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Thailand Probes Israeli Land-grab Network
By :The Cradle
25 September 2026
Thai authorities probe Chabad-Lubavitch centers over Israeli land-grab network The centers have drawn suspicion over their land holdings, unauthorized construction, and unexplained funding sources     Thai Deputy Interior Minister Polpeera Suwannachawi this week ordered provincial governors to inspect up to nine Chabad-Lubavitch centers nationwide, broadening a probe into a “network of Israelis” that
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UK Inertia as Its “Charities” Fund Israeli Settler-colony Crimes
By :Oscar Rickett, Middle East Eye
21 September 2026
‘Britain can stop this’: The East Jerusalem yeshiva taking UK charity money and planning expansion Ohr Somayach, a network of ultra-Orthodox institutions, has permission to expand into Sheikh Jarrah     A young man in a New York apartment is watching a news programme about antisemitism, illustrated with images of pro-Palestine protests and Israeli
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Palestine/Israel: Before Elections, Three Major East Jerusalem Colony Plans
By :Ir Amim
14 August 2026
Ahead of Israel`s Elections, Government Advances Three Major Settlement Plans in East Jerusalem   According to an analysis by Ir Amim, three major settlement projects advanced within the past month in East Jerusalem, including a new settlement in Umm Tuba, a new settlement enclave in Umm Lison, and a major expansion of
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Jerusalem Patriarchate Repurchases Own Lands
By :Jerusalem Patriarchate Official Website
16 June 2026
Jerusalem Patriarchate Regains Strategic Lands in Jerusalem, after Efforts That Lasted More Than a Decade and a Half     The Patriarchate of Jerusalem successfully regained its’ full rights to a plot of land in Abu Tor neighborhood in Jerusalem, for about 80 million shekels. Thus, the Patriarchate was able to completely liberate
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Now available: Land Times/أحوال الأرض No. 34
By :HIC-HLRN
30 March 2026
Now available: The latest issue of Land Timesأحوال الأرض/  No. 34 bears witness to the rupture of our present-day, it also seeks to be part of the remedy.   Find a summary of the contents in the editorial [AR], with a critical review of new and contentious terms in the “Terminology Corner,”
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Faith Coalition Demands Land is a Human Right
By :WCC news
26 February 2026
Faith coalition at Agrarian Reform conference demands land as human right A coalition of Christian organisations issued a joint statement during the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD), being held in Cartagena, Colombia from 24–28 February.     Peter Prove, director of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the
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Israeli Measures on Occupied West Bank Ease Theft of Palestinian Property
By :Aysar Alais and Rania Abushamala, Anadolu Acensi
09 February 2026
Israeli measures on occupied West Bank ‘dangerous, violation of international law’: Palestinian official     ‘Israeli decisions are an attempt to systematically change the geographical nature of the Palestinian land,’ Amir Dawood tells Anadolu   RAMALLAH, Palestine—A Palestinian official on Monday called recent Israeli decisions aimed at changing the legal and civil status in the
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Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid
By :Regularly updated compilation of published references on Israel`s apartheid in Palestine
24 January 2026

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New Commission of Inquiry on Palestine and Israel
By :OHCHR
28 November 2025
Human Rights Council President appoints Members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel   GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has appointed Srinivasan Muralidhar (India), Florence Mumba (Zambia) and Chris Sidoti (Australia), to serve as members of the United Nations
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First Jewish Anti-Zionism Congress, Vienna
By :HIC-HLRN
17 June 2025
As the world bears witness to the Western state governments indulge Israel`s genocide against the Palestinian people, activists of Jewish faith and background concluded their first Anti-Zionism Congress in Vienna, 13­­­–16 June 2025. It met at the very crux of the matter.   The host city of Vienna was symbolic also as
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Documents (31)

Document Title

Publication Date

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

World Habitat Day 2022

03 October 2022

Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism

01 September 2022

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review

31 January 2022

Entrenching and Maintaining an Apartheid Regime over the Palestinian People as a Whole

07 January 2022

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen

28 January 2021

"A Pandemic of Violations"

05 October 2020

جائحة من الانتهاكات الإخلاء القسري، وغيره من انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المرتبطة بالموئل وسط جائحة كوفيد-19

05 October 2020

House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region

25 September 2020

Recognizing Israel’s Practice of Apartheid and Reconstituting the UN Centre against Apartheid

16 September 2020

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development

09 February 2020

نحو آلية مؤسسية لتشارك أصحاب المصلحة في حوكمة موئل الأمم المتحدة الجديدة

09 February 2020

Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance

09 February 2020

Vers un Mécanisme Institutionnel d’Engagement des parties prenantes dans la Nouvelle Gouvernance d’ONU Habitat

09 February 2020

Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat

17 January 2019

الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين

23 April 2018

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بمسألة الفقر المدقع وحقوق الإنساان عن زيارته إلى المملكة العربية السعودية، A/HRC/35/26/Add.3

28 April 2017

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to Saudi Arabia, A/HRC/35/26/Add.3

28 April 2017

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide

15 July 2008

Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4

13 December 1991

Health principles of housing

30 June 1989

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

“Legal Problems Concerning the Juridical Status and Political Activities of the Zionist Organization / Jewish Agency: A Study in International and United States Law,” William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 1

31 December 1967

The Zionist-Israel Juridical Claims to Constitute “the Jewish People” Nationality and to Confer Membership in It: Appraisal in Public International Law

01 January 1964

تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)

29 November 1947

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