The U.S. has imposed new sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and organizations linked to extremist violence in the occupied West Bank. The sanctions come amid rising settler attacks on Palestinians, with reports indicating nearly 1,500 incidents last month alone. Data from Peace Now, an anti-settlement Israeli organization, indicates more tha...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers stormed the tomb site of Sheikh Yussef Dawiqat, in the West Bank city of Nablus, according to witnesses. The illegal Jewish settlers entered the sacred site under police protection and forcibly performed Jewish religious rituals there, the witnesses said. Provoked Palestinian residents hurled...
Israel shot dead a 59-year-old Palestinian woman while attending to her family’s olive grove in the village of Faqqua, east of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank. Hanan Abu Salami was shot in the back Thursday morning as she was picking olives with other members of her family when soldiers stationed on […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian school in the Mu’arrajat area, northwest of the West Bank city of Jericho, according to a local activist. Students and teachers were assaulted by illegal settlers during the attack on the Arab al-Ka’abneh Primary School, injuring several people and besieging...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Finance Minister known for his radical right-wing Zionism Bezalel Smotrich has said that he is working to grant 500,000 illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank “the same rights of every citizens in Israel.” “I will continue to work with all my strength to allow the half million settlers who are […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers demolished 47 agricultural structures and homes last week in the Taybe area in the west of Hebron in the southern West Bank. The destruction was discovered by the Palestinians upon their return to their properties after being barred from accessing them by Israeli forces since early Sept...
The US has announced new sanctions against Israeli settlers amid Israel’s latest violence in the West Bank. The State Department has imposed penalties on the NGO Hashomer Yosh and several individuals, including Yinon Levi and Neriya Ben Pazi, for their roles in supporting extremist violence against Palestinians. Yitzhak Levi Filant, a security...
ANKARA (AA) – Recent illegal settler violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has provoked the “largest forcible transfer” since October 2023, a major rights group said in a statement. “The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) calls on the international community to intervene and protect Palestinian communities after illegal set...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Clashes erupted in the eastern part of Nablus, a city in the northern West Bank, as Israeli forces facilitated the entry of illegal settlers into the tomb of an Islamic scholar, claimed by the Jews to be the resting place of Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) Peace Be Upon Him. Witnesses said that […]
Sydney, Australia — AFP Australia has followed Europe and the United States by imposed on illegal Israeli settlers accused of “beatings, sexual assault and torture” of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced financial sanctions and travel bans on seven individuals and the Hilltop Youth ra...
