Occupation Administration Maps Susiya – Palestinian Residents Fear Imminent Demolition

A representative of Israel’s Civil Administration accompanied by soldiers arrived this week at the Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya in the occupied South Hebron Hills. The representative, known to residents only as “Carlos,” photographed and took GPS measurements of structures in the village. Based on previous experience, local residents fear that this action means the…

Ra'uf Hamdan, the father of Kheir Hamdan, murdered by the police in Kafr Kanna

Investigators Clear Cops in Fatal Shooting of Arab Man – Adalah: “Green Light” for Next Murder

The Police Investigations Unit (PID) on Tuesday, May 5, officially cleared officers of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of Kheir Hamdan, a 22-year-old Palestinian-Arab Israeli citizen, last November in Kafr Kanna. Footage of the incident showed Hamdan approaching the police van and tapping on the window repeatedly with what the officers claimed appeared to be…

Palestinians protest in front of the offices of the Red Cross in the West Bank city of Nablus, calling for immediate intervention to release prisoners from Israeli prisons, especially women and children, Nablus, West Bank, March 12, 2015.

500% Increase in Palestinians Detained without Trial in 2015

Israeli occupation authorities have issued 319 administrative detention orders for Palestinians since the beginning of 2015, a rights group said Friday, April 3, six times as many as they did the previous year. The statistics, released by the Palestinian Center for Prisoner Studies, suggests a massive increase in Israel’s incarceration of Palestinians without charge or trial…

Khalida Jarrar (left) with a member of the European Parliament, Martina Ardenson (Sinn Fein, Ireland) in Ramallah, September 2014.

Palestinian Factions Condemn Detention of MP Khalida Jarrar

Israeli forces detained Palestinian lawmaker and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Khalida Jarrar, after raiding her home early Thursday, April 2. Jarrar’s daughter, Yaffa, told Ma’an news agency that Israeli forces surrounded the home in the al-Irsal neighborhood of al-Bireh near Ramallah around 3:00 a.m., and demanded to see her…