Palestinians and the UN demand that Israeli forces stop a rampage across the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian officials have announced that during a raid by Israeli forces on the occupied West Bank coast, 14 Palestinians have been killed. According to Palestinian health officials, these individuals, including an ambulance driver who was heading to the scene of another attack on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, were killed near the village of […]
UN human rights office expresses concern over escalating violence after deaths near Nablus over weekendThe UN and the UK have voiced grave concern over escalating violence in the West Bank, demanding that Israeli security forces “immediately” stop supporting settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied territory.The comments came hours after two Palestinian men were killed by Israeli settlers in a northern village south of Nablus in the latest violent attack involving settlers in the...
International attention is on Gaza – but attacks by Israelis who live on Palestinian land have been increasingWhile international attention has been turned toward Gaza, violence against Palestinians has increased in the West Bank too. Israeli settler attacks have become more frequent.Settlers are Israeli citizens who live on Palestinian land. In most cases, this happens because Palestinians are prevented from accessing their land and are physically attacked by settlers. In a third of cases,...
Shafaqna English- Far-right government and Israeli army accused of complicity in devastating weekend assaults on West Bank, undeterred by US sanctions. The aftermath of these attacks left four Palestinians dead, dozens wounded, and nearly a hundred homes, vehicles and facilities destroyed. The assaults occurred under the apparent protection of the
Shafaqna English- Illegal Israeli settlers had “raided the Palestinian farmers and residential areas in the West Bank on Saturday. “The settler attacks occurred in the Jordan Valley (north), Hebron, and Bethlehem (south),” the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) and the Palestine News Agency Wafa reported. The commission said in
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met Francesca Albanese, UN special
All the incidents took place before the 7 October Hamas attack and were not in Gaza.
An Israeli civilian is lightly injured as a result of an improvised
In a desert region of the occupied West Bank, Israeli activist Eyal Shani has fitted a tiny camera on his T-shirt to collect evidence of settler violence against Palestinian sheep farmers.Campaigners like Shani have been trying to protect Palestinians from Jewish settlers in the rugged Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, but they say it has become increasingly difficult with attacks soaring following the outbreak of war in Gaza.
Khalil Al-Hayya did not say whether his apparent embrace of a two-state solution would amount to an end to the Palestinian conflict with Israel or an interim step toward the group's stated goal of destroying Israel.
The Palestinian Red Crescent says Mohammed Awad Allan, 50, was shot while trying to treat injured people.