Tag Archives: Palestine

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed hope Tuesday that Israel will hear global calls and will not go ahead with the annexation of parts of the West Bank, which would undermine a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The U.N. chief said in an interview with The Associated Press that …

Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian man at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Israeli border police said on Tuesday they shot and killed a suspect who they say attempted to run over a female officer at a checkpoint in the Palestinian village of Abu Dis, east …

Ten Palestinian civilians were injured, on Friday, by Israeli soldiers during the weekly peaceful demonstration against illegal settlements, in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, according to a local source. Morad Eshteiwi, coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli forces …

On the United Nations’ World Refugee Day on Saturday, Marwan Kuwaik, a 70-year-old Palestinian in Gaza, will be focused on trying to eke out a living by selling snack food on the street. The June 20 event this year is aimed at reminding the world that everyone, including refugees, can …

Most Canadians want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to oppose Israel’s illegal plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, according to a new poll released ahead of a vote on Canada’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The poll, conducted by EKOS Research …

U.N. human rights experts said on Tuesday that Israel’s plan to annex significant parts of the occupied West Bank would violate international law banning the taking of territory by force, and urged other countries to actively oppose it. A joint statement, signed by nearly 50 independent experts, also voiced dismay …

An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian minor to 10 years in prison over an allegation of a stabbing attack against Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem al-Quds last year. On August 15, 2019, Hammouda al-Sheikh, then 14, was shot and seriously wounded by Israeli soldiers at al-Silsila Gate of the al-Aqsa …

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed the decree of US President Donald Trump to impose sanctions against officials of the International Criminal Court, AFP reported. “This court is politicized and obsessed with carrying out a headhunt against Israel and the United States as well as other democratic countries that respect …

Israeli Defence Forces brutality | Protest sparks after an autistic Palestinian man killed

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas traveled to Jerusalem on Wednesday where he was set to voice European “concern” over Israel’s controversial annexation plans in the occupied West Bank. Maas, the first high-level European visitor to touch down in Israel since the coronavirus pandemic hit, on arrival touched elbows with his …

Several thousand Israelis have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to protest the regime’s highly controversial scheme to annex parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, warning that the move would lead to permanent apartheid. According to Press TV, the rally took place at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday …

The former head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement on Saturday died in the hospital where he was being treated. The group said Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, 62, succumbed to the disease. “We have been witnessing the struggle of the Islamic Jihad Movement since its establishment, and we remember his leadership …

Israeli forces break into the house of Ekrima Sa’id Sabri, the preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Quds, to take him for questioning, sparking clashes near the dwelling. The Palestinian Shehab News Agency reported on Wednesday that the raid into Sheikh Sabri’s home, situated in …

The Israeli regime plans to demolish 200 Palestinian-owned industrial facilities in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds, the Palestinian media says. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, citing an al-Ahd website for the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the Israeli authorities on Sunday distributed evacuation and demolition notices targeting 200 Palestinian …

Resumption of prayers at Islam’s third-holiest site caps a sombre period for Jerusalem’s Muslims, who this year marked the holy fasting month of Ramadan and Eid al Fitr holiday without the usual daily visits to Al Aqsa due to Covid-19 restrictions. Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque compound reopened to Muslim worshippers …

An unarmed Palestinian man has been shot and killed by police at one of the entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday. Israeli police said officers believed the man had a gun and opened fire on him when he refused to stop for them. Relatives named the deceased as 32-year-old …

Five Palestinians, including a photojournalist working with Anadolu Agency, were injured after Israeli forces dispersed two rallies rejecting settlements building in the occupied West Bank. “Israeli forces dispersed a weekly anti-settlement rally,” Murad Shtewi, coordinator of the “Popular Resistance” committee in the town of Kafr Qaddum, north of the West …

A woman has died in Gaza Strip after contracting coronavirus, the Palestinian enclave’s first fatality from the global pandemic, the health ministry said. It said the 77-year-old woman had suffered from a prior chronic illness and had traveled to Gaza through neighboring Egypt on May 19. She had been quarantined …

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah described former Head of Al-Quds Force in Iran’s IRGC Qassem Suleimani as the ‘great martyr of Al-Quds’, promising him to fulfill his dream of liberating Al-Quds and Palestine. In a united address by leaders of Resistance movements on the occasion of Al-Quds Day, Sayyed …

World Quds Day ceremonies were virtually held in the presence of some officials, students, Iranians as well as the Indians in cyberspace in New Delhi, Hyderabad, and other Indian cities on Friday. During the event that was held virtually by the Union of Islamic Student Associations of India, the speakers …