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An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged an inquiry into an attack on an electricity power station in Gaza that has exacerbated an already critical health...
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Karen AbuZayd, denounced on Tuesday the destruction caused by the Israeli forces to UNRWA...
Mahmoud Mughari speaks bluntly. "I normally wash and shower twice a day. Now I can only do it every four or five days. The children smell. We all smell. We are worried that this...
Note: The below is a translation of an appeal originally written in Arabic and sent to local Palestinian media outlets, as well as distrubuted on our mailing list. Al-Haq's Appeal...
by Chris McGreal An Israeli air strike on a busy Gaza City street killed 11 people yesterday, including two young children and their father, after Palestinians who ran to help...
by Alan Johnston The small figure of Mariyah Amin lies in intensive care in a Gaza City hospital. A fragment of shrapnel from an Israeli rocket has severed her spinal cord, and...
More than 30 Palestinian children have held a sit-in strike in front of the UN offices in Gaza City. They announced that they are going to hold a twelve hour hunger strike to...
Medical sources in Shifa'a hospital in Gaza City have said that three Palestinians suffering from kidney problems died as a result of a lack of medicine due to the siege of the...
The Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) has revealed that Israeli soldiers tortured a deaf, 12-year old Palestinian boy. In a press release issued by PMRS' Rehabilitation...