Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories– AFP Hamas has said that it is studying Israel’s latest counterproposal for a Gaza cease-fire, a day after media reports said a delegation from mediator Egypt was in Israel trying to jump-start stalled negotiations. The armed wing of Hamas also released video footage of two men held hosta...
In the last 24 hours, at least 32 Palestinians have been killed and 59 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza. Gaza’s Palestinian media office reported that Israeli forces carried out three massacres and trapped many people under rubble. Wafa news agency reported that Israeli ships and warplanes continued to bombard Gaza during the night, includ...
Hebron, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The incident, after numerous deaths during an Israeli raid further north in the Palestinian territory, added to a two-year surge of violence in the West Bank that has accelerated...
Tulkarem, Palestinian Territories – AFP The Palestinian Red Crescent said Saturday at least 14 people had been killed in an Israeli raid on Nur Shams refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army said troops had killed 10 militants during the operation, which it said started on Thursday. AFP journalists […]
United Nations, United States — AFP The United Nations will be launching a $2.8 billion appeal for donations this year to help the war-ravaged population of the Gaza Strip as well as West Bank Palestinians, a senior agency official has said. The “flash appeal” addresses humanitarian funding needs through the end of 2024, acco...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Monday condemned the murder of a 14-year-old Israeli boy in the occupied West Bank, as well as the subsequent spike in violence in the Palestinian territory. “We strongly condemn the murder of 14-year-old Israeli Benjamin Achimeir and extend our sympathies to his family and frien...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers have resumed their attacks on Palestinian villages and towns in the West Bank. “The terrorist gangs of colonialists with the protection of the (Israeli) occupation army are closing the bridge of the village of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah,” the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission sa...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel has illegally confiscated about 27,000 decares of land in the occupied West Bank and forced 25 Palestinian communities to leave since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7, a Palestinian government body has said. “The occupation state makes use of its fierce hostility towards our people in […]...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Mohammad Mustafa, appointed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has formed a new government, mostly composed of new technocrats. Names that dominated the political arena in the West Bank for years are now absent from the lineup except for Interior Minister Ziad Hab al-Reeh, who is affiliated with ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A young Palestinian was killed by Israeli army gunfire on Saturday during an Israeli raid in the northern West Bank. “A 13-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed and two others were injured, one of them critically, during an Israeli military incursion at dawn into the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin,” […]...
