Palestinian Human Rights

A Palestinian human rights report has accused the Israeli Occupation of confiscating approximately 160,000 acres of Palestinian land during 2009 by abusing various laws, such as the Barren Land...

A Palestinian human rights group has warned the residents of occupied East Jerusalem about "retaliatory procedures" by the Israeli occupation authorities in response to the Palestinian Authority application for...

A Palestinian human rights organisation has called for international intervention to stop Israel's escalation of violence against the people of Gaza. Sawaseya Centre for Human Rights expressed its deep...

A Palestinian human rights worker has reported that Israeli forces continue to prevent, Umm Ibrahim, an elderly woman in her 70s, from visiting her son after 14 years on...

Palestinian human rights sources have revealed that Bilal Diab, Thaer Hlahalah and Jaafar Izz al-Din, who have been on hunger strike in an Israeli prison for more than two...

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...

Palestinian human rights sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported that the city's Magistrates' Court has released lawyer Shereen El-Issawi on bail, only to place her under house arrest. She...

Almost 300,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been detained in Israeli prisons since the start of the first Intifada on 8 December 1987. The figures have been revealed in...

A leading Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, revealed on Sunday that the occupation authorities has amended its military law to allow the re-arrest of 14 Palestinian prisoners who were freed as...

On Monday a Palestinian human rights centre criticised the new Israeli military law that upholds the re-arrest of Palestinian former prisoners freed through a prisoner swap agreed between the...

The Palestinian Liberation organisation (PLO) on Thursday called for athletes to boycott the 2013 Israeli marathon in Jerusalem calling it "a racist event which alludes to occupied Jerusalem being...

More than 30 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were reported to have been wounded by guards on Tuesday afternoon as they took part in a protest against the death...

Professor Richard Falk has spoken to the media on some of the most pertinent issues relating to human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The UN Special Rapporteur for...