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 … ]
Egypt police raided the houses of two uncles of an Egyptian-American activist who has recently sued a former Egyptian prime minister in U.S. court, accusing him of crimes against humanity, an international rights group said [ More … ]
The police raid came a day after Mada Masr editor Shady Zalat was arrested by Egyptian security forces. Egyptian security forces raided the office of what is widely described as the country’s last independent news [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi orders campaign to recover state-owned land that has been encroached upon One person was killed and 50 people were injured in clashes on Sunday as security forces tried to evict squatters [ More … ]
Israeli forces shot and killed two young Palestinians — one 17-year-old and one 20-year-old — and injured at least two others after a violent military raid into Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West [ More … ]
Militants from Somali al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group beheaded men in a Kenyan village on Saturday, in a cross-border raid. Nine Kenyan civilians have been brutally murdered by Somali militants following a cross border raid by [ More … ]
A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday evening during a raid in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. According to an Israeli army spokesperson, Israeli forces, whom Israeli media [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained at least 16 Palestinians during predawn raids Wednesday, according to local sources and the Israeli army. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an News that one Palestinian was detained in the southern occupied [ More … ]
A Palestinian woman was critically injured and lost sight in her left eye after being shot by a rubber-coated steel bullet, when Israeli forces violently raided her neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem to disperse a [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained at least five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank overnight Tuesday, targeting so-called Hamas operatives in predawn raids, including exiled Jerusalem lawmaker Ahmad Attun. During a raid into the central occupied West [ More … ]
The United States has in recent days stepped up its aerial bombing campaign targeting suspected al-Qaeda militants in Yemen, with 20 airstrikes carried out over the weekend. The United States has in recent days stepped [ More … ]
Israeli army forces on Tuesday morning occupied an under-construction building in the town of Tuqu east of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, turning the house into a military post. Large numbers of Israeli [ More … ]
Three Palestinian teachers suffered from pepper spray inflammation at the hands of Israeli forces, when the latter stormed a secondary school in the southern occupied West Bank village of Tuqu to remove posters commemorating 17-year-old [ More … ]
Seven Palestinians, including five children, were left homeless Wednesday morning when Israeli bulldozers demolished their house in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of northern occupied East Jerusalem early Wednesday, after Israeli forces assaulted the owner at [ More … ]
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