As Palestinian youth are currently sitting the critical set of national exams, “Tawjihi”, or the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination, which marks the final stage of the Palestinian school system and a pre-requisite to entry to university, they face the annual threat at this time: Israeli detention. With an understanding that detention at this specific period is detrimental to the academic and professional future of the youth, Israeli forces continue their arrests of children in education.
On July 11, the town of Taybeh, Palestine’s last remaining fully Christian town northeast of Ramallah has come under repeated and escalating attacks by Israeli settlers residing illegally in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). These incidents, occurring with alarming frequency and intensity, form part of a deliberate policy of settler-led forced displacement, led by the highest political echelons in Israel.
On June 22, 2025, the Irish Ambassador to Jordan, H.E. Marianne Bolger, hosted BIHR’s Director, Adv. Dalia Qumsieh, and Dr. Tahani Mustafa, Senior Palestine Analyst at the International Crisis Group (ICG) for a lunch briefing at her residence in Amman, with a group of diplomatic missions in Jordan. The session provided a platform to share the latest updates on the excessive militarization of the West Bank and the latest Israeli annexation measures, displacement policies, and human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as relevant regional insights.
Long before the events of October 7th, 2023, Palestinians faced continuous waves of violence orchestrated by Israeli settlers and accompanied, or even protected, by Israeli soldiers. In 2023, this violence reached unprecedented levels, marking a record year. Following October 7th , 2023, and under the directives of Israeli government officials, settler aggression escalated, making it even more blatant and severe.
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