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...

The Israeli authorities must immediately release Amal Nakhleh, who was arrested aged 17 and has since been held without charge or trial for 16 months, and end their use of administrative detention against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today ahead of an upcoming hearing on his case. Amal...

Israeli authorities must end unlawful killings, willful injury, arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment, persecution and collective punishment against Palestinians, including many children, Amnesty International said in a public statement published today. In the latest incident,...

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....

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.

The Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories(OPT), Michael Lynk, has submitted a report to the Human Rights Council, concluding that the situation in the OPT amounts to apartheid. Saleh Higazi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at...

French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri has been issued a four-month administrative detention order. He is a field researcher for Palestinian NGO Addameer and has been held without charge or trial since 7 March. Since 2002, Israeli authorities have persistently harassed Salah Hammouri, who has...

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...

Palestinians are systematically subjected to home demolitions and forced evictions, and live in constant fear of losing their homes.  For more than 73 years, Israel has been forcibly displacing entire Palestinian communities. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians’ homes have been demolished,...

Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinian people wherever it has...

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...

אמנסטי אינטרנשיונל ניתחה את כוונתה של ישראל ליצור ולהנציח מערכת של דיכוי ושליטה ביחס לפלסטינים ובחנה את מרכיביה המרכזיים: פיצול טריטוריאלי למובלעות; הפרדה ושליטה; נישול מאדמות ומרכוש; שלילת זכויות כלכליות וחברתיות. המסקנה שאליה הגיעה אמנסטי אינטרנשיונל היא שמערכת זו מגיעה לכדי אפרטהייד. כל בעלי...

Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to submit this document to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of its review of Israel’s 5th periodic report. This submission is based on Amnesty International’s findings published in a recent report Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel...