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Adalah Petitions Israeli Court for Hebron Municipality and Displaced Residents

By :Adalah: THe Center for Arab Minority RIghts in ISrael

01 November 2026

Adalah Petitions Israeli Supreme Court on Behalf of Hebron Municipality and Displaced Residents: Halt Forced Displacement, Demolitions and Movement Restrictions in the City On Thursday, 29 October 2026, Adalah petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of the Hebron Municipality and seven residents of the city’s Ein Deir Baha and al-Jaldeh
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Follow the Blood Money: The Genocide Economy, Mapped

26 October 2026

Who is profiting from Israel’s genocidal campaign on the Middle East? Blood Money is an online infographic resource Providing 294 entities 609 facts 384 sources $150.23 B money tracked, Oct 2023 to 2026 US military aid to Israel, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026 $25.7B US regional operations and Gaza force funding for Israel, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026
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Sahrawi Civil Society Calls for UNSC Integrity after Serially Eroding Their Rights

By :Sahrawi Civil Society organizations

26 October 2026

Western Sahara Cannot Be a Bargaining Chip: A Call for a Security Council Resolution Grounded in International Law Joint letter by Sahrawi and International Civil Society At a time when international law and the principles underpinning the United Nations are increasingly challenged, we, Sahrawi and international civil society organisations, human rights defenders,
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Gaza: ‘Green Rafah’ - Haven or Conquest?

By :Occupation Watch

25 October 2026

‘Green Rafah’: Humanitarian Haven or Another U.S.–Israeli Scheme to Isolate Palestinians? “The idea of social sorting or demographic engineering is bound to fail before it even gets off the ground.” In late November 2025, Rafah in southern Gaza returned to the center of public debate, not only as a devastated city on
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Israel’s Lebanese Land Grab

By :Belen Fernandez, Black Agenda Report

21 October 2026

Israel’s Lebanese Land Grab Under the guise of a farcical “pilot zone” project to restore Lebanon’s sovereignty, Israel is pursuing a scorched-earth strategy while entrenching its occupation. Back in June, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a “Trilateral Framework” signed by Lebanon, Israel, and everyone’s favorite tyrannical global superpower, which,
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Trump`s Board of Peace to Seize Palestine Land as US Did n Iraq

By :Dorgham Abusalim, DAWN

15 October 2026

Trump`s Board of Peace Threatens to Seize Palestinian Land Using a U.S. Playbook from Iraq The BoP`s reported plans and resolutions reflect an attitude that calls into question its integrity and commitment to its publicly stated goals in Gaza. Palestinians learn early that violence committed against them by Israel and its allies
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100 Organizations Reject ‘Ceasefire’ to Describe Gaza Situation

By :100 NGOs

09 October 2026

Gaza ceasefire exists in name only, say more than 100 organizations One year since the ceasefire agreement, more than 1,400 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, nearly two million still need shelter, not a single hospital is fully functioning, and 1.4 million face crisis-level hunger. Joint statement One year after
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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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US & Israel Reassert Moroccan "sovereignty" over "entire Western Sahara"

By :United States Mission to the United Nations, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy

16 September 2026

Joint Statement of the United States, the Kingdom of Morocco, and the State of Israel The United States Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz, the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita, and the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa’ar met today in New York to discuss the
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Israel Reacts to British Sanctions on Settler Colonies

By :Peter Beaumont, The Guardian

08 September 2026

Israel to close British consulate in Jerusalem after sanctions announced Several MPs also banned from Israel after UK steps up condemnation of settlements and announces sweeping sanctions Israel has ordered the closure of the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem in response to sweeping UK sanctions on goods from illegal settlements. Reacting to
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Documents (191)

Document Title	Publication Date
ورقة حقائق حول الوضع الجيوسياسي للضفة الغربية بما فيها شرقي القدس	30 March 2026
Reparations Bibliography	28 March 2026
Joint Inputs toward a draft General Comment on ICESCR Application in Situations of Armed Conflict	16 March 2026
The Operational and Financial Crisis Facing UNRWA	01 March 2026
وشهد شاهد من أهله	01 January 2026
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
Reparations 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
Lafarge Supporting Terrorism, Crimes against Humanity: Case Outline on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of States	22 June 2023
Housing and Land Rights Network Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change	06 January 2023
Inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the right to food report on impacts of climate change	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
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
"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
Gains and Losses of Habitat III	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
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
"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
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
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
Christopher M. Goebel, “A Unified Concept of Population Transfer”	01 October 1993
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17	06 July 1993
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
Comité des droits économiques, sociales et culturelles, "Le droit à un logement suffisant," Observation générale no 4	13 December 1991
State Terrorism at Sea: A Preliminary Report on the Case of Israel	01 December 1990
Health principles of housing	30 June 1989
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/37/123	14 December 1984
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
The situation in the Middle East, A/RES/39/146	16 December 1982
S/RES/520 (1982)	17 September 1982
The Two Galilees	01 September 1982
S/RES/501 (1982)	25 February 1982
S/RES/465 (1980)	01 March 1980
Letter of the State Department Legal Advisor, Mr. Herbert J. Hansell, Concerning the Legality of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories	21 April 1978
Land. That’s What Habitat Was About	23 June 1976
Declaración de Vancouver	11 June 1976
“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
Jewish National Fund, Memorandum of Association	23 December 1956
تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)	29 November 1947

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