In the latest incident of violence against Palestinians, Israeli forces have shot and injured a Palestinian teenage boy during clashes in the occupied West Bank, local media reports say. Palestine’s official WAFA news agency identified the victim a 16-year-old Palestinian boy who was attacked by Israeli soldiers in Kufr Qaddoum area in the northern part of …
Read More »Rights group: Israel’s siege of Gaza could trigger another conflict
Israeli regime’s closure of border crossings and its crippling restrictions on the movement of goods and individuals will have serious repercussions for the already dire humanitarian and economic situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, a rights advocacy group has warned. In a statement, the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights cautioned that the …
Read More »Opinion: Netanyahu lost Israeli vote, but Palestinians were bound to lose whoever won.
Vladimir Lenin is said to have opined that the only thing certain about British elections is who is going to lose. He meant the British working class, at a time when they were effectively unrepresented in the political system. Equally, whatever the outcome of the Israeli elections, the Palestinians will …
Read More »Jordan summons Israeli ambassador to demand nationals’ release.
The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has summoned Israeli Ambassador to the country, Amir Weisbrod, to express the Amman government’s resentment over the detention of two Jordanian civilians of Palestinian descent in the occupied territories, demanding their immediate release. Sufyan al-Qudah, a spokesman for the ministry, said on …
Read More »Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it downed Israeli drone.
Hezbollah says it downed an Israeli drone in southern Lebanon on Monday in the latest flare-up raising tensions between the Iran-backed group and Israel. The drone is now in Hezbollah’s possession, the group said in a statement. The incident happened a week after Hezbollah and Israel exchanged cross-border fire marking …
Read More »Footage of Hezbollah attack on Avivim, Northern Israel.
Al-Manar Arabic TV broadcast footage of Hezbollah Avivim attack in a short time.
Read More »Israel mocked for using dummies to prevent Lebanese retaliation.
The Israeli military is being mocked for positioning mannequins of soldiers in jeeps along the occupied territories’ border with Lebanon, as it prepares itself for a retaliatory attack by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. The mannequins in the jeeps were first spotted in photos released by Ali Shoeib, a correspondent …
Read More »Israel’s Iraq strikes launched from Kurdish-held parts of Syria, backed by Saudi: Official.
A senior Iraqi official says the recent Israeli drone attacks targeting a pro-government military force had the backing of the Saudi regime and were launched from the areas controlled by US-backed Kurdish militants in neighboring Syria. The official, who has knowledge of the latest intelligence briefing from Baghdad’s security services, …
Read More »Israeli Airstrike on Ammo Depot in Baghdad ‘Declaration of War’ – Iraqi Lawmaker.
The Israeli airstrike on an ammunition depot in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, belonging to the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), is a declaration of war against Iraq, and Baghdad should openly respond to violations of its sovereignty, an Iraqi lawmaker and a PMF official, Ahmed Asadi, said on Thursday. …
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