Israel-Palestine Relations

US rights groups urge congress to pass bill on govt. probe into Al-Jazeera journalist killing

Dozens of progressive policy groups and human rights organisations came together on Tuesday to call on the US Congress to pass a bill that would require the administration of President Joe Biden to investigate the killing of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

Israel sets record for illegal settler units approvals: Rights group

Israel’s far-right government has approved record construction in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank in its first six months in power, Al-Jazeera reported quoting an Israeli rights group.

Mahmoud Abbas visits Jenin amid frustration with Palestinian Authority

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday, the first since 2012, amid growing anger in the city at his administration's crackdown on activists and inaction against Israeli raids.

Israeli soldiers kill young Palestinian man in West Bank

Israeli forces have shot dead a young Palestinian man in the central part of the West Bank amid heightening tensions in the occupied territories in recent months.

Israel says won’t criminally charge officers for 2021 Gaza assault

Israel’s army announced it has “disciplined” five officers for their actions during the deadly raid on the besieged Gaza Strip in 2021 but will not file criminal charges against them.

Palestine says reconstruction of Jenin, destroyed in Israeli raid, requires $15bln

Reconstruction of buildings and roads destroyed during the Israeli aggression against Jenin in the occupied West Bank requires over $15 billion, Palestine's minister of public works and housing has announced.

3 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers in WB

Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers in two separate incidents in Nablus and Ramallah, officials with the Palestinian Ministry of Health have confirmed.

Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Nablus

Two Palestinian youth have been killed after Israeli soldiers raided the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, officials have confirmed.

UN experts say Israeli military operation in Jenin may constitute war crime

A group of the United Nations experts has ruled that Israel's recent ground and aerial military campaign against the northern West Bank city of Jenin might constitute a "war crime."

IRGC Quds Force chief: Palestinians slapped Israel in face

Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani has stated that the Palestinian youth slapped the Zionist regime in the face during its raid on the West Bank city of Jenin.

UN Security Council to meet over violence in West Bank

The United Nations Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Friday following Israel’s military operation in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the West Bank.

Israel says all troops withdrawn from Jenin

Israel says it has withdrawn over 1,000 forces from the West Bank after a major military operation in the Palestinian city of Jenin, said to be the largest in two decades.

Israel launches air attacks on Gaza Strip

Israeli air raids have hit sites in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, local media reported. It comes after rockets were fired towards Israel from the besieged strip earlier on Wednesday morning in response to Tel Aviv's attacks on Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli soldier killed in Jenin, West Bank

The Israeli military has confirmed that one of its soldiers was killed by gunfire during confrontations with armed Palestinian groups in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday night.

Several injured in Tel Aviv car-ramming and stabbing attack

Several people have been wounded in a car-ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli police. This happened on the second day of Israel’s largest military offensive in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in decades.

Iran’s UN mission: Israel responds only to logic of force, not dialog

The Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations condemns the Israeli regime’s acts of aggression against the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp, saying Tel Aviv only understands the logic of force, and not dialog or compromise.

Thousands of Palestinians flee Jenin refugee camp amid Israeli raid

About 3,000 Palestinians have fled the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank since Israeli forces began a significant military onslaught in the area on Monday, a Palestinian official announced on Tuesday.

Palestinian resistance groups pledge revenge against Israeli raid on Jenin

Palestinian resistance factions have vowed to retaliate against Israel in the wake of a deadly act of aggression against the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

Palestine halts security coordination with Israel after Jenin massacre

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has suspended contact and security coordination with Israel, his office announced in a statement.

UN expresses concern about surging terror acts by Israeli settlers in WB

The United Nations has raised the alarm over surging violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, slamming it as "terrorism" against Palestinians.

UN denounced for excluding Israel from list of shame for child killings

The international anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign's Palestine chapter has slammed the United Nations for keeping the name of the Zionist regime out of its annual list of child killers.

Israel OKs plans to build thousands of new homes in WB

Israel’s far-right government has approved plans to build thousands of new homes in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials have decried the move as part of an “open war against the Palestinian people”.

Israeli security chiefs describe settler raids on Palestinian villages as “nationalist terrorism”

Israeli security chiefs have designated settler attacks on Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank as "nationalist terrorism" that merit stepped-up counter measures. The remarks drew anger from far-right cabinet ministers.

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian teen in West Bank

A Palestinian teenager was left bleeding to death after an Israeli shooting attack at Qalandia military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.

UN condemns Israel’s use of ‘advanced military weaponry’ in West Bank’s Jenin

The violence in the occupied West Bank “risks spiralling out of control”, according to the United Nations human rights chief who slammed Israel’s use of deadly force in a recent raid on the Jenin refugee camp that killed at least seven Palestinians.

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