Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Saturday, Israeli police and eyewitnesses said. 　　Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a Palestinian was shot and killed after he allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli police officer in Jerusalem. 　　According to Israeli police,... More

　　The Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement "Most of the Palestinian minors are detained in Ofer detention center near Ramallah and Megiddo and Sharon prisons in northern Israel." 　　Two female minors, aged 16 and 17, are detained in Israeli Hasharon prison, the release said. 　　According to the NGO, arrest... More

　　Israeli forces have been using "disproportionate violence" against Palestinian children as they killed at least ten this month during the ongoing unrest that engulfs Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. 　　"Amid escalating violence and an increasingly militarized environment where Israeli forces and settlers operate with complete impunity, Palestinian children have... More

　　At least 7,000 people were killed in Yemen in 2014, including at least 1,200 civilians, three times the level of deaths from when the current turmoil began in 2011, according to a Yemeni think-tank's report. 　　It is now thought that Shia Houthi fighters are controlling about 70 percent of army's... More

　　At least 23 Palestinians have been killed and another 2,156 detained by the Israeli military since January 1, 2015, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said in a report issued Sunday. 　　In its report, the PLO added that 131 Palestinian homes had been destroyed in armed operations carried out by the... More

　　Syrian regime forces launched air strikes against six hospitals in the Aleppo area within a week in attacks that amounted to war crimes, a U.S.-based rights group said on Wednesday. 　　Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said it was the worst week for attacks on medical facilities in the Aleppo region... More

　　According to an article written in Days of Palestine, an Israeli soldier has given his account of the events that occurred during the attacks on Gaza in July 2014. 　　Known as Operation Protective Edge, the soldier described how they were ordered by their unit commander and were free to shoot,... More

　　More than 10 million Iraqis are in need of immediate humanitarian aid, according to UN estimates. 　　Iraqi civilians and officials have voiced concern over the humanitarian situation in the country's western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. 　　For almost two years now, Fallujah has endured a siege imposed on the city... More

　　Tens of thousands of people have travelled to Srebrenica to attend a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide in the town. 　　More than 50,000 people, including 80 foreign dignitaries, were expected to include the event on Saturday that will include the funeral of recently found victims. 　　The... More

　　Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that Syrian regime forces have carried out hundreds of indiscriminate attacks over the past year with air-delivered munitions, including improvised weapons such as barrel bombs. 　　The US-based group says the attacks have had a devastating impact on civilians, killing or injuring thousands of... More

　　The UN human rights chief has said there are "extremely distressing, credible reports" that Iraqis fleeing the fighting in Fallujah are facing extreme abuse and even death at the hands of Shia armed groups allied with the government troops. 　　Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, citing witness testimonies, said on Tuesday that... More

　　Two years after her father, human rights lawyer Khalil Matouq, suffered the same fate, Raneem was kidnapped by Syrian authorities in 2014. She was released after two months in detention, while her father remains missing to this day. 　　For Raneem, the worst part is knowing what conditions her father faces... More

　　Ismail Abu Shebab, a shy 11-year-old taking a break from school, opened his mouth to speak - but the overhead roar of Israeli warplanes made his words nearly inaudible. 　　As the aircraft came closer, Abu Shebab grew silent. 　　Abu Shebab suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of... More

　　Razan al-Halaqawi was too ill to spend weeks waiting for Egypt to open the Gaza Strip's main crossing in Rafah. 　　The crossing has been closed to residents looking to exit Gaza since October 25; in the intervening days, Egypt has opened the crossing just once in one direction for two... More

　　The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a Monday report that 1,793 people were killed in December. 　　The group said that this year’s death toll now stands at 21,179 – 75 percent of whom were killed by the Assad regime. 　　The London-based NGO documented 15,748 deaths by regime... More

　　More than 500 Syrian civilians have been killed in a single week, mostly in regime and Russian air raids and shelling, across several cities in the war-torn country. 　　Casualty figures released on Saturday by the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), a grassroots network of activists in Syria, recorded 508 civilians killed... More

　　More than 1,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip sustained permanent disabilities during last year’s 51-day Israeli military onslaught, according to Defense for Children International (DCI), an NGO devoted to children’s rights. 　　In a report entitled “Operation Protective Edge: A war waged on Gaza's Children”, released on Tuesday, DCI’s Palestine... More

　　Scores of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have made homes out of mountain caves on the outskirts of Al-Khalil (Hebron) city, as Israel continues to prevent them from building homes on territories earmarked for Jewish-only settlements. 　　"We have tried to build homes with bricks and cement, but the Israeli... More

　　Lebanese youth in Tripoli suburbs are becoming increasingly used to conflict in rising sectarian distrust and violence. 　　"People get used to war. During the last battle, children were still coming to play. Can you imagine, a seven-year-old boy running through the bullets just to play video games," says Mohammad Darwish,... More

　　Almost 18,000 Syrians have died in regime jails since 2011, with authorities using torture, beatings, electric shocks and rape against prisoners on a "massive scale," a rights groups has said. 　　The UK-based Amnesty International said an average of 300 detainees were dying every month in a report on Thursday that... More