Dozens of Palestinians have been wounded by live fire and taken to hospital due to the violent Israeli incursion in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. The deadly Israeli operation has prompted reaction from [ More … ]
As heavily armed Israeli soldiers stormed the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, at least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and about 20 wounded. The Palestinian Ministry of [ More … ]
Palestine Islamic Resistance Movement has strongly denied, in a statement issued Monday, Haaretz’s media reports about Hamas-Turkish relations. A senior Hamas official on Monday strongly denied Israeli claims that Turkey has imposed restrictions on leaders [ More … ]
A senior Israeli official has criticized the extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for storming Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday morning. The senior Israeli official said Itamar Ben-Gvir’s storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque had “destroyed the [ More … ]
Chile plans to open an embassy in the Palestinian territories, President Gabriel Boric has stated, which could make the Andean country one of only a handful to have an embassy-level office in Palestinian territories. The [ More … ]
Sisi has asked the US to pressure Ethiopia to reach an agreement with Egypt on the Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. Meanwhile, [ More … ]
A new report on Israeli apartheid has recently been launched by a Palestinian coalition of human rights organizations, notably the Al-Haq organization amid an escalating Israeli crackdown on Palestinian human rights and advocacy work. The [ More … ]
Israel’s Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir agree to legalise controversial evacuated settlement outposts in the West Bank Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised his far-right ally Itamar Ben Gvir that the West Bank illegal settler [ More … ]
Gunfire from the positions of Israeli forces was likely responsible for the death of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, says US security coordinator. However, there was no definitive conclusion on the origin of the bullet, the [ More … ]
An estimated 25,000 far-right Israeli ultra-nationalists, some chanting “Death to Arabs”, marched through the Muslim quarter of occupied Jerusalem yesterday in a now annual event seen as a major threat to the status quo in [ More … ]
Israeli forces have shot Shireen Abu Akleh in the head while she was on assignment in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces on Wednesday 11 May 2022 shot dead Al Jazeera’s journalist Shireen [ More … ]
Palestinian factions have condemned Tuesday’s meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Benny Gantz, near Tel Aviv, Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian officials said the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz dwelt on [ More … ]
An Israeli report says Egypt’s role in Gaza reconstruction works ‘bolsters Israel’s strategy of keeping Gaza and the West Bank separated, blocking a diplomatic solution’ The huge billboards bearing a picture of Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
A few days ago a footage of Egyptian students chanting “My blood is Palestinian” went viral. The students were on a trip to Dahab, Sinai, when they were surprised by learning that some Israelis were [ More … ]
The Reform Current headed by dismissed Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan was shocked by Egypt’s refusal to accept the relocation of its office from Abu Dhabi to Cairo, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Friday. Sources close to [ More … ]
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