The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) demanded, on Saturday, the end of violence against Palestinian children after Israeli forces shot and killed two minors in the besieged Gaza Strip. During “The Great March of Return” protests, Hassan Iyad Shalbi, 13, and Hamza Muhammad Ishteiwi, 17, were shot and[…]
A 51-year-old Palestinian prisoner from the besieged Gaza Strip died due to medical negligence, on Wednesday, after serving 28 years in Israeli prisons, four of which he spent in solitary confinement. According to the Palestinian Prisoners and Former Prisoners’ Affairs Committee, Faris Baroud, 51, from al-Shati refugee camp, died shortly[…]
Dozens of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists Wednesday morning blocked a highway many have dubbed the “apartheid road,” Route 4370 in the occupied West Bank, which separates Israeli and Palestinian traffic with a 26-foot concrete wall. The activists managed to shut down the highway for 20 minutes before Israeli Border[…]
Tens of thousands of people including Jews and Arabs rallied in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv to protest the country’s controversial “Jewish state law”. Passed last month, the divisive law officially affirms Israel’s Jewish character, but critics say it turns non-Jewish citizens of the country into second-class citizens, further[…]
A Palestinian teen shot by Israeli forces on the Gaza-Israel frontier during the first Great March of Return protest on 30 March has died, Gaza’s health ministry said late Sunday. The 17-year-old, identified as Ahmed al-Ayeda, was “martyred” after being shot by live Israeli fire east of Bureij refugee camp[…]
An Israeli court has sentenced Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour to five months in prison for “inciting terrorism” in a poem she posted on social media. On Tuesday, Tatour, 36, was sentenced by the Nazareth district court after having already served nearly three years under house arrest. Tatour was arrested during[…]
Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian girl jailed for slapping an Israeli soldier and an icon of resistance against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, was released on Sunday after eight months. Tamimi, who was 16 at the time of her detention, vowed to continue her struggle against the Israeli occupation. “I[…]
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi could be released on Sunday, her father told the Anadolu Agency. Basem Tamimi said Ahed’s release is scheduled for August 19, but he expects her to be allowed out of Israeli jail this weekend. He explained: “The Israeli authorities usually do not inform the detainee or[…]
On Friday afternoon, as Israeli soldiers from the other side of the fence were firing tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition, Yaser Abu al-Naja and a few friends took cover behind a waste container away from the front lines of a protest in the Gaza Strip. As Yaser[…]
Two Israeli soldiers have avoided prosecution over the death of Palestinian teenager Samir Awad, who was shot in the back while running away from Israeli forces in January 2013. The 16-year-old was killed during protests in Budrus, a village in the occupied West Bank which has lost nearly 30 percent[…]
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