Munich, Germany – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday said the situation in the Israel-occupied West Bank posed a major obstacle to finding a long-term solution for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. “The West Bank is the real obstacle for the two-state solution,” Borrell said at the Munich Security Co...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories — AFP A climate of fear pervades a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where patients and doctors are reeling from last month’s deadly raid by Israeli agents disguised as medics. At the rehabilitation ward at Jenin’s Ibn Sina hospital, two patients recalled hearing the screams of a...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian properties in the village of Kisan east of the city of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. “The settlers burned a house, a vehicle, and a sheep pen,” Mousa Ubayyat, head of the village council reported. “The fire caused significant dam...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Thursday threatened a military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus. According to witnesses, Israeli forces dropped leaflets on the Nablus refugee camp warning residents of a military offensive in the area. “The fate of your city is in your hands. Do not follow the path […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israeli ministers on Thursday voiced opposition to a reported US peace plan for the creation of a Palestinian state. According to the Washington Post newspaper, the US and a number of Arab countries are finalizing a long-term plan for peace between Israel and Palestinians. The plan includes ”a firm timeline for [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – A Palestinian man was killed early Tuesday by the Israeli army during its raid on the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted local sources as saying that the Israeli forces raided Qalqilya and opened fire on Mohammad Sharif Selmi while he was in […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad discussed the developments in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. A meeting between Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziyad Al-Nakhalah reviewed the situation in the Palestinian territories, ...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented 721 attacks by Israel on healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territories since October 7. To a question at a UN press conference, Tarik Jasarevic, a WHO spokesman, said some 357 of the attacks were carried out in the Gaza Strip in which 645 people were […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army detained 15 more Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. This brought the total number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli forces since October 7 to 6,940, the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a joint s...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A teenager was killed, and three others were injured on Friday when the Israeli army opened fire on Palestinians near Nablus city in the northern West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry identified the slain Palestinian as 17-year-old Muath Ashraf Bani Shamsa. Separately, the Palestinian Red Crescen...
