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Israel Imposes Sanctions On West Bank Villages After Attack

Israel Imposes Sanctions On West Bank Villages After Attack

September 9, 2025 10:16 am

Israel moved swiftly on Tuesday to impose sweeping restrictions on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank after a deadly shooting in Jerusalem left six Israelis dead and dozens more wounded.

Defense Minister Israel Katz announced what he described as “civil sanctions” against the families of two Palestinians suspected of carrying out Monday’s attack. The measures include the demolition of buildings deemed to have been built without permits in the villages of Al-Qubeiba and Qatanna, along with the revocation of 750 Palestinian work and entry permits.

Security forces also raided the suspects’ home villages, documenting structures and questioning residents — …

First Virus Case In Lebanon Palestinian Refugee Camp - UN

First Virus Case In Lebanon Palestinian Refugee Camp: UN

April 22, 2020 6:23 pm

A Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon was on lockdown Wednesday after the UN announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in one of the country’s numerous and crowded camps.

The patient, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, has been taken to the state-run Rafic Hariri hospital in Beirut, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said in a statement late Tuesday.

Medical experts visited the Wavel camp in the eastern Bekaa Valley on Wednesday to carry out tests, Lebanon’s official National News Agency said.

The testing was to focus on the woman’s relatives and people she has interacted with, as well …

Palestinian Teenager Killed In West Bank Clash

Palestinian Teenager Killed In West Bank Clash

March 11, 2020 10:59 am

A Palestinian teenager has reportedly been shot dead by Israeli forces during a clash in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian medics said Mohammed Hamayel, 15, was hit in the face by live ammunition near the village of Beita, south of the city of Nablus.

Israel’s military said 500 Palestinians took part in what it called a violent riot, hurling rocks towards its troops and setting tyres on fire.

The area has been the scene of growing tension in recent weeks.

Palestinians say a group of Jewish settlers has been trying to take control of a hill in the middle of …

ICC To Probe ‘War Crimes’ In Palestinian Territories

December 20, 2019 4:02 pm

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said Friday she wanted t open a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories, sparking a furious reaction from Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision made the Hague-based court, which Israel has refused to sign up to since its creation in 2002, a “political tool” against the Jewish state.

The Palestinians welcomed the move by the ICC as a “long overdue step” following a nearly five-year preliminary probe by the prosecutor into the situation since the 2014 war in Gaza.

“I am satisfied that there is a reasonable …

Palestinian Rights Activist Slams Israel's Travel Ban

Palestinian Rights Activist Slams Israel’s Travel Ban

November 3, 2019 3:14 pm

Laith Abu Zeyad, who works as Amnesty’s campaigner on Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, was stopped by Israeli authorities at the King Hussein/Allenby border crossing on October 26 while on his way to attend a relative’s funeral in Jordan.

After being held for four hours, he was told he was banned from travelling abroad for what Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, called 

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Israel Arrests Palestinian Leftist Figure Khalida Jarrar

Israel Arrests Palestinian Leftist Figure Khalida Jarrar

October 31, 2019 1:13 pm

Israeli forces arrested a prominent Palestinian politician from her home in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah overnight on Thursday.

Khalida Jarrar, a former member of the defunct Palestinian Legislative Council, was arrested at 3am local time (00:00 GMT) and taken to an unknown area, local media reported.

According to her daughter Yara Jarrar, the house was surrounded by more than Israeli 70 soldiers who arrived in 12 military vehicles.

“Mom and sister were asleep when they approached,” Yara said in a post on Twitter.

The 56-year-old Jarrar, who is associated with the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation

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Israel’s longest-serving premier fights for his future

Israel plans to attend U.S.-led Palestinian conference

June 17, 2019 12:08 am

Israel will attend a U.S-led conference in Bahrain next week on proposals for the Palestinian economy as part of a coming peace plan, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday.

The United States has billed the gathering as a workshop to boost the Palestinian economy as part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A source briefed on the event told Reuters Israel would send a business delegation but no government officials to the June 25-26 workshop, which is being boycotted by the Palestinian leadership.

“Israel will be at the Bahrain conference and …

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