The Israeli army has killed three Palestinian men during a large-scale raid on the Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian health ministry identified the three men killed on Monday morning as Muhammad Abu Zaytoun, 32, Fathi Abu Rizk, 30, and Abdullah Abu Hamdan, 24. At least seven other Palestinians were injured, including four with live ammunition, and dozens of others […]
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday. Local media said the young man was shot after he tussled with Israeli forces stationed at the Chain Gate (Bab al-Silsela) when they allegedly assaulted a Palestinian woman who was attempting to reenter the mosque, according to eyewitnesses. Israeli police said in a statement a man tried to grab a soldier's weapon and was subsequently shot and "neutralised". He was […]
Jenin, occupied Palestine - At least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed in an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot dead nine people, while a further 20 were wounded. At least four of those were in a critical condition, it added. Heavily armed soldiers entered the camp on Thursday morning, reportedly in a commercial truck, and opened fire […]
INTERNATIONAL Israeli Occupation Forces rounded up and detained around 7,000 Palestinians in 2022, contributing to last year being the deadliest since 2005 for those living under Occupation. According to a report by the Palestine Centre for Prisoners Studies (PCPS) – co-authored by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, Palestinian Prisoner Society, Addameer Association for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, and Wadi Hilweh Centre – the Palestinians detained by Israel last year […]
Israeli occupation forces assaulted Palestinian workers with gas bombs near the village of Rummanah, northwest of Jenin city, reported Wafa news agency. According to local sources and witnesses, Israeli soldiers used a helicopter to fire tear gas towards Palestinian workers as they were on their way to their jobs in Israel, resulting in a number of them suffering suffocation due to inhaling the toxic gas. Israel has occupied the West […]
Israeli security forces fatally shot a Palestinian civilian on Thursday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The ministry did not give any details about the victim, but said "a civilian was killed by Israeli forces" after being shot in the neck in Kafal Harres, a village south of Nablus and near the city of Salfit. The Salfit provincial governor, Abdullah Kamil, identified the victim as 29-year-old Ibrahim Mustafa Abu Yaacoub. […]
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian with mental disabilities in East Jerusalem on Saturday, according to Israeli media, Anadolu reports. Border police officers opened fire on a man in Jerusalem’s Old City after they suspected he had a gun, The Times of Israel newspaper reported. In a statement, police said the Palestinian man was carrying “a suspicious object that looked like a pistol” and ran away when ordered to stop. […]
Officers have shot dead a Palestinian man who an Israeli police spokesman said had attempted to carry out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday. Micky Rosenfeld said the man was armed with a knife when he approached Israeli police officers near Al Asbat gate, which is close to the area of the Al-Aqsa mosque. He was then "shot and neutralised," according to a statement seen by Middle East Eye. […]
At least 134 Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli gunfire as thousands of Palestinian women demonstrated along the heavily fortified fence with Israel in the besieged Gaza Strip. Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesperson for Gaza’s healthy ministry, said in a statement on Tuesday that media representatives covering the event were among those who were injured at the scene, east of the enclave. The protest was the first mass women’s demonstration to take […]
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