Refugees

EU statement reports 849 settler attacks against Palestinians in 2022.

Palestinian observers have warned of an Israeli plan to displace over 80 Al-Quds residents in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and Silwan district before the holy month of Ramadan to make way for Jewish settlers.

Israel has expanded demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank in defiance of international law and despite condemnation from across the world.

The UN says the Zionist regime has killed dozens of Palestinians and either destroyed or confiscated scores of Palestinian-owned structures across the occupied West Bank within an interval of about three weeks in January.

A far-right Israeli minister has called for the demolition of hundreds of Palestinian homes, in a move that reflects escalating Israeli extremism against Palestinians in the occupied territories amid unhindered expansionism.

Some 13,000 Al-Quds residents are threatened with forced displacement from the occupied Old City of Al-Quds in order to make way for Jewish-only homes, synagogues, biblical gardens and museums, the Adviser to the Palestinian President's Office for Al-Quds’ Affairs, Ahmed Al-Ruwaidi, warned.

Zionist troops have demolished several Palestinian-owned homes across the West Bank, as the Zionist regime continues its land grab policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Israeli authorities on Sunday demolished the unrecognized Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Naqab desert in southern Occupied Palestine for the 211th time since 2010.

Political Arab factions in occupied territories on Friday staged a protest in the Arab city of Yafa against the Zionist regime’s plan to ethnically cleanse 1,400 Arabs from the city.

Dozens of Palestinian families are threatened to be displaced from their homes in Silwan town south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds in favor of the Zionist organization Ateret Cohanim.

As many as 130,000 Palestinians, who live in the areas occupied by the Zionist regime following a war in 1948, face the threat of demolition of their homes and other structures, a new report says.

Israeli authorities are going to confiscate thousands of square meters of private Palestinian land in the northern West Bank to expand a settlement in violation of international law and UN Security Council resolutions condemning the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the occupied territories.

The Palestinian people remember one of the most heinous massacres committed on this day in 1956 by the Israeli colonial occupation army and its terrorist gangs against Palestinian citizens in historic Palestine, particularly in Kafr Qasim village.

Zionist regime’s authorities demolished, on Monday morning, all the tents and structures in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert for the 207th consecutive time, displacing its Bedouin residents, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished a Palestinian-owned house in Artas village in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem at dawn on Thursday.

The United Nations says the Zionist regime has demolished close to 9,000 Palestinian-owned structures since 2009, rendering thousands of Palestinians homeless.

A 40-year-old Palestinian man who has been held in Israel for two months has died today in an Israeli hospital in yet unclear circumstances as Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups held Israel responsible for his death.

Mohammad al-Halabi, former Gaza chief for World Vision, was sentenced after already serving six years behind bars.

The United Nations says the Israeli regime tore down as many as 50 Palestinian-owned structures across the Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank in a matter of just two weeks, displacing 55 people.

A new report has revealed that Israeli forces demolished about 1,032 Palestinian homes and buildings in the occupied cities of West Bank and East al-Quds in 2021. 

Two Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank received demolition orders against their homes, according to Fouad al-Imour, a local activist.

Thousands of people across Europe have taken to the streets in various European capitals to hold mass rallies in commemoration of the 74th anniversary of 'Nakba', or Catastrophe Day and to condemn the recent killing of a veteran Palestinian journalist by Israeli forces.

The European Union has criticized the Zionist regime over its plan to deport over 1,300 Palestinians from their hamlets near the city of al-Khali in the southern part of the occupied West Bank in favor of Israeli settlers.

The European Union (EU) criticised the Israeli Supreme Court's ruling for evicting more than 1,300 Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil.

Zionist regime's top court has given the army the green light to forcibly evict more than 1,000 inhabitants of eight Palestinian hamlets in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, in one of the single biggest expulsion decisions since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories began in 1967.

The Israeli Supreme Court today approved the construction of a 31-unit six-storey settler apartment complex in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil, known as the Hezekiah Quarter.

Zionist Regime’s Prime Minister, Naphtali Bennett, said Tuesday that his government will continue settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The Zionist regime is set to build 730 new settler units in the occupied al-Quds, as part of its illegal settlement expansion activities across the Palestinian territories.

A human rights group on Wednesday called for urgent financial assistance to thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Israel is committing a travesty by turning dozens of Ukrainian refugees away from the occupied teritoroes, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said on Tuesday, in a briefing with reporters in Tel Aviv.

Zionist regime has demolished several Palestinian houses and commercial units in various parts of the occupied West Bank.

Zionist troops have placed the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the occupied East al-Quds under a near-complete lockdown.

OCHA: Israel demolished, confiscated or forced owners to demolish 53 Palestinian-owned homes and other structures.

An Israeli court tonight ordered the Salem family in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Al-Quds to leave their home where they lived for decades and hand it over to Jewish settlers in March, according to the house owner Ibrahim Salem.

Zionist regime's authorities demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Naqab desert in southern occupied territories for the 196th consecutive time since 2000 and for the 15th time this year.

Zionist troops invaded, Monday, the town of Rojeeb east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and handed demolition orders targeting four homes.

An Israeli General has urged for a repeat of the 1948 military massacre that resulted in Israel's occupation of the Naqab Desert, also known as the Negev, and the forceful expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinian residents.

Only 50 of 1,650 homes wrecked in an 11-day Israeli war are being restored. Gaza officials estimate that it will take $479 million to rebuild homes and infrastructure damaged in the war.

A technical error in Israel's state archive website has revealed that David Ben-Gurion, who would become the first prime minister of the Israeli occupation, said in 1948 that some Palestinian villages must be wiped out because they "constitute a great danger", Israeli daily Haaretz has reported.

Israeli occupation demolished 295 Palestinian residential structures in occupied territories in 2021, leaving 895 Palestinians, 463 of them minors, homeless, Israeli rights group, B'Tselem, reported on Tuesday.

Zionist officials approved plans for the construction of thousands of new housing units and demolished dozens of Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied al-Quds last year, the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of al-Quds Affairs says.

Documents obtained by Haaretz include proposals for a new neighborhood in Sheikh Jarrah, one near Damascus Gate, two near Beit Safafa, and one each in Sur Baher and Beit Hanina.

The European Union reiterated its call on the Israeli occupation authorities to halt demolitions and any other unlawful practices that force Palestinians out of their homes.

The Zionist regime has given the initial approval for construction of as many as 3,000 illegal settler units in the occupied holy city of al-Quds.

OCHA: In the first two weeks of November, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished 49 Palestinian-owned structures and displaced 38 people.

Hundreds of refugees and representatives of factions participated in a mass event to demand the participants in the International Ministerial Conference in Support of UNRWA to provide unconditional funding to the UN agency.

A decades-long standoff between the Israeli government and Mizrahi Jews ended with the eviction of dozens of families from Tel Aviv's Givat Amal Bet neighbourhood, sparking allegations of racism and "contempt" for the Arab Jewish community that migrated to the occupation state following its founding.

Employing systematic violence and terror, Zionist settlers have taken over Palestinian territory the size of the city of Holon, blocking Palestinian access to lands they used to cultivate crops and graze livestock, according to a report published by Israel’s Haaretz daily newspaper.

The Israeli occupation’s court decided to seize thousands of dunams of the lands of Umm Al-Fahm and ‘Ara in the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands.

Hamas spokesman: The Zionist occupation's establishing a transportation station near Nablus is a new Zionist aggression against our Palestinian people.

An Israeli planning committee approved plans advancing the construction of thousands of homes in Givat Hamatos, an illegal East Al-Quds’ settlement that threatens to cut off parts of the city from its Palestinian residents and the West Bank.

On this day in 1953, two Israeli military units under Ariel Sharon besieged the village of Qibya, located 11 km northwest of Ramallah, and isolated it from the rest of the neighboring villages.

The Zionist regime’s occupation has demolished about 172,900 Palestinian homes, displaced 1,324,000 Palestinians and confiscated 19 million dunums (19,000 square kilometres) of the land of historical Palestine "to bring 5 million Zionist immigrant from around the globe to replace the indigenous people."

Violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank has increased dramatically over the past two years, while Israeli officials continue to cover them up, Haaretz reported on Sunday.

Palestinian representatives of national and Islamic forces and refugees meeting in Ramallah have rejected a recent framework agreement signed between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the United States, saying it cancels the rights of return for the refugees.

Palestine has strongly rejected and boycotted Israel’s so-called settlement project in the occupied al-Quds as a colonization attempt, warning that the scheme is aimed at annexing the Arab part of the holy city to the occupying regime.

The United Nations says Israeli authorities have torn down, seized, or forced owners to demolish a total of 31 Palestinian-owned buildings across the occupied West Bank in two weeks.

A Palestinian family from the occupied Al-Quds neighborhood of Silwan embarked on demolishing their own home after they were forced to do so by Israeli municipality, according to local sources.

Mohammed Dwaik proceeded to tear down his house at Khilet al-Ein area in the town of at-Tur to avoid paying exorbitant costs if the Israeli municipality carries out the demolition on its own.

The Israeli occupying state is trying to deceive world public opinion when it says that Palestinians will be allowed to build in Area C of the occupied West Bank, said Ahmad Majdalani, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).