Tag Archives: Gaza

Israel’s public security minister Omer Bar-Lev says the regime suffered “a very heavy price” after three people were killed and several others hurt in an attack on the occasion of Nakba (Catastrophe Day) which marks Israel’s eviction of Palestinians from their homeland and declaring its existence. Bar-Lev said following the …

Move comes after Israeli army accused Hamas of firing three rockets into Israel late on Friday. Israel’s decision to close its only crossing for Palestinian workers coming from the Gaza Strip has been denounced as “collective punishment” of the impoverished territory’s two million residents who have lived under an Israeli-Egyptian …

Israeli forces have arrested more than 100 Palestinians during recent clashes in the Negev desert, a report says, as the Palestinian residents of the region, including children, face a forced eviction drive by the occupying entity. The mass arrests occurred during Tel Aviv’s crackdown on protests staged in reaction to …

Israel has launched artillery strikes against the Gaza Strip, injuring three Palestinian farmers in the besieged enclave. Israeli tanks opened fire at several posts belonging to the Palestinian resistance movements on the eastern and northern borders of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said. The Israeli …

The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Sunday it had identified the first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the Gaza Strip. The carrier is a Gaza resident who was infected within the coastal territory, ministry official Majdi Dhair told a news conference. Dhair said this meant the variant, first …

Israeli forces have detained 10 Palestinians in multiple raids across the occupied West Bank and injured dozens of others in anti-settlement protests in the occupied Palestinian territory. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said heavily-armed Israeli police on Friday rounded up five Palestinians, including three brothers, after forcibly entering their houses …

Several EU member states on the UN Security Council have criticized Israel’s move to proceed with settlement construction in Palestine’s West Bank and East Jerusalem while slamming the decision to dub six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations. “We reiterate our strong opposition to the expansion of settlements and will not …

The Israeli regime is to approve next week the construction of 3,000 new settler units in the occupied West Bank as Tel Aviv continues to press ahead with its settlement expansion across the Palestinian territories. Citing the regime sources, Israeli media said on Friday the new units would be distributed …

Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons have launched a hunger strike in protest against the regime’s intensified crackdown on detainees. The Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement on Wednesday that some of the Islamic Jihad captives were on a hunger strike, demanding an end to repressive measures imposed …

The UN agency helping Palestinian refugees is facing an “existential” budget crisis and appealing for urgent funding of $120 million to keep essential education, healthcare, and other services running, the agency’s chief said Friday. “We keep struggling, running after cash,” Philippe Lazzarini told a small group of reporters. “The financial …

One Palestinian has died and at least 12 have reportedly been injured as Israeli troops fired at a group protesting against the building of Jewish settlements in the towns of Beita and Beit Dajan near Nablus. On Friday, Palestinian media reported the locals had clashed with the Israeli Army in …

The Gaza Health Ministry has held the illegal Zionist entity responsible for the expiry of 50,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine recently delivered to the besieged coastal enclave. In a statement carried by Arab48 news website on Monday night, the ministry said the vaccines had been kept in inappropriate conditions and …

Are Israel’s child-killing snipers any different to the Mafia’s hitmen? It is easy to kill and get away with killing. A former hitman I got to know well while writing a book years ago about Canada’s nefarious spy service once made that stunning admission to me. It was stunning because …

The Islamic Jihad strongly has warned the Israeli regime against trying to punish other Palestinian prisoners over the recent escape of six inmates from a maximum-security Israeli jail. The Palestinian resistance movement issued the warning in a statement on Tuesday after Palestinian sources revealed that the regime was administering “collective …

The Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin has now become a center of resistance in the wake of intensified Israeli settler violence and an increase in attacks by Israel’s military there. According to a Wednesday report by the Al Jazeera television network, assaults by Israeli settlers and soldiers are not the …

Israeli regime forces have detained at least 18 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) says. Kamal Bani-Odeh, the PPS director, said on Tuesday that the regime forces had rounded up a Palestinian man after storming his family house in …

Israeli authorities have forced another Palestinian citizen to demolish his home built in the western part of al-Quds. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources, reported on Monday that Israeli authorities left Iqab Jaabis no choice but to totally knock down his own home in the Jabal al-Mukabber …

Egypt allows one-way traffic as Israel eases import restrictions for the besieged territory it has blockaded since 2007. Egypt says it has partially reopened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing one-way traffic into the besieged Palestinian enclave, as Israel eases import restrictions for the territory it has …

Egypt has closed the Rafah crossing on its border with the besieged Gaza Strip, declining to provide details or reasons for the move. The Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip in both directions on Monday until further notice, blocking the only land opening to the rest …

A senior official from the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, says the Palestinian nation and resistance groups will not remain silent in the face of the deteriorating economic situation in the Gaza Strip caused by the tight Israeli blockade and will take proper measures to assuage the sufferings of the …