PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (23 – 29 June 2016)
A Palestinian woman was killed in the West Bank under the pretext of carrying out a run-over attack. 3 civilians were wounded during incursions. 40 civilians, including a woman, sustained bullet and shrapnel wounds while 19 others sustained bruises in al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli forces conducted 40 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank […]
Israeli Occupation Forces Execute 27 Year Old Pregnant Palestinian Woman
Via: Younes Arar “She was first held in this room by the terrorist fascist Zionist occupation soldiers, not too far from the Ibrahimi Mosque where she wanted to reach for prayer, then she was executed she and her unborn baby. The Palestinian 27 years old Sarah Etarayrah, pregnant, executed today by Zionist occupation forces while […]
Israeli police detain 15-year-old girl in Hebron for allegedly possessing knife
Israeli forces Friday detained a 15-year-old Palestinian girl from a military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron for allegedly having a knife in her possession, according to the Israeli border police. An official of the Israeli border police told Ma’an the knife was found after authorities conducted a […]
Israel places Hebron under blockade, cuts Palestinian tax transfers in wake of attacks
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The entire city of Hebron was placed under a general closure on Friday while transfers of tax collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinians were also cut, following a series of deadly incidents that left three Palestinians and two Israelis killed in two days. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an […]
Palestinian father, advocate for families of bodies withheld by Israeli occupation, arrested in Jerusalem
On Monday, 27 June, Israeli occupation forces arrested Mohammed Alayan, a lawyer and the father of Bahaa Alayan, 22, from Jabal al-Mukabber in Jerusalem, who was killed by Israeli forces on 13 October 2015 and whose body remains withheld from his family, imprisoned by the Israeli occupation. Mohammed Alayan has been a visible and active […]
27 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike
A group of Palestinian prisoners have decided to launch a hunger strike in support of a fellow prisoner. Bilal Kayed was put under administrative detention on the day he was supposed to be released. Kayed has been on a hunger strike for over two weeks and is in critical condition. Press T-V’s Mohammad Hamayel has […]
The luxurious life in Gaza: electricity and football
Jehad Abu Jazar: After a long day at work, I came home to the din of the electricity generators, sounding like a symphony of hammers knocking at my head. However, I wasn’t annoyed. I had grown accustomed to it. I can’t stand staying at home when the electricity is off, so I changed my […]
Two injured with live ammunition as Kafr Qaddum celebrates five years of demonstrations
“We see victory in our children’s eyes”
Worshippers for Ramadan Prayer Harassed by Settlers and Soldiers
Restrictions on the basic human right of freedom of religion and to practice one’s religion in occupied al-Khalil, is rather the norm than the exception for Palestinians.
PALESTINE: STOP THE GENOCIDE
1456 Palestinian children were killed (burnt, shot, shelled, bombed, tear gas suffocation, stabbed, run over) by Zionist occupation forces and colonists since 2000 until now, 1 July 2016.