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…
A group of 25 diplomats visiting Jenin confronted a tense situation after Israeli soldiers fired what they called “warning shots” during their official tour. The diplomats were part of a mission organised by the Palestinian Authority to assess the humanitarian conditions in the region. The Israeli military acknowledged the visit had been approved, but claimed…
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…
Firefighters battled wildfires on the outskirts of Jerusalem for a second consecutive day, hoping to extinguish some of the worst blazes in the country in recent years before an expected uptick in winds later on Thursday. The authorities reopened the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and allowed evacuees to return to their homes…
Mohsen Mahdawi, organizador de manifestaciones propalestinas en la Universidad de Columbia el año pasado, fue detenido el lunes por funcionarios de migración tras llegar a una cita en Vermont que él pensaba era un paso para convertirse en ciudadano estadounidense, dijeron sus abogados. Horas después, la madre, la hermana mayor y los abogados de Mahdawi…
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…
Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstrations last year at Columbia University, was detained by immigration officials on Monday after arriving for an appointment in Vermont that he thought was a step toward becoming a U.S. citizen, his lawyers said. Hours later, Mr. Mahdawi’s mother, older sister and lawyers were scrambling to find him after…
The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Monday gave new details of the Israeli attack on its paramedics and other emergency responders in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 15 people last month, saying Israeli forces had targeted them in a “series of deliberate attacks.” Speaking at a news conference in the West Bank, Red…
The Trump administration is trying to deport pro-Palestinian students and academics who are legally in the United States, a new front in its clash with elite schools over what it says is their failure to combat antisemitism. The White House asserts that these moves — many of which involve immigrants with visas and green cards…
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said. Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area, destroying property, said the…