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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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Israel “Withdraws” in al-Khalil/Hebron
By :Anadolu
02 November 2026
Hebron governor says Israeli forces withdraw from city after 10-day siege Hebron Mayor Youssef al-Jaabari says families forced from their homes can return and students can go to school.   Palestinians return to Hebron after their forced displacement due to an Israeli military operation | The governor of Hebron says Israeli forces have withdrawn from
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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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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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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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Documents (67)

Document Title

Publication Date

Israel’s JNF Committing Ecocide in Palestine

01 November 2026

Consent Form and CCIAJT Questionnaire

26 June 2025

Land and the Right to Adequate Housing: Multiple-state Review

30 May 2025

Land and the right to adequate housing: Brazil

30 May 2025

Validation Meeting on the CCIAJT Application Findings

21 May 2025

Consent Form and CCIAJT Questionnaire

11 May 2025

Reparations Bibliography

06 May 2025

Climate Finance in Morocco (matrix)

23 April 2025

Intervening in a crisis: Violation, environmental hazard, climate-change event (normative)

22 April 2025

How to Measure Loss and Damage for Remedy

01 April 2025

Solutions to Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

21 March 2023

Gold Extractivism- Sudan

16 June 2022

Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire

18 October 2021

Crowborough letter

25 February 2021

How Israeli Apartheid Affects the Syrian Golan

28 January 2021

UNSRs Address Israel over Naqab Demolitions

21 December 2020

Zimbabwe Technical Workshop Report

08 December 2020

Violation du droit de logement et de l´habitat en Haïti durant la pandémie de COVID-19

05 October 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

House Demolitions by Israeli Forces and Their Impacts across the Naqab Region

25 September 2020

Customary Practices That Displace Women from Their Habitats

30 August 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

Incidents of infrastructure development that displace people: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat including potential losses

30 July 2020

“Guide for Local Councils in support of Palestinian Rights”

15 November 2019

Human Rights Obligations of Local Governments and Local Authorities

31 August 2019

Al-Haq International Law Summer School 2019!

30 April 2019

Rapport d’inventaire des biens des communautés locales de Mvuzi 3, Lubuaku, Lundu et Kilengo à Inga

06 June 2018

New York City SDG-reporting press release

01 May 2018

العدالة الانتقالية وحقوق الأرض والسكن في اليمن: محافظة تعز نموذجا

28 February 2018

Boston Tenants Fighting Displacement

02 September 2017

Human Rights Habitat Observatory

10 July 2017

“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs

10 July 2017

تقرير دراسة جبر الضرر في الأراضي اليمنية المنهوبة

28 February 2017

Eviction Impact Assessment Tool

27 August 2016

مفهوم الحق في المدينة: الإطار، المغزى، التطور

17 August 2016

Yemen: Report on the Ta`iz Situation

19 January 2016

تقرير الوضع العا لمحافظة تعز ديسمبر 2015

19 January 2016

Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq

29 November 2015

Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations of Local Government

20 July 2015

The Third Airport Project vis-à-vis Life, Nature, Environment, People and Law

15 May 2015

Counting the Cost of Forced Eviction: Muthurwa Estates

11 May 2015

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2014

The Right to the City: Cairo

03 November 2014

The Right to the City: Jerusalem

26 October 2014

Eviction Impact Assessment in Chilla Khadar Village

12 December 2012

Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo

11 February 2012

Egypt Study Visit Brief

10 February 2012

Violence in Lathor Village, Balangir District

24 January 2012

Carta de la Ciudad de México por el Derecho a la Ciudad

01 September 2011

The Cruel Side of Delhi`s Beautification: Illegal Demolition in Baljeet Nagar

30 June 2011

المبادئ الأساسية والمبادئ التوجيهية المتعلقة بعمليات الإخلاء والترحيل بدافع التنمية

05 February 2007

Principes de base et directives concernant les expulsions et les déplacements liés au développement, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo, A/HRC/4/18

05 February 2007

La petite Sicile : inventaire avant disparition

01 July 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

Restructuring New Delhi`s Urban Habitat, Building an Apartheid City, A Report on the Resettlement process of Delhi, India

01 January 2002

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

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

State Terrorism at Sea: A Preliminary Report on the Case of Israel

01 December 1990

Right to the City in Greater Beirut p

01 January 1970

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