Human Rights

GENEVA /PNN/ The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, today urged Israel to comply with international law …

PNN/ Nablus/ Israeli Prisons Service (IPS) on Tuesday have released the injured minor female prisoner, Istabraq Nour (15) from Israeli jails after 20 months of imprisonment. Istabraq, from Madama village …

Ramallah /PNN/ Ninety per cent of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel’s Nafha prison have seen their health deteriorate significantly, the strikers media committee revealed in a statement. The …

PNN/ Bethlehem/ The Nakba is ongoing, not only through policies of ongoing displacement implemented through the Zionist-Israeli strategy which seeks to control the maximum amount of land with the minimum …

PNN/Bethlehem/ As the mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners continues, several South African politicians, journalists and activists have declared a 24-hour hunger strike between the 14th and 15th of May …

Ramallah/PNN/ Palestinian Ministry of Health announced Friday after noon 12/5/2017  the death of a 22-year-old Palestinian youth by Israeli occupation forces during violent clashes in Nabi Saleh village northwest of …

Ramallah/PNN/ Palestine Football Association said today that it will pursue the matter of FIFA council’s block of the Palestine FA proposal to the 67th Congress on the Israeli settlement club to …

PNN/ Bethlehem/ Diaspora, division, occupation, prison, deportation, refuge have all been part of every Palestinian’s life, especially with a 50 year old occupation that keeps tearing families apart. Sa’diyya Karaja, …

By Daoud Kuttab/ Al-monitor  Ran Goldstein, the Israeli executive director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), told Al-Monitor that Israeli doctors see any force used in medical treatment as unethical. …

PCHR/ Gaza/ News is coming about the Israeli preparations to commit the force-feeding crime against hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for 20 days. The Israeli …

PCHR/ Gaza/ On 13 December 2015, at least nine Palestinian students of the Palestine Technical University-Kadoorie in Tulkarm were shot by soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Forces. About 7,000 students …

Ramallah/PNN/ The head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA), Issa Qaraqe’, and the head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Qaddoura Fares, called on the World Health Organization …

Bethlehem /PNN/ Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is deeply concerned about the firing of tear gas canisters, stun grenades and bullets by Israeli forces close to the Palestine Medical Complex …

Ramallah /PNN/ In a meeting with diplomats and ambassadors to the state of Palestine, the families of a number of Palestinian political prisoners expressed their serious concern about the wellbeing …

PNN/ Gaza/ On 16 April 2017, the Gaza Power Plant (GPP) shut down due to a lack of fuel. Gaza thus lost 60 megawatts of electricity or roughly thirty per …