Burqin, a town in the northern West Bank, is home to one of the oldest churches in the world, the Church of the Ten Lepers, where Jesus Christ is said to have performed a miracle of healing lepers who were confined in the church’s cave. By: Taghreed Ali Feb 2, …
Read More »Your Son’s Life Is Over
“Your son’s life is over,” those were the exact words an Israeli military official used to inform the family of a slain Palestinian teen that their son was killed by a soldier at Giti Avishar junction near the illegal Ariel colony, in the occupied West Bank. While a soldier, a …
Read More »A restored Palestinian library in Jerusalem preserves heritage, encourages research
By: Daoud Kuttab Founded in 1900, Khalidi Library contains one of the world’s biggest private collections of Arabic books and manuscripts The library and its treasure trove of manuscripts and books further buttress Palestinians’ historic claim to the city At the turn of the 20th century, Hajj Raghib Al-Khalidi realized …
Read More »Report: Israeli settler population surged during Trump era
By JOSEPH KRAUSS JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s West Bank settler population has grown at a far higher rate than the country as a whole over the last four years, a pro-settler group said Wednesday, a period that coincides with the Trump administration’s unprecedented acceptance of settlement activity. The report by …
Read More »2020: the year of duplicated suffering on detainees in confronting the policies of jailor and the epidemic
During 2020, the Israeli occupation authorities continued in the policy of systematic punishment and violating the rights of detainees, which are guaranteed by international covenants and agreements, as part of torture policy imposed against the Palestinians. A series of violations took the first place in the reality of the cause …
Read More »Inhabitants of Farasin live in caves due to Israeli land grab policy
In caves or tents and houses made of tin, the Palestinian citizens live in Farasin village, southwest of Jenin, in defiance of the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) that prevents them from building in their village and on their land with the aim of displacing them and expand the nearby settlements. …
Read More »Jad, a birthday blown up by settler vandals
By: Zahran Maali NABLUS, Saturday, January 23, 2021 – Alaa Sawafta, a 36-year-old father of two, was on his way back home together with his family to celebrate the third birthday of their little kid, Jad, when all of a sudden a group of rampaging Israeli settlers hurled their vehicles …
Read More »OCHA: Protection of Civilians Report | 5-18 January 2021
Protection of Civilians Report for January 5-18, 2021 Two Palestinians reportedly attacked Israelis in two separate incidents and were subsequently shot; one was killed and the other injured. On 5 January, at the Gush Etzion junction (Hebron), a 25-year-old Palestinian man approached the security coordinator of an Israeli settlement and …
Read More »Hala, 11, miraculously saved when Israeli settlers attempted to abduct her
By Bassam Abu al-Rub NABLUS, Monday, January 18, 2021 – Hala Mashhour al-Qat, 11, from Madama village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, sat on her bed at the emergency ward in Rafidya Government Hospital with the effects of the shock and the attack she encountered the …
Read More »Palestinian Organisations Review ‘Report on Preliminary Examination Activities 2020’ and Call on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to Open an Investigation into International Crimes in the OPT
Date: 6 January 2021 Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and Al Dameer (the organisations) express concern that significant time has passed since the opening of the second preliminary examination on the Situation in Palestine in January 2015, and since the closing of that …
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