Six months of conflict have also taken a heavy economic toll.
Monday night, as Passover begins, Jews around the world celebrate their ancestors’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt. That liberty was hardly cost-free. Participants in the Seder will recount the 10 plagues by symbolically dipping a finger in their glass of wine and removing a drop, one for each debacle. This recalls the destruction that paved the way to freedom. The Hebrew Bible recounts that after the Israelites made it across the Red Sea, God kept the waters parted to lure the Egyptian...
A raid conducted by Israeli forces on Sunday supposedly injured six Palestinians in the West Bank, Al Jazeera reported. The Israelis opened fire on civilians in the village of Burqa, located east of
KILLIAN - Officials provided a brief update on the water situation in Killian Wednesday morning. This comes after a state of emergency was declared for the village due to the lack of clean water.The situation began Sunday night, officials said, after brown water was found on the west side of the village. Flushing lines did not seem to help. Initially a boil advisory was issued for 40 homes, but the problem spread throughout the town. The mayor of Killian, Ronald Sharp, and the...
BOSTON -- With Triston Casas out for weeks if not months with torn cartilage in his left rib cage, the Red Sox have acted by acquiring first baseman Garrett Cooper in a trade with the Cubs for cash considerations, a source told MLB.com on Saturday. Chris Cotillo of MassLive was
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 […]
Sabreen Jouda is born in an emergency cesarean section after her 30-weeks pregnant mother, 4-year-old sister and father are killed by Israeli forces in Rafah
Violence is reported to have escalated after a 14 year old Israeli shepherd went missing in the West Bank on Friday Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials, after a weekend of escalating violence across the territory.The Palestinian health ministry named the victims of the attack near Nablus as Abdulrahman Maher Bani Fadel, 30, and Mohammed Ashraf Bani Jame, 21, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa. Continue...
TEL AVIV — An NBC News investigation into seven deadly airstrikes has found Palestinians were killed in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones. The attacks took place from January to April, as Israel’s military bombarded Rafah from the air and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government signaled its intent to launch a full-scale ground invasion on Gaza’s southernmost city, which has now swelled to more than 1 million people. Watch more on...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it. Their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight Saturday. Until that moment, the family was like so many other Palestinians trying to shelter from the war in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah. Sabreen's father was []
By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it. Their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight. The family had been like many other Palestinians trying to shelter from the war in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. Sabreen’s father
Conditions for prisoners have deteriorated since Hamas’ 7 October attacks against Israel, according to Human Rights Watch.