RAMALLAH, September 2, 2025 (WAFA) – The Jerusalem Governorate has Tuesday issued a report that monitored the violations of the Israeli occupation in the governorate during August 2025, which focused on arrests, actual imprisonment decisions, demo...
Israeli ambassador to UK summoned as joint statement says move will fuel further violence and break international law. David Lammy has joined 20 other foreign ministers around the world in condemning Israeli plans to build an illegal settlement on th...
The U.N. human rights office said on Friday an Israeli plan to build to build thousands of new homes between an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and near East Jerusalem was illegal under international law, and would put nearby Palestinians at risk...
On Sunday, July 13, 2025, a group of Israeli settlers attacked a CNN crew working near the village of Sinjil. Their car was heavily damaged, its rear window smashed by one of the assailants....
Israel hires private security companies to guard Israeli settler compounds in Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. The state spends millions of dollars on settler security in East Jerusalem while endangering Palestinian residents....
On June 19, 2025, we approached the Mayor of Jerusalem, the Minister of Defense, and the commander of the Home Front Command on behalf of the residents of neighborhoods beyond the separation wall in Jerusalem, demanding that the receive protective sh...
Jerusalem – U.S. Consulate Reopening Controversy The Biden administration plans to reopen the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, restoring a direct diplomatic channel with Palestinians that was closed by the Trump administration in 2019. Israeli officia...
Living in the old city of Jerusalem amid the ongoing turmoil has profoundly shaped Maria Lubat’s day-to day life. Maria, a young Greek Orthodox Christian woman from Jerusalem, who describes the city as filled with resilience and fatigue amid ongo...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) condemns the Jerusalem Municipality’s foreclosure order against the Armenian Patriarchate, calling it a violation of religious freedom and the historic Status Quo. WCC expresses solidarity with Christian communit...
Between March and July 2018, Human Rights Watch and Kerem Navot identified at least 139 Airbnb listings located in 61 Israeli settlements across the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem. These listings are inherently discriminatory, as Palestinians ho...
Since 1967, more than 14,500 Palestinians from Jerusalem have had their residency status revoked by Israel. This practice amounts to forcible transfer, which is classified as a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and ...
Currently, no country in the world maintains an embassy in Jerusalem. Acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is widely viewed as legitimizing Israel’s unlawful annexation of parts of the city. In direct violation of international law, former...
