Israel announced on Thursday, February 19, it would allow Palestinian workers in the country to return to their West Bank homes starting today, Sunday, February 21. This constitutes a relaxing of restrictions that have forced tens of thousands of them to spend the night in Israel since the start of its third nationwide lockdown on December 27, in…
Israel permitted Palestinian officials in Ramallah to send the first shipment of 2,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to the blockaded Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, February 17, after earlier in the week the Palestinian Authority accused it of holding up an earlier delivery. On Monday, February 15, the Palestinian Minister of Health had announced that Israeli occupation…
More than 400 academic faculty members in Israel have signed a petition calling on the Israeli government and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) to allow students from Gaza to exit the Strip in order to reach their academic institutions abroad. On the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing prohibition of almost all travel…
A delegation of doctors organized by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, December 3, to provide free treatment for hundreds of Gazans impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The delegation is the first of its kind from Israel to enter the Palestinian enclave since the start of the pandemic in the…
Five Israeli human rights groups have petitioned the High Court of Justice (HCJ) to force Israel to rescind its Gaza fuel ban, as the United Nations warns that its absence has exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis. The petition to the HCJ, was filed by Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, Adalah – The Legal…
Five Israeli human rights organizations have sent an urgent letter to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Kamil Abu Rukun, and Attorney General, Avichai Mandelblit, demanding that Israel immediately rescind its restrictions on movement of people to and from Gaza which were imposed under the guise of fighting…
China rejects the endeavors of Israel’s far-right government to annex large swaths of the occupied territories designated to be part of the future Palestinian state, a Chinese diplomat told the Palestine News & Information Agency (WAFA) in an interview. The Chinese ambassador to Palestine, Guo Wei, stated that his country rejects Israel’s annexation of occupied…
Several Palestinian and Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called on Israeli authorities to put an immediate end to attacks on Gaza’s fishermen, following the Israeli navy’s increased use of violent enforcement measures at sea. The NGOs report that the number of incidents of live fire being opened on fishermen off the coast of Gaza rose…
In the face of the threat of potentially devastating COVID-19 outbreaks in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, several international, Israeli and Palestinian aid and human rights organizations have released a joint statement emphasizing Israel’s legal and moral obligations to “take measures to save lives, permitting the entry of medical equipment and supplies, to…
For the second day in a row, Israeli navy boats opened fire on Thursday, April 9, at Palestinian fishermen off the northern Gaza shore wounding two, according to the Gaza Fishermen Federation. The Israeli navy pursued Palestinian-fishing boats in the northern Gaza coast to force them to return to shore, opening fire and hitting two fishermen…