RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army stormed the Al-Far’a refugee camp near the city of Tubas in the northern West Bank. Israeli forces deployed their snipers on the roofs of nearby high-rises, and laid siege to a number of neighborhoods in the camp, eyewitnesses told the media. Clashes broke out between Israeli army forces ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Four Israeli settlers were injured on Friday in a car-ramming incident in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. The incident took place in Hebron, the southern West Bank, according to Israeli Channel 12. Israel’s ambulance service said that four Jewish settlers were injured – one with moderate injuries and three others...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN human rights office has warned of a “rapidly deteriorating” human rights situation in the occupied West Bank. In its flash report, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Israel to “end unlawful killings and settler violence” against the Palestinian population. “...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth succumbed to his injuries from Israeli military gunfire earlier this month in the occupied West Bank, authorities said. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said that Tareq Maher Shakhshir, 21, succumbed to severe injuries he sustained during an Israeli military raid in the city o...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has issued three tenders for building 1,839 illegal settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, according to an Israeli rights group. In a statement, Ir Amim organization said 500 units will be built in the Mount Scopus settlement, 1,039 in French Hill, or Givat Shapira, settlement, and 300 others in East Talpiot [&hel...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli army forces in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Health Ministry said. A ministry statement said Mohammad al-Jundi, 38, was killed at the Nafaq military checkpoint, west of Bethlehem city. No details were provided about the circumstances of his death. Tensions have [&h...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man during an overnight raid on Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, the territory’s health ministry said Thursday. The military said its forces had targeted money exchange shops in Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank...
TULKAREM CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian doctor on Wednesday said an Israeli soldier stabbed an injured Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem. Speaking to the media, Radwan Blaibla, head of Tulkarem Medical Syndicate, said the Israeli army stopped ambulances that were transferring injured Palestinians from the Nour Shams ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 12 more Palestinians from various areas of the occupied West Bank. According to a joint statement issued by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the new arrests bring the total number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces since Octob...
TULKAREM CITY, Palestine (AA) – Six Palestinians, including three teenagers, were killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike on Wednesday morning in the Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem city, in the northern West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that “six (Palestinian) martyrs arrived in Thab...
