Human Rights

Statement by BADIL/ Bethlehem/ Ending the Ongoing Nakba of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) is the starting point to achieving a just and sustainable peace. This Ongoing Nakba, …

Bethlehem/PNN/ Najeeb Farraj- A video documented the hideous shooting of a 27-year-old Palestinian man, Mustafa Younis, from Aara town in the 1948, by the Israeli hospital guards on Wednesday noon. …

Jisr al-Zarqa/PNN/ The Israeli government’s policy of boxing in Palestinian communities extends beyond the West Bank and Gaza to Palestinian towns and villages inside Israel, Human Rights Watch said today. …

Ramallah/PNN/ Israeli occupation forces, in a dawn raid, embarked on demolishing a house belonging to the family of Palestinian prisoner Qassam al-Barghouthi in the town of Kobar in the occupied …

Jerusalem/PNN/ The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is urgently seeking US$ 93.4 million for its response to COVID-19 in the areas …

PNN/ Ramallah/ In an exceptional and unprecedented situation, April 2020 has witnessed a very limited and very low number of violations against media freedoms in the West Bank and Gaza …

Jerusalem/PNN/ Unless gender is integrated into national and institutional efforts to combat COVID-19 in Palestine, the pandemic’s socio-economic impact would aggravate gender inequalities and women’s vulnerabilities, according to a new …

Bethlehem/PNN/ Israel has demolished four Palestinian agricultural facilities in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.  Local activists, reported that the demolition took place in the village of Jiftlik …

PNN/ New York/   Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Midwife  As the world battles COVID-19, women continue to get pregnant and babies …

Bethlehem/PNN/ Amanya Michael-Ebye, Director of UNRWA Affairs, Syrian Arab Republic said in statement that UNRWA Shocked at Shrapnel Incident Causing Damage to School Building in Homs, Syria. She added that …

Ramallah /PNN/ The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms “MADA” sends the warmest congratulations to journalists in Palestine and around the world on the occasion of the World Press …

East Jerusalem/PNN/ The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) signed an agreement for a US$ 1 million contribution from KSrelief, in support …

Bethlehem/PNN/ Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has won a landmark case in the Supreme Court after challenging UK Government regulations which restrict Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) from divesting contrary to …

Jerusalem /PNN/ Israeli forces have raided the house of Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, the preacher of al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem, according local reports. Israeli soldiers accompanied by intelligence …

Jericho/PNN/ A high-ranking official of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has called on the Israeli regime to immediately release a Palestinian prisoner diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, amid serious concerns …