UN human rights experts* today sharply condemned the recent announcement by the Israeli Government that it is advancing plans to build thousands of new housing units in its West Bank and East...

UN human rights experts today strongly and unequivocally condemned the decision by the Israeli Minister of Defence, Benny Gantz, to designate six Palestinian human rights and civil society groups as...

NEW-YORK (25 October 2021) - A new “imaginative and brave” playbook is needed to achieve the globally agreed goal to end the 54-year-old Israeli occupation and secure Palestine’s self-determination, a...

This report examines the current human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, with a particular focus on the responsibility and performance of international actors for the deepening occupation.

GENEVA (21 October 2021) – Expressing grave fear for the lives of five Palestinians currently on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, UN experts* today called on Israel to either release or charge the...

GENEVA (13 August 2021) – UN human rights experts* have called on the Government of Israel to immediately return confidential documents and office equipment that its military seized from the offices...

GENEVA (11 August 2021) – A UN expert today expressed concern over arrests, harassment, criminalisation and threats against human rights defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, and...

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 submitted this report based primarily on information provided by victims, witnesses, civil...

GENEVA (26 July 2021) - UN human rights experts* today called upon the Palestinian Authority and Israel, the occupying power, to take all steps necessary within their respective powers to re-schedule...

GENEVA (12 July 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, condemned the demolition by Israel of the homes and...