JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel authorities have forced a Palestinian family to demolish their home in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a local NGO on Sunday. In a statement, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said the Jerusalem Municipality forced the Abu Sneineh family to raze their home on Saturday in Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood in Jerusalem...
Two Palestinian prisoners, who had been on hunger strike for over four months, were released on Thursday, Feb. 24, from Israeli jails. Two Palestinian prisoners, who had been on hunger strike for over four months, were released on Thursday, Feb. 24, from Israeli jails. Hisham Abu Hawash, and Miqdad al-Qawasmi were two of the dozens […]
Lebanon has thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to carry out three suicide bombings targeting Shiite religious compounds in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the interior ministry said Wednesday. Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said the instructions for the bomb plot came from an IS operative based in the Palestinian refug...
A Palestinian human rights group has called on the international community to pressurize Israel to end its 15-year long blockade on the Gaza Strip. In a statement, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights appealed to the international actors to help provide the needed financial support for the reconstruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. It said aro...
ERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinians will have an entity in the future instead of a state, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said. “Eventually we will find ourselves in a two-entity solution, in which we respect Palestinian sovereignty and governance, but we will be respected for our security needs,” Gantz said at the Munich Security Conference thi...
HEBRON, PALESTINE – FEBRUARY 23: Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished eight Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, displacing dozens of their residents, according to a local activist. Fouad al-Amour, coordinator of the Protection and Resilience Committee in the southern West Bank, said the demolitions took place in the Sha’...
HAJJAH, YEMEN – FEBRUARY 23: Thousands of Yemeni children who were forcibly displaced due to the ongoing civil war between the government forces and the Iranian-backed Houthis have been deprived of health services, especially necessary vaccines such as polio, diphtheria, measles, and hepatitis-B. Humanitarian aid cannot be delivered to m...
TEHRAN, IRAN – FEBRUARY 23: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said they are optimistic about nuclear talks. “So far we are optimistic about the Vienna talks. We hope that some sensitive and important issues remaining in the negotiations will be resolved in the coming days with realism from the Western side,” h...
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said his country will not accept compromising the security of the Gulf states. Tebboune met with members of the Algerian community in Kuwait during the first day of his visit to the Gulf country. “With regard to the Gulf, despite the geographical distance, we in the Maghreb [region] are trying to [...
A 14-year-old Palestinian boy died Tuesday of wounds he sustained from Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank, according to the Health Ministry. Mohammad Shehda was injured when he was shot by Israeli soldiers in Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem city. According to local activists, the injured boy was arrested by Israeli forces, which [&...
