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Palestinian journalist shot in head by rubber bullet while covering Gaza protest
Israel forces shot and injured a Palestinian journalist with a rubber-coated steel bullet on Friday, and three others were killed, including a 19-year-old protestor, as demonstrations continue in Gaza. Safinaz Allouh was covering the ongoing Great March of Return campaign along the Gaza-Israel border fence when she was hit in[…]
Israeli forces seal off Al-Aqsa gates, assault worshipers
Israeli forces assaulted dozens of worshipers and sealed off all of Al-Aqsa Mosque gates, on Tuesday afternoon, upon a fire breakout at a nearby Israeli police station in Old City of occupied East Jerusalem. A Ma’an reporter said that Israeli forces immediately sealed off all of the mosque’s gates. Head[…]
Israel demolishes unrecognized al-Araqib for 141st time
Israeli bulldozers demolished the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert in southern Israel for the 141th time, on Thursday. Locals reported that Israeli police forces secured the way for demolition bulldozers, pointing out that women, children and the elderly of the village, were evacuated and left without[…]
Israel releases top Waqf officials, bans them from Al-Aqsa
Israeli authorities released six Palestinians, including Waqf Council chairman, Sheikh Abd al-Athim Salhab, and the Deputy Director of Awqaf in Jerusalem, Sheikh Najeh Bkerat, under strict conditions, on Sunday. According to attorney, Muhammad Mahmoud, said that Israeli authorities decided to release Salhab and Bkerat from custody, however, under the condition[…]
Are tensions at al-Aqsa reaching another boiling point?
OPINION Below the Western media’s radar, tensions have been escalating in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem. In the last week, a new confrontation has emerged over al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in the context of intensifying efforts by Israeli authorities and settlers to change the status quo and take over Palestinian properties in and around[…]
Gaza medical authorities appeal to SAfricans for urgent assistance to deal with leg amputation crisis
The Ministry of Health in Occupied Gaza, Palestine is appealing to South African specialist medical personnel and NGOs to pitch in to help alleviate an unprecedented crisis that could see hundreds of young Palestinians at risk of limb amputation. Since Palestinians began mobilising in protest at the fence separating Gaza[…]
Israeli settlers spray racist slogans on mosque near Ramallah
Israeli settlers vandalized and spray painted racist, anti-Arab slogans, on a local mosque, on Monday, in the Deir Dibwan village, east of the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah. Mansour Mansour, the mayor of the Deir Dibwan, said that Israeli settlers stormed the village and spray painted racist, anti-Arab[…]
Israel begins construction of new Gaza barrier
Israel has said the work to strengthen its fence along the Gaza Strip entered a new phase with construction starting on a massive new barrier along the frontier. “Over the weekend we began building the above-ground barrier along the Gaza border,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told journalists on Sunday before[…]
OCHA: ‘Israel kills 3 Palestinians, demolishes 20 buildings in 14 days’
Israeli authorities have shot and killed three Palestinians and demolished 20 Palestinian-owned buildings in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem between January 15-28th, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory said in its latest report. The OCHA report said that[…]
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