Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian adolescent militant, During a Saturday raid in the flashpoint Jenin area of the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian sources and the army “A 17-year-old boy was killed… by the Israeli occupation’s bullets during its aggression on Jenin,” the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement after the latest deadly … Read more
Palestinians held a rally on Sunday to commemorate the “Nakba,” or catastrophe, which occurred 74 years after Israel’s founding, with outrage over a police raid on the funeral of a slain journalist. The annual demonstrations across the occupied West Bank, annexed east Jerusalem and inside Israel came with tensions high over the killing of 51-year-old … Read more
On Saturday, Israel’s police chief ordered an investigation into the actions of officers at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who charged the procession and beat pallbearers, sparking international outrage. Thousands of mourners gathered in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday to pay their respects to the 51-year-old Al Jazeera reporter. The Palestinian-American was killed … Read more
Fifteen European countries urged Israel on Friday to abandon plans for tens of thousands more settlement houses in the West Bank, warning that they would “obstruct” long-term peace between Israelis and Palestinians. “The new housing units would constitute an additional obstacle to the two-state solution,” said the countries in a statement issued by their foreign … Read more
After Israeli police disrupted the start of the funeral procession, thousands of mourners filled Jerusalem’s tense Old City on Friday for the burial of veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. The Palestinian-American was fatally shot by an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday, and Israel and the Palestinians … Read more
Palestinians have expressed fury at a plan by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to delegate some duties to other UN agencies, warning of a scheme to “dismantle” the entity. Established in 1949, a year after Israel was created, UNRWA is the only major UN body dedicated exclusively to one conflict and one people and … Read more
Israeli security forces detained two Palestinians suspected of axing to death three Israelis, the latest in a string of murderous attacks after a more than two-day manhunt, The suspects, Assad Yussef al-Rifai, 19, and Subhi Imad Abu Shukair, 20, were observed near a quarry close outside the central town of Elad, where the axe attack … Read more
Israel launched a large-scale manhunt for two Palestinians suspected of killing three Israelis in an axe assault that occurred on the anniversary of the Jewish state’s founding, On Friday. The attack in Elad, a central city mostly populated by ultra-Orthodox Jews, on Thursday night was the sixth such attack since March 22. Witnesses said two … Read more
Human Rights Watch govt director Kenneth Roth said Tuesday he was stepping down after three a long time wherein the New York-based NGO has become a thorn inside the aspect of authoritarian regimes and rights abuses globally. Roth, who has led the organization considering the fact that 1993, will depart at the end of August, … Read more
Israel stated it’ll close its most effective crossing from the Gaza Strip for workers on Sunday in reaction to overnight rocket fire, preventing quick of engaging in retaliatory moves in an obvious bid to ease tensions. The rocket attacks on Friday night time and Saturday morning observed days of clashes at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque … Read more
In the latest attack on the Muslim holy site, Israeli police enter the area and fire rubber bullets and stun grenades. Approximately 30 Palestinians, including three journalists, were hurt as Israeli soldiers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. According to journalists on the scene, Palestinians threw stones at Israeli police, who … Read more
Jerusalem: At least 31 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday, according to Palestinian doctors. Four Palestinians were hospitalized, two critically, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service. Hundreds of protesters began tossing rocks and fireworks near the Western Wall, where Jews were praying. … Read more
Pope Francis on Sunday known without cost get the right of entry to the holy websites in Jerusalem as he introduced his annual Easter deal amid simmering violence among Israelis and Palestinians within the Holy City. “May there be peace for the Middle East, racked by years of conflict and division. On this glorious day, … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday while expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine, condemned the raid on the Al-Aqsa mosque and the escalation of violence by the Israeli forces. The prime minister in a tweet also stressed upon the international community to protect innocent Palestinian lives and uphold the international law and … Read more
After a series of Palestinian attacks around the nation stoked worries of fresh internal unrest, Jewish residents of a central Israeli community created an armed organisation they claim is for self-defense. More than 100 people were killed in conflicts between Jewish and Arab residents of the mixed city of Lod in Israel last year, which … Read more
Nearly a year after clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jerusalem triggered a war in Gaza, rising tensions in the city during Ramadan have sparked worries of a repetition of 2021. When Israeli riot police invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Friday, they were attacked with stone-throwing and firecrackers, injuring 158 Palestinians. Israel … Read more
Palestinians resist against Israeli forces at Al Aqsa yet again Palestinians conflicted with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands assembled for supplications during the blessed month of Ramadan. Doctors expressed in excess of 150 Palestinians were injured in the most genuine brutality at the site in almost a … Read more
On Friday morning, Palestinian protesters and Israeli police clashed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound. “Seven injured people were taken to hospital to be treated for upper body injuries,” a Palestinian Red Crescent member told AFP. Witnesses said Palestinian protestors threw stones at Israeli security forces, who responded with rubber bullets. Al-Aqsa is a Muslim holy site. … Read more
Three Palestinians died Thursday as Israeli forces launched sparkling raids into the West Bank flashpoint district of Jenin, per week after a gunman from there went on a lethal shooting spree in Tel Aviv. Israel has poured extra forces into the West Bank and is reinforcing its wall and fence barrier with the occupied territory … Read more
Israeli soldiers have murdered five Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, including a 14-year-old child, as part of ongoing operations by Israel’s military forces in response to a spate of fatal assaults inside Israel. According to the Palestinian health ministry, two Palestinians were murdered in an Israeli operation early Thursday, and three others on … Read more
A Palestinian man armed with a kitchen knife stabbed a police officer in Ashkelon, Israel, and was shot dead. An officer was examining a person of interest on Tuesday when “the attacker pulled out a knife and attacked the officer,” according to police. “Responded quickly, fired and neutralised the suspect,” the officer said in his … Read more
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – When US prosecutors struck a deal with a hedge-fund billionaire to surrender 180 stolen artefacts to their places of origin, they insisted victims of his plunder would see “justice”. But Palestinians doubted it would apply to them. They saw Michael Steinhardt’s December agreement with prosecutors in Manhattan as yet another setback in … Read more
JERUSALEM – Seventeen Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a racist attack on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank last month, police said Wednesday. Police said Jewish Israelis armed with stones, clubs and “other objects” wounded one Palestinian and vandalised shops, vehicles and property in the northern West Bank village … Read more
GAZA – Jihan Al-Adgham, a Palestinian woman from the besieged coastal enclave, spends most of her time placing pots under the holes in the roof of her house to protect her children from getting wet from rainwater in the cold winter nights. The 46-year-old mother of seven lives in a 60-square-meter dilapidated house with cracked … Read more
JERUSALEM – Israeli police on Wednesday evicted a Palestinian family and demolished their home in East Jerusalem’s flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. At least 18 people were arrested, according to a statement issued by the Jerusalem police. The eviction of the Salhiyeh family began on Monday, but residents and human rights activists refused to leave … Read more
JERUSALEM- Israeli police destroyed the home of a Palestinian family in the sensitive east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah early Wednesday, an AFP photographer reported. The looming eviction of other families from Sheikh Jarrah in May last year fuelled an 11-day war between Israel and armed Palestinian factions in Gaza. Before dawn, Israeli officers went … Read more
(OCCUPIED) JERUSALEM – Palestinian journalists have raised the alarm over what they describe as unjust suppression of their content on Facebook, a claim backed by rights groups but rejected by the social media giant. On December 4, Palestine TV correspondent Christine Rinawi posted a video on her Facebook account in which Israeli security forces were seen … Read more
RAMALLAH: A group of EU diplomats from European countries paid a visit on Thursday to the West Bank village Beita as conflicts and violence between local Palestinians and Israeli forces continued to increase in the area. “The European Union (EU) and like-minded countries visited Beita village in response to rising levels of settlers’ violence and … Read more
