Beitunia, Palestinian Territories — AFP Every morning Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal checks texts from his coach — a Gaza resident who cannot travel to him in the occupied West Bank — to see his daily Olympics training schedule as he prepares to make history. The 20-year-old will be the first Palestinian boxer to participat...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian presidency has rejected administration of Gaza by international forces in response to statements by Israel calling for such a move. “There is no legitimacy for any foreign presence on Palestinian Territory, and only the Palestinian people can decide who governs them and manages their affairs,” s...
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel’s Security Cabinet decision to expand illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, warning of “dire consequences,” according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry. The statement came following an announcement by Israel’s official broadcasting authority that the Israeli Security Cabi...
GENEVA (AA) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) spokesperson Jeremy Laurence has criticized Israeli soldiers for unleashing dogs on detained Palestinians. Laurence responded in writing to questions about Israeli soldiers using dogs to attack Palestinian prisoners, engaging in acts of sexual violence, and using a wounded Palestinian...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops tied a wounded Palestinian to a military vehicle during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said Sunday. Footage of the incident, which occurred on Saturday, has gone viral and shows a man strapped horizontally to the bonnet of a military jeep as […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) — A Palestinian child succumbed to injuries inflicted by Israeli army gunfire near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said “the child, Muhammad Murad Ahmad Hoshiya, 12, succumbed to critical injuries he sustained about a week ago in Ramallah.” The...
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are unable to celebrate Eid al-Adha as they once did because of economic hardships, severe attacks in the Gaza Strip and unlawful actions in the West Bank. Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 37,232 Palestinians, including 15,517 children and 10,279 women, and...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of State has imposed sanctions on a radical Israeli group for disrupting humanitarian aid to the civilians in the Gaza Strip. “The Department of State is today designating Tzav 9, a violent extremist Israeli group that has been blocking, harassing, and damaging convoys carrying lifesaving humanit...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli authorities Thursday began freezing work permits for around 80,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, an Israeli media outlet reported. “The Israeli Civil Administration, which is a unit in the Ministry of Defense, has begun freezing nearly 80,000 work permits for Palestinian workers from the West Bank,” the Isr...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP More than 8,000 children aged under five have been treated in the Gaza Strip for acute malnutrition since Israel launched its war on the region, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 28 of those children had died and a significant proportion of Gaza’s po...
