NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army raided another neighborhood in Nablus as part of its ongoing military offensive in the northern occupied West Bank, just before the start of Ramadan. Eyewitnesses told reporters that Israeli troops stormed the Popular Housing Neighborhood in eastern Nablus, surrounded a residential building, and ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) — The Israeli army has demolished several Palestinian homes in the Jenin refugee camp as part of its ongoing military offensive in the northern West Bank. Witnesses reported that the Israeli army “detonated houses in the Jenin camp.” Israeli forces have reinforced their presence around the camp and conducted intensive ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A ministerial committee of the Palestinian Authority has suspended all operations of Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank. The committee, made up of officials from the ministries of culture, interior and communications, also temporarily halted the work of Al Jazeera’s journalists, staff, teams and affiliated channel...
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) – Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to the official news agency Wafa. Wafa said three young men lost their lives by Israeli fire during a military raid in the town of Qabatiya near Jenin. Israeli forces surrounded a […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has condemned Israel’s killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi as an attempt to intimidate and suppress supporters of Palestinian causes. In a statement, the PLO’s department of expatriates said the killing of Eygi highlights the brutality and violence ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from an ongoing Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank has risen to 39 since last week, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. “Eight children and two elderly people were among the victims,” a ministry statement said, adding that some 145 other people were also injured. [&helli...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Jenin Mayor Nidal al-Obaidi has declared the northern West Bank city a “disaster area”. Speaking to the media, al-Obaidi said the Israeli army is working to divide Jenin by bulldozing its streets and infrastructure. “The Israeli army is continuing to destroy the infrastructure in Jenin and its camp,” he a...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – Four Palestinian journalists were injured by Israeli army fire in the West Bank town of Kafr Dan, the Red Crescent Society said. The society said two journalists were treated on the spot by its medics while two others were transferred to hospital. Jaraah Khalaf, one of the injured journalists, said he […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The chief of the UN Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has called for the protection of Palestinian civilians amid a deadly Israeli offensive in the northern West Bank. “For more than six days now, Jenin has been ravaged by violence and destruction. This is causing loss of life and injuries, including among […]