Israel's security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank - a decision that far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Israeli military killed six Palestinians, including a baby, who were in a school that sheltered displaced people in Gaza City on Friday. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Al-Haq, Al-Mezan and Addameer made two joint submissions to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on Israel’s widespread and systematic use of torture against Palestinians, in response to her call for input for her upcoming thematic report to the Human Rights Council www.alhaq.org/advocacy/271...

A military road and accompanying barrier to be built by Israel will slice through precious West Bank farmland and split countless Palestinian communities along its route www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Attack on Palestinian teen Owais Hammam ‘comes amid an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank, where near-daily assaults - often carried out with the Israeli army’s support - amount to a systematic effort to reshape the region’s demographics’ www.972mag.com/owais-hammam...

‘Crossing this “Yellow Line,” which indicates the boundary of Israel’s occupation of ethnically cleansed areas spanning more than half of Gaza, constitutes a death sentence…Yet not only is it poorly demarcated; it is also continuously expanding.’ www.972mag.com/gaza-yellow-...

‘Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children… On average, Israeli weapons now kill seven people a day’ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Israeli security forces raided and vandalised the offices of Palestinian NGO the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, amidst an escalating Israeli targeting of Palestinian civil society and human rights defenders, most recently in context of the olive harvest season reliefweb.int/report/occup...

Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war In a two-year blitz, Israeli lawmakers passed over 30 new laws curtailing Palestinians' rights and punishing dissent, a new report shows. By Orly Noy @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/knesset-apar...

‘I have been defeated’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from Batn al-Hawa, a predominantly Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, which has long been the target of organisations working to consolidate Israeli control www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Al Mezan Center and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights express grave concern regarding the sustained harassment, intimidation, threats, and sanctions directed by U.S. and Israel against officials of the ICC and NGOs / individuals cooperating with the Court www.alhaq.org/advocacy/270...

Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a new report by the UN Committee against Torture covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

‘The bill… creates a new capital offense, makes the death penalty mandatory under vaguely defined conditions, and eliminates judicial discretion… its language is explicitly discriminatory, applying to Palestinians who kill Jews but not to Jews who kill Palestinians.’ www.972mag.com/israel-death...

‘It was not until Sunday, six days after his arrest, that Ghrayeb was first interrogated, and even then only on the vague suspicion of “incitement.”… Ghrayeb is now being held in Megiddo Prison, where at least seven Palestinians have died since October 2023.’ www.972mag.com/ayman-ghraye...

Legal briefing: UN Security Council resolution 2803, which endorses the ‘peace plan’ accompanying the often-violated ceasefire in Gaza, appears concerningly disconnected from securing fundamental human rights for Palestinians and ultimately achieving sustainable peace lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons While some were released in the ceasefire, Israel still holds 80 Palestinian medical workers without charge. Their families are demanding their freedom. By Michal Feldon. www.972mag.com/gazan-doctor...

The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

‘The settlers want to terrorize us so we leave’ Israeli settlers have unleashed a wave of arson attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks. Basel Adra reports from the villages of Jaba, Abu Falah, and Khalet Al-Sidra. www.972mag.com/settlr-arson...

The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel that says systematic violence and denial of medical care contributed to many deaths it examined apnews.com/article/isra...

New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since Oct. 7 Post-mortems & testimonies suggest many died from torture, medical neglect & food deprivation. According to leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians. www.972mag.com/98-palestini... @mekomit.bsky.social

As part of the ceasefire, Gaza has been split in half by the so-called ‘yellow line,’ where Israel’s military controls just over 50% of the Strip. Palestinians are being killed for trying to cross or even get close to the line mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...

Israeli parliament backs bill that seeks to impose mandatory death sentence on Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis for nationalist reasons, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians www.ft.com/content/0271...

In the shadow of Al-Aqsa, the Palestinian neighborhood of Batan Al-Hawa in Siwan faces mass evictions, with settlers backed by the Israeli state and courts taking over multi-storey homes www.972mag.com/batan-al-haw...

LPHR is deeply saddened by the death of Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, who has passed away at the age of 92. Sir Geoffrey was a founding charity trustee of LPHR who exemplified the qualities and values of integrity, good judgement, humility and kindness lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

‘October 2025 recorded the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks since OCHA began documenting such incidents in 2006, with more than 260 attacks resulting in casualties, property damage or both – an average of eight incidents per day.’ www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...

‘As of September 30, 2025, 350 Palestinian children are detained in Israeli prisons, according to the latest data available from the Israel Prison Service. 168 children, or 48 percent of the total, are held in administrative detention without charge or trial’ www.dci-palestine.org/nearly_half_...

The Court of Appeal in The Hague has concluded that there is a serious risk Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and violating international humanitarian law, in a case brought by a coalition of ten Dutch and Palestinian organisations against the Dutch State www.somo.nl/dutch-court-...

A celebrated Palestinian author who was freed last month after more than 32 years in Israeli prisons has said the use of torture increased dramatically during his last two years of captivity as Israel came to treat its jails as another front in the Gaza war www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Al Mezan is highly concerned about the safety and wellbeing of Palestinians in Israeli custody after Israeli authorities renewed a ban prohibiting delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian detainees mezan.org/en/post/46797

81 Palestinians died in Israeli custody in the last two years, due to torture and neglect. Since 7th October 2023, Israeli prisons have become an instrument of mass torture on unprecedented level. There are currently over 11 thousands Palestinians in those prisons, most of them held without charge.

‘We don’t feel safe’: after week of bombings - with 115 people killed and 352 injured during 24 hours of Israeli bombardment of Gaza according to health ministry - people in Gaza are losing faith in ceasefire www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

'Former prisoners, Palestinian officials and human rights groups who spoke to the FT before and after the exchange ... detailed abuse ranging from keeping prisoners in poor sanitary conditions and withholding medical treatment to physical and sexual violence' www.ft.com/content/d4e7...

Israeli human rights organisation Gisha has recently published a list of its immediate priorities for Gaza post-ceasefire. LPHR wholly endorses these immediate priorities rooted in international law obligations for Gaza and will monitor compliance lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

‘Two weeks into the ceasefire, more than 20 Palestinians are still being killed on average each day, many of them close to the yellow line. Consequently, very few of the displaced are returning to the area under Israeli control’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘The range of Israel’s obligations under international law, spelled out by the ICJ ruling… start with the people of Gaza and throughout the OPT having the right to the essential supplies they need to live, and must be ensured by Israel as the occupying power’ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Gaza children dying as they wait for Israel to enable evacuations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... With a fragile ceasefire in place, some 15,000 patients are in need of urgent medical evacuations according to the World Health Organization

‘Over the past two years of genocide in Gaza, Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian journalists and media workers. They serve as the primary source of information regarding the reality on the ground in Gaza, and are invaluable to disseminating information’ - Al Mezan mezan.org/en/post/46793

Israel must allow aid into Gaza and its restrictions on doing so over the past two years have put it in breach of its obligations, the International Court of Justice has ruled in an advisory opinion www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in the notorious detention centre Sde Teiman, which is already facing allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody, Gaza health ministry officials report www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 Palestinians, says Gaza media office Authorities urge UN to intervene ‘to protect unarmed civilian populations’ after attack on bus that killed 11 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘For the past two years, Israeli forces have flattened public and private property, devastated Gaza's economic, social, and cultural sectors, and… annihilated essential public infrastructure.’ Al Mezan Calls for Immediate Recovery Plan to Stop Extreme Poverty in Gaza mezan.org/en/post/46791

Freed Palestinian men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two days straight www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

As we welcome the ceasefire and hope it will hold, 'the central principle underpinning the future of Gaza must be the respect and fulfillment of all fundamental human rights for its civilian Palestinian population' coupled with the necessity of effecting Palestinians' right to self-determination

After two years of a devastating conflict that has shocked the world’s conscience – and which a UN Commission of Inquiry has significantly assessed to legally amount to the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza – LPHR welcomes a ceasefire agreed today lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, with a clear link between Israeli restrictions on supplies entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition, a study published in international medical periodical the Lancet has revealed www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Israeli military has issued what it said was its final warning for Gaza City residents to flee as it intensified its bombardment and offensive, as the ICRC announced the offensive had forced it to suspend operations in Gaza City www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

A Reuters analysis of visual evidence and other information about the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital on 25 August contradicts Israel’s explanation of what happened in the deadly strike www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"Israeli strikes and shootings kill 57 as assault in Gaza City intensifies. Health officials say most deaths were in the strip’s largest city, where hundreds of thousands are trapped and starving" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The UN Human Rights Office today issued an update to its database of businesses involved in certain activities in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, listing a total of 158 business enterprises from 11 countries www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...