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January 6, 2021

Palestinian activist faces long jail sentence

Amnesty International believes all the charges against Issa Amro are politically-motivated and linked to his peaceful work in exposing Israel’s human rights violations.
December 19, 2020

UN experts alarmed at sixth Palestinian child killing by Israeli forces in 2020

Civil society organisations have documented the deaths of 155 Palestinian children by Israeli Security Forces using live ammunition or crowd-control weapons since 2013.
December 11, 2020

Airbnb 'deeply compromised' by Israeli settlement properties share listing

Airbnb is benefiting from illegal settlements built on stolen Palestinian land in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, says Amnesty International.
November 15, 2020

Gaza aid worker must be given fair trial or released, say UN experts

What is happening to Mohammed el-Halabi bears no relation to the trial standards we expect from democracies, say UN human rights experts.
October 25, 2020

UN expert calls for Israel to end practice of administrative detention

People can be held indefinitely without trial, sometimes for years, under Israel's practice of adminsitrative detention.
September 13, 2020

Over 20 organisations protest Israel’s plans for illegal annexation in West Bank

Charities, trade unions, religious groups, and civil society organisations have signed a statement urgently calling on public bodies to “uphold their ethical and legal responsibilities to ensure human rights and international law are respected” as a direct response to Israel’s plans to illegally annex Palestinian land in the West Bank.
August 31, 2020

Gaza braced for COVID-19 surge amidst bombing and electricity shortages, warns Oxfam

Israeli authorities must allow fuel into Gaza, so its sole electricity plant can power hospitals again, says Oxfam.
August 4, 2020

Charity says denial of healthcare outside Gaza is a death sentence for children

Neither chemotherapy nor radiology treatments are available due to Israeli restrictions on medication entering Gaza.
June 30, 2020

Annexation plans violate international law

Quakers in Britain have joined a group of UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations to oppose further illegal Israeli annexation of occupied Palestine.
June 12, 2020

ECHR judgement rules boycott campaign against Israel cannot be criminalised

The ruling states that the convictions for campaigning for a boycott of Israeli products violated the campaigners’ right to freedom of expression.