As the humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip continues to raise alarms, reports emerged Monday that the occupied West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has been preventing Palestinians in the coastal enclave from leaving the [ More … ]
Israeli airstrikes hit a series of targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, officials have said, hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave allegedly landed in Israel. Strikes were recorded in at least three locations [ More … ]
Eid al-Fitr is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims around the world that marks the end of Ramadan, Islamic holy month of fasting. Muslims across the Middle East celebrated the first day of the Eid [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained at least six Palestinians in predawn raids across the occupied West Bank before dawn on Sunday, which coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of the holy [ More … ]
A million liters of fuel provided by Egyp is set to enter the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday via the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt in order to assist the territory with a crippling [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Israel prayed at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid heightened [ More … ]
During a speech at Israel’s Herzliya conference, aimed at discussing the country’s national policies, ultraright Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman rejected the possibility of Palestinian refugees from historic Palestine, land which Israel was built on, [ More … ]
Israeli authorities have continued devastating power cuts for the fourth consecutive day in the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday, after Israel approved a dramatic reduction in Israel’s electricity supply to the territory upon request of [ More … ]
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Hamas movement rejected statements made by US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley on Tuesday, who urged the United Nations to designate Hamas as a terrorist organization and [ More … ]
Israeli authorities implemented a third round of electricity supply cuts to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday — honoring a request from the Palestinian Authority (PA) that announced last month it would drastically reduce its payments [ More … ]
As Israeli forces continued to enforce a fierce security crackdown following a deadly attack in occupied East Jerusalem last week that saw three Palestinian assailants shot dead at the scene, Israeli forces detained the mother [ More … ]
Construction began on Tuesday for the first new illegal Israeli settlement to be built in the occupied West Bank in 25 years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced. “Work has begun, as I promised, on [ More … ]
Human rights organization Amnesty International has reiterated its condemnation of the Israeli practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial, based on undisclosed evidence, after the administrative detention sentences of three high-profile prisoners were recently [ More … ]
The embargo against Qatar has greatly benefited Israel, as Tel-Aviv’s priority is to end the resistance in Gaza. Israel has gained significantly from the Qatar crisis by deepening the separation between Arab countries, diverting attention [ More … ]
The left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Hamas movement have both claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday, as the PFLP called the slain Palestinian [ More … ]
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