JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his government will continue to expand the distribution of weapons to Israeli citizens. Netanyahu’s remarks came after a shooting attack that left three dead in Jerusalem. The Israeli prime minister saluted those who killed the two assailants. “The quick reaction of...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Prison authorities in Israel released 39 Palestinian detainees, they said early Sunday, under an agreement between Israel and Hamas that earlier saw 13 Israeli detainees freed by the resistance group from the Gaza Strip. Television images showed prisoners being welcomed home in annexed east Jerusalem. The most ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli forces stormed the homes of two Palestinian prisoners set to be released as part of the hostage swap deal with Hamas, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club said on Friday. “The Israeli occupation (forces) stormed the homes of the two female captives, Amani Al-Hashem and Zeina Abdo, in Jerusalem, and warne...
JERUSALEM (AA) – For the sixth consecutive week, Israeli authorities imposed tight restrictions on Palestinians, banning them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem for Friday prayers, leaving the mosque all but empty. An official with the Waqf Department in Jerusalem said that only around 4,000 Palestinians, most of them elde...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has detained and suspended a high school teacher for speaking out against Israeli forces’ raping Palestinian women. “A high school teacher was detained and suspended from his job on the grounds that he accused Israeli soldiers of raping Palestinian women and legitimized the attacks of Hamas on October 7,” th...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday demanded that the United States immediately stop Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. Meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas “demanded an immediate cessation of the devastating war...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has strongly condemned the Israeli army’s bombing of the Orthodox Cultural Center in Gaza City. The Patriarchate said the bombing “represents a stark embodiment of Israel’s unwarranted determination to destroy the civil infrastructure and social service cente...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli authorities restricted the entry of Palestinians into Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, allowing only around 5,000 Palestinians to perform the Friday prayer in the mosque. An official from the Waqf Department in Jerusalem informed the media that these restrictions have been in place for the third consecu...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned against attempts to displace the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, or anywhere else. In his speech at the Cairo Peace Summit, Abbas said: “Israel indiscriminately targets thousands of civilians, hospitals, schools, and shelter centers in the Ga...
LONDON (AA) – Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has reiterated his wish to relocate his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, saying it would be “a desirable step” now. “I have personally been a proponent of relocating the Czech Embassy to Jerusalem for a long time. I am convinced that this would be a desirable [&hell...
