Salleh Ra’fat: Biden administration provides military and financial support to Israel, and also provides it with political support and protection in the UN and other international forums. Calls for convening of international conference that lead to establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. Ra’fat stated that Israel … Read more
Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas military positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. This was in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave governed by the Islamist movement. Ballasts of flame erupted into the air, creating a trail of dark smoke over the land. Israeli airstrikes attacked Hamas military positions in the Gaza Strip on … Read more
A Palestinian reporter working for an Iranian news agency was temporarily seized, beaten and threatened by Palestinian gunmen. Samer Khuaira had covered the violent dispersal of a student rally in the West Bank earlier this week. He identified one of his captors as a member of the security forces. A Palestinian reporter working for an … Read more
An Israeli army operation in Jenin, a hotbed of armed Palestinian factions, claimed the lives of three men and wounded ten others. The soldiers were fired upon as they arrived at the first place, and they replied before spotting a suspicious vehicle on the side of the road. JENIN, Palestinians: An Israeli army operation in … Read more
US President Joe Biden will visit Israel, the Palestinian West Bank, and S.Arabia. A priority for Biden will be maintaining the recently extended truce in Yemen. The most closely watched meeting will be between Biden and MBS. US President Joe Biden will make history next month, by flying directly between Israel and Saudi Arabia to … Read more
The Israeli army says it is investigating the circumstances of Mahmud Fayez Abu Ayhour’s death. The Red Crescent reports multiple injuries after clashes in Halhul, north of Hebron. The Israeli army has been conducting near-daily raids across the West Bank. Palestinian health ministry said, a Palestinian died in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after … Read more
Ayman Muheisen, 29, died in a Palestinian hospital after being shot by Israeli soldiers. He was killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Al-Dheisheh refugee camp. The Israeli army has made no immediate response to the event. A Palestinian man was killed on Thursday during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Al-Dheisheh refugee camp, … Read more
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the southern West Bank after she approached a soldier with a knife, according to the army, with Palestinian officials declaring her dead. According to an army statement, the “attempted stabbing” occurred at Al Aroub camp, north of Hebron. Read more: Palestinian president asks ‘US has to … Read more
Palestinian schoolteacher Zawada Shalaldeh has been the subject of an Israeli travel ban for 37 years. The 59-year-old from the town of Sa’ir, near Hebron, in the West Bank told Arab News that the restrictions imposed on his movements had also impacted his wife’s ability to get around. He said: “Since 1985 until today, I … Read more
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Israeli troops shot and killed a teenager during an operation in a community near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Friday. Zaid Ghunaim, 15, was named as the killed kid by the ministry. According to the report, he was shot in the neck and back by Israeli soldiers, … Read more
An Al Jazeera journalist killed in the occupied West Bank earlier this month was murdered by an Israeli soldier in a “war crime”, the official Palestinian investigation concluded Thursday. The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Al Jazeera have blamed Israeli forces for Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing on the morning of May 11, when she was covering … Read more
The Catholic archbishop in Jerusalem condemned Israel’s “police invasion” of a Christian hospital last week, just days before the funeral of dead Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. During an Israeli army raid in the West Bank, the seasoned journalist was shot and killed. Palestinians and a television network said she was killed by Israeli troops, … Read more
According to the Israeli hospital treating him, a Palestinian died on Sunday from wounds sustained two days ago in the hotspot Jenin refugee camp following a confrontation with Israeli police. Daoud al-Zubaidi, 43, was shot in his abdomen during an Israeli raid Friday to arrest what Israel’s army called “terrorist suspects”, at the camp in … 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 Friday, Israeli soldiers resumed raids in the occupied West Bank settlement of Jenin, where a renowned Palestinian journalist was killed this week, injuring at least four individuals, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The Israeli military stated its soldiers were fighting terrorists on the outskirts of Jenin, where Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh … Read more
US President Joe Biden and Jordan’s King Abdullah II met on Friday to explore measures to “urgently address” the surge in violence between Israel and the West Bank. Since late March, the region has been gripped by a wave of violent violence, with Israeli security forces and Palestinians often battling. “The leaders consulted on recent … Read more
13 Palestinians were injured on Friday after an exchange of fire between Palestinian terrorists and Israeli forces in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, according to Palestinian doctors and eyewitnesses. According to Jani Joukha, director of Jenin’s Ibn Sina Hospital, 13 Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces, one of them is in … Read more
The Palestinian health ministry reported that an Al-Jazeera journalist was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday. Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian reporter for the broadcaster’s Arabic language station, was shot and killed shortly after, according to the statement. Another Palestinian journalist from … Read more
JERUSALEM: Two Palestinians were killed and another was wounded in separate incidents on Sunday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem, officials said, the latest in a string of bloodshed. The turmoil occurred only hours after two Palestinians were arrested on suspicion of assassinating three Israelis, and as a succession of anti-Israeli attacks … Read more
Egypt slammed Israeli authorities’ plans to demolish a number of Palestinian communities in the occupied area of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank on Saturday, saying “such actions hinder the possibility of obtaining a two-state solution and creating a comprehensive and just peace in the region.” The Egyptian Foreign Ministry voiced “deep worry” about “Israeli … Read more
JERUSALEM: After a day of fighting between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, one of the focal points for weeks of bloodshed, a security guard at an Israeli settlement in the West Bank was shot and killed late Friday. The army stated that the guard was attacked at the Ariel settlement’s entrances and … Read more
Following a string of incidents in Israel since late March, Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank flashpoint city of Jenin on Wednesday, in what the army dubbed its latest “counterterrorism” raid. The army said that during the operation at Jenin’s refugee camp, troops used “live ammunition” after being targeted with gunfire … Read more
According to the Palestinian health ministry, a Palestinian died Tuesday after being shot in the head by Israeli soldiers operating at a refugee camp in Jericho, a city in the occupied West Bank. Ahmed Ibrahim Oweidat, 20, “succumbed to critical wounds sustained by live bullets to the head, at dawn today in Aqabat Jaber camp,” according … Read more
Yair Lapid, Israel’s foreign minister, stated on Sunday that Israel was “committed” to the status quo, which forbids Jews from praying at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, which has been the site of recurrent riots. His comments follow violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories that has killed 38 people since late March, … Read more
Following a spate of strikes within Israel and the occupied West Bank beginning March 22, fears of an all-out escalation have grown in Israel and the occupied West Bank. Attacks inside Israel have claimed the lives of 14 people, while 24 Palestinians have been killed in the same period, according to an AFP tally. Prime … 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
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
There have been three deaths in separate incidents that give rise to high tensions in Israel, West Bank. Following weeks of deadly attacks, Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian women in separate events in the West Bank on Sunday, inciting inflaming tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. In a third incident, a Jewish man was … Read more
