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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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Adalah Petitions Israeli Supreme Court on Mass Nur Shams Demolitions

By :Adalah

24 December 2025

Israeli Supreme Court to Hear Adalah Petition Challenging Planned Mass Demolitions in Nur Shams Refugee Camp The planned demolitions would put hundreds of Palestinian refugees at risk of homelessness and forcible displacement. The military has justified the demolitions on the grounds of alleged “military necessity,” even though the camp has been
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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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Israel Demolition of Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem`s Ra`s al-`Amud

By :T.R., WAFA

22 December 2025

Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs calls for urgent international intervention to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem Demolition of residential building in Ra’s al-`Amoud displaces nearly 100 people, mostly women and children Israeli demolitions escalate, targeting 464 buildings and structures since the start of 2025 JERUSALEM—This morning, Monday, the Israeli
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Palestinian Architect Suad Amiry Wins Great Arab Minds Award

By :Reyyan Dogan, Architecture Daily

16 December 2025

Palestinian Architect Suad Amiry Wins 2025 Great Arab Minds Award in Architecture and Design Palestinian architect Suad Amiry has been awarded the 2025 Great Arab Minds Award in the Architecture and Design category. Founder and director of the Riwaq - Centre for Architectural Conservation, Amiry was recognised for her long-standing work in documenting, preserving, and reusing Palestinian architectural heritage through conservation practices that link historic structures with contemporary community needs. Her approach positions architecture as both
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US Companies in Gaza: Pernicious Profit Seeking

By :Aram Roston and Cate Brown. The Guardian

14 December 2025

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal Trump administration insiders and well-connected Republican businesses have been jostling to dominate pending humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in
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South Africa: Minister Stops Visa for All Palestinians after Israeli Trafficker Crimes

By :PSC South Africa

08 December 2025

PSC Statement on the Withdrawal of the 90-day Visa Exemption for Palestinians The Palestine Solidarity Campaign notes with exceptional concern the decision issued by the Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, on 6 December 2025 withdrawing the 90-day visa exemption for Palestinian nationals. Of particular concern is that this measure does not
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Jordan Valley: New 22-km-long IDF `Barrier` Demolishes Homes, Sheep Pens and Infrastructure, Isolating Villages, Cuts off 11 Acres Land

By :Amira Hass, Haaretz

03 December 2025

In order to construct a 22-km long `barrier,` the IDF will demolish homes, sheep pens and infrastructure that `constitute an operational vulnerability,` according to a military document. One of the villages will be entirely surrounded by the fence. Residents of the area were only given a few days to file
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HIC-HLRN Condemns Israel’s Attack on Palestine’s Agricultural Work Committees

03 December 2025

In yet another attack on Palestinian civil society, while committing genocide against the Palestinian People, Israel’s occupation army raided the offices of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) on Monday morning. This follows similar assaults on prominent human rights and development organizations as part of Israel’s patterned assault on
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US Gaza Plan: Forced Ghettoisation, Aannexation, Mass Ddetention, Resource Plunder

By :Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

03 December 2025

US plan in Gaza: forced ghettoisation, annexation, mass detention, resource plunder Palestinian Territory – The consequences of the US plan to support dividing the Gaza Strip into green and red zones separated by a yellow military line carry grave risks, including the effective displacement of Palestinians from their homes and the transformation
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Documents (189)

Document Title	Publication Date
الاستدامة لمن؟ الطاقة المتجددة والعدالة البيئية في ظل الاحتلال	25 October 2025
Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review	30 May 2025
Land and the right to adequate housing: Iraq, Jordan and Syria	30 May 2025
تقرير مركز أبحاث الأراضي، بمناسبة ذكرى النكبة السابع والسبعين- 2025	18 May 2025
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
Reparation Bibliography	06 May 2025
Feminist Agenda Beyond Colonial Structures Reflections in the Post-Beijing Era	10 March 2025
أجندة نسوية عابرة للهياكل الاستعمارية	10 March 2025
استعادة الساكن، والأراضي يوممتلكات ملجتمعات النزوح: سوريا، واليمن وغيرهم (اإلطار القانوني لنهج إقليمي)	09 March 2025
Restoring Housing, Land and Property for Displaced Communities: Syria, Yemen and beyond (intro)	20 February 2025
Final Report of the 8th Land Forum:Remedies for Protracted Displacement Due to Conflict and Climate Change-June 2024	27 October 2024
سبل معالجة النزوح الناجم عن تغير المناخ والنزاعات في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا- يونيو 2024	27 October 2024
Hamas ‘Civilian’ Targets on 7 October 2023	30 October 2023
Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	06 January 2023
Response to the call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on the adverse impact of climate change on the right to food	09 December 2022
Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa	30 November 2022
New: In Pursuit of Climate Change	13 October 2022
World Habitat Day 2022	03 October 2022
Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism	01 September 2022
Joint statement to HRC on CoI Palestine report	13 June 2022
When Housing Rights Violations Constitute International Crime: Applicable Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	06 May 2022
تحديات التحوّل أخضر في السودان	23 April 2022
Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara	16 March 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
New Book: Counting on Land Justice in Yemen	24 October 2021
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	24 October 2021
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
The Land and Its People:Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa.	01 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
A Human Right to Land	24 February 2021
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	28 January 2021
Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid	28 January 2021
UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions	21 December 2020
تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة	11 December 2020
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	09 December 2020
Joint Urgent Appeal on the escalating water and sanitation crisis in the Gaza Strip	10 November 2020
"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
الهدم الذاتي لمساكن الفلسطينيين في القدس: جريمة احتلالية مضاعفة بحق الإنسانية	04 October 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
Patterns of Crime against Land & Housing amid COVID	12 August 2020
Palestine: Patterns of Crime amid COVID-19	29 June 2020
Arguments Raised in Amici Curiae Submissions in the Situation in the State of Palestine before the International Criminal Court	29 April 2020
Palestine/ZA: Sharpeville 60 Years on, Apartheid Continues	22 March 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
Statement on the conclusion of the preliminary examination of the Situation in Palestine, and seeking a ruling on the scope of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction	20 December 2019
بيان بشأن اختتام الدراسة الأوّلية للحالة في فلسطين، واستصدار قرار بشأن نطاق الاختصاص الإقليمي للمحكمة	20 December 2019
“Guide for Local Councils in support of Palestinian Rights”	15 November 2019
Land Inequality Framing Document	30 October 2019
What Sort of Humanitarian Aid for Western Sahara	19 September 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	06 September 2019
The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations	06 September 2019
Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report	05 September 2019
Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!	30 April 2019
Situation in the State of Palestine, ICC-01/18	30 April 2019
Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	17 January 2019
Nuremberg judgments	10 December 2018
ICTY judgments	10 December 2018
Integrating the engagement of local governments and stakeholders in UN HABITAT	22 October 2018
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs	24 April 2018
العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا	28 February 2018
إعلان دبي بشأن حوكمة الأراضي في الدول العربية	26 February 2018
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”	31 December 2017
Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA	30 October 2017
التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا	30 October 2017
Land Forum VI program	25 October 2017
برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا	25 October 2017
SDG 6	18 July 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	10 July 2017
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs	10 July 2017
أبعاد حقوق الإنسان التي ينطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 2017
General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities	23 June 2017
الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي	15 March 2017
تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة	28 February 2017
The Right to Adequate Food Seminar: Promoting accountability of food security actions to the people most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition	24 January 2017
المياه في المنطقة العربية ... من الملك العام للخصخصة	23 January 2017
حصيلة الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية على حقوق الأراض والسكن في المناطق الفلسطينية المحتلة	31 December 2016
Fact Sheet on Israeli Housing and Land Rights Violations during 2016	31 December 2016
HIC-HLRN statement on Security Council resolution 2334	28 December 2016
بيان للتحالف الدولي للموئل –شبكة حقوق الأرض والسكن بشأن قرار مجلس الأمن رقم 2334	28 December 2016
Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016)	23 December 2016
Resolution on Israeli settler colonies, S/RES/2334 (2016) Ar	23 December 2016
Habitat III Statement	20 October 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
Final draft "New Urban Agenda" of 10 September 2016	10 September 2016
Draft "New Urban Agenda" of 28 July 2016	28 July 2016
Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda	19 July 2016
Statement by the Quartet Principals on the Release of the Quartet Report	01 July 2016
HIC response to Habitat III revised zero draft	28 June 2016
Commentarios de la HIC sobre el borrador cero revisado del Habitat III	28 June 2016
HIC @ Habitat III	23 June 2016
Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq	29 November 2015
"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC	18 November 2015
Security of Tenure through the Habitat Agenda, 1976–2016	16 November 2015
تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises	15 October 2015
إطار العمل بشأن الأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأزمات الممتدة	15 October 2015
HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers	31 July 2015
Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government	20 July 2015
Cyprus Property Claims and Judgments	30 June 2015
البيان الختامي من المؤتمر الثاني للحق الفلسطيني في الأرض والسكن: عيش بكرامة...وحق بالوجود	28 May 2015
المجموعة الكاملة لتعليقات آلية المجتمع المدني على إطار عمل لجنة الأمن الغذائي العالمي	24 April 2015
أساسيات الموئل الثالث	16 April 2015
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Turkey, A/HRC/29/15	13 April 2015
Matthew J. Lister, “Self-Determination, Dissent, and the Problem of Population Transfers”	11 March 2015
Habitat II Evaluation Criteria	03 March 2015
The Right to the City: Jerusalem	26 October 2014
“Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
Susan M. Akram, “Self- Determination, Statehood, and the Refugee Question under International Law in Namibia, Palestine, Western Sahara, and Tibet”	01 September 2014
UPR: The Dilemma over Non-participating States, A/HRC/24/NGO/81	04 September 2013
Concept Paper for a FAO Inventory of Legal Norms Applied to Protracted Crises	12 August 2013
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 2013
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Raquel Rolnik, Mission to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, A/HRC/22/4	24 December 2012
World Social Forum – Tunisia	04 July 2012
The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara	15 June 2010
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
العراق: قانون هيئة دعاوي الملكية	09 March 2010
NGO Joint Letter to Switzerland on HCP Conference	05 February 2010
Law on compensating people affected by War Operations, Military accidental errors, and Terrorist Actions, Number 20 (2009)	28 December 2009
A Covenant of Dispossession and Genocide	15 July 2008
Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa	15 June 2008
"Neo‐liberalism on crack Cities under siege in Iraq," City, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (2007)	21 May 2007
Namibia: amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 concerning Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	21 November 2006
إدارة المياه العابرة للحدود	15 June 2006
Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
رد المساكن والممتلكات في سياق عودة اللاجئين والمشردين داخلياً "المبادئ المتعلقة برد المساكن والممتلكات إلى اللاجئين والمشردين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/17	28 June 2005
“Forced Population Transfers in Early Ottoman Imperial Strategy: A Comparative Approach,”	05 May 2003
تقرير المقرر الخاص المعني بالسكن اللائق بوصفع عنصراً من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي لائق، السيد ميلون كوتهاري، في زيارته إلى الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، زيارة الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، E / CN.4 / 2003/5 / ADD.1	17 June 2002
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Mr. Miloon Kothari, on his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, E/CN.4/2003/5/Add.1	17 June 2002
House demolitions in `Isawiya neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem	14 February 2002
تدمير المنازل في قريةالعيسوية بالقدس المحتلة	14 February 2002
الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة	24 October 2001
Arab Declaration on Sustainable Development	24 October 2001
Assessing the gains and losses of Istanbul+5	24 June 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	11 June 2001
Déclaration sur les villes et autres établissements humains en ce nouveau millénaire, S-25/2	11 June 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	09 June 2001
Declaración sobre las ciudades y otros asentamientos humanos en el nuevo milenio, S-25/2	09 June 2001
إعلان بشأن المدن والمستوطنات البشرية الأخرى في الألفية الجديدة، دإ-25/	09 June 2001
Right to Adequate Housing in Occupied Territories of the World!	06 June 2001
"Back to the Future," statement before the General Assembly Special Session Habitat II+5 Review	07 April 2001
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1	05 September 2000
Legal Issues arising from Certain Population Transfers and Displacements on the Territory of the Republic of Cyprus in the Period since 20 July 1974	27 June 1999
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court	17 July 1998
نظام روما الاساسي للمحكمة الجنائية الدولية	17 July 1998
Draft Declaration on Population Transfer and the Implantation of Settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
مشروع إعلان عن نقل السكان وغرس المستوطنين، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
“Human rights and population transfer,” Final report of the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
"حقوق الإنسان ونقل السكان،" التقرير النهائي للمقرر الخاص،E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/23	27 June 1997
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, A/CONF.165/14	14 June 1996
Declaración de Estambul sobre los Asentamientos Humanos y Programa de Hábitat, A/CONF.65/14	14 June 1996
La Déclaration d`Istanbul sur les etablissements humains et le Programme pour l`habitat, A/CONF.65/14	14 June 1996
إعلان استمبول وجدول أعمال المستوطنات البشرية	14 April 1996
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية	29 May 1995
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
أبعاد حقوق الإنسان اللتي يحتوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك توطين المستوطنين" تقرير مرحلي أعده السيد عون شوكت الخصاونة، المقرر الخاص، E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
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The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
إبعاد حقوق الانسان اللتي تنطوي عليها نقل السكان، بما في ذلك التوطين والمستوطنين	06 July 1993
Claire Palley, "Population Transfer and International Law"	12 January 1992
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Health principles of housing	30 June 1989
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