Lana al-Shalabi woke up to the sound of shelling after midnight on Monday. Located at the heart of the Jenin refugee camp, her house was close to the initial air strikes launched by the Israeli military at the start of its two-day assault in the occupied West Bank city. Amid the panic and chaos, she moved with her family into the basement to take cover. But soon enough, the shelling and gunfire got closer and […]
Saudi Arabia is reportedly seeking a number of conditions to be met by the United States in return for its normalisation of relations with Israel, a report has claimed. According to the New York Times, Saudi Arabia has said that it could potentially normalise ties with Israel if the US provides it security guarantees, assistance in its civilian nuclear program, and the lifting of restrictions on arms sales to the kingdom. […]
Israeli military soldiers were documented assaulting two Palestinian medics and an injured Palestinian protester while being treated inside an ambulance in the Jordan Valley on Tuesday. Video footage of the attack went viral on Palestinian social media overnight, as people shared the disturbing footage showing armed Israeli soldiers attempting to forcefully remove the injured protester from an ambulance as he was being treated by medics for a rubber bullet wound […]
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians during protests held across the Gaza Strip on Friday. Yasir Amjad Musa Abu Naja, 14, was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper on Friday in Khan Younis, according to the Gaza health ministry. The teenager succumbed to his wounds in hospital after he was shot during afternoon demonstrations. Mohammed al-Hamayda, 24, was killed east of al-Bureij, central Gaza, close to the Israeli fence […]
Dozens of men - young and old - from the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh lined the entrance of the morgue at Ramallah Hospital. All were waiting to catch a glimpse of 21-year-old Ezzaddin Abd El Hafeezh Tamimi, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning, during an Israeli military raid on Nabi Saleh, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank. Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack told Middle […]
The Israeli military has conducted overnight air strikes on the Gaza Strip's northern areas, claiming it was targeting Hamas positions. The development comes after the Israeli army shot dead 62 Palestinians protesting near the fence with Israel to call for their right of return. Palestinians were marking 70 years since the Nakba, or Catastrophe, the day on which the state of Israel was established on May 15, 1948 in a […]
Israeli authorities are seeking 12 charges against Ahed Tamimi, a prominent 16-year-old Palestinian activist filmed slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. The teenager was detained on December 19, four days after the video showing her confronting the soldiers outside her family’s home in the village of Nabi Saleh went viral. The incident occurred moments after Israeli forces had shot Ahed’s 15-year-old cousin point-blank in the […]
At least three Palestinians were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, while several others suffered from severe tear-gas inhalation during clashes that erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday in the northern occupied West bank city of Nablus. Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that hundreds of Israeli settlers, escorted by armed Israeli forces, took to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus to perform religious rituals in the area. According […]
A Palestinian teen has been killed and two other men wounded by Israeli fire in southern Gaza, according to health officials. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said 18-year-old Yousef Abu Athira was killed before dawn on Wednesday by Israeli artillery fire east of Rafah. He said two others sustained shrapnel wounds and were taken to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah. The Israeli army, which had been carrying out […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
