RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces raided a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Wednesday, according to eyewitnesses. “Israeli snipers were deployed on rooftops of residential buildings in the Nour Shams refugee camp amid clashes with Palestinian fighters,” an eyewitness told Anadolu. No information was yet avai...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian child was shot dead by Israeli police in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, according to the official news agency Wafa. Wafa, citing eyewitnesses, said Wadee’ Oweisat, 14, was killed at an Israeli military checkpoint near the town of Al-Eizariya. Palestinians shared a video on social media s...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations to double its efforts to halt Israel’s war on Gaza. Abbas met with Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland in the West Bank city of Ramallah for talks on the situation in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian leader conveyed a message [&hellip...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army demolished 58 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank in January, said a local organization on Sunday. “The demolished structures included 22 inhabited houses and 16 agricultural facilities,” the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said in a statement. It said most of the demolitions...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Four Palestinians, including a child, were injured on Sunday by Israeli army gunfire in the city of Nablus and the Shuafat refugee camp, east of Jerusalem, according to Palestinian health authorities. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its ambulance crews treated an 18-year-old youth ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 12 more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. According to a joint statement issued by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, the new arrests brought the total number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli forces since October 7 t...
WASHINGTON – AFP The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on four Israeli settlers over the violence, in a rare US move against Israelis. Any assets they hold in the United States will be blocked, with Americans forbidden from financial transactions with them. “The situation in the West Bank — in particular high levels...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 28 more Palestinians in various areas of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to a statement. A joint statement issued by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the new arrests brought the total number of Pales...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces detained 40 more Palestinians in military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. Most of the arrests took place in the cities of Jenin and Hebron in the northern and southern West Bank, the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the [&hellip...
JERISALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has shot dead a Palestinian youth near the city of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank in an alleged knife attack against the soldiers, according to Israel’s public broadcaster KAN. Witnesses said that the Israeli army opened fire on the Palestinian, believed to be a student, at the [&hell...
