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Israel settlers attack Palestinian villages

Israeli settlers rampaged through Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, torching buildings and cars, residents and officials said, Reuters reports. One Palestinian was shot dead during the rampage, Palestinian health officials said. In Turmus Ayya, a prosperous town near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, footage showed cars ablaze, with thick clouds of black smoke swirling above and Palestinian youths throwing stones. Overnight, residents of a number […]

today24 June 2023

International

‘In Chicago we could have been neighbours’: Palestinian Americans attacked by settlers

The Abdul Aziz family, like many people in the Palestinian village of Turmusaya, are Palestinian Americans. Though they have a long-established, happy and successful life in Chicago, they have never cut their roots in Palestine, and this summer Olfat Abdul Aziz decided it was time to take her children back to the village where she was brought up. It was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime. It turned into […]

today24 June 2023

International

Hamas: ‘Barbaric settler attacks will not scare Palestinians’

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas declared on Friday: "Barbaric attacks of Israeli Jewish settlers will not scare Palestinians." In a statement, senior Hamas leader Abdul-Hakim Hanini also condemned the continuous Israeli closure of the Palestinian village of Al-Mugheir in the east of the West Bank city of Ramallah. He also condemned the Israeli settler aggression, protected by the Israeli occupation army, against the Palestinians in the villages of Al-Mugheir, […]

today28 May 2023

International

Israeli army shot settler near Hebron, believing she was Palestinian

Israeli soldiers, on Tuesday, shot an Israeli female settler near Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, believing she was a Palestinian. The army said, in a statement posted on Twitter, that "a Palestinian woman was neutralised at a military checkpoint south of Hebron while she was trying to carry out an attack," without causing any Israeli casualties. However, Israeli media outlets said the shot woman was a mentally ill […]

today10 May 2023

International

Senior official wants compensation for the widespread condemnation of Israeli settler brutality

By Kouthar Sambo After visiting the damaged town of Huwwara, a top US official condemned, what it calls, the " wide scale, indiscriminate violence " committed by Israeli settlers on a Sunday night rampage in the occupied West Bank.   Hady Amr, the US special envoy for Palestinian affairs, stated, " We want to see full accountability and legal prosecution of those responsible for these heinous attacks and compensation for […]

today1 March 2023

International

Israeli settlers attack tourists and Palestinians on West Bank hike

A group of Israeli settlers attacked and wounded Palestinian hikers and foreign tourists while they were walking a trail in the occupied West Bank on Friday. An Italian national's arm was fractured and bruised, while others suffered from burns as settlers sprayed pepper gas on their faces and used clubs and batons to hit them, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Samira, an Italian national who was part of the tour, told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that six people were […]

today15 January 2023

International

Israeli settlers attack shepherds in occupied Bethlehem

Israeli settlers, yesterday, attacked a number of Palestinian shepherds in Bethlehem's eastern occupied village of Kisan. Ahmed Ghazal, a member of the village's local council, told Safa that a group of settlers had "assaulted Palestinian shepherds near the Ebi Hanahel settlement, built on the village lands." "Clashes erupted between the villagers and settlers, who fired pepper gas at the Palestinian residents, resulting in the injury of one of the settlers," Ghazal pointed […]

today23 April 2022

International News

Israeli court orders eviction of 87 Palestinians from East Jerusalem neighbourhood

Israel's Jerusalem District Court ratified on Thursday the eviction of 87 Palestinians from the Batan al-Hawa area in Silwan in favour of the Israeli settler group Ateret Cohanim. The Palestinian families, who have lived in the area for decades, are expected to be evicted from their homes in Silwan, located in occupied East Jerusalem, before the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden on 20 January 2021. Ateret Cohanim, which aims […]

today27 November 2020

International News

Israel soldiers, settlers fatally shoot, assault Palestinians

A Palestinian motorist was shot dead by Israeli soldiers who claimed he fired a pistol at the Huwara military checkpoint at the entrance of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. However, no Israeli casualties were reported, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. A video circulating of the incident shows Israeli soldiers opening fire on a white Hyundai vehicle, which Bilal Adnan Rawajbeh, 29, who was a member of the Palestinian […]

today5 November 2020

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