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Israel raids, orders closure of Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office

Israeli occupation forces raided Al Jazeera’s office in the o cupped West Bank city of Ramallah and ordered it to shut down for 45 days. Heavily armed and masked Israeli soldiers forcefully entered the news network’s office and handed the closure order to the network’s West Bank bureau chief, Walid Al-Omari, early today. Al-Omari said the Israeli military’s closure order accused the network of “incitement to and support of terrorism”. They […]

today22 September 2024

International

The PA’s concept of popular peaceful resistance is political acquiescence

The Palestinian Authority has revealed its increasing discomfort with the rise of Palestinian anti-colonial resistance in the occupied West Bank. The narrative of Hamas as the epitome of Palestinian resistance can no longer be relied on to foment discord between resistance groups, as armed resistance now denotes a unified Palestinian struggle encompassing adherents of all factions. Fatah’s Revolutionary Council recently held three days of meetings in Ramallah, during which it […]

today30 August 2023

International

Israel occupation forces kill Palestinian youth in West Bank

Israeli occupation forces, on Friday, killed a 17-year-old Palestinian during a demonstration against illegal Jewish settlements in the Occupied West Bank, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the incident occurred in Umm Safa village, north of Ramallah, where Israeli soldiers inflicted severe injuries on two individuals, resulting in the death of one. "17-year-old Mohammed Fuad Ata Al-Bayed, who was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers in […]

today22 July 2023

International

Palestinian toddler shot by Israeli soldiers dies from wounds

A two-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers died from his wounds on Monday. Muhammad Tamimi and his father Haytham Tamimi were hit by Israeli fire near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The pair were in their parked car outside their home in Nabi Saleh village when they were targeted, according to eyewitnesses. Haytham was shot in the chest and taken to a hospital in Ramallah while Muhammad […]

today6 June 2023

International News

UK’s Prince William will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah in June

Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Prince William will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah when he becomes the first senior member of Britain’s royal family to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories next month, Reuters reports. William, second-in-line to the British throne, will begin his trip to the Middle East in Jordan on June 24 before travelling to Tel Aviv the following day, his office Kensington Palace said in a statement on Friday. The […]

today25 May 2018

International News

Abbas illness sparks succession race for Palestinian presidency

On record, Palestinian officials are keen to play down President Mahmoud Abbas’s admission to hospital for pneumonia, stressing it is business as usual in Ramallah's halls of power. Behind the scenes, it's a different story. The 82-year-old’s condition now appears so serious, that those same Palestinian officials are scrambling to prepare for his succession. Abbas is no stranger to hospitals – the chain-smoking octogenarian has been admitted for various ailments […]

today24 May 2018

International News

At least 29 Palestinians injured as clashes continue over Trump decision

As Palestinians continue to protest against US President Donald Trump’s announcement last week recognizing Jerusalem -- the Eastern part of which is illegally occupied by Israeli in violation of international law -- the number of injuries continue to rise across the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that on Monday, 29 Palestinians had been injured during clashes with Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, and Ramallah, Hebron, and […]

today12 December 2017

Local

ANC condemns Trump recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

The African National Congress (ANC) has strongly condemned the decision by the US Administration to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In a Friday press statement, the ANC said: “This blatantly provocative move severely undermines the spirit of multilateralism and is a significant setback to a fragile and already stalled peace process,” read the statement. “The announcement that the US will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to […]

today8 December 2017

International News

Balfour Declaration at 100: From Ramallah to Pretoria

People in various parts of the world have staged protests on the centenary of Britain's Balfour Declaration, which promised a homeland for Jewish people and paved the way for the occupation of Palestine. Thousands gathered in Ramallah on Thursday, the administrative capital of the occupied Palestinian territories, to march to the British cultural centre there, according to the official Palestinian media. A statement from the office of President Mahmoud Abbas […]

today3 November 2017

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