WASHINGTON: With its surprise attack against Israel, Hamas has violently shifted the world’s eyes back to the Palestinians and dealt a severe blow to momentum to secure a landmark US-brokered deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.The Iranian-backed Islamist militants who run the impoverished, blockaded Gaza Strip on Saturday fired thousandsContinue Reading
JENIN, Palestinian Territories: Israel on Monday began a large-scale military raid with drone strikes and hundreds of troops in the northern occupied West Bank, killing seven Palestinians in what the army labelled an “extensive counterterrorism effort.”The operation under the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the biggest ofContinue Reading
NABLUS: Israeli troops killed 11 Palestinians, including at least four gunmen and four civilians, and wounded more than 100 people during a Wednesday raid on a city in the occupied West Bank, witnesses, militant groups and medical officials said.The Israeli military confirmed the operation in Nablus, saying troops shot backContinue Reading