Israel and The Occupied Palestinian Territories News

The Israeli authorities should cancel plans to forcibly relocate around 2,300 Bedouin residents of the West Bank, Amnesty International said in a new briefing paper today.

The Israeli authorities must release a Palestinian man who has been on hunger strike for more than 50 days or charge him with a recognisable offence.

The Hamas de facto administration in Gaza must ensure an independent and impartial investigation into the attacks on a Gazan human rights activist.

The Israeli Supreme Court has upheld a law that bans most Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from living in Israel on the grounds that they are automatic security risks, writes Amnesty International's Israel/OPT campaigner.

 

A new Israeli law allowing for automatic and lengthy detention of asylum seekers flies in the face of international law, Amnesty International said today.

Israeli authorities have displaced a record number of Palestinian families from their homes, an international coalition of 20 leading aid agencies and human rights groups said today. 

 

The Israeli government must halt plans to expand construction in illegal settlements in the West Bank and stop proposals to suspend the transfer of taxes to the Palestinian Authority, Amnesty International said today.   

Linan Abu Gulmeh was released last week from administrative detention in Israel. 

The prisoner exchange involving Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 477 Palestinian prisoners highlights the need for the humane treatment of all detainees in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Amnesty International said today.

A primary school for Palestinian Bedouin children in the Jerusalem area could be destroyed at any time.