Israeli parliament suspends Palestinian lawmakers
10 February 2016
Knesset also moves forward bills that penalize dissent.
Rights and Accountability
Hisham and Mounis: from besieged Gaza to US immigration jail
9 February 2016
The world is not big enough for two asylum-seeking Palestinians.
Palestinian human rights defenders condemn execution by Hamas
8 February 2016
Resistance group says it killed 35-year-old Mahmoud Ishteiwi for “behavioral and moral excesses that he confessed.”
Palestinian journalist, threatened with death, seeks asylum in Belgium
7 February 2016
Abdelsalam Abunada has been campaigning against a law that would give the Palestinian Authority greater powers of censorship.
Hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq in "struggle against death"
6 February 2016
The Palestinian journalist, who has refused food for 74 days to protest his detention without charge by Israel, is at imminent risk of death.
Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to torture instead of death
5 February 2016
The US ally originally sentenced Ashraf Fayadh to death by beheading for religious “crimes.”
Mother decries sentence for Israeli who burned her son to death
4 February 2016
Parents of Muhammad Abu Khudair expressed anger that their son’s killers have gotten off lightly.
Israeli court "freezes" dying journalist's detention
4 February 2016
Muhammad al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike for 72 days, rejects decision.
Israeli dissident ordered to submit Facebook posts to military censor
4 February 2016
Yossi Gurvitz says he will defy order received from military censor.
Palestinian youths slain in deadly attack on Israeli police
4 February 2016
Group armed with guns, knives and improvised explosives were friends with boy slain months earlier.