Embassy of the State of Palestine

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine strongly condemns Israel's execution of 15 paramedics as a heinous war crime that demands immediate international accountability. This horrific act reveals the brutality of the daily crimes committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians, as well as against humanitarian, UN, medical, and press personnel – with the intent to terrorize them and obstruct the delivery of life-saving aid to the people of Gaza. This is a deliberate policy aimed at eradicating all aspects of life in the Gaza Strip and rendering it uninhabitable, in pursuit of the forcible transfer of the entire Palestinian population.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine condemns the incursion by Israeli Ministers Katz and Smotrich into occupied Palestinian territory as a blatant violation of international law and legitimacy. The Ministry further condemns the ministers’ racist and colonial rhetoric, which included calls to expand illegal settlements, demolish Palestinian homes, and suppress Palestinian state institutions. It warns that such rhetoric incites settler violence, as seen in the recent arson attack on Palestinian homes in the village of Duma. The Ministry stresses that the international community’s inaction emboldens Israel’s violent and criminal policies of occupation, genocidal war, apartheid, forced displacement, and annexation.

UNICEF Reports: The breakdown of the ceasefire and resumption of intense bombardments and ground operations in the Gaza Strip has reportedly left at least 322 children dead and 609 injured – constituting a daily average of around 100 children killed or maimed over the past 10 days.

Every year on March 30, the Palestinian people commemorate Land Day as an expression of their collective solidarity and united resistance against the Israeli occupation’s ongoing policies and practices of stealing Palestinian land. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics presents data and statistics on Land Day 2025.

The Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN: More children are being buried, more children are being orphaned, more families are being annihilated and the entire population is being terrorized, threatened with slaughter, as Israel continues unleashing every form of lethal and explosive weaponry in densely populated areas with no regard for civilian life.

In this report, the UN Commission of Inquiry concludes that sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence constitute a major element in Israel’s ill-treatment of Palestinians and, in the wider context, the unlawful occupation and the oppression of Palestinians as a group. These crimes are used systematically as a tool to further entrench Palestinian subordination, maintain the Israeli system of oppression, and deny Palestinians their right to self-determination.

The Palestinian Ministry of Finance has confirmed that, since 2019, the Israeli occupation has illegally blocked the transfer of approximately NIS 7 billion (equivalent to USD 1.9 billion) in Palestinian clearance revenues, with severe and far-reaching consequences for the Palestinian economy, government, and people.

Weekly Situation Report #30 covering key developments across occupied Palestine (17 March - 24 March 2025)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine condemns the Israeli Cabinet’s decision to separate 13 colonial settlement “neighborhoods” and designate them as fully-fledged independent settlements, and further condemns the establishment of an Israeli military administration to facilitate the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip

Pope Francis renews his call for peace, highlighting the immense suffering of the Palestinian people following the resumption of heavy Israeli bombing on the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Holy See Secretary of State expresses concern about the "systematic violation of international law", especially the bombing of civilians and the killing of humanitarian workers.