The U.S. has imposed new sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and organizations linked to extremist violence in the occupied West Bank. The sanctions come amid rising settler attacks on Palestinians, with reports indicating nearly 1,500 incidents last month alone. Data from Peace Now, an anti-settlement Israeli organization, indicates more tha...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in a military raid near the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, a local official said. Jenin Governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told Anadolu that three young men lost their lives after Israeli forces besieged and bombed a house and a mobile home […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is using arrests, passport confiscations and deportations as part of its policy against foreign activists in the occupied West Bank, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Thursday. Citing official data, Haaretz said at least 16 foreign activists have been expelled from Israel since October 2023 after being detained in the W...
WASHINGTON (AA) – About 90 Democrats called on US President Joe Biden to use his “lame-duck” period in the presidency to sanction two Israeli ministers, according to a letter made public on Thursday. In a letter sent on Oct. 29, 88 lawmakers called on Biden to sanction Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security M...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli minister has called for extending the occupation of the Gaza Strip “for a very long time” and annexing the occupied West Bank. “I don’t believe there should be an exit strategy from Gaza,” Settlement Minister Orit Strook told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. “We set very clear goals for this war, which […]...
ANKARA (AA) – France has condemned Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call to annex the occupied West Bank. “France condemns the recent remarks of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in favor of the annexation of the West Bank by Israel,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It recalled that those re...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have joined a wave of condemnations of a call by Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to annex the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Saud Foreign Ministry warned that Smotrich’s call “undermines peace efforts, including the two-state solution, encourages war, fuel extremism and threat...
Palestinians carried out debris removal efforts in the aftermath of an Israeli attack on the Tulkarem Refugee Camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the raids targeted several towns in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem, Tulkarem, and Rama...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up at least 18 Palestinians, including two girls, in military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Thursday. Two girls and former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted several areas in the occupied territory, including Hebron, Qalq...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed a new controversial law that allows the deportation of family members of Palestinians involved in “attacks against Israelis.” The bill was approved in the second and third readings by 61-41 votes, making it an effective law. The legislation is widely seen to be targeting Ara...
