An Israeli soldier who shot and seriously injured a Palestinian child last week in the occupied West Bank used live ammunition, human rights NGO B’Tselem stated yesterday, contrary to army reports. Nine-year-old ‘Abd a-Rahman a-Shteiwi was shot […]
Newly-released data for June has provided a reality check to reported claims that Israeli authorities are easing restrictions on the blockaded Gaza Strip. According to Gisha, an Israeli NGO which monitors and campaigns on freedom of […]
Amnesty International has joined a legal case challenging the Israeli government’s decision to expel Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) Country Director Omar Shakir. Shakir had his work permit removed by Israeli authorities in May 2018 and was […]
By Wafa Aludaini Palestinian prisoner, Nassar Majer Taqatqa, from Bethlehem, was announced dead in mysterious circumstances on Tuesday, July 16 in the Nitzan prison. According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Movement, Taqatqa’s death was discovered during […]
Palestinian Foreign Ministry today called for an international inquiry into the death of a Palestinian detainee held in an Israeli jail. He said in a statement that the Israeli government and its security apparatus, including […]
A Palestinian has died while in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison, the head of the Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs revealed this morning. Thirty-one-year-old Nassar Majed Taqatqa, who was being held in Nitzan prison, was […]
Israel’s top court has given its approval to a punitive ban on family visits for Hamas prisoners from the Gaza Strip, a decision slammed by human rights activists as “court-sanctioned vengeance”. In July 2017, Israel banned family […]
A court on Sunday ordered a predominantly Jewish town in northern Israel to lift a ban on non-resident visitors to its parks, a prohibition that a rights group said was aimed at keeping Arabs out. The […]
By Kathy Kelly Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In Kabul […]
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has denounced Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, describing that country’s policies as an affront to human rights and comparable to racial segregation in the American South. Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American to serve in […]
A new war between Israel and Palestinian factions in the besieged Gaza Strip “is not far away”, and will be “will be deadlier and more destructive than any previous” offensive, according to a report by the […]
The UN special rapporteur for the situation in Palestine on Friday raised a concern about the lack of human rights accountability in Palestine and said Israel eyed further territorial annexation, reports Anadolu Agency. Michael Lynk’s remarks […]
A Palestinian child was seriously injured in his head today when he was shot by Israeli soldiers during the weekly anti-settlement protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near Qalqilia city in the West Bank. […]
International human rights group Amnesty International has stepped up a campaign to demand that TripAdvisor stops listing tourist attractions and properties in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The rights group addressed an open letter […]
Palestinian children from Jerusalem arrested by Israeli occupation forces are subjected to “a deliberate policy to de-educate”, reported prisoners’ rights group Addameer. According to Addameer, “Over 800 Palestinian children from Jerusalem were arrested in 2018”, and […]
Six Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails have been on hunger strike for more than three weeks, protesting against their administrative detention, the PLO’s Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Committee said on Saturday. According to […]
Hundreds of Palestinians converged near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone on Friday for ongoing protests and more than twenty protesters were wounded by Israeli fire, RT reports. Great March of Return protests continue, live fire and […]
By Ramona Wadi The “Peace to Prosperity” workshop was all about making a statement on the normalization of the colonial state of Israel. Forget simply normalizing “ties” with Israel; eliminating the settler-colonial context of the […]
By Iqbal Jassat Isn’t it bizarre if not downright scandalous for the African continent which since the defeat of apartheid and its replacement with a democratic order in South Africa, had disavowed military coups, yet […]
Israeli forces seized a water network used for irrigating grape trees in the village of al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, according to local activist Aref Daraghmeh. Human Rights Violation: Israeli forces and Israeli Civil Administration […]
Israeli forces detained more 20 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military. In a Wednesday statement, the army said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected […]
A Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli police during clashes in occupied East Jerusalem last week was laid to rest on Monday after his body was released to his family. Authorities had held the […]
Israeli forces detained seven Palestinian students at Birzeit University early this morning, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. Among those detained was the former head of the student council, Usama Fakhouri. Israeli soldiers raided the students’ […]
Israeli Prisons Services Monday morning punitively transferred all Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli prison of Ashkelon to other prisons, according to the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission. The Commission said in a press release that a total […]
Director of UNRWA’s operations in Gaza Matthias Schmale yesterday warned that the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip “is moving from bad to worse”, the Anadolu Agency reported. Schmale told a meeting organized by Press House in […]
Israel has resumed allowing fuel entries into the blockaded Gaza Strip following a three-day hiatus, according to a Palestinian official, Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammad Thabet, the spokesman for Gaza’s electricity company, told Anadolu Agency: “The resumption of […]
Clashes renewed for a second day on Friday between Israeli forces and Palestinian protestors in the Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem over the killing a Palestinian protestor, Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammad Samir, 20, was shot with live ammunition in […]
By Kathy Kelly Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for […]
By Ramona Wadi The Palestinian Authority’s spin on “legitimate Palestinian endorsement” is equivalent to its fast-fading status. Since US President Donald Trump broke away from international consensus on Jerusalem and unilaterally declared the city as Israel’s capital, […]
Israeli authorities have handed notices to several Palestinian families in the Qalandiya refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem. A number of Palestinian families on Thursday have been told their homes will be demolished under the pretext of […]
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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