HRW said that the compensation promises did not meet basic international standards for compensation, which require redress proportional to the harm suffered. Jordan has forcibly evicted and demolished homes and shops in an informal Palestinian […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israel’s blockade and attacks on healthcare have put pregnant women and newborns in Gaza at grave risk, with miscarriage rates soaring by 300%, HRW reveals. Israel’s blockade of Gaza and […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Israeli authorities have over the past year intentionally inflicted on the Palestinian population in Gaza ‘conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.’” […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In a report titled “Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” HRW examined the Israeli authorities’ conduct. Evidence strongly indicates that Israel’s forced displacement of 1.9 […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The head of the HRW urged countries like the United States, Germany, and Britain to end their provision of weapons to Israel to get Tel Aviv to stop its war […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Problems in the design and use of these tools mean that, instead of minimizing civilian harm, the use of these tools could be resulting in the unlawful killing and wounding […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “I cry every day without my family,” he said. “I’m alone in the south, I have no one. I swear I don’t need anything but to be with my family.” […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Israel’s partners should press the government to lift the blockade immediately and ensure unfettered humanitarian access in Gaza to enable the timely distribution of vaccines to contain the unfolding polio […]
By Benay Blend None of these issues could be resolved through using only a rights approach, as there are very few human rights guaranteed to a population under occupation. On July 17, 2024, Human Rights […]
Human Rights Watch has accused the social media giant Meta of “systemic censorship” of Palestine content on both Instagram and Facebook. In a report issued on Wednesday, HRW said that “Meta’s content moderation policies and […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli repeated attacks on hospitals, medical facilities, personnel and transport should be investigated as war crimes – HRW The Israeli military’s “repeated, apparently unlawful attacks on medical facilities, personnel, and […]
Amnesty International said on Friday that it will investigate Israel’s use of white phosphorous artillery rounds. This comes one day after a Human Rights Watch report confirming it. Amnesty International said on Friday that its […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Human Rights Watch confirmed that Israel is using white phosphorus in its military aggression on Gaza and Lebanon. In a question-and-answer document released on Thursday, the group said that it […]
A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Monday has revealed a spike in Israeli killing of Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank. “The Israeli military and border police forces are killing Palestinian […]
Israeli actions to seal the family of homes of two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank constitute the war crime of collective punishment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. The two Palestinians are suspected […]
New Israeli guidelines on access to the Occupied West Bank for foreigners threaten to further isolate Palestinians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today. The guidelines came into force in October 2022 and were amended in […]
By Paul Salvatori If you’ve been closely following coverage of how Israeli ideologues censor pro-Palestinian voices you’ve likely heard by now of former Human Rights Watch executive director, Kenneth Roth. In recent weeks he’s […]
By Richard Falk I admit to feeling an ironic mean-spirited satisfaction that Ken Roth had his appointment as Senior Fellow at the Carr Center of Human Rights of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government canceled. After […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff After recently denying Palestine Chronicle Editor, Ramzy Baroud, his ‘admin’ status on the Palestine Chronicle Facebook page, other Palestine Chronicle editors have been notified that the page could be restricted […]
Human Rights Watch urged on Monday Israeli authorities to immediately release Mohammad al-Halabi, a humanitarian worker from Gaza detained for nearly six years, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Last February, the Israeli Supreme […]
The European Commission should prohibit EU trade with settlements in occupied territories globally, Human Rights Watch said on Monday as it signed onto a European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI), the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
By Ron Forthofer Given all the attention focused on the covid-19 pandemic, the Build Back Better bill, the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the media-hyped crises over Ukraine and Taiwan this past year, […]
Israeli occupation authorities doubled down on policies to repress Palestinians and privilege illegal Jewish settlers during the last year, Human Rights Watch stated in a new report. “The government’s policy of maintaining the domination of […]
A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) into abusive and discriminatory policing found that Israeli officials coordinated with far-right Jewish ultra-nationalists during May’s civil unrest in the city of Lod. The report, released on Tuesday, […]
Facebook will allow an independent investigation into content moderation of Arabic and Hebrew posts after the social media giant has been accused of removing and suppressing pro-Palestine content, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Facebook has “wrongfully removed” content by Palestinians and pro-Palestine activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. According to the New York-based international NGO, Facebook unfairly removed […]
The UK Labour Party Conference has voted today in favor of a motion identifying Israel as a state practicing the crime of apartheid, making it the first major political party in Europe to adopt such […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) today accused Israel of violating international laws of war, after demolishing four multi-story buildings by air raids during its 11-day assault on the Gaza Strip in May. The deadly bombardment killed […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused Israel of carrying out attacks against the Palestinians in Gaza “that violated the laws of war and apparently amount to war crimes” during its 11-day assault in May. The […]
By Ramzy Baroud On April 27, one of the world’s largest and most credible rights groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW), concluded, in a comprehensive 213-pages report, that Israel is an apartheid state. “Across these […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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