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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
Egyptian officials on Sunday pushed for calm between Israel and Hamas and called to adhere to a ceasefire in place since the war in May. The Egyptian efforts came a day after Hamas launched rockets [ More … ]
Earlier on Thursday, Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace A trilateral summit between Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine’s leaders has kicked off in Cairo to [ More … ]
Two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy shot in the head by Israeli forces, are in a critical condition. The Israeli military launched air raids on Gaza following clashes between its soldiers and Palestinian protesters during [ More … ]
Israel confiscated 23 tons of chocolate bars, alleging that they were being used to fund Hamas military operations. Users on social media mocked ‘cartoon villains stealing candy’, as Israeli officials linked confectionary sales to terrorism [ More … ]
The group was detained in March 2018 during a wave of arrests by Saudi authorities on a group of long-term Palestinian and Jordanian residents in the kingdom on alleged links with an unnamed “terrorist” group, [ More … ]
Israel’s move to shut down a key healthcare body in the occupied territories will have “catastrophic consequences” for Palestinians in need of medical attention, global rights group Amnesty International warned. Israeli army forces raided the [ More … ]
Speaking to Middle East Eye, Meshaal, head of Hamas in the diaspora, calls on all Palestinians to unite on a ‘comprehensive uprising’ against Israeli occupation Hamas now leads the Palestinian people because the primary role [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and the Palestinian territories poured onto the streets to celebrate the ceasefire, waving flags and flashing ‘V’ signs for victory. ‘This is the first time the Sword of Jerusalem [Palestinian [ More … ]
Only 12 Injured Palestinians out of 1600 have reportedly been taken through the Rafah crossing for treatment in Egypt so far. Egyptian authorities on Sunday officially announced it would open the Rafah border crossing, which connects the [ More … ]
Several Palestinians killed in new wave of Israeli raids on Gaza as Benjamin Netanyahu vows to continue attacks ‘as long as necessary’!! Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its seventh consecutive day with air [ More … ]
Hamas has said it fired more than 100 rockets at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike destroyed a tower block in the besieged Gaza Strip. The 13-storey residential tower in [ More … ]
More than 200 Palestinian worshippers wounded in Al-Aqsa amid growing anger over Israeli plans to evict Palestinian families from occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah. Tens of thousands of worshippers had earlier packed Islam’s third-holiest site [ More … ]
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