GENEVA (AA) – The UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine on Monday said that Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank as part of an elimination and expansion strategy. “Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement and territorial expansion,” Fra...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has blocked water trucks from reaching the Jenin Government Hospital, potentially disrupting kidney dialysis services for patients. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces stopped water tankers from the Jenin Civil Defense from reaching the hospital. Dargham Zakarneh, dire...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has rejected the idea of mass displacements of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for the “temporary evacuation” of Palestinian civilians to carry out an operation. “We reject the idea of mass displacements of Palestinians in the West...
The US has announced new sanctions against Israeli settlers amid Israel’s latest violence in the West Bank. The State Department has imposed penalties on the NGO Hashomer Yosh and several individuals, including Yinon Levi and Neriya Ben Pazi, for their roles in supporting extremist violence against Palestinians. Yitzhak Levi Filant, a security...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A top Hamas leader has urged university students across the world to again start their protests to demand a halt to the US support to Israel, which continues to attack Gaza and launched a military operation in the West Bank on Wednesday. “With the return of the academic year and the approach […]
Tulkarem, Palestinian Territories — AFP The Israeli military killed five Palestinian resistance fighters in the occupied West Bank on the second day of the so-called “counter-terrorism” operations that have killed 14 in total. “Following exchanges of fire, the forces eliminated five terrorists who had hidden inside a mo...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cut short his visit to Saudi Arabia and returned to Ramallah on Wednesday following Israeli military attacks in the northern West Bank. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Abbas decided to cut short his trip to the kingdom “due to Israel’s escalating aggression in the no...
ANKARA (AA) — The Israeli army killed 11 Palestinians in early Wednesday raids in the northern occupied West Bank. In a brief statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said six people in the city of Jenin and five others in Tubas were killed in separate Israeli army incursions. The Israeli army confirmed it was carrying out […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man died after being shot by Israeli forces in the occupied southern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. Eyad Ayed Abdel-Najjar, 46, died after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in the Jinba area near Yatta, south of Hebron, a ministry statement said. Witnesses said that [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian was killed Sunday by the Israeli army, claiming he attempted a car-ramming attack near the illegal Ari’el settlement in the northern occupied West Bank. “A report was received about an attack from a passing vehicle at the Ari’el intersection, and the attacker was killed immediately,” the Israeli army said i...
