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(JURIST) - The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Jill Edwards urged the Israeli government on Thursday to look into numerous allegations of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading [...]

(JURIST) - Egypts Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday announced the country intends to file a declaration of intervention in South Africas case against Israel at the International Court of [...]

(JURIST) - Russia and China vetoed a US-authored UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution Friday that called for a ceasefire in Gaza.The exact text of the UNSC Resolution is not currently [...]

(JURIST) - Nicaragua filed an official application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday instituting proceedings against Germany. Nicaragua claimed that Germany has been complicit in the genocide [...]

(JURIST) - US President Joe Biden issued an executive order Thursday enabling sanctions to be issued against violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The first round of sanctions under [...]

(JURIST) - The Palestine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Sunday announced that Israeli authorities withdrew the VIP travel permit for the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Dr. Riyad [...]

(JURIST) - UN human rights experts on Friday urged the international community to conduct an independent and impartial investigation into the killings by Israeli security forces of at least 16 [...]

(JURIST) - The Knesset on Wednesday passed an amendment to its 'Entry into Israel' law authorizing the minister of Interior to cancel the permanent residency status of individuals suspected of [...]

(JURIST) - The Israeli Knesset passed legislation Tuesday that would limit or eliminate entry visas or residency rights for those groups who call for economic, academic, or cultural boycotts of [...]

(JURIST) - Israel authorized the construction of 3,000 housing units in the West Bank Tuesday, despite criticism from the international community, who argue that the land is seen by Palestinians [...]

Israel`s Supreme Court ordered the evacuation and demolition of a Netiv Ha`avot, West Bank, outpost built for Jewish settlers. The ruling Thursday by a three-judge panel came after the left-wing [...]

(JURIST) - In a report issued on Thursday, Amnesty International (AI) called upon Palestinian and Israeli officials to properly address human rights violations committed by their forces. The report was [...]

(JURIST) - The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday cautioned Israel that their response to the deadly Tel Aviv attack earlier this week may [...]

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Wednesday approved a regulation to ban Palestinian administrative prisoners from using the phone to contact their families, denying them rights that must be [...]

President Mahmoud Abbas signed on Wednesday night letters of accession to 20 international treaties, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, hours after the United Nations Security Council [...]

Under the two legal systems, an Israeli settler and a Palestinian, accused of the same crime, will be treated, and sentenced, very differently. In November five Israelis were killed and [...]

UN's deputy special coordinator for the Middle East peace process said this past week that the practice violates international law and must stop. 'Punitive demolitions must stop. They contravene international [...]

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights praised the Swiss government's bid to convene a summit on Palestine and calls for them to stand firm in the face of political pressure [...]

The Israeli Knesset on Thursday approved a proposed bill that would see Palestinian stone-throwers face jail terms of up to 20 years. First tabled by the Israeli cabinet on 4 [...]

The Israeli Government's use of house demolition as a punitive measure in response to alleged acts of violence by Palestinians must end immediately, two United Nations experts said Tuesday, adding [...]

The Israeli Government's use of house demolition as a punitive measure in response to alleged acts of violence by Palestinians must end immediately, two United Nations experts urged Tuesday, indicating [...]

The Israeli cabinet has approved a contentious bill to officially define it as the nation-state of the Jewish people, a move that looks to further inflame tensions with Arab Israelis [...]

Israel's rightwing government on Sunday pushed forward with a law defining Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, drawing a heated reaction from both Palestinians -- who described it [...]

Divisions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition delayed on Sunday a preliminary vote on a proposed law to declare Israel the nation-state of the Jewish people. Justice Minister Tzipi [...]

Arab Israelis oppose a Knesset bill that would anchor in law Israel's status as a Jewish state and that Arabic is not an official language, seeing it as an anti-Arab [...]

A ministerial committee approved a proposed bill on Sunday that would ensure the wholesale application of Israeli law to Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, a move sponsored by [...]

he United Nations in Geneva on Monday rejected Israel's claim that a major human rights treaty was not applicable to its treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. [...]

The Israel Defense Forces issued 119 orders to confiscate property from Palestinians in the West Bank in 2013, compared to just one such order in 2011. In a response to [...]

A new report details the systematic discrimination faced by Palestinian citizens of Israel, after a summer of heightened tension and racist incitement against the state's non-Jewish population. Discriminatory legislation is [...]

In a column last week for Al Jazeera America, Rafeef Ziadah, an activist with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee, used the ongoing Gaza war as a [...]

The crimes being committed by the Zionist regime against the defenseless and oppressed people of the Gaza Strip are a reflection of the hypocritical face of the world today. Eternal [...]

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that the United Nations was 'right' to condemn the shelling of a UN school in Gaza, but declined to say whether it [...]

As Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip rages on, ceasefires come and go. Most last just long enough for Palestinians to dig out the dead from beneath their collapsed houses, [...]

The United Arab Emirates condemned the continuous Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip, which killed more than 750 civilians, wounded 4,000 people, mostly women and children, left [...]

Roqayah Chamseddin, a Sydney-based Lebanese-American journalist, believes that Israel is flagrantly violating the international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip, saying that the people of Palestine are living in an [...]

THE latest outburst of aggression in the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine inflames emotions everywhere. In the past few weeks, thousands protested in cities such as Cape Town, London, [...]

On 7 July 2014, Israel unleashed Operation Protective Edge against Gaza. When it launched a ground invasion on 18 July 2014, Israel had already killed 230 Gazan Palestinians, of whom [...]

In the past weeks, thousands have protested in London, Paris and Frankfurt, triggered by the Israeli attacks on Gaza, which many consider to be in violation of international humanitarian law [...]

In occupied Kashmir, Kashmir Tehreek-e-Khwateen (KTK), a women's resistance group headed by Zamruda Habib while condemning the brutal attack on civilian population in Gaza has said that Israel is disregarding [...]

Over the years, one of the most important issues I have dealt with repeatedly for the Palestinian people is Jerusalem. For example, my friend Michael Saba and I launched an [...]

'Ashrawi's statement comes in reaction to Israeli Prime Minister's Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to enshrine Israel's status as the 'national homeland for the Jewish people' in law, adding that Netanyahu is [...]

The right to liberty is one of the pillars of human rights. International Law -- most significantly, the Geneva Conventions and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- states, [...]

As the deadlock persists in the 'negotiations' between the Palestine Liberation Authority and Israel without any evidence of a just and credible outcome in the offing, a group of distinguished [...]

The decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to join the 15 UN organisations and the call for an international agreement has been seen as a positive and an important one. [...]

Former American President Jimmy Carter has warned the US Secretary of State John Kerry of violating international law in his potential peace framework agreement between the Palestinians and the Israeli [...]

PLO Executive Committee member, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, called the U.S. to stand up for international law and to have the political will to curb Israeli violations of international and humanitarian [...]

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman received a few weeks ago a classified legal opinion which allows a population exchange under international law, Israel's Hretz newspaper said today. The opinion argued [...]

PLO Executive Committee member, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, stressed that, ' Since the 'peace process' began in 1991, Israel has created prejudicial facts on the ground, and the same pattern emerges [...]