Human Rights

Gaza/PNN/ The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip can no longer enjoy clean water and air on the territory’s beaches due to high rates of pollution, the local Environment Quality Authority …

Ramallah/PNN/ The annual report issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed that 2016 witnessed a record-breaking number of home and livelihood structure demolitions by …

RAMALLAH/PNN/ Commenting on Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon’s election to the post of Vice President of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. …

ISM/ Hebron/ ISM met with the founder of al-Khalil’s largest women’s cooperative to discuss business, the occupation and women’s empowerment. Idhna is a small town to the west of al-Khalil, …

PCHR/ Gaza/   7 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip were wounded during activities supporting the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails. Israeli forces continued to target the Gaza Strip …

PNN/ Ramallah/ International law stipulates that Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem is illegal and constitutes a direct violation of Israel’s obligations as a belligerent occupier. On November 29, 1947, the …

PNN/Bethlehem/ On Wednesday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released its 2016 annual report in which it criticises Israel for being the reason for humanitarian …

Jerusalem/PNN/ Israeli Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Environmental Protection, Ze’ev El-Kin, has excluded Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem from a plan he prepared to improve hygiene and the quality of …

Nazareth /PNN/ The Israeli Interior Minister, Aryeh Deri, has refused to grant 449 Palestinians permits to be reunited with their families in Israel, Haaretz reported. The paper quoted Deri as saying …

RAMALLAH/PNN/ Marwan Barghouthi, the imprisoned Fatah leader who recently led a mass 41-day hunger strike, said in a statement issued from his prison cell that the Freedom and Dignity Strike …

GAZA/PNN/ The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns that Gaza Ministry of Interior banned Dr. Zakariya al-Agha, Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and …

PNN/Bethlehem/ New details have been released regarding the agreement under which Palestinian prisoners suspended the 40-day hunger strike on Saturday morning, 27th of May, providing elaboration on the specific issues …

PNN/Bethlehem/ Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, sent a letter to senior Israeli officials on 23rd of May, urging them to cancel open tenders offering Palestinian …

PNN/Bethlehem/ On Friday, the Mideast envoy of the UN, said that Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip will surely face a “humanitarian crisis” if further reductions of electricity are made. …

Bethlehem/PNN/ Today Saturday Palestinian  sources announced that the leadership of the prisoners inside Israeli jails  has reached an agreement with the Israeli government and its prison authority to end hunger …