Nablus, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops killed eight Palestinians over a 24-hour period in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said Sunday. Five people were killed by Israeli army fire in Jenin, the ministry said, during an incursion by a large number of armoured vehicles into the city, which was recently...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian child died in the West Bank on Thursday, taking the death toll from Israeli army attacks in the occupied territory to 229 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said. A ministry statement said a 12-year-old boy succumbed to injuries he sustained earlier from Israeli army fire in the town […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army killed on Thursday a Palestinian and wounded others with a gunfire in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. “Our teams received a martyr from the village of Burqa near Ramallah, and he is being transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex,” the aid […]
ANKARA (AA) – US President Joe Biden has welcomed the prisoner swap deal reached between Israel and Hamas. “As President, I have no higher priority than ensuring the safety of Americans held hostage around the world. That’s why—from the earliest moments of Hamas’s brutal assault—my national security team and I have worked closely with re...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said the bodies of six slain Palestinians were brought to Tulkarm Hospital in the northern West Bank. Israeli forces raided the town of Azzun east of Qalqilya and [&h...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has urged Israel to take “immediate action” to stop violence against Palestinians in the West Bank by illegal Israeli settlers. The call to put an end to the violence was contained in a strongly worded statement that condemned the illegal Israeli settlers’ actions and also expressed serious concern over reports [&...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli army fire in the West Bank on Tuesday, taking the death toll in the occupied territory to 218 since Oct. 7, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry said. The young man succumbed to wounds he sustained from Israeli fire in the Balata refugee camp in […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has detained 880 Palestinian children since the start of this year, a local nongovernmental organization says. “More than 200 children are still in custody, including 26 held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention” without charge or trial, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – More than 3,000 students have been killed in Israeli assaults in the Gaza Strip since October 7, says the Palestinian Health Ministry. “The Israeli onslaught has left more than 5,000 children dead, including over 3,000 students,” the ministry said in a statement marking World Children’s Day. According to the statemen...
JERUSALEM (AA) – For the sixth consecutive week, Israeli authorities imposed tight restrictions on Palestinians, banning them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem for Friday prayers, leaving the mosque all but empty. An official with the Waqf Department in Jerusalem said that only around 4,000 Palestinians, most of them elde...
