LONDON (AA) – The EU has “strongly” condemned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s comments on the freedom of movement of Arabs in the occupied West Bank. The EU recalled that ties between Israel and the EU should be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, Palestine’s official news a...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Thursday detained 40 Palestinians in separate areas of the occupied West Bank. The non-profit Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement that the Israeli forces made the arrests during a “detention campaign” in Hebron, Tulkarm, Jenin, Qalqilya, Nablus, Jericho, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. Acc...
RAMALLAH/ANKARA (AA) – The UK’s Deputy Consul General to Jerusalem visited the West Bank on Thursday because of increasing illegal Jewish settlements and settler violence against Palestinians. Alison McEwen visited the Burqa village in Ramallah and the Ein Samiya region to observe the latest developments in the region. He expressed solid...
Zababdeh, Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager near the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said. Meanwhile, in the southern West Bank, troops made two arrests in the deadly Monday shooting of a settler near the city of Hebron. “Othman Mohammed Abu Khurog, 17, di...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – In a grand operation, the Israeli army has demolished four Palestinian houses near Jericho city and detained 15 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. In Dweik al-Tahta village west of Jericho, four houses, including three inhabited, were demolished, as reported by Palestinian journalist Adel Abu Nema. He stated tha...
Hebron, Palestinian Territories — AFP An Israeli woman was shot dead and another man wounded in an attack near the Israel-occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Monday, medics and the army said. The Magen David Adom emergency service said in a statement that a woman was “confirmed dead” after she was hit by gunfire. […]
Huwara, Palestinian Territories – AFP Schools were shut Sunday in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara as Israeli troops searched for the suspected killer of an Israeli father and his son who were shot dead over the weekend. The two Israeli men were gunned down Saturday at a car wash in Huwara, in the […]
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Two Israeli civilians were killed in a suspected shooting in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the army and medics said, the latest deaths in an upsurge of bloodshed in the territory. “A suspected shooting attack was carried out at a number of Israeli civilians in the area of the town [&hel...
