The Abdul Aziz family, like many people in the Palestinian village of Turmusaya, are Palestinian Americans. Though they have a long-established, happy and successful life in Chicago, they have never cut their roots in Palestine, and this summer Olfat Abdul Aziz decided it was time to take her children back to[…]
With the Israeli-occupied West Bank once again in turmoil after the latest bloodshed this week, uncertainty has deepened over the position of 87-year-old Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, with a negotiated peace looking as unlikely as ever, Reuters reports. A gun battle, on Monday, in which seven Palestinians were killed and over 90 wounded,[…]
Israeli settlers rampaged through Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, torching buildings and cars in apparent retaliation for the killing by Hamas of four Israelis near a settlement the day before, residents and officials said, Reuters reports. One Palestinian was shot dead during the rampage, Palestinian health officials said.[…]
The Palestinians who witnessed the Israeli army raid on Monday in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, which killed six Palestinians and injured 91 others, likened it to a “war”, Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammed Abu Hatab, 39, a resident of Jenin, told Anadolu on Tuesday that they woke up early in the morning[…]
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) yesterday condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s political detentions in the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the DFLP said the PA had detained seven student activists studying at Birzeit University, “investigated them, tortured them and kept three of them in custody.”[…]
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man, wounded over 300 others, and blew up a home in a large military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus early on Thursday. The Palestinian health ministry said Khalil Yahya al-Anis, 20, died from gunshot wounds. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said 337 people, including four children, were[…]
At least six people have been hospitalised, three with gunshot wounds, after Israeli forces opened fire on stone-throwing Palestinian youth during a raid by Israel into the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. A witness told the Reuters news agency that a large Israeli military convoy arrived in[…]
Israel is set to bring 10,000 workers from India to staff jobs in construction and nursing industries, in a sign of deepening economic and political cooperation with New Delhi, according to multiple Hebrew language news sites. Reports say workers will arrive in stages, with 2,500 filling jobs in both construction and nursing. The final agreement for labour[…]
Crowds of Israeli settlers attacked and wounded Palestinians while torching their vehicles, in the latest assault against farmers in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian media reported that settlers from Adei Ad illegal settlement, northeast of Ramallah, assaulted Palestinians working on their land between Turmus Ayya and al-Mughayyir villages in the centre of the West Bank. Settlers threw[…]
European Union Representative in Palestine, Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, said Wednesday that all forms of Israeli settlement building in the West Bank are illegal, Anadolu News Agency reports. This statement came during a visit by a delegation of European ambassadors and consuls to the Palestinian towns of Sebastia and Burqa in the[…]
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