Israel continued to impose institutionalized discrimination against Palestinians living under its rule in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). It displaced hundreds of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as a result of home demolitions and...

In this report, Amnesty International explores how facial recognition technology is used extensively by the Israeli authorities to support their continued domination and oppression of Palestinians in the OPT. With a record of discriminatory and inhuman acts that maintain a system of apartheid, the...

Responding to a report by the Financial Times that India is searching for alternative spyware technology to replace NSO Group’s Pegasus surveillance software, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of the Security Lab at Amnesty International, said:   “It is chilling that instead of respecting...

Oral statement by Amnesty International presented during Item 7 on the “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories” during the UN Human Rights Council fifty-second session.

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Israel in its previous Universal Periodic Review, including in relation to arbitrary detention and torture, discrimination, movement restrictions, and impunity.

On 5 August 2022, Israel launched a three-day offensive on occupied Gaza, visiting fresh trauma and destruction on a besieged population living under apartheid. Both Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups committed apparent war crimes. In one attack, an Israeli drone killed five children at a...

Oral statement by Amnesty International presented during an interactive dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel for its first report during the UN Human Rights Council’s fiftieth regular session.

Israeli authorities must end unlawful killings, willful injury, arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment, persecution and collective punishment against Palestinians, including many children, which have been escalating since Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took office in June 2021....

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Ligue desdroits de l’homme (LDH) and Salah Hammouri filed a joint complaint in France targeting the Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group, for illegally infiltrating the phone of French Palestinian human rights defender Salah...

Oral statement by Amnesty International presented during an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the UN Human Rights Council’s forthy-ninth regular session.

This statement to the Human Rights Committee highlights Amnesty International’s concerns related to Israel’s compliance with the Covenant and our conclusion that successive Israeli governments have built and maintained a system of apartheid over Palestinians across Israel and the Occupied...

Amnesty International has analysed Israel’s intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and examined its key components: territorial fragmentation; segregation and control; dispossession of land and property; and denial of economic and social rights. It has...