JENIN, Palestine (AA) – With raw emotion and tears, Palestinian child Rafif Abed expressed a heartfelt desire to keep the keys to her family’s home destroyed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Kafr Dan as a cherished memento. This tradition mirrors the actions of her ancestors, who were forcibly displaced in 1948 […]
ANKARA (AA) – Hundreds of illegal Israeli settlers forced their way into the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem to mark a Jewish holiday. The settlers performed Talmudic rituals at the complex to mark Shavuot, also known as the Feast of Weeks. Local sources estimated that hundreds of settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mos...
Kfar Dan, Palestinian Territories – AFP The Palestinian health ministry and Red Crescent said six Palestinian men were killed Tuesday during an Israeli army raid in the northern occupied West Bank village of Kfar Dan. The men aged between 21 and 32 were “shot by the occupation forces in the town of Kafr Dan, Jenin […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army killed four Palestinians and injured eight others during a raid late Monday on the village of Kafr Ni’ma in western Ramallah in the West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry said it was informed by the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs — the Palestinian Authority̵...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces killed three Palestinians Thursday in a raid in Jenin city in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent said another 13 people had been wounded in the raid. The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said in a statement that [&...
Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian family’s home in the southern occupied West Bank, claiming it was “built without a license.” Israel widely uses the pretext of lack of construction permits to demolish Palestinian homes, especially in Area C, which is under Israeli army control. Under the 1995 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestin...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has announced plans to establish “rapid response forces” in the illegal Israeli settlements. He unveiled the plans as he inspected Israeli military forces along the contact line between the West Bank and Israel, accompanied by the chair of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Co...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN rights chief demanded Tuesday an end to surging violence in the occupied West Bank, saying it was “unfathomable” that more than 500 Palestinians had been killed there since October 7. Volker Turk said the Israeli military and illegal Jewish settlers had killed at least 505 Palestinians in the ...
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...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AA) – The University of Copenhagen announced Tuesday it would divest from three commercial entities operating in the occupied West Bank. “From tomorrow (May 29) KU will no longer have investments in funds that have Airbnb, Booking[.]com and the online travel company eDreams ODIGEO in their portfolio,” it said in a...
