Israeli Courts

A Palestinian rights organisation has warned against the dangers of the law approved by the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Law and Constitution which authorises Israeli courts to prevent certain...

The Israeli courts have upheld a decision by the military authorities to demolish an agricultural well near the town of Khadr in the southern West Bank; the well's owner...

An Israeli human rights group has concluded that the absence of accountability "encourages soldiers to kill Palestinian civilians". In its annual report published this week, the Israeli Information Centre...

Israel's Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said yesterday that the country's parliament, the Knesset, is to look into an unprecedented proposal submitted by extreme right-wing parliamentarian Danny Danon. The Likud...

Umm al-Fahm (Palestine) – Quds Press On Thursday, an Israeli court in Jerusalem issued a decision to acquit the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah,...

Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli and European activists protested on Friday across the West Bank in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in the Israeli jails sparking severe clashes that...

A professor of international law has revealed that the most recent poll published by the Israeli occupation forces indicate that Israel has revoked the "permanent residence" status of 14,087...

The Israeli occupation is to charge five Palestinian minors whom it claims are responsible for causing a car accident that resulted in the injury to several Israeli settlers in...

The Israeli occupation authorities detained 330 Palestinians in March. The figure includes ninety children, six women, eight journalists and a parliamentarian, reported the Palestine Prisoners' Centre (PPC). In its...

Palestinians protesters organised a candlelight demonstration on Thursday night to protest against an Israeli court ruling allowing parts of the Separation Wall to be built in the Wadi Cremisan...

On Thursday at dawn, the Israeli occupation released Tariq Qedan and Jaafar Izzidin, two Palestinian hunger strikers who have been on strike for 93 days. Qedan, 42, and Izzidin,...

On Sunday, the Israeli occupation handed over an 'administrative destruction notice' to the owner of a six-flat building under construction in the Beit-Haneena neighbourhood in Jerusalem and detained three...

On Tuesday evening, an Israeli court extended the administrative detention of four members of the Palestinian Legislative Council from the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the West Bank. According...

The Israeli central court in Beersheba has compelled two men from the Alsid village to demolish their own homes before they were demolished by bulldozers and fined them large...

The Israeli occupation authorities have placed a 12 year old Palestinian boy under house arrest after his release on bail. Mahran Al-Jabari was detained in Jerusalem last Friday along...

Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons began an open-ended hunger strike on Monday in protest against their detention for extended periods of time without trial, Palestine's Prisoners Centre said....

The Israeli Ministry of Justice has backed down on plans to build a courts complex on land which forms part of the historic Ma'man Allah Palestinian Cemetery in Jerusalem....

An Israeli court has tied its recommendations to the interests of the settlement project in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, Palestinians have claimed. The allegation was made following...

A Palestinian mother was arrested on Tuesday when she went to Israel's Hasharon Prison to visit her 16 year old son. Shadad Al-Awar's mother was detained in the waiting...

An Israeli Magistrate Court on Monday extended the detention of chief guard of al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Najeh Bkeerat, for the second time. The court said that more time is...

The Jerusalem District Court has sentenced four former Israeli soldiers to only four months of community service after they were indicted for abusing a disabled Palestinian detainee in 2009,...

The Israeli authorities have begun moves to evacuate about 1,300 Palestinians from eight Palestinians villages in south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on the pretext that 'they...

An activist for prisoners' issues, Fo'ad Al-Khofosh, has called on the Palestinian Authority to clarify the terms of the prisoner release deal agreed with Israel as part of the...

A Palestinian rights centre has revealed that hundreds of Palestinians are serving life sentences in Israeli jails. The Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights said in a...

The Israeli occupation army has delivered demolition notices to the Palestinian residents of Yatta village in the south of the West Bank relating to 10 wells, a tent and...

A report issued by the Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights in collaboration with Europeans for Al-Quds has revealed that one-third of all Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem are at...

Israel has bulldozed the home of Ameen Showaiki in Beit Hanina neighbourhood of occupied Jerusalem. Witnesses said that the army bulldozers arrived at 4am. Soldiers broke into the house...

The Israeli occupation renewed on Sunday the administrative detention of two Islamist Palestinian parliamentarians, Ahrar for Prisoners Studies has announced. The two parliamentarians, Ahrar reported, are the Secretary-General of...

Israeli bulldozers have demolished several Palestinian-owned homes and agricultural facilities in the northern Jordan Valley. Eyewitnesses said that the Israelis have knocked down houses and tents in the Bokayaa...

Israeli occupation forces released a Palestinian parliamentarian and former minister from the city of Jerusalem after 24 months in administrative detention. The member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC),...

The Israeli media revealed on Thursday that a major corruption scandal is under investigation involving senior police officers suspected of receiving bribes from renowned Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto. Among...

A convoy of diplomats was allegedly attacked by Israeli soldiers on Friday as they oversaw the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians whose West Bank homes had been destroyed....