Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian and wounded 42 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, the Palestinian health ministry said, after days of rising tensions along the frontier. The Israeli military said over 8,000 Palestinians took part in the demonstration, throwing rocks …
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U.N. : Israel security forces should face justice for Gaza killings
United Nations investigators said on Thursday Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests in Gaza last year. The independent panel said it had confidential information about those it believes to be responsible for …
Read More »Israeli gunfire kills Gaza teens during border protests
Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian teenagers during Gaza border protests on Friday, Palestinian health officials said. Israel’s military said it had opened fire in response to explosives and rocks hurled at the border fence. Palestinians have been staging weekly protests since last March at the border of Gaza, an …
Read More »Israeli minister arrives in Saudi Arabia in first public visit
The Israeli tourism minister has travelled to Saudi Arabia for a United Nations conference, his office said, describing the visit as the first public trip to the country by an Israeli cabinet member. Haim Katz’s two-day visit to Riyadh comes as Saudi Arabia is pursuing a possible United States-brokered deal …
Read More »Condemnations pour in over Israeli incursions into al-Aqsa
Condemnations have poured in over the “provocative” incursions of al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, by Israeli settlers under the protection of the regime’s forces. In a statement on Sunday, Egypt’s foreign ministry said the incursions of al-Aqsa Mosque compound by settlers under the protection of Israeli forces are “a …
Read More »Israel denied life-saving healthcare to hundreds of Palestinian children in 2023: Report
Israeli authorities deprived hundreds of Palestinian children of life-saving healthcare in the besieged Gaza Strip during the first half of 2023, a leading international humanitarian organization says. A report published on Wednesday by the UK-based organization Save the Children said that nearly 400 children in Gaza, at least two children …
Read More »Israel authorizes three settler outposts in West Bank despite US warnings
Israel has authorized the construction of three more settler outposts in the occupied West Bank despite US warnings that any such approvals can jeopardize the viability of a two-state solution with Palestinians and normalization efforts with Saudi Arabia. The far-right cabinet of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday …
Read More »Jordanian MPs urge Israeli envoy expulsion over assault on Palestinian women
Dozens of Jordanian lawmakers have called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in response to the forced stripping of five Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers during a raid on their home in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil. In a statement on Thursday, 59 members of the House of Representatives …
Read More »‘Declaration of war’: Palestinian groups warn Israel of plan to divide al-Aqsa
A coalition of Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza has condemned the Israeli regime’s attempts to “divide” time and space at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds between Muslims and Jews, decrying the potential step as a declaration of war. The Palestinian Resistance factions said in …
Read More »10 European states urge Israel to halt demolition of Palestinian homes
Ten European countries have called on Israel to halt the demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. In a joint statement issued on Sunday, the consulates general of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and the Office of the European Union Representative to the …
Read More »Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians, injure 7 during West Bank raid
The Israeli occupation forces have fatally shot two Palestinian men and injured seven others in a raid on the Balata refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, amid the regime’s relentless aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Information Center said on Saturday that the …
Read More »Two Palestinians killed in Israeli military raid in West Bank
Israeli troops have shot and killed two Palestinians during a raid on a refugee camp in the northern part of the West Bank, amid increasing tensions following the martyrdom of a top leader of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement in an Israeli jail. The two martyrs shot by the occupation …
Read More »Israeli forces kill three Palestinian men, one woman in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have killed three Palestinian men and injured several others during a raid on the West Bank city of Nablus, followed by a separate act of aggression that killed a woman near the city. In a statement released on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry initially said the facial features …
Read More »UN rapporteur targeted by ‘smear’ campaign of ‘apartheid’ Israel after condemning occupation
The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has been the target of what she describes as a Israel’s “smear campaign” that aims to expel her over antisemitism accusations. Francesca Albanese has faced a concerted campaign from Israeli right-wing NGOs, papers, and politicians …
Read More »Palestinian man martyred, eight Israeli settlers injured in car-ramming attack in occupied al-Quds
Israeli troops have fatally shot a Palestinian man after at least eight Jewish settlers were wounded in a car-ramming attack in the occupied city of al-Quds, amid heightened tensions between Israeli forces and Palestinians. The regime’s emergency service said in a Monday statement that a settler, in his 70s, is …
Read More »Resistance groups slam Israeli assaults on Palestinian Christian worshippers
The Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have roundly denounced the Israeli regime over restrictive measures against Christian worshippers and assaults on them as they thronged the Old City of al-Quds and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate the ceremony of the Holy Fire. Mohammad Hamadeh, Hamas …
Read More »Muslim world reaffirms support for al-Quds on last Friday of Ramadan
Millions of Muslims from across the world took part in demonstrations in their cities to mark International Quds Day and demonstrate that Palestinians are not alone in the face of Israeli occupiers. A ceremony was held to mark the day in Dahiyeh, the Lebanese capital of Beirut, with Hezbollah Secretary …
Read More »International Quds Day: Iran urges Muslim unity to counter Israel, support Palestine
Iran has slammed the “shameful” silence of the United States and some European countries in the face of Israel’s crimes and murders, calling for unity among Muslim nations to counter the Zionist regime and support the oppressed people of Palestine. Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday to mark …
Read More »Lebanon lodges complaint at UN Security Council over Israeli aggression
Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has filed a complaint with the UN Security Council (UNSC) and UN Secretary-General António Guterres against Israel after the regime said it had struck targets belonging to the Palestinian resistance group Hamas in southern Lebanon. According to Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA), …
Read More »Israeli warplanes strike Hamas positions, prompt retaliation
Israeli warplanes carried out a fresh round of airstrikes against the besieged Gaza Strip, drawing retaliatory rocket fire from Palestinian resistance fighters in the impoverished coastal enclave. Explosions were heard west of Gaza City after the Israeli army’s drones targeted a resistance site in that area. The Israeli occupation army …
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