Mads Gilbert, an outspoken Norwegian doctor and activist who treated patients at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital during Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory this summer, has been denied access to Gaza “indefinitely” by Israeli authorities. Gilbert told Al Jazeera on Friday that he was turned away from the Erez border crossing[…]
A Jerusalem holy site at the heart of recent tensions between Israelis and Palestinians was quiet on Friday, police said after age restrictions for Muslim men who wanted to pray there were lifted for the first time in weeks. The development came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu[…]
Norway’s doctor of peace for Gaza, Mads Gilbert, has been hit by a lifetime ban from entering the region by the Israeli government on Thursday. Israeli authorities cited security reasons as to why they have shut Gilbert out from the Gaza Strip. The Norwegian 67-year-old has travelled to and from[…]
Israeli naval boats on Wednesday evening fired at and sank a Palestinian fishing boat in the sea off the coast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said that army boats fired shells at a boat belonging to the al-Bardaweel family, completely destroying it in the process. People aboard[…]
Israeli settlers have torched a mosque in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said, amid growing tensions and violence. The attack on a mosque just before dawn on Wednesday, near the Jewish settlement of Shilo, came after separate Palestinian knife attacks on Monday killed a settler in the southern West Bank,[…]
A young Palestinian man has been killed during clashes with the Israeli army in the southern West Bank, hospitals sources say. Imad Jawabreh, 22, was hit in the chest by bullets on Tuesday, medics said about the incident on a main road at al-Arroub refugee camp near the southern city[…]
A Palestinian has stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli soldier near a train station in Tel Aviv, Israeli police have said. Monday’s incident came amid continuing tension in parts of Israel and the occupied territories following the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli soldiers last Wednesday. Police spokesman Micky[…]
As Germans marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinians dug a hole into the separation wall in the occupied West bank, in a symbolic gesture to remind the world of their own ordeal. “It doesn’t matter how high the barriers will be, they will fall,”[…]
Angry Arab-Israeli protesters took to the streets across the country on Sunday and police raised alert levels nationwide amid shock waves over the fatal shooting of a young Arab-Israeli. Shops, schools and businesses were shuttered in Arab towns and villages where a general strike was observed over Saturday’s killing of[…]
The highest-ranking US military officer has said that Israel went to “extraordinary lengths” to limit civilian casualties in the recent war in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians, mostly civilians. Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged recent reports criticising civilian deaths during the[…]
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