Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinians on Thursday began assessing the damage caused by a two-day Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank that left 12 people dead, including children. Young Palestinians shouted into walkie-talkies as they loaded anti-tank obstacles into a pickup truck, an AFP correspo...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces carried out raids in the West Bank city of Jenin for a second day Wednesday, killing at least 11 Palestinians, an AFP correspondent reported. The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah said Israeli forces had killed 11 people including four children, and wounded 25 during the fighting ...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinian health officials said seven Palestinians were killed Tuesday in an Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin. Smoke billowed over the Jenin refugee camp adjacent to the city after a series of explosions inside, while at least five gunmen clashed with troops in a nearby downtown neighbour...
Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories- AFP The Israeli military has claimed that it killed a senior Palestinian resistance fighter during an air strike on an “operations centre” in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. “A number of significant terrorists were inside the compound,” the Israeli Defense Forces said in...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has announced new sanctions against extremist illegal Israeli settlers following escalating attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. “Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers—a longstanding source of tension and conflict in the region—have escalated alarmingly in recent months. This has undermin...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories — AFP As Israel’s unprecedented Gaza war continues, Palestinians remember the Nakba (catastrophe), their mass displacement during the creation of the state of Israel 76 years ago. “Our ‘Nakba’ in 2023 is the worst ever,” said Mohammed al-Farra, whose family fled their home in K...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops shot and killed three men in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said early Thursday. Several others were injured in the town of Tulkarm in the northwest of the territory, the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry told AFP. “3 martyrs shot by the occupation fo...
Tulkarem, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed five Palestinians in a building during a 12-hour siege in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. An AFP photographer saw a heavy military deployment in the village of Deir al-Ghusun, near the northern town of Tulkarem. Israeli soldiers deployed a bulldozer to flatten a building and carri...
Dayr Jarīr, Palestinian Territories – AFP Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say armed Jewish settlers are increasingly seizing their lands by bringing livestock to so-called shepherding outposts and refusing to leave. One settler arrived recently near sunset on a hilltop near the village of Deir Jarir, wearing a black shirt ...
Palestinian students removed a diplomatic delegation from the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank to protest European support for Israel. The delegation included members from Germany. Social media videos captured the incident, with one student announcing the expulsion of the German ambassador. Amid escalating tensions in the West Bank follow...
