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Summary for October 22- 28, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are…

The Israeli High Court denied, Thursday, an appeal for the release of detainee Maher al-Akhras, who is currently nearing death after 95 days of an ongoing hunger strike. The Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, nine Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, and launched a surveillance balloon above the al-Khader town, south…

The Israeli occupation army released, Wednesday, a Palestinian woman, who was shot and injured four years ago, after an alleged stabbing attack targeting a soldier at the Qalandia Terminal, north…

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Wednesday, for Palestinians, including a former political prisoner, during invasions and violent searched of homes, in several parts of the West Bank. In occupied Jerusalem, the…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a two-story Palestinian building in Sur Baher village, in the outskirts of southeastern occupied Jerusalem, and invaded many neighborhoods in the al-‘Isawiya town. The Wadi Hilweh…

On Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers, stationed across the perimeter fence east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, opened fire at Palestinian farmers and shepherds, forcing…

Israeli soldiers demolished, on Wednesday morning, three residential structures owned by Palestinian Bedouin families, near Abu Dis town, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem. The head of the Land Defense Committee…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the town of Jaba’, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, searched homes, and caused many Palestinians to suffer the effects…

Israeli bulldozers, on Tuesday, demolished a Palestinian-owned home, and six shops in the Shu’fat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said that Israeli…

Israeli military bulldozers demolished, Tuesday, a Palestinian agricultural greenhouse at the entrance of the as-Sammoa’ town, south of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Deputy Mayor…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday evening, a Palestinian child, and a young man, in occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the at-Tour neighborhood in Jerusalem, and abducted…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Wad al-A’war area, south of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished a Palestinian home. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, twelve Palestinians, including children, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank.…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, the al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem city, south of occupied East Jerusalem in the West Bank, before photographing a home, and barns, in preparation for demolishing…

Several illegal Israeli colonists fenced, Monday, large areas of Palestinian lands in Khirbat Zannouta village, east of the ath-Thaheriyya town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Media…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli forces, Monday at dawn, invaded homes, and detained four Palestinian civilians from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, namely; Hani…

The Israeli authorities razed a Palestinian-owned home, on Monday, in Taybeh village, west of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, according to Khaled Jabareen, head of the village council. Jabareen…

A Palestinian man sustained a moderate head injury, on Saturday, when a group of illegal Israeli settlers invaded the village of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus in the northern occupied…

Israeli soldiers uprooted, on Monday morning, dozens of Palestinian olive trees in orchards northwest of Salfit city, in central West Bank, and confiscated some of them. The Mayor of Salfit,…

The long-term hunger striker Maher al-Akhras, on the 90th day of his water-only hunger strike, was finally allowed to receive a visit from his wife and daughter on Sunday. It…

An indigenous Palestinian family from occupied Jerusalem, survived a shooting attack carried out by an illegal Israeli colonist, while driving to their home in Jabal al-Mokabber, in the city. Mahmoud…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, a Palestinian man from ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, and summoned for interrogation another young man from the Deheishe refugee camp, south…

Abdullah Obayya, the head of Yasuf Village Council, east of Salfit in central West Bank, stated that several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, accompanied by soldiers, invaded Palestinian lands in the…

The Israeli army killed, on Sunday at dawn, a Palestinian teen who was repeatedly struck and assaulted by the soldiers, after they chased his car and opened fire at it,…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) The olive harvest season, which started on 7 October, was disrupted by people believed or known to be Israeli settlers…

The leadership of Sudan and the occupation state of Israel announced, Friday, that with US mediation, they had made an agreement to normalize relations between them, the Jerusalem Press reported.…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) In September, the Israeli authorities demolished, forced people to demolish or seized 76 Palestinian-owned structures, all on grounds of a…

Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras, whose health is rapidly deteriorating toward organ failure after 89 days of hunger strike, was transferred Friday by Israeli authorities from the Kaplan Hospital, where he…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, the weekly demonstration in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia city, injuring five Palestinians with rubber-coated steel rounds, the Palestinian…

Israeli and Palestinian Combatants for Peace activists, as part of the movement’s olive harvest campaign, joined Palestinian farmer Muhammad Adwan, from the village of Azzun in the northern West Bank,…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, at least ten Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem. Several army jeeps invaded the al-‘Isawiya…

Israeli soldiers and police officers, accompanied by several bulldozers, invaded the al-‘Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev, and demolished it for the 179th time, in addition to abducting a young…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Friday at dawn, several missiles into a few areas in the besieged Gaza Strip causing damage. Media sources said the army fired three missiles into a…

Summary for October 15 – 21, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…

The International Red Cross (IRC) has expressed serious concern about the health condition of the hunger-striking detainee, Maher al-Akhras, 49, who continues his strike for the 88th day, demanding to…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Thursday, a young Palestinian man from occupied Jerusalem, causing an injury in the retina of his right eye, and facial fractures. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, Khirbat Yizra village, east of Tubas in northeastern West Bank, and photographed many structures. Human rights activist Aref Daraghma stated that the soldiers started taking pictures…

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Thursday, twenty Palestinians, including one who was shot in the leg, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, after the army invaded many communities and…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday, fourteen Palestinians, including two children, from several parts of the occupied West Bank. The PPS stated that the…

Four human rights groups, on Tuesday, called on the Israeli occupation to release the administrative detainee, Maher al-Akhras, who has continued his hunger strike for 86 days, the Palestinian WAFA…

Illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Tuesday and Monday, Palestinian farmlands, and olive orchards, north and east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and flooded them, with sewage water, in…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, many Palestinian homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, searched and ransacked many homes before abducting nine Palestinians, including former political prisoners,…

Israeli soldiers and police officers abducted, Monday, seven Palestinians, including two young women, in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli police abducted two young women in…

By Muhammad Hussein for Middle East Monitor The Deal: Israel and Hamas conduct a prisoner exchange following the Gilad Shalit deal struck a week earlier, releasing over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls upon the Egyptian authorities to release Fisherman Yaser al- Za’zou’, the sole survivor among his siblings who were killed by Egyptian naval…

The Israeli forces stormed various Palestinian neighborhoods in the occupied West Bank, overnight Saturday to dawn Sunday, the Palestinian Information Center reported. In the central West Bank city of East…

At least three Palestinians were wounded when a group of Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers as they were harvesting their olives on Saturday in Burqa village, east of Ramallah. They…

A senior official in the City Council of occupied Jerusalem has reported that the United Arab Emirates is “very enthusiastic” about an “investment project” in East Jerusalem. The project has…

Israeli forces, on Saturday, opened fire at Palestinian demonstrators in the northern occupied West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, injuring three young men with rubber-coated steel rounds, the Palestinian Information…

Several Palestinian civilians, on Friday, suffered the toxic of effects of tear-gas inhalation at the weekly demonstration in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, the…

Summary of Israeli Violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for October 8–14, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multifaceted violations against Palestinian civilians…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday evening, Shu’fat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, and injured many Palestinians after firing a barrage of gas bombs at protesters, homes, and cars. Media…

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association: October 14, 2020: In yet another attempt at disrupting the work of human rights organizations, Likud MKs Avi Dichter, Mattan Cohen, and others…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that thirty detainees in Israeli prisons have joined the hunger strike, two days after thirty detainees started the strike in solidarity with Maher al-Akhras.…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Sebastia town, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, while illegal colonists invaded olive orchards and harvested many trees before steeling…

A group of right-wing Israeli colonial settlers attacked and destroyed hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in al-Jabaa village, west of Bethlehem on Wednesday, at the height of the harvest season.…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Wednesday evening, at Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters in the Beit Lahi Sea, in the northern part of the coastal region. Eyewitnesses…

On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces used D9 Caterpillar Armored bulldozers (manufactured in Illinois, in the US) to demolish a Palestinian primary school east of Ramallah. The school had recently been…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that thirty detainees held in Ofer Israeli detention center has launched a hunger strike in solidarity with Maher al-Akhras, who continues his strike…

Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists chopped, Wednesday, many wooden electricity poles in the eastern area of Jaloud village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The PPS…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On Monday, 12 October 2020, the Supreme Court of Israel refused to release Maher al-Akhras, an administrative detainee on a hunger strike for…

Illegal Israeli settlers, on Tuesday, just one day after a similar incident, attacked Palestinian farmers in the village of Burqa, injuring two men, according to the head of the Wall…

Illegal Israeli settlers, on Tuesday, assaulted Palestinian civilians near the village of Nil’in, west of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank according to local sources. Sources told Palestinian WAFA…

The Israeli army razed, on Tuesday, large areas of Palestinian-owned agricultural land, east of Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said…

Israeli forces stormed, on Tuesday, the Qaddoura refugee camp in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, according to Palestinian security sources. Sources told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that the…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, at least nine Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported. The…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday evening, two Palestinian siblings from their home in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem. Members of the al-Basheeti family stated that many soldiers and…

Israeli forces detained, Sunday night and Monday at dawn, many Palestinian civilians during military incursions into various towns in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources…

Twelve Palestinian civilians were injured and others detained, Sunday, when Israeli forces stormed al-Am’ari refugee camp, south of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday, a few areas, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and closed several Palestinian agricultural roads, preventing the locals from entering their olive orchards.…

Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, Monday, Palestinians while picking their olive trees in their orchards in Burqa village, south of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, injured five…

The Israeli government has approved the construction of hundreds of units in an illegal colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands in Wadi Fukin village, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied…

Israeli navy ships, on Sunday, fired at Palestinian fishermen sailing in the Mediterranean, off the shore of Gaza City, forcing them to return to shore, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.…

Israeli forces detained several Palestinian civilians from various parts of the West Bank, over night Friday, including 12 from Hebron, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. It said Israeli…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) September 22 – October 5, 2020 On 5 October, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian, aged 28, near…

Israeli soldiers fired numerous tear-gas canisters at Palestinian demonstrators in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in northern West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. No injuries were…

The Al-Qassam Brigades, Saturday, announced the accidental death of a Palestinian resistance fighter in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, according to their official website. The military wing of the Hamas…

Four Palestinians were shot and injured, Friday, at the weekly anti-settlement march in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in the northern West Bank, according to a local…

Summary for October 1-7, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized…

The wife of the Palestinian administrative detainee, Maher Al-Akhras, 49, who has been on hunger strike for 73 days, has announced that she will begin a hunger strike and participate…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor sent a letter to EU diplomats and ambassadors in the Palestinian Territories to protest against EU diplomatic delegation’s visit to Israel’s southern region, which borders…

Illegal Israeli settlers, Wednesday, attacked Palestinians who were harvesting olives in Hawara village, south of Nablus, injuring three, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The settlers came from the illegal Israeli…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, eleven Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, in addition…

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Wednesday, two Palestinians in Hebron governorate, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, two Palestinian communities in Jenin governorate, in northern West Bank, searched homes, and abducted two Palestinians, in addition to breaking into a school. The Palestinian Prisoners’…

The Higher Planning Council (HPC) of the Civil Administration is set to convene to advance at least 4,430 settlement units in the West Bank in two consecutive meetings on 14…

Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinian civilians, overnight Monday until Tuesday at dawn, from various West Bank cities, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) released in a statement. The PPS stated…

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…

Many Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands east of Beit Dajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, installed an outpost and a barn on private…

Three Palestinians were shot by Israeli forces, Monday, east of Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank, the Jerusalem Press reported. According to the official Hebrew channel, the army alleged…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Monday evening, several Palestinians in Zabbouba village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted a young man near a military roadblock, northwest…

Several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, Monday, two Palestinian land surveyors, working for Huwwara Village Council, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and injured them. Ghassan Daghlas,…

Israeli military drones fired, on Monday at night, missiles at a Palestinian security post, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The army said it was…

A Palestinian former prisoner, on Thursday, October 2, 2020, was shot in the eye by Israeli forces that, stormed Sebastia town, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus and…

Two Palestinians were injured, Saturday, after being attacked by illegal Israeli settlers in the village of Huwwara, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to a local…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday two Palestinians near Ramallah and Hebron, in the central and southern part of the occupied West Bank, and abducted two Palestinians. Media sources said several army…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Jenin city in northern West Bank, and Jaba’ town, south of the city, and shot one Palestinian with a live round in addition…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinians, including a child, from their homes in Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said…