Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, raising the death toll from an ongoing military operation in the area to eight, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. A ministry statement said seven more people were injured, including two seriously, in the offensive. The Israeli army began a large-scale [&hel...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian teen was killed by the Israeli army fire during a raid in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. Witnesses said an Israeli force along with bulldozers raided the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank, triggering clashes with displaced Palestinians. The official news agency Wafa sa...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to the Bir al-Walidain Mosque in the village of Marda, northern occupied West Bank. Witnesses said a group of illegal settlers stormed the eastern neighborhood of Marda, near the city of Salfit, and set the mosque ablaze. Residents managed to extinguish the flames, but the fire...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up at least 15 Palestinians in raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. A woman and a child were among the detainees in the raids that targeted East Jerusalem, Jericho, Hebron, Tulkarm, Qalqilya and Ramallah, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the P...
The Palestine Ministry of Education says that Israel has killed 12,799 students, with over 20,000 others injured across Gaza and the West Bank. At least 14 Palestinians, including 10 in a single Gaza City home, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday. Israeli tanks were seen advancing deeper into Rafah’s western areas, according to medics...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A vigil was held Monday evening outside the White House in memory of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli forces on Sept. 6 during a peaceful protest in the occupied West Bank. Eygi’s father Mehmet Suat Eygi, sister Ozden Bennett and husband Hamid Ali, joined the event at Lafayette […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The family of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by Israel in the West Bank, will meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, a family spokesperson confirmed to Anadolu on Wednesday. Family members, including her father Mehmet Suat Eygi, sister Ozden Bennett, and husband Hamid Ali, will als...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A key Republican ally of President-elect Donald Trump introduced legislation Thursday in the Senate that, if enacted, would prohibit the federal government from using “West Bank” to refer to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory. Sen. Tom Cotton’s legislation would mandate the federal government r...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Canada on Friday announced a $50 million commitment to address the escalating humanitarian crises in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. “Canada continues to be deeply concerned by the persistent and worsening catastrophic humanitarian conditions and the imminent risk of famine in Gaza,” said a stat...
ANKARA (AA) – Nine Israelis have been injured in a shooting attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank, according to Israeli media. The incident occurred aboard a bus near the settlement, the daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported. Israeli Channel 12 reported that the perpetrator of the attack has been “neutra...
