GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing, Mufid al-Hasayneh, said that recent Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip left 30 residential structures completely destroyed, and at least 500 other others partially damaged.Hasayneh said, in a statement, that the ministry’s engineers and technicians counted the damages and reopen roads closed by […]
PLO’s Erekat: ‘Israeli Annexation of the West Bank up next’
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Secretary General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, said in a tweet on his official Twitter account, on Wednesday, that the “annexation of the West Bank will be the next step” in the recent series of decisions taken by the United States administration and the Israeli government against […]
Singer Della Miles on Gaza Strikes, Golan: “My heart beats with you Palestine”
WASHINGTON (Ma’an) — American singer and songwriter, Della Miles, expressed her support for Palestine and its people in response to the recent Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip and US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize to the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory, on Tuesday. Miles posted on her personal Instagram account, saying “Who […]
Israeli Snipers Shoot, Wound 30 unarmed Peaceful Palestinian Protesters on Gaza Side of Border
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — At least 30 Palestinians were shot and injured, while dozens of others suffered from tear-gas inhalation, as Israeli forces suppressed protesters along the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that 30 Palestinians were shot and injured with Israeli live fire, […]
Israel Deprives Palestinians of Access to Clean Water to Favor Israeli Squatters: UN
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A United Nations human rights investigator stressed that Israel is depriving millions of Palestinians of access to a regular supply of clean water while stripping their lands of minerals “in an apparent act of pillage,” on Monday. Michael Lynk, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said that Israel […]
6 Palestinians Displaced by Israeli Policy to New Zealand Murdered by White Nationalist
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates declared, on Saturday, that through the Palestinian embassy in Australia’s contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Zealand, although not officially, that six Palestinians were killed and six others were injured in the mass shooting targeting two mosques in Christchurch City, in […]
Israeli Squatters Uproot Dozens of Olive Trees in Palestinian Nablus
NABLUS (Ma’an) — A group of Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of Palestinian-owned olive trees, on Tuesday, in an agricultural area near the Burin village, south of the northern occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement stormed […]
In Weekly Gaza Fish-in-Barrel Shoot, Israeli Army Kills One Youth, Injures 48 (15 Children)
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed at least one Palestinian and injured 48 others, including four paramedics and two journalists, as they suppressed “The Great March of Return” weekly protests across the eastern border fence of the besieged Gaza Strip, on its 50th Friday. Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in […]
On Int’l Women’s Day, Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Assault Women of the Wailing Wall
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox youths violently disrupted a Women of the Wall prayer service, on Friday, forcing the multi-denominational feminist group to move to another location after two of its members sustained injuries near the Western Wall. According to the spokesperson of Women of the Wall, the group was holding an anniversary prayer […]








