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Inside Palestine: Update from Zababda
By :Pilgrims of Ibillin ·
10 September 2026
Update from Zababda     Fr. Firas recently shared an update on the increasingly difficult situation facing the community in Zababda.   New settlements near Zababda and growing restrictions on movement are making daily life increasingly difficult. Fr. Firas reports that settlers have stopped people traveling along the road to Jenin, taking them out of
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The Elders: Palestine must not disappear
By :The Elders: Hina Jilani, Mary Robinson, Graça Machel, Helen Clark
17 July 2026
Palestine must not disappear A statement by The Elders: Mary Robinson, Graça Machel, Helen Clark and Hina Jilani following their visit to the Middle East, 11–16 July 2026.         We have just concluded a visit to the West Bank, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. From all that we have witnessed and heard, our inescapable conclusion is that the government of
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HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z
By :HIC-HLRN
05 April 2026
The collection is the result of deliberation and debate across cultures within the membership of Habitat International Coalition (HIC). The purpose of that debate—and this reference work—have been to consolidate and harmonize understanding of the various terms of art confronted in the work of HIC and its Members in the
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“My Land is the Freedom I will Never Compromise” 50th Anniversary of Palestinian Land Day
By :Waed Abbas, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
30 March 2026
“My land is my soul, my identity, my home,” this was Umm Rafiq’s response, a farmer from Sinjil currently facing vicious settler violence and depopulation attempts, when we asked her what her land meant to her.    Today marks the 50th anniversary of Palestinian Land Day. Despite the ongoing horrors by Israel and its allies, whether the Israeli
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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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Israel Demolitions & Displacement in Palestine – December 2025
By :Israeli Committee against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
15 January 2026
Demolitions & Displacement in the occupied West Bank and within the state of Israel - December 2025 Report   On 22 December, when people were already involved in Christmas celebrations, the world was torn apart for 100 Palestinians when Israeli authorities demolished a four-story building in Wadi Qadum, a neighborhood in Silwan,
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Israeli Court Approves Demolition of Nur Shams Palestinian Homes
By :Adalah
28 December 2025
Israeli Supreme Court Greenlights Mass Demolition of Civilian Homes in Nur Shams, a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the Occupied West Bank, Relying on Secret Evidence     The Israeli Supreme Court issued a late-night ruling on Christmas eve, 24 December 2025, rejecting a petition filed by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab
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Palestinian Woman Describes Israeli Eviction as ‘painful uprooting’
By :Gulsen Topcu, Qais Omar Darwesh Omar and Kanyshai Butun, Anadolu Acensi
24 December 2025
Palestinian woman evicted from her home by Israel faces ‘painful uprooting’ ‘I have nothing left. My furniture, my gold, my savings, even the ring on my finger is gone,’ says Nihaye El-Cundi, 54     TULKAREM, Palestine / ISTANBUL—A Palestinian woman forcibly displaced from her home in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the
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Israel Defense Mionister Affirms to Resettle North Gaza ‘at appropriate time’
23 December 2025
Defying PM and Washington, Katz says Israel will resettle north Gaza ‘at appropriate time’     Contradicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated assertions that Israel does not plan to resettle Gaza, as well as the US peace plan for the enclave, Defense Minister Israel Katz tells settlements leaders, “With God’s help when the
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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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Documents (42)

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Publication Date

ورقة حقائق حول الوضع الجيوسياسي للضفة الغربية بما فيها شرقي القدس

30 March 2026

On the anniversary of our First Nakba... The Nakba unfolds again, only more severe

15 May 2025

في ذكرى النكبة الأولى .. تتجدد النكبة بصورة أشد

15 May 2025

Reparations Bibliography

06 May 2025

Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023

30 October 2023

Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa

30 November 2022

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

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Un derecho humano a la tierra

05 August 2021

حق الإنسان في الأرض

18 June 2021

Deconstructing Israel`s Housing and Land Apartheid

31 May 2021

Joint Input to SR on human rights in occupied Palestine

30 April 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية

04 October 2020

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

16 September 2020

Tools to Remedy Israeli Apartheid: Reconstituting the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the UN Centre against Apartheid

01 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

06 September 2019

ICTY judgments

10 December 2018

HICtionary: Key Habitat Terms A to Z

06 May 2018

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

23 April 2018

ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى

17 November 2017

Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut

17 November 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh

19 December 2016

HIC @ Habitat III

23 June 2016

المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي

24 April 2015

Toward the Conference of High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) on measures to enforce the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory

01 April 2010

Addressing Marginality: Some Theoretical and Practical Contributions from Social Science and Law

27 September 2009

The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17

06 July 1993

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

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