A 19-year-old Palestinian was killed in a raid by Jewish settlers on the village of Burqa, Palestinian state news agency WAFA reported Friday. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Qusai Jamal Maatan was shot dead by settlers who stormed the village, which is located east of Ramallah, Anadolu reports. He was killed during a[…]
US lawmakers have questioned whether Washington should continue security coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), with some blaming it for the deteriorating security situation in the occupied West Bank. The US has trained the PA and encouraged security cooperation between it and Israel through the Office of US Security Coordinator for Israel and[…]
Israeli forces have killed a 14-year-old Palestinian teen in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry, marking the latest death amid a surge of violence in the region. The shooting, which was announced early on Thursday, occurred in the city of Qalqiliya, as Israeli forces reportedly stormed[…]
Protesting against political detention, Islamic Jihad in Palestine (IJP) has decided not to attend the planned meeting of Palestinian factions slated to take place at the end of the month in Cairo. “We will not join the meeting for secretaries general of the Palestinian factions hosted by Egypt before the[…]
Anger has spread across the occupied Palestinian territories following the arrest of a prominent journalist by the Palestinian Authority’s security forces. Aqil Awawdeh’s family said that forces from the Palestinian Preventive Security Service raided his workplace in Ramallah on Thursday afternoon, arrested him and transferred him to an unknown destination. The arrest came[…]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist government has promoted a record number of housing units in illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank in its first six months, Israeli anti-settlement watchdog, Peace Now, said on Thursday, Reuters reports. Most countries deem Jewish settlements built on land Israel occupied in a 1967 Middle[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Following the ongoing recent attacks on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, a vigil for Jenin was organized by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in Promenade, Sea Point, yesterday. The aim was to commemorate the cold-blooded genocide committed by the Israeli occupation forces who continue[…]
Israel’s military has launched air raids on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, carrying out an ongoing attack that involved a missile and the killing of at least four Palestinians, according to residents and officials. Residents said Israel launched at least 10 air attacks in Jenin[…]
Israeli escalations in the occupied West Bank have cast a shadow over the occupation state’s relations with the Arab world, leading to a significant drop in the number of visits by senior Israeli officials to Arab countries, Haaretz newspaper reported. According to the paper, since taking office as prime minister about six[…]
An annual funding bill being hashed out in Congress aims to eliminate the office of the special representative for Palestinian Affairs at the US State Department. The draft funding bill was passed by the House Appropriations Committee’s state, foreign operations and related programmes subcommittee. The bill must pass through both[…]
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