Israeli authorities impose a system of domination and oppression against the Palestinian people in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), and against Palestinian refugees.
Laws, policies, and institutional practices all work to expel, fragment, and dispossess Palestinians of their land and property, and deprive Palestinians of their human rights.
Please take the time to look over this information, collected over many years;
The latest reports on human rights in Israel and the Palestinian Territories are included here.
Landing page includes videos, testimonies, an education course, graphics, resources and policy recommendations.
Palestinian Children and families
Educate yourself and your community: Articles to read about school demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Palestinian children taken to military prisons
No way to treat a child Info here
Palestinian children in Israel’s military prisons Info here
Peace Now, an Israeli Peace Organization, asks that we speak out about school demolitions in the Occupied Territories. Jubb Al Dhib Elementary School near Bethlehem was demolished in the early hours of May 7th by order of the Jerusalem District Court petitioned by a settler group with no standing in the village. Ein Samiya School near Ramallah was also just demolished Please take action here immediately.
Taking Action in the USA
Support Betty McCollum’s Congressional bill to Defend the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families. Here is an issue brief that you can forward to your Congressional Rep and urge them to co-sponsor and support the bill.
Bill text and status and co-sponsors
Colonialism & Illegal Settlements
The Israeli occupation government announced its decision to legalize nine illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank and initiate a project to build some 10,000 houses for illegal Israeli settlers on UN-recognized occupied Palestinian territories. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/all-israeli-settlements-are-illegal-they-must-stop:-un-chief
“Israel’s tactics of forcibly displacing and evicting the Palestinian population appear to have no limits. In occupied East Jerusalem, tens of Palestinian families also face imminent risks of forced evictions and displacement, due to discriminatory zoning and planning regimes that favor Israeli settlement expansion – the act that is illegal under international law and amounts to a war crime.”
Deprivation of water in the occupied territories
Learn more about Israel’s policy of water deprivation.
Find a short film on Palestinian Human Rights (30 minutes or less)
Are you part of a faith-based community? Join with other faith-based organizations against apartheid https://apartheid-free.org/
Amnesty International Sacramento 