RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man died after being shot by Israeli forces in the occupied southern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. Eyad Ayed Abdel-Najjar, 46, died after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in the Jinba area near Yatta, south of Hebron, a ministry statement said. Witnesses said that [&...
Beit Jala, Occupied Palestinian Territories- AFP Flanked by smartphone-wielding peace activists, members of an evicted Palestinian family marched onto land seized by armed Israeli settlers, shouting “Out! Out!” as they livestreamed the confrontation on Instagram. After Israeli security forces turned them away, they retreated to the...
ANKARA (AA) – Condemnations have poured in from across the Arab world following the storming by Israeli ministers and illegal settlers of the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. Over 2,200 illegal settlers forced their way into the flashpoint site in order to commemorate Tisha B’Av, an annual Jewish fast day that ma...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany, a staunch Israel supporter, has come round to strongly condemn the rising violence perpetrated by illegal Israeli settlers against Palestinians, urging the Israeli government to take the necessary measures to stop such attacks. “We condemn the violence of extremist settlers who attacked and set fire to a Palestinia...
ANKARA (AA) – The EU condemns attacks by illegal Israeli settlers in Jit, northern West Bank, and urges Tel Aviv to halt these “unacceptable” actions, the EU foreign policy chief has said. “We condemn settlers attacks in Jit, aimed at terrorizing Palestinian civilians,” Josep Borrell said on X. “Day after day, in an almost total [&hellip...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 30 more Palestinians have been detained in fresh Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank, prisoners’ affairs groups said. The arrests took place in the cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, East Jerusalem, Tulkarem and Nablus, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Societ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army killed two Palestinians and injured four others in a drone strike on the Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. According to official Palestinian news agency Wafa, the drone strike took place as Israeli forces raided the Balata camp in eastern Nablus, […]
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...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States sanctioned three Israeli settlers and two farming outposts Thursday, accusing them of undermining stability in the West Bank. The move marks the second time this year that Washington has sanctioned Israeli settlers, as it looks to respond to the rise in West Bank settler violence. “...
GENEVA (AA) – Spain on Monday announced that it has initiated a process of sanctioning 12 Israeli settlers in the West Bank. In his appearance before the Joint Commission for the country’s Congress of Deputies, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said: “The government of Spain has initiated the procedures to sanction a first...
