An influential member of PM Netanyahu‘s coalition told settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that the govt is engaged in a stealthy effort to irreversibly change the way the territory is governed, to cement Israel’s control over it without being accused of formally annexing it. In a taped recording ofContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The United States has concluded that five Israeli military units committed serious human rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank before the Hamas attack in October, the State Department said Monday.Four of these units have taken remedial measures, State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters, with consultationsContinue Reading
JENIN: Israeli forces killed six Palestinians, including two minors and at least one gunman, in the occupied West Bank late on Saturday and early Sunday, medics and local sources said. Five of the deaths occurred in the city of Jenin, which the Israeli military said it raided to detain aContinue Reading
The watermelon has gained global recognition and popularity as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, especially in the recent escalation of violence and aggression by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza Strip. Many people around the world have used the watermelon emoji, images, and artworks to express their support and sympathyContinue Reading
RAMALLAH: At least four Palestinians were killed during Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, as violence there continued in tandem with the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Three people were killed during a raid in the northern city of Jenin, while another was shot deadContinue Reading
RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM: Violence in the occupied West Bank has surged since Israel began bombarding the Gaza Strip and clashing with Hezbollah at the Lebanon border, fuelling concerns the flashpoint Palestinian territory could become a third front in a wider war. Israel is waging war against the militant Hamas group in theContinue Reading
ASA’EL: With attention focused on its contentious judicial overhaul, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has quietly taken unprecedented steps toward cementing Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank – perhaps permanently.Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a leader of the settlement movement, assumed new powers over the occupied territory in his coalitionContinue Reading
MAALE ADUMIM: A Palestinian gunman opened fire in an Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding at least five people before being shot and killed, Israeli police said. The shooting outside a shopping mall in the sprawling Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, in the occupied West Bank, was theContinue Reading
NABLUS: Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deaths in a surge of violence in the territory since early last year. “Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bullets in Nablus,” the ministry said, adding the identities of thoseContinue 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