RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to the Bir al-Walidain Mosque in the village of Marda, northern occupied West Bank. Witnesses said a group of illegal settlers stormed the eastern neighborhood of Marda, near the city of Salfit, and set the mosque ablaze. Residents managed to extinguish the flames, but the fire...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US announced new sanctions on Monday against illegal Israeli settlers and entities over extremist settler violence in the occupied West Bank. The Treasury Department designated three individuals and three entities involved in settlement-related activities in the West Bank, according to a statement. The sanctions tar...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up at least 18 Palestinians, including two girls, in military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Thursday. Two girls and former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted several areas in the occupied territory, including Hebron, Qalq...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli authorities have shut the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Palestinian Muslims Wednesday for four days to allow illegal settlers to celebrate two Jewish holidays. “Israeli occupation authorities closed the sacred precincts of the mosque on Wednesday to celebrate the Sukkot and Yom Kipp...
Urif, Palestinian Territories — AFP A rusty barbed wire fence towers above the students entering Urif high school in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where increased violence by illegal Israeli settlers since October 7 has struck fear into Palestinians. “We tell the students … to come to school together and not on their own, b...
ROME (AA) — The Group of Seven (G-7) nations support the creation of a Palestinian state, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said, underlining that the process for this must begin with the suspension of the fighting in Gaza. “The G-7 document talks about the will to reach the objective of two people, two states, […]...
