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Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory

Person writing Freedom from Violence Is A Human Right on a whiteboard.
Person writing Freedom from Violence Is A Human Right on a whiteboard.

Civilians are paying the price during the ongoing crisis in Gaza, Israel and the wider Occupied Palestinian Territory. This current crisis is rooted in ongoing and long-term violations and injustice impacting civilians' everyday lives. This includes decades in which Israeli authorities have been maintaining and enforcing laws, policies, and practices that deliberately oppress Palestinians, amounting to apartheid.

Backed by world-class verification and a longstanding commitment to impartiality, we are monitoring activities of all parties to the conflict and will continue to publish our investigations into human rights violations and abuses.

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End Israeli Apartheid

Cruel, racist systems like apartheid have no place in our world. Israel must start treating Palestinians as human beings with equal rights and dignity.
Palestine at home

Palestine at Home

The Israeli authorities’ system of apartheid reaches into homes and rips families apart. Despite these injustices, Palestinians are resisting. One of the ways they are keeping the hope of home alive is through cooking and food. Support our campaign by making your own Palestinian recipes...

Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians (2022)

Read our report on how millions of Palestinians are living under Israel's system of apartheid.
ANI Annual Lecture

Amnesty International NI Annual Lecture 2024 - Genocide as colonial erasure

Exploring the violence that Israel has unleashed against the Palestinians post-7 October as part of a long-term intentional, systematic, State-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians, Francesca Albanese will address the risk of causing irreparable prejudice to the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine, and how and why must we insist on the genocide framing, if we are to prevent any further atrocities that will undoubtedly scar our human history.
Genocide Report

‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza

Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Legal challenge

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Submission to the UK High Court in Israel Arms Case

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Submission to the UK High Court in Israel Arms Case

USA: fresh warning over complicity in Israeli war crimes as Netanyahu visits Washington

Call for US to halt arms exports to Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu set to meet Joe Biden and potentially Kamala Harris

Visit comes amid spike in civilian deaths from intensified Israeli attacks in Gaza and mass displacement of people in Khan Younis

Israel/OPT: ICJ opinion on Israeli occupation is 'historic vindication' of Palestinian rights

The occupation is a key pillar of the system of apartheid that Israel uses to dominate and oppress Palestinians

UK: David Lammy must tell Israeli ministers that UK will 'ignore war crimes no longer'

Foreign Secretary should make clear that UK arms can no longer flow to Israel

Israel/OPT: Hamas and other armed groups must release civilian hostages

Fifty-six civilians believed alive and still held in Gaza, with families deeply unhappy with efforts of Israeli authorities to secure their release

UK: granting of permission to join arms to Israel legal challenge welcomed

“This is a very welcome decision and we look forward to presenting our evidence to the court. Our evidence demonstrates the gap between the Israeli military and political leadership’s policies and practices and their legal obligations, and shows how this gap has resulted in Israeli forces repeatedly committing grave breaches of international humanitarian law."

Israel/OPT: three Israeli airstrikes killed 44 civilians in Gaza - new investigation

Children playing table football were among 32 children killed in the attacks on al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza and Rafah last month.

Findings of detailed investigation consistent with broader pattern of war crimes committed by Israeli military in Gaza in past seven months.
Apartheid: 30 years

South African anti-apartheid activists speak up for Palestine

April 27 2024 marked 30 years since the end of apartheid rule in South Africa. To mark this historic day, South African apartheid survivors and activists, Lukhanyo Calata and Reverend Frank Chikane, explains what it was like to live under apartheid in South Africa and calls for an end to Israeli apartheid against Palestinians. 
Amnesty UK CEO blog

There’s no better time for a ceasefire protest than Armistice Day

Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s Chief Executive explains why there's no more appropriate time for peaceful protest than Armistice Day, when we reflect on the horrors of armed conflict.

The escalating crisis in Gaza and Israel

Our response to the crisis in Gaza, the wider Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Israel

Life in Gaza - A Genocide in Real-Time

A Genocide in Real-Time: I've felt terrorised, increasingly anxious and extremely uncertain about anything. I've lived through too many wars but somehow survived. This time, however, I feel closer to death. This time, it truly feels that Israel's gloves are not just off but thrown in the bin and long forgotten. This feels like a genocide in real time.
Thank you

Thank you for acting in solidarity with the Palestinian people living under Israel’s apartheid

Thank you for acting in solidarity with the Palestinian people living under Israel’s apartheid

JCB

This open-source digital map reveals the repeated use of JCB equipment in activities resulting in human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Life in Gaza - Horror Everywhere

I believe that notorious colonialist Winston Churchill said that British people are the only people who like to be told how bad things are. Well, to put it mildly, things are bad in Gaza—how does that make you feel?

Northern Ireland: UN Palestine expert to deliver annual Amnesty lecture on genocide

Francesca Albanese will give Amnesty Northern Ireland’s annual lecture on the topic of Israeli genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Gaza Crisis

Letter to the Deputy First Minister of Scotland on human rights due diligence at Scottish Enterprise (November 2024)

Our letter to the Scottish government urging it to review its human rights due diligence for arms companies funding through Scottish Enterprise