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The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly approved a draft resolution on the right of the Palestinian people to self‑determination.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Palestinian and international rights groups are preparing to lodge an International Criminal Court (ICC) complaint against Israel over its “systematic targeting” of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, IFJ has said in a press release.

UN human rights experts, on Wednesday, condemned Israel's plan to build thousands of new housing units in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Al-Quds.

Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has asked the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Detainees Affairs Commission, Qadri Abu Bakr, to start a two-week international tour aimed at internationalizing the issue of the seven hunger-striking Palestinian administrative detainees held in Israeli prisons, one of them, Kayed Fasfous, has been fasting for 108 days on Saturday, demanding their freedom.

The South African government condemned Israel’s recent designation of six Palestinian civil society groups without justification as terrorist organizations.

A total of 288 American organizations demand Biden administration to condemn Israel’s crackdown on rights groups.

Palestinian Christian organizations condemned and denounced “in the strongest possible terms” the decision of the Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz designating six Palestinian human rights organizations as “terrorist organizations.”

UN rights commissioner: Israel’s "terrorism" designation an unjustified attack on Palestinian civil society

The alleged Mossad spies were of Arab descent and were reportedly present to spy on Palestinians living in Turkey.

Palestinian human rights organisations have called for international solidarity, branding Israel’s designation of six leading organisations as terrorist groups part of a “sinister plot” to silence resistance.

Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to confront the Zionist regime for its covert operations against Iran’s nuclear program, stressing that it must be confronted in order to stop all its continuous threats and disruptive conducts.

With one Palestinian administrative captive in Israel on hunger strike for 94 days, four of the six other administrative captives on hunger strike demanding their freedom have been fasting for more than two months, according to Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups.

An Irish lawmaker has described the establishment of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state as the only viable solution to the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict, denouncing Israel as an apartheid regime.

The third longest-serving Palestinian political captive in Israeli jails completed today 36 years behind bars, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The Irish government renewed its position that calls for the application of international laws and conventions concerning the situation of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation’s prisons, WAFA reported.

Although 21 years have passed since barrage of Zionist army bullets killed 12-year-old Mohammad Al-Durrah, his image as an icon of the Palestinian resistance has never faded.

The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to expedite its investigation of the Israeli war crimes, and to finally hold Israeli war criminals to account, WAFA reported.

Petitioners demanded the US Congress support sanctions on Zionist regime until it complies with international law and puts an end to its apartheid regime.

After a long legal process since 2016 the Society of St. Yves - Catholic Center for Human Rights represented by Adv- Nasarat Dakkour was able to succeed in an appeal on a law that discriminates against the Palestinians with family unification fees to get health insurance.

Six Palestinian captives in Zionist regime’s jails continued their hunger strike in protest of the Israeli policy of administrative detention, according to a Palestinian NGO on Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency.

Lawyers for the Palestinian prisoners, who were recently rearrested by Israeli troops after staging a daring escape from a maximum-security Israeli jail, recount the horrifying situation that has come to face them back in Israeli captivity.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that it expects to be able to visit the four recaptured Palestinian captives who broke out of jail last week and currently held in Israeli custody.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has hit out at the Zionist regime for using “excessive or entirely unwarranted” force against Palestinian people in the occupied territories in violation of international rules.

Former Israeli premier was exempted from attending session.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has condemned the ongoing Israeli crackdown measures and attacks against Palestinian political captives in Israeli jails, stressing its permanent support for their right to freedom, justice and dignity.

The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission called on the international community and its institutions, particularly the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to take immediate actions to put an end to the Israeli Nazism practiced by the prisons administration and suppression units in the Negev desert prison against Palestinian prisoners.

In a report on Palestinian resistance fighters held in Israeli prisons through the end of August, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that out of 4650 incarcerated Palestinians held in 23 prisons, and detention and interrogation centers, there are 200 minors and 40 women.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to expedite an investigation into the crimes and violations of the Zionist regime and extremist Jewish settlers, and bring perpetrators to justice.

Syria once again calls on UN Security Council to take firm measures to prevent repetition of Israeli attacks on its territory.

In the past ten years, 29 Palestinian captives died while detained by the occupation, mostly as a result of medical negligence. A total of 81 captive bodies have been held by the occupation and never handed to their families since 2015.

Israel must investigate the brutal assault on a Palestinian teen by right-wing Jewish extremists that took place earlier this month, urged United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland.

The Zionist regime has abducted at least 1,900 Palestinians, including a large number of minors, across the occupied al-Quds since the beginning of the year, a local media report says.

An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has warned Zionist regime against any adventurism toward the Islamic Republic amid renewed Israeli threats of “nuclear terrorism.”

An Iranian envoy to the United Nations (UN) has called on the Security Council to pressure Zionist regime to stop its violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity amid the regime’s constant aggression on Syrian soil.

An independent and non-governmental rights organization says a former Palestinian captive has died from medical complications he suffered during his time in Zionist regime’s detention centers.

Israeli airstrikes that demolished four high-rise buildings in the Gaza Strip during the war in May violated international laws of war, a leading international human rights group said Monday, calling on the Israeli military to produce evidence justifying the attacks.

Nine Palestinian captives in Zionist regime’s detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a charge or trial, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

There are approximately 40 female Palestinian captives being held in the occupation's jails, many are subjected to beatings, humiliation and insults while incarcerated.

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry welcomed a recent announcement by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) opposing the unilateral decision of the African Union to grant Israel observer status.

The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations says a failure to hold Israel to account over its various acts of aggression against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank will embolden the regime to press ahead with its violations of international law.

Officials in the Jewish community in Poland have accused the Israeli government of creating a crisis over the Polish parliament's ratification of a law that will effectively prevent future restitution to heirs of property seized by the Nazis during the Holocaust and declared subsequently by the post-communist government to be state property.

Zionist regime’s police will investigate "a number of issues connected to Cohen," primarily a $20,000 gift Cohen's daughter received for her wedding.

Zionist regime recalled its envoy from Poland to protest a new law that limits the ability of Jews to recover property seized by Nazis during the Holocaust and retained by post-war communist rulers.

UN human rights experts called on the Zionist regime’s government to immediately return confidential documents and office equipment its military seized from the offices of an NGO fighting for children's rights in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu Agency reports.

A total of 13 Palestinian captives in Zionist regime’s detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a charge or trial, according to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission.

The advocacy organisation CAGE has launched a legal challenge claiming UK Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, discriminated against Muslim students and failed to protect freedom of expression in a letter to headteachers ordering them to clampdown on students who express solidarity with Palestine on school premises.

Zionist troops and settlers violated the rights of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds over 3,800 times in July alone.

It said 540 Palestinians are currently held in administrative detention without charge or trial and based on secret evidence.

Zionist regime’s Supreme Court offered Palestinian residents of the occupied Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood 'protected residence' status, saying that if they pay rent to the settler organisation which claims the land on which their homes are built, their properties will not be demolished.

Seventeen Palestinian captives in Zionist regime’s jails have launched a hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention without charge or trial, a local NGO said on Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency.

Save the Children Thursday condemned the excessive use of force by Zionist troops against children in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has resulted in the deaths of three children across the West Bank in the past week.

Nearly 130 organizations from 41 countries and about 590 individuals from 60 countries have signed a petition for the release of Palestinian health activist, Shatha Odeh from Zionist regime’s jails.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has arrested a network of agents with the Israeli Mossad spy agency at the Western borders, confiscating a large cache of weapons and ammunition that they were planning to use to provoke riots and terror inside the country.

An independent commission will look into Israeli violations of humanitarian and international human rights law in the Palestinian territories since April 13.

Former United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay will head an international commission of inquiry into war crimes committed by the Zionist regime against impoverished Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during its latest onslaught on the besieged coastal enclave in May.

A total of nine Palestinian captives in Zionist regime’s detention are currently on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a charge or trial, according to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission.

Irish lawmakers call on Zionist regime to end evictions, demolitions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The corruption trial of former Zionist Regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been delayed for the third time due to disagreements between the prosecution and the defence over the handling of new evidence.

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has told the United Nations that the Damascus government reserves the right to wrest back control of the Israeli-occupied side of the Golan Heights, and that the deployment of the world body’s peacekeeping forces in the territory cannot replace an optimal solution to the problem.

The State of Palestine takes note of the latest annual report by the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict. Palestine regrets that the report once again failed to rightly include Israel’s occupation forces on the list of parties that commit grave violations against children.