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Israel’s occupation is illegal and indistinguishable from settler-colonialism, which must end as a pre-condition for the Palestinians to exercise their right to self-determination, the UN’s independent expert on the occupied Palestinian territory said Thursday.

More than 125 Palestinian women have been abducted since the beginning of the current year, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).

Syria has renewed its call for the establishment of a new international order that would pay great respect to the Charter of the United Nations, and would effectively put an end to the arbitrary measures and criminal practices of the Israeli regime in the occupied Arab territories.

Palestinian captive Ahmad Ibrahim Lehremi has been on hunger strike for ten days in a row in protest of his detention without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Palestinian prisoners’ suffering has multiplied due to the escalating Israeli campaigns of arrest, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported.

Experts of an UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory have concluded that the Israeli occupation and the Zionist regime's expansionism are unlawful under international law, based on what it said was "reasonable grounds".

The family of an elderly Palestinian-American man, Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad, who died after being forcibly detained, blindfolded and handcuffed by Israeli soldiers, has vehemently rejected a claim from Israeli authorities that the parties have reached a compensation settlement.

A Palestinian captives’ advocacy group says at least 50 Palestinian captives are on an open-ended hunger strike in Zionist regime’s jails in protest against Zionist regime’s so-called policy of administrative detention.

sraeli early release committee on Thursday rejected an appeal to release the cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid despite his deteriorating health condition. 

The Palestinian News and Information Agency, WAFA, documented 26 Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists and media in the occupied territories during September.

Thirty Palestinian captives in Zionist regime’s jails have continued on Friday their open-ended hunger strike for the sixth consecutive day to protest their administrative detention.

The Hamas resistance movement has denounced Zionist regime’s crimes against Palestinian children as a "sadist" practice.

30 Palestinian administrative captives in the Israeli occupation prisons start an open-ended hunger strike today in protest of their unfair detention without charges or trial, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission.

A group of 47 influential Members of the European Parliament have called on European member states and the EU Foreign Policy Chief Joseph Borell to cancel the upcoming EU-Israel Association Council meeting, as Israeli occupation authorities are going ahead with forcible transfer of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta area.

A Palestinian captive completed 19 years behind Zionist regime’s bars, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).

A prisoners’ advocacy group says the Zionist regime has detained more than 135,000 Palestinians since the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993.

Zionist regime’s occupation forces have committed 3,940 crimes in occupied Al-Quds since 1 January this year, the Palestine Information Centre revealed in a report issued on Monday.

The Israeli occupation forces and colonial settlers’ violations against the Palestinian citizens of the occupied West Bank, Al-Quds, and the besieged Gaza Strip have intensified last August.

Hamas: Israel bans entry of UN monitors to hide its crimes.

Israel's State Prosecutor has closed the case of an Israeli settler who stabbed a 27-year-old Palestinian to death in Salfit in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Authority has renewed its push for full membership at the United Nations (UN) amid long-time acts of obstructionism and opposition by the United States.

The number of administrative detainees in Israel has soared since the wave of resistance attacks last March, reaching more than 700.

The Zionist regime’s Supreme Court tosses out an appeal request submitted for the release of a Palestinian captive, who has been on hunger strike for 172 days in protest at his illegal detention.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has called on the international community to criminalise the Israeli occupation, prosecute its leaders, and end its settler-colonisation of historic Palestine.

Palestinian captives are set to launch an open-ended mass hunger strike in protest against the Zionist regime’s repressive measures, a rights group has announced.

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has filed a war crime complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel’s criminal property seizure from Palestinians.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the Israeli regime has razed as many as eight Palestinian homes so far this year, calling the practice “collective punishment” of Palestinians.

Four United Nations experts strongly denounce the Israeli regime’s harassment of human rights activists trying to provide support for the Palestinian communities that face forcible eviction from their houses in a southern West Bank area.

WAFA news agency documents 21 Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists, including shootings, arrests, ban from travel.

The family of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Zionist troops forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin in May, has renewed calls for an independent probe into her cold-blooded murder.

Some 38 far-left French MPs have signed a draft resolution condemning Israel's "institutionalisation of an apartheid regime against Palestinian people," news agencies reported.

The Hamas resistance movement has welcomed a report by a special United Nations commission tasked with investigating Zionist regime’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories, calling on the international community to recognize the regime officials as "war criminals".

The Jordanian captives in Zionist regime’s jails suffer from harsh conditions and deprived of contacting or meeting their families, a former inmate said.

The International Federation of Journalists says it will be a partner in the lawsuit against the Zionist regime at the International Criminal Court (ICC) following the murder in May of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the regime troops in Jenin.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations says the Islamic Republic recognizes Syria’s right to self-defense in the face of Israeli attacks, urging the UN Security Council to strongly condemn the regime’s acts of aggression against the Arab country.

A Palestinian official says Israeli prison authorities have threatened to deprive Palestinian captives of medical treatment if they refuse to call off an open-ended hunger strike launched months ago against their arbitrary detentions.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has handed the International Criminal Court's prosecutor the official outcome of the Palestinian investigation into Israel's murder of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin last month.

Hamas: The appointment of the Israeli occupation ambassador, Gilad Erdan, to a senior UN position is an affront to the values of freedom and justice and a threat to international security and stability.

An American professor of international law and former UN special rapporteur says the Israeli assassination of a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) last month was a clear violation of international law, noting that Israeli is guilty of “state-sponsored terrorism.”

Tuesday was the 151st consecutive day of a protest action by Palestinian prisoners boycotting the Zionist regime’s military courts.

The legislature of Yemen’s National Salvation Government is going to introduce a bill that will criminalize all forms of normalization of ties with Israel, in a great show of solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

Iraqi lawmakers today voted to approve a bill on banning relations with Zionist regime.

The family of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh announced that they would follow up on investigations into her murder on both "local and international levels."

Prominent Palestinian rights groups say they have provided the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a detailed description of the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Israeli military aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip last year.

Israel's drums of war beat incessantly against the Palestinian people. It is a war waged daily against us for nearly three-quarters of a century. Last week, Palestinians marked the 74th anniversary of the Nakba – the catastrophic founding of the state of Israel in historic Palestine in 1948.

More than 50 US lawmakers have signed a letter demanding the FBI and State Department investigate the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after Israel's military said it would not investigate the case.

A Berlin court has ruled in favour of German-Palestinian academic Dr Anna-Esther Younes and ordered a state-funded body to release a secret dossier compiled by the pro-Israel group which painted the scholar of critical race theory as an anti-Semite.

US Congresswoman introduces a resolution, calling for the lower house of US Congress to recognise the forced expulsion of at least 750,000 Palestinians by then Zionist paramilitaries in 1948.

Syria has urged the United Nations and its Security Council to issue a "clear" condemnation of the Zionist regime's recurrent attacks on the Arab country's territory.

Sunday was the 128th consecutive day of a protest action by hundreds of Palestinian captives held under Israel’s so-called administrative detention who have been boycotting the Zionist regime’s military courts.

The United Nations (UN) called for Israeli authorities to cancel the court's ruling to evict 1,300 Palestinians in the South Al-Khalil Hills of the occupied West Bank.

The Zionist regime is holding more than 600 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial in its detention centers across the occupied territories, a rights group said.

Israel's housing policies in East Al-Quds amount to "racial segregation and discrimination" against the Palestinian people and a violation of their human rights, a group of UN experts said Thursday, and Anadolu News Agency reports.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has strongly condemned the latest bout of Israeli aggression against the al-Aqsa Mosque and warned the occupying regime of the consequences of its actions, stressing that the holy Muslim site must be protected under international law.

Nearly 450 Palestinian captives have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 113 days in protest of their unfair detention without charge or trial under Israel’s controversial administrative detention policy.

After an eight-year legal battle, a Swiss court has recognised the statelessness of Palestinian refugees from Syria and acknowledged their right to protection.

The number of Palestinians held in administrative detention in Zionist regime’s jails without charge or trial has increased to 650, said the Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission.

A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Abdel Latif Al-Qanoua said Thursday, that the Israeli authorities continue to flagrantly violate international laws and humanitarian covenants by besieging the Gaza Strip, preventing the entry of medical equipment and devices into it, and preventing Palestinian patients from travelling abroad for treatment, as well as practicing medical negligence against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Palestinian administrative captives in Zionist regime's jails continue to boycott administrative courts for the 92nd day running Saturday to demand an end to the policy of administrative detention under the slogan "Our decision is freedom."

Adalah, The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, has called on the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel (CoI-OPTI) to "investigate the Nakba and the ongoing existence of a colonial regime with apartheid characteristics."