RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A video that went viral on social media has shown the Israeli military using a Palestinian detainee as a human shield in the southern occupied West Bank. The blindfolded detainee is seen seated on the ground, with military vehicles behind him using him as a shield, and an Israeli soldier aiming […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Friday morning blew up two homes near the West Bank city of Hebron belonging to two Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. According to an Anadolu reporter, the Israeli army blew up two apartments in a building — they belonged to Mohammad Al-Shantir and Saqer Al-Shantir in the […]
NEW YORK (AA) – The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released a report Thursday revealing that 50% of the housing in Gaza was destroyed in one month as a result of the Israeli war on the Strip. Abdallah Al Dardari, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Arab State...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Eight Palestinians were killed Thursday in an Israeli raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. A statement from the Palestinian health ministry said the current death toll in Jenin stood at eight, with 14 others wounded. The Israeli army said its forces were opera...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday demanded that the United States immediately stop Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. Meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas “demanded an immediate cessation of the devastating war...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The situation in the West Bank has become “alarming and urgent”, the United Nations has said, citing in particular an escalation of violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians. From October 7 to Thursday, 132 Palestinians, including 41 children, had been killed in the West Bank, the UN rights o...
United Nations, NEW YORK – AFP The United Nations has launched a $1.2 billion aid appeal to help Gaza and West Bank residents devastated by Israel attacks. It had previously appealed for $294 million. “The situation has grown increasingly desperate since then,” said Jens Laerke, OCHA spokesperson. The updated flash appeal wil...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces on Friday killed seven Palestinians in raids across the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. It said three men aged between 17 and 26 were killed in the northern city of Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups and the target of frequent military incursions. According...
ANKARA (AA) – Two more Palestinians were killed in the West Bank on Monday, taking the death toll from Israeli fire in the occupied territory since Oct. 7 to 122, the Health Ministry said. A ministry statement said a 23-year-old man was shot dead by Israeli forces at the entrance of Yata town, south of […]
ANKARA (AA) – Another Palestinian was killed by settlers’ fire in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, taking the death toll since Oct. 7 to 111, the Health Ministry said. The West Bank is witnessing a rise in Jewish settlers attacks on Palestinians as Israel continues bombardment of the Gaza Strip. At least 7,326 Palestinians [&hel...
