PCHR: “Settler Violence and Settlement Expansion: Israel’s Tools to Impose Annexation of the West Bank”

August 17, 2026 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the unprecedented escalation of…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) | June 13, 2026 – The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue to intensify their…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned on Wednesday the Israeli occupation authorities’ approval of 764 new colonial housing units…

On Friday, Israeli forces wounded fifteen Palestinian citizens during a demonstration held between the town of Beit Lid, east of…

Illegal Israeli colonizers, on Thursday, attacked Palestinian citizens, began the construction of a settlement road near Hebron, and invaded the…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, three separate anti-settlement protests in the occupied West Bank, assaulted a Palestinian journalist, and caused…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, non-violent Palestinian demonstrators in the village of Beit Dajan, assaulted the mayor and injured at…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, the peaceful anti-settlement protest, and injured several Palestinians in the village of Beit Dajan, southeast…

On Friday, Israeli forces shot and injured two Palestinian young men, and caused dozens more to suffer the effects of…

RAMALLAH, Friday, July 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed in a statement the Human…

Wafa News Agency reported Thursday that the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) approved a bill…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today said it rejects what it…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said today that the Israeli occupation authorities…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, November 23, 2022 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said today that the Israeli occupation authorities…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, September 4, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation’s Planning and Construction Committee in Occupied Jerusalem is considering the…

In an unprecedented ruling against free speech and the right to boycott, a judge in the United States ruled this…

BETHLEHEM, Thursday, August 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities today approved a plan to establish a new illegal settlement on…

HEBRON, Thursday, July 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today set up a number of tents and wooden caravans on…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities have legalized the Mitzpe Dani settlement outpost built east…

WAFA – In their efforts to desiccate the Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley in a step to force them…

QALQIIA, Thursday, July 14, 2022 (WAFA) – The Bethlehem-based Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) said today that the Israeli occupation authorities…

Date: 07 May 2022: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli decision to build thousands of settlement units…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms statements made yesterday by the Israeli Prime Minister,…

Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, anti-settlement demonstrations in Beita, Beit Dajan and Qaryout near Nablus city, in the northern occupied…

Israel has approved a 1 billion shekel ($310 million USD) plan to connect the illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem…

  The Israeli occupation authorized, on Thursday, a settlement scheme for 1,500 units in occupied Jerusalem between the French Hill…

Ramallah, Thursday, January 20, 2022 (WAFA) – The foreign ministers of four EU countries urged Israel on Wednesday evening to…

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is presenting a plan to expand settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan, including two new…

A pivotal bill was recently introduced in the Finnish parliament that would prohibit all merchandise imported from the illegal Israeli…

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle:  The international uproar in response to Israel’s approval of a massive expansion…

GENEVA (3 November 2021) – United Nations Office of the High Commissioner GENEVA (3 November 2021) – UN human rights…

NABLUS, Thursday, July 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers continued today to set up mobile homes near the villages of…

Michael Lynk, United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), spoke last week in…

Scores of Palestinian demonstrators were injured, on Friday, when Israeli forces attacked peaceful protests across the occupied West Bank, the…

Israel has demolished 31 homes and 27 Palestinian facilities after plans to construct 4,982 new settlement units were approved, since…

NEW YORK, Thursday, March 25, 2021 (WAFA) – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said today…

A new report issued last week by B’Tselem and Kerem Navot, “This Is Ours – And This, Too: Israel’s Settlement…

ADDIS ABABA, Sunday, February 07, 2021 (WAFA) – African leaders reaffirmed today that all Israeli settlements erected on the occupied…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, January 19, 2021 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today pledged to legally pursue the…

In response to Israel’s announcement that they have approved an additional 780 colonial settlement units, a number of countries have…

As the US government prepares to inaugurate Joe Biden as President on Wednesday, the Israeli government announced Sunday a plan…

Palestinian civilians held a demonstration, on Saturday, in Kafr Thuluth village, southeast of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank,…

Local sources have reported that a Palestinian man died under suspicious circumstances in the Israeli settlement of Gilo, near Bethlehem,…

The following statement was released by Amnesty International on December 10,2020: As Airbnb prepares to go public in a multi-billion-dollar…

By The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): The Arab League rejected today, Israel’s new settlement project north of occupied…

Several representatives of the European Union (EU) in Israel and Palestine visited the site of a proposed Israeli settlement on…

This is a statement by the Israeli Peace Now Movement The Tender in Givat Hamatos Opened with 1,257 units Press…

The Israeli government approved on Sunday the construction of a new colonial settlement to be built atop the ruins of…

JERUSALEM, Monday, November 02, 2020 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today approved the destruction of dozens of Palestinian businesses…

The Higher Planning Council (HPC) of the Civil Administration is set to convene to advance at least 4,430 settlement units…

The so-called Israeli settlement council announced, on Sunday, a new illegal colonial settlement project, in the southern West Bank city…

This call to action was posted today by Amnesty International: As Israel steps up construction of illegal settlements in the…

Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the…

A Palestinian worker showing coronavirus symptoms was abandoned, on Sunday by Israeli settlers, outside the illegal Burkan settlement, near the…

Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Wednesday, urged the European Union…

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, Wednesday, voiced his concern over Israeli settlement announcements,…

In a statement, on Sunday, the Arab League Assistant Secretary General for Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories, Saeed Abu Ali,…

Italy expressed deep concern over the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement to proceed with the construction of 5,000 housing…

The Israeli Ministry of Housing announced Tuesday that it plans to construct thousands of new Israeli settlement units in the…

On 12 February 2020, after three years of delay and consistent pressure by Palestinian, regional and international organizations, the Office…

Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations published a report, on Friday, by Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur for…

Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal…

Israel has suspended its ties with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Israeli Foreign Ministry (FM) announced…

Press Release By Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation: Geneva, Switzerland – Palestinian, regional, and international organizations have…

BDS Movement Press Release: We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal settlements…

By: Madeeha Araj for PNN The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements stated in its latest report, that…

Madeeha Araj/PNN The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements stated, in its latest weekly report , that the…

Ramallah-based Al-Haq Human Rights organization, on Tuesday, called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to…

France condemned, on Friday, the recent Israeli decision to green-light the construction of 1,936 housing units in the West Bank…

The European Union, on Thursday, criticized Israeli plans to expand illegal settlements built in the occupied Palestinian territory and called…

The United Kingdom (UK), on Wednesday, called in Israel to “immediately” halt illegal settlements’ expansion in the occupied West Bank,…

The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements stated, in its latest weekly report, that the Israeli government still…

In a statement, on Monday, settlement watchdog Peace Now, said that the Israeli planning authority advanced the plans for the…

Fateh spokesman and member of its Revolutionary Council, Osama al-Qawasmi, said that Israel’s settlement colonization of Palestinian occupied land is…

It is expected that Israeli Civil Administration will approve, within days, the construction of thousands of settlement units in the…

The Israeli government announced that it will approve a new plan to build 3000 settlement units throughout occupied West Bank,…

The United Nations Middle East envoy reported, on Wednesday, that Israel had pushed forward plans to construct over 22,000 housing…

By: Madeeha Araj (National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements) for PNN The National Bureau for Defending Land and…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned a controversial plan by Israel to build a new settlement in the…

The National Bureau for defending land and resisting settlements stated, in its latest weekly report , that the Israeli Housing…

The Palestinian presidency condemned the Israeli new settler project announced, on Sunday, by Israel’s new Israeli Defense Minister, Naftali Bennett,…

Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, stated, on Thursday, that Israeli…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu announced the allocation of 40 million shekels (NIS) in aid, to support the ‘security and…

The Israeli Ministry of Housing is working on re-planning the construction of a new settlement on the abandoned Qalandia airport…

by Nada Awad, Maha Abdullah for Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network Hundreds of Palestinian, regional, and international organizations have called on the previous and…

Ramzy Baroud – Middle East Monitor It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that…

Richard Falk – Middle East Eye: Despite the U.S. administration’s announcement to the contrary, there is no question as to the…

Failing to issue a statement denouncing the US stance regarding the legality of settlements, all members of the United Nations…

Kairos Palestine expresses deep disappointment that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced—in a statement that disregards the Geneva…

More than 120 U.S. Congressmen and Congresswomen have sent an urgent letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging…

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) has expressed deep concern over the recent U.S. declaration…

The United Kingdom urged Israel, on Thursday, to halt its “counterproductive” settlement expansion, declaring that it is illegal under international…

Aseel Akhras/Days of Palestine International law experts agree that the US administration does not have the legal capacity to legalize…

After Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, made a statement Monday reversing decades of US policy, and contradicting international…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strictest terms the remarks made by the United States’ State…

In a statement, the United Nations Human Rights Office stated that Israel’s settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are in…

The European Union is sticking to its stance that Israeli settlement constructions in Palestine are illegal under international law, a…