The American ambassador to Israel has said that it should be up to “Muslim countries” to build a Palestinian state on their territory instead of in the areas that much of the world recognizes as Palestinian lands. If the statements by Ambassador Mike Huckabee are confirmed as representing the U.S. administration’s position, it would be…
Four people were killed and others injured by Israeli forces on Sunday as Palestinians making their way towards an aid distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip came under fire, according to Palestinian paramedics. It was the latest deadly incident near sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Palestinians have described areas around the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his government has “activated” certain Palestinian clans in Gaza as part of its fight against Hamas.In a video message posted on social media platform X on Thursday, Netanyahu stated that the decision was taken based on advice from “security officials” with the goal of protecting Israeli soldiers’…
It’s the early hours of Monday, May 26th. An airstrike that Israel says is aimed at a militant control center has just hit a former school where dozens of families were sheltering. Eighteen children were killed in the attack, according to the local emergency services. And this scene of a girl trying to escape the…
Israeli airstrikes pounded northern and southern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 70 people, including almost two dozen children, according to hospitals and health officials, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was “no way” he would halt Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory before Hamas is defeated. At least 50 people,…
The Palestinian Authority said late Monday that it would lift a ban on the broadcaster Al Jazeera in the West Bank that it put into effect after accusing the outlet of “inciting sedition” and “interfering in internal Palestinian affairs.” The ban, which the Palestinian Authority’s attorney general, Akram Khatib, instituted on Jan. 1, had been…
Palestinian leaders in the Israeli-occupied West Bank met this week for the first gathering of its kind in years. Their mission: to allow Mahmoud Abbas, the aging Palestinian Authority president, to appoint a longtime loyalist to a newly-minted senior position. On Saturday night, Mr. Abbas formally named Hussein al-Sheikh, a close confidant, as his deputy….
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident living in White River Junction and a graduate student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, was detained Monday morning at a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office. He had arrived expecting to complete his naturalisation interview. Instead, plainclothes agents with covered faces and guns took him…
Mr. al-Nasasra was part of a convoy of emergency crews sent by the Red Crescent and Gaza’s Civil Defense, another rescue service, to search for a Red Crescent ambulance that had disappeared earlier in the morning of March 23. Israeli forces had opened fire on that first ambulance, killing two members of its crew and…
Israeli authorities on Tuesday released Hamdan Ballal, an Oscar-winning Palestinian director, after he was detained following an attack by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. According to his wife, Ballal was beaten outside his home while filming the assault. Earlier this month, Ballal and his team accepted the Best Documentary award at the 97th…