GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - A 25-year-old Palestinian was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli air strike near the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, Palestinian medical sources said.
Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run health services in the Gaza Strip, named the man as Mohammed Jamil al-Najar and sources in Khan Yunis told AFP that Najar belonged to the Al-Quds Brigade, th [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli warplanes attacked two targets in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday without causing any casualties, Palestinian security sources said.
The targets were a tunnel linking Gaza with Egypt near the town of Rafah and a training facility for Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the sources said.
The Israeli army confir [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he refuses to link the troubled Middle East peace process with a US offer of additional military aid to its Israeli ally, in a newspaper interview published on Friday.
"We refuse to allow the offer of planes be linked in any way to a freeze on settlements," he told the London-based Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
"We have nothing to do [...]
GAZA CITY (AFP) - An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian brothers in Gaza City on Wednesday, including an alleged senior militant planning to kidnap Israelis in the Sinai, the army and medical sources said.
"In a joint operation between the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) and the Shin Bet, an attack was carried out against a senior member of the Army of Islam during which Islam Yassin [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit failed to clinch a breakthrough in efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks during a rare visit to the West Bank on Thursday.
Abul Gheit, who was accompanied by Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, reiterated Arab support for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's demand that Israeli settlement buil [...]
JAYYUS, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - A Palestinian woman on Monday accused Israeli troops of burning two Korans when they came to arrest her husband during an overnight raid in the northern West Bank.
Sahar Beida, 40, said the troops confined her and her daughter to a separate room when they detained her husband Ismail in the town of Jayyus near Qalqilya.
"When I came out I was shocke [...]
JAYYUS, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - A Palestinian woman on Monday accused Israeli troops of burning two Korans when they came to arrest her husband during an overnight raid in the northern West Bank.
Sahar Beida, 40, said the troops confined her and her daughter to a separate room when they detained her husband Ismail in the town of Jayyus near Qalqilya.
"When I came out I was shocke [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The world sponsors of the Middle East peace process on Tuesday urged Israel to extend its settlement freeze after Palestinians warned the thorny issue could derail fledgling peace talks.
The Quartet, comprised of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly as Israeli and Palestinians held ta [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The World Bank warned on Thursday that the Palestinians will be unable to build a viable state unless Israel lifts its restrictions that stymie private investment in the Palestinian territories.
The economy of the West Bank and Gaza is expected to grow eight percent this year, but largely thanks to foreign aid, the Bank wrote in a report.
The report's release coincided with t [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli military has failed to investigate its forces for killing dozens of Palestinian civilians in recent years, spawning a climate of impunity, a human rights group said on Tuesday.
"Soldiers who kill Palestinians in the occupied territories are almost never held accountable, even if the circumstances raise a grave suspicion that they acted criminally," the Israeli grou [...]
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