office of the Palestinian…

Several armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Palestinian farmlands, Wednesday, east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, before bulldozing them and installing sandhills. Eyewitnesses said the military vehicles came…

Israeli soldiers closed, for the second day, the archeological site in Sebastia Palestinian town, north of Nablus, in northern West Bank, to allow groups of colonialist settlers into it. The…

A group of illegal Israeli colonists, accompanied by many soldiers, invaded an archaeological site, Tuesday, in the Sammoa’ Palestinian town, south of Hebron, in southern West Bank. Local sources said…

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier on Wednesday, two young Palestinian men from their homes, while the army also accompanied colonialist setters into a site, near Ramallah, in central West Bank. Media…

33 year old Munir Anabtawi from Haifa was killed by Israeli police on Tuesday in Haifa, in the northern part of what is now Israel. Munir was mentally disabled and…

On Tuesday, a group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands in Deir Istiya and Qarawat Bani Hassan towns, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit,…

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees has reported that a Palestinian detainee, identified as Emad Rabay’a, is facing a serious health condition at the Negev Desert detention camp. The commission…

Despite his deteriorating health condition, the Israeli authorities transferred a detainee who began a hunger strike 40 days ago, from Kaplan Israeli Medical Center to solitary confinement in Nitzan prison,…

(WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today detained at least 10 Palestinians from across the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS). Three people were detained in the…

We write as Jewish faculty from across Canadian universities and colleges with deep concern regarding recent interventions on our campuses relating to Israel and Palestine. Addressing all forms of racism…

Several Israeli army vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Palestinian farmlands, on Monday morning, east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said the vehicles, including four armored bulldozers, came…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn and on Sunday evening, three Palestinians, including one child, from Jerusalem and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Several army jeeps invaded the…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, a Palestinian from occupied Jerusalem, just moments after his release from prison after serving a 20-year prison sentence. The soldiers abducted Majd Barbar, from Ras al-‘Amoud…

A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, Sunday, a privately-owned Palestinian land, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and installed a tent. Local nonviolent…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Monday morning, several Palestinian fishing boats, less than three nautical miles from the shore, northwest of Gaza city, in the besieged coastal region. Eyewitnesses said…

Israeli soldiers confiscated, Sunday, a Palestinian tractor and denied many farmers access to their own lands, west of Salfit, in central West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the…

Illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, on Sunday evening, many Palestinian farmers on their lands in Kafr Ed-Deek town, northwest of Salfit, in central West Bank, wounding a young man, in…

Israeli forces, on Sunday, chased Palestinian workers, causing one to sustain a serious injury, near the apartheid wall near Rummanah village, northwest of Jenin, in northern occupied West Bank. The…

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) – Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been deprived of identity documents and consequently several basic rights, most notably the right to…

(MEMO) – In the latest opposition to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, favoured by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, a group of over…

Israeli forces, with the help of illegal colonial settlers, on Saturday, blocked a Palestinian farmer from working on his own land near Kifl Hares, west of Salfit, in the northern…

A Palestinian teen has implicated Israeli police and prison guards in assaulting and torturing him during his arrest in December of 2020, and subsequent interrogation and imprisonment. The Palestinian Commission…

NEW YORK, Thursday, March 25, 2021 (WAFA) – US Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced today that her country was resuming assistance programs to the Palestinian people, starting…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, injuring one child and causing dozens of residents to suffer…

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Friday, five Palestinians, including a former government minister and two siblings, from their homes in Jerusalem and Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources in…

Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, many Palestinians during the weekly nonviolent procession, in Beit Dajan village, east of the northern west Bank city of Nablus. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers shot three…

The Israeli authorities have transferred, Friday, the corpse of a slain Palestinian man, who was killed by the army in February, back to his family. Media sources in Ramallah, in…

Summary for March 18 – 24, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

NEW YORK, Thursday, March 25, 2021 (WAFA) – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said today that the ongoing Israeli settlement activities significantly damage prospects for…

The Israeli authorities demolished, Thursday, the al-Arakib Bedouin village, in the Negev Desert, for the 185th time in a row. The soldiers, accompanied by the police, stormed the Bedouin community,…

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees has reported, Thursday, that a Palestinian detainee, held by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, is ongoing with a hunger strike for the…

Israeli navy ships attacked, Thursday, several Palestinian fishing boats, causing one to capsize, near Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said the navy fired many live rounds, and…

Illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Thursday, a Palestinian man from the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem city, south of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, causing various cuts…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Salfit city, in central West Bank, searched homes and injured several Palestinians. Local sources said the soldiers wired and detonated the front doors…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, at least twenty-four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, among them twenty who were taken prisoner in Beit Kahil town, north of Hebron. The Palestinian Prisoners’…

A Palestinian young man, on Wednesday, fell to his death while being chased by Israeli police in the coastal city of Jaffa, Tel Aviv in Israel, Quds News Network reported.…

Israeli soldiers shot, on Wednesday evening, two young Palestinian men in Bir Nibala town, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded the town, and opened fire at…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, four Palestinian homes in several parts of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The soldiers invaded the as-Sal’a neighborhood in Jabal al-Mokabber town,…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, 27 Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank, after the army invaded and ransacked dozens of homes and interrogated scores of Palestinians, the Palestinian…

BETHLEHEM, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers today razed a plot of Palestinian land in the village of Kisan, east of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem,…

The Israeli air force, Tuesday night, bombed several sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, after a rocket was allegedly fired from the Strip, falling into an open field near Be’er…

On 19 March 2021, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and Cairo Institute for Human Rights…

By Hamdullah Baycar for Anadolu Agency As the relationship between the Persian Gulf riparian Arab countries and Israel grew closer by the day, this momentum, led by the United Arab…

Geneva (QNN) – Kuwait appealed to the UN Human Rights Council, last week, to activate legal mechanisms to guarantee accountability of the Israeli occupation for continued violations of the Palestinians’…

Since the initial observation of the United Nations World Water Day on 22 March 1993, Israel, as the Occupying Power in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), has continued to consolidate…

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Tuesday, three young Palestinian men, and briefly detained a young woman, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. Several army vehicles invaded Halhoul town, north…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Tuesday at dawn, many Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, in the al-‘Arma Mountain area, in…

GENEVA, Monday, March 22, 2021 (WAFA) – The United Nations should take action against Israel’s discriminatory policies and compel it to respect relevant international laws on equality and non-discrimination, the…