UN human rights experts have warned that violent attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, including physical assaults and property demolitions carried out by Jewish settlers, have increased drastically in recent months. More […]
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Israel approved on Sunday plans to purchase land in the occupied West Bank to expand illegal settlements, mainly in Nablus and Jenin, Haaretz has reported. The fund is known […]
A former Israeli spy Tuesday overnight joined scores of settlers in storming Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to Israeli media. Jonathan Pollard, an American who served a 30-year sentence […]
The New Democratic Party of Canada (NDP) voted yesterday in favor of a motion brought forward by a coalition of Palestinian and Jewish activists calling to amend its policy book to include a boycott of […]
The former president of Rabbis for Human Rights was violently assaulted by far-right Jewish settlers yesterday. Video footage of the brutal attack near the Maale Ahuvia illegal settlement outpost, shows prominent Rabbi Arik Ascherman being […]
Jewish settlers seized 15 Palestinian houses in the occupied East Jerusalem district of Silwan, Israel’s Channel 7 reported. According to the channel, the settlers placed Israeli flags on 15 houses in Silwan after the Ateret […]
Jewish settlers attacked the Mayor of Sebastia, Mohammad Azem, as he tried to prevent them from beating and abducting a Palestinian child, reported Wafa news agency. Azem told Wafa that dozens of Jewish settlers arrived […]
Jewish settlers assaulted a Palestinian mother and her baby in the southern West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) on Tuesday evening, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Mufeed Sharbati, a resident, said that a […]
A Palestinian elderly woman died today after being struck by a Jewish settler near As-Samu‘ town, south of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Security sources confirmed that 73-year-old Shafiqa Abu Aqeel […]
Jewish settlers today uprooted and destroyed scores of olive saplings for Palestinian farmers in the village of Qusra, near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
Israeli occupation forces today shot and injured two Palestinians in the northern West Bank districts of Tubas and Nablus, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) and security sources. Director of the PPS office in […]
Jewish settlers today stormed an archaeological site in As-Samu’ town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local and security sources confirmed that dozens of […]
A Palestinian youth was injured on Sunday evening during a Jewish settlers’ attack on the village of Kufr ad-Dik, near the occupied West Bank city of Salfit. Faris al-Dik, an activist, told WAFA that about […]
A Palestinian man sustained injuries today in an attack by illegal Jewish settlers in the village of Al-Khader, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. A group of […]
Israeli Jewish extremist members of the anti-Arab Price Tag terror group today vandalized Palestinian-owned vehicles and scrawled hate graffiti on them in the Arab town of Kufr Qassem in central Israel. The Arab 48 news […]
Israeli soldiers today barred Palestine TV crew from reporting at Ein al-Bayda village in southern West Bank and forced the crew to leave the area, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli soldiers held the […]
Israeli occupation forces today shot and killed a Palestinian taking part in an anti-settlement rally near Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus, according to Health Ministry. The Ministry confirmed that Israeli forces opened fire towards […]
In 2021, the Israeli targeting of EU-funded aid structures to the Palestinians tripled compared with the monthly average in 2020. In addition, Jewish settlers damaged and stole donor-funded aid, said the United Nations Office for […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to legalize West Bank settler outposts if he is re-elected in the upcoming elections slated for March 23, reported the Jerusalem Post. He made the announcement during a […]
A 45-year-old Palestinian man and his wife were today injured when Jewish settlers attacked them in Masafer Yatta in southern West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Rateb Jabour, a local activist, told […]
Jewish settlers opened fire at two Palestinian children near the town of Yatta in the southern West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the Wall and Colonization Resistance […]
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry yesterday called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) “to protect all Palestinian archaeological and religious sites from Israeli violations, attacks, and falsifications.” In an official statement, the […]
A group of Jewish settlers today stormed the archaeological site of Sebastia, north of Nablus city, according to a local source. The mayor of Sebastia, Mohammad Azzem, told WAFA that Israeli forces closed off the […]
Extremist Jewish settlers threw stones at homes and vehicles in two Palestinian villages south of Nablus yesterday, Wafa news agency has reported. According to the human rights group Yesh Din, a group of settlers entered […]
The Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) condemned repeated Jewish settler attacks against the Romanian church monastery in Jerusalem. In the last of the series of incidents, a group of Jewish settlers […]
Jewish settlers today vandalized the electronic panel that controls the water supply to the village of Asira al-Qibliya, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Ghassan Daghlas, an […]
The US has asked to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council in another move that, superficially at least, spells a departure from the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the institution. However, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken […]
Israeli occupation forces on Friday placed military barricades at the entrances of the Old City, obstructing Palestinian worshippers from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque, Safa Press Agency reported. According to a Safa Press Agency reporter, the Israeli […]
A group of Jewish settlers stormed ancient Islamic sites early Friday, in the town of Kifl Haris, near the West Bank city of Salfit, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources reported that […]
Jewish settlers cut down today dozens of olive trees belonging to a Palestinian resident in the village of al-Walaja, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
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