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...
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...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Authority urged France on Sunday to help resolve the problem of settler violence against Palestinians. During a meeting with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh emphasized the need to put pressure on Israel to ...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has urged Israel to take “immediate action” to stop violence against Palestinians in the West Bank by illegal Israeli settlers. The call to put an end to the violence was contained in a strongly worded statement that condemned the illegal Israeli settlers’ actions and also expressed serious concern over reports [&...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The situation in the West Bank has become “alarming and urgent”, the United Nations has said, citing in particular an escalation of violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians. From October 7 to Thursday, 132 Palestinians, including 41 children, had been killed in the West Bank, the UN rights o...
