Refugees

Palestinians forced to destroy their own homes to avoid the large demolition costs and fines charged by Zionist regime's municipality.

The United Nations (UN)’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the Zionist regime’s ongoing onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip has left more than 52,000 Palestinians displaced and nearly 450 buildings destroyed or badly damaged in the coastal enclave.

The government press office in Gaza said that the Zionist regime’s aggression against Gaza, which started on Monday, resulted in great financial losses and extensive destruction to infrastructure, homes and services.

Zionist regime’s Police officers reportedly assaulted the protesters and beat up some of them, and also asked those protesting inside the homes slated for evacuation to leave them.

Hamas denounces in the strongest terms the resolution by the European Parliament announced on Wednesday condemning the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) over school curricula’s content.

The UN agency said in a report that the demolition led to the displacement of 13 Palestinians, and damaged the livelihoods of about 90 others.

Zionist regime’s occupation authorities issued demolition notices to 13 houses inhabited by Palestinians in the village of Qabalan, south of the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus, reported Wafa news agency.

The Zionist forces demolished a Palestinian Bedouin village in the southern Negev region for the 186th time despite the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The Zionist authorities demolished and forced people to demolish, or seized 58 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank and displaced 81 people, including 42 children in March 2021.

In February and March, Zionist regime’s courts approved the eviction of seven Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Al-Quds. Illegal settlers will benefit from this.

Over the last couple of weeks, Zionist regime’s occupation troops shot and wounded 53 Palestinian citizens during raids across the occupied West Bank.

International law views West Bank as occupied territory and considers all Jewish settlement-building activity there illegal.

On the 5th Brussels conference on "Supporting the Future of Syria and of the Region", the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reiterated its call to support Palestine refugees who are in Syria and in neighboring countries, said an UNRWA press release.

Rights groups say Israel's 'separation policy' is keeping apart dozens of families.

This programme awards scholarships to disadvantaged youth and in-service teachers. Launching in spring 2021, the new programme will grant 339 scholarships over the next eight years.

A study released today by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Water Authority suggests that only four percent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safely managed water, compared with 39.5 percent in the rest of Palestine.

According to the Committee, the imminent demolition of the 100 Palestinian homes in Silwan’s Al-Bustan will displace 1550 people, most of whom are women and children.

Since the launch of the project in April 2020, which has also been run in Jordan and Haiti, around 20 people have been fitted in Gaza, an enclave of two million Palestinians wedged between the Zionist regime, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Zionist regime’s occupation authorities forced a Palestinian to demolish his house in the East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) neighborhood of Silwan, according to local sources.

Mohammed Rashwan is worried for his family of 10 after a decision from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to reduce aid to Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says what Zionist regime’ is doing in demolishing Palestinian homes and displacing women and children is “a war crime” that can be punished under international law.

The Israeli occupation authorities demolished or confiscated 89 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank in two weeks and displaced 146 Palestinian citizens, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said.

Report: Zionist regime has demolished nearly 166,000 Palestinian homes since it was forged on the land of Palestine in 1948.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas slammed Israeli occupation for ethnically cleansing the Palestinians by proceeding with its policy of home demolitions.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 marks the 38th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre

In August, Zionist regime demolished 51 Palestinian structures in Al-Quds and displacing 85 people.

Zionist regime’s authorities have revealed a mega settlements plan, Arab48 reported yesterday, which will connect major illegal settlement blocs.

Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said International aid community must include Palestine refugees in its immediate emergency response.

On Wednesday, the City Council in occupied East Jerusalem (Beit-Ul-Moqaddas) forced a Palestinian to demolish his own home in Beit Hanina, north of the city.

Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in protests near the border fence separating the besieged Gaza Strip from the occupied territories, leaving scores of people injured.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli authorities demolished 197 Palestinian structures in West Bank during the first half of 2018 as the Tel Aviv regime presses ahead with its land expropriation policies in the occupied territories.

Illegal settlers and Israeli soldiers invaded, ‘Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Tuesday at dawn, and injured approximately 100 Palestinians, after the locals intercepted an invasion carried out by Israeli illegal settlers.

The Bedouin community in al-Baba Mountain, in the town of Al-Eizariya, in the occupied old city of al-Quds (‘Jerusalem’), stands steadfast in face of Israeli plans which aim to evict them.

Representatives of water institutions operating in the Gaza Strip, international figures and Palestinian activists held a press conference in Gaza city on Saturday about the catastrophic situation of water in the Gaza Strip and asked the international community to resolve the crisis.

Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian home in the occupied old city of al-Quds ('Jerusalem') neighborhood of Silwan on Wednesday morning, displacing eight Palestinians, including four children.

Israel has increased the powers of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) by giving them the formal authority to manage their own “municipal” affairs

Hundreds if not thousands of Palestinian Bedouins have been stripped of their Israeli citizenship in the Negev Desert, a report says as the regime pushes ahead with its policy of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories.

Taking advantage of the impunity enjoyed by its troopers, and the immunity against any legal prosecution, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue to target Palestinian children, whether by killing, wounding or arrest.

As the Gaza Strip marked the ten-year anniversary of Israel’s siege of the small Palestinian enclave on Thursday, the humanitarian situation has continued to alarm rights groups, which have denounced the “inhuman conditions unparalleled in the modern world.”

Gaza residents have electricity for less than six hours a day, now, due to the 10-year-old Israeli-Egyptian siege.

Lieberman said plans to build 3,651 settler homes in the West Bank were approved last week, adding that the number of settlement units slated for construction is at its highest since 1992.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing concerns about the regime forces’ use of lethal force against Palestinians.

Number of Palestinians worldwide has reached about 12.70 million by the end of 2016, showing a r9-time rise since the Nakba of 1948.

UN expressed concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in the OPT, on the eve of the 50th year of the Israeli occupation.

Palestinian refugees within Palestine constituted 42% of its total population by the end of 2016.