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In Palestine to Lebanon, and Now Syria, Israel Is Destroying The Arab Olive Harvest

11 November 2026

From Palestine to Lebanon, and now Syria, Israel is destroying the Arab olive harvest The Israeli army is cutting farmers off from their groves in Quneitra, southern Syria, and detaining young men in the area arbitrarily. Locals tell Mondoweiss that the losses from the olive harvest will take decades to recover
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Firms Tied to West Bank settlements Win $15m UK Contracts Despite Criminality & Sanctions

By :Caolán Magee, Aljazeera

10 November 2026

Firms tied to West Bank settlements win $15m UK deals despite sanctions Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the findings ‘outrageous and frankly insulting to the public’. Share Firms tied to West Bank settlements win $15m UK deals despite sanctions on social media The United Kingdom awarded 10.7 million pounds ($14.4m) in new
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Gaza’s Displacement Camps Face Deadly Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides

By :Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss

09 November 2026

Gaza’s displacement camps face deadly winter storms, flooding, and landslides Three children and one woman were killed in central Gaza after heavy rain caused a sand embankment to collapse onto displaced families` tents. When Tahrir Nabhan, her sister, and their three children went to sleep in a tent carefully pitched beneath a
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Yemen Fighting Newly Displaces 2,300 Households

By :IOM

03 November 2026

YEMEN IDP REPORTIOM Yemen| Displacement Tracking Matrix25 TO 31 October 2026 ...From 1 January to 31 October 2026, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 53,226 households (HH) (319,356 Individuals) who experienced displacement at least once. Between 25 and 31 October 2026, IOM Yemen DTM tracked 2294 households (13764 individuals) displaced at least once. The
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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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Israel’s JNF Committing Ecocide in Palestine

By :HIC-HLRN, LRC & PENGON

01 November 2026

“Israel’s Ecocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with a Focus on the Jewish National Fund” A joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the oPt by the Housing and Land Rights Network–Habitat International Coalition, the Land Research Center, and the Palestinian Environmental NGO Network. The report presents input to the UN
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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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Palestine: Israel Evicts 1,200 Palestinians in Hebron

By :Reuters

25 October 2026

Around 1,200 Palestinians Are Displaced in Hebron as Israel Begins Military Operation JERUSALEM—The ⁠Israeli ⁠military forced around 1,200 Palestinians to ⁠leave their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said on Saturday, a day after a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
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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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Egyptian Firms Survey Rafah Ruins for `Green Rafah` Housing Plan

By :Occupation Watch

22 October 2026

Egyptian Firms Surveyed Rafah Ruins Under Israeli Military Escort for `Green Rafah` Housing Plan, Sources Say Two Egyptian sources describe engineers mapping a reconstruction zone in Israeli-controlled Rafah meant to eventually house 20,000 Palestinians under Shin Bet vetting and Egyptian contracting control. Egyptian engineers walked the rubble of eastern Rafah this year
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Documents (201)

Document Title	Publication Date
Israel’s JNF Committing Ecocide in Palestine	01 November 2026
The Baku Call to Action	26 May 2026
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
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
Implementing the Human Right to Remedy in Libya	07 April 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
بيان مشترك: سوريا، مزارعو عفرين تحت تهديد مصادرة أراضيهم مع حصاد الزيتون	07 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
Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism	27 December 2022
Housing and Property Restitution in Middle East and North Africa	30 November 2022
ETO Case: Lafarge and ISIS	23 October 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (أسئلة أستراتيجية)	21 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (العدالة)	20 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الإنسان في سياق النزوح الداخلي)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (حقوق الحيازة)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (تعهدات الدولة)	19 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية" (المقدمة)	18 September 2022
مقارنة الصدقة مقابل التنمية	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (مبادرة الاراضي العربية)	18 September 2022
الإنتقال من العمل الخيري والإغاثة إلى التنمية (الأبعاد القانونية والمؤسسية المحلية في حالة الانتقال)	18 September 2022
Evolving ETOs	16 June 2022
Gold Extractivism- Sudan	16 June 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
Climate Justice	25 November 2021
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
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
Consolider, développer et intégrer l`approche féministe dans HIC Afrique	10 February 2021
Consolidating, Developing and Mainstreaming the Feminist Approach in HIC Africa	10 February 2021
How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan	28 January 2021
التعويل على العدالة: ضحايا انتهاكات الأرض ودعم مشروع العدالة الانتقالية لجبر الضرر في اليمن	28 January 2021
Counting on Justice: A Reckoning of Land Rights Violations and Their Consequences toward Reparations for Victims in Yemen	28 January 2021
Bibliography on Israeli Apartheid	28 January 2021
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
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
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
Statement of the Major Group and Other Stockholders on VNR Libya	16 July 2020
لجنة إزالة التمكين تسترد ممتلكات من نظام البشير	13 July 2020
Sudan’s Deep State: How Insiders Violently Privatized Sudan’s Wealth, and How to Respond	13 July 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
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
Joint Submission to 100th Session of CERD on Israel`s Periodic Report	05 September 2019
الوثيقة الدستورية للفترة الانتقالية	13 June 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
Transmission letter to Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat	17 January 2019
Nuremberg judgments	10 December 2018
ICTY judgments	10 December 2018
Commission of Inquiry into Post-election Violence	05 December 2018
Joint Submission to the UPR of Yemen	22 November 2018
SDG Messages from Arab CSOs	24 April 2018
الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين	23 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
"No hunger on earth as of today"	21 February 2018
International sources on the concept and criteria of “landlessness”	31 December 2017
ميثاق الحق في المدينة: بيروت الكبرى	17 November 2017
Right to the City Charter in Greater Beirut	17 November 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
Peace Block letter on Sur, Diyarbakır	19 August 2017
The Walled City of Diyarbakır: Conflict, Dispossession and Destruction Damage Assessment Report	01 August 2017
SDG 6	18 July 2017
Human Rights Habitat Observatory	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
“Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut	24 May 2017
Report of fourth “Sanctuary in the City: Beirut” Workshop Beirut May 2017	05 May 2017
الممارسات الإسرائيلية تجاه الشعب الفلسطيني ومسألة الفصل العنصري (الأبارتهيت)، موجز تنفيذي	15 March 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
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) Ar	23 December 2016
“We are at breaking point,” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh	19 December 2016
Local Governments and Appointment of Trustees to Municipalities	11 October 2016
UN Special Rapporteurs joint communication to Permanent Mission of Turkey	21 September 2016
Alternativas desde la sociedad civil hacia Hábitat III,	12 August 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
Sanctuary in the City: Beirut	01 June 2016
Comments on Habitat III Policy Paper Frameworks (overview)	31 January 2016
Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation	19 January 2016
تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015	19 January 2016
Cairo Declaration on Housing, and Sustainable Urban Development	22 December 2015
اتفاق باريس، FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1	12 December 2015
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
تحويل عالمنا: خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام ٢٠٣٠، A/RES/70/1	21 October 2015
Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises	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
Matthew J. Lister, “Self-Determination, Dissent, and the Problem of Population Transfers”	11 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
ETOs and Situations of Conflict, Occupation and War: Applying the Maastricht Principles	11 July 2013
Housing Land and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya	01 December 2012
World Social Forum – Tunisia	04 July 2012
Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District	24 January 2012
Land Forum III: "Land, People`s Sovereignty and Self-determination"	17 January 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
Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group (on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council) / Kenya, 276/03 :	02 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
"Neo‐liberalism on crack Cities under siege in Iraq," City, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (2007)	21 May 2007
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
Institutionalized Discrimination against Palestinians in Lebanon	01 March 2004
“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
الإعلان العربي عن التنمية المستدامة	24 October 2001
Right to Adequate Housing in Occupied Territories of the World!	06 June 2001
The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)	22 July 1999
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
“Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations,” Final report by the Special Rapporteur, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20	22 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
إعلان القدس: مشروع ميثاق حركة حقوق السكن الفلسطينية	29 May 1995
The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa	10 September 1994
وثيقة أديس أبابا بشأن اللاجئين والتشريد القسري للسكان في أفريقيا	10 September 1994
The human rights dimensions of population transfer, including the implantation of settlers, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/18	30 June 1994
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
NGO Treaty on Urbanisation. Towards Just Democratic and Sustainable Cities, Towns and Villages	16 June 1992
Claire Palley, "Population Transfer and International Law"	12 January 1992
State Terrorism at Sea: A Preliminary Report on the Case of Israel	01 December 1990
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
ICJ Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara (summary)	16 October 1975
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
Jewish National Fund, Memorandum of Association	23 December 1956
الاتفاقية الخاصة بوضع اللاجئين	28 July 1951
تقسيم فلسطين: قرار الجمعية العامة رقم 181 (II)	29 November 1947
UN Charter of the United Nations, adopted 26 June 1945	26 June 1945
ميثاق الأمم المتحدة	26 June 1945

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