Human Rights

Beirut/PNN/ On Monday, 14 September 2020, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, began his first …

Jerusalem/PNN/ Israeli authorities have held the body of a Palestinian man, Ahmed Erekat, for more than ten weeks after officers killed him seemingly without justification at a checkpoint, in violation …

UNCTAD/ Geneva/ COVID-19 has compounded the dire economic conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), which were moving from bad to worse before the pandemic, according to the latest UNCTAD …

PNN/ Jerusalem/ Faisal Husseini Foundation launched a call to action that aspires to support 146 schools serving around 46,000 students in East Jerusalem. The campaign aims at its first phase …

PNN/ Ramallah/ August has witnessed a decrease in the number of violations against media freedoms in Palestine compared to the preceding month. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms …

East Jerusalem/PNN/ Today, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) launched a US$ 94.6 million COVID-19 Appeal. This funding is required by …

Nablus/PNN/ Israeli occupation forces have shot and injured a young Palestinian man in the northern part of the West Bank over an alleged car-ramming attack. The Palestine Red Crescent Society …

Tulkarm/PNN/ New footage has emerged from the occupied West Bank, showing Israeli forces brutally confront an elderly Palestinian man during a protest held near the city of Tulkarm. The video …

Bethlehem/PNN/ The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO), the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) and the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) urge the international community to intervene and support …

PNN/ Gaza/ Against the background of 14 years of an illegal blockade and the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees …

Jerusalem/PNN/ A senior Palestinian official says thousands of Palestinian-owned houses in occupied Jerusalem are facing the threat of demolition by Israeli authorities. The Palestinian Authority’s deputy governor of Jerusalem, Abdullah …

Gaza/PNN/ Prolonged power outages are disrupting medical services in Gaza bringing the blockaded coastal enclave closer to a humanitarian disaster. Power outages currently last for up to twenty hours a …

PNN/ Gaza/ Hundreds have taken to the streets in dozens of towns and cities to call for an end to the UK’s complicity in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people, …

PNN/ Hebron/ A few days ago, a video of Israeli soldiers attacking and torturing Palestinian workers while on their work to work in Israel has gone viral, sparking solidarity with …

Ramallah/PNN/ The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms “MADA” launched a campaign to limit self-censorship in the media that journalists and the mass media practice on themselves and it …