Israel/ Palestine

by Jonah Mandel | – Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended allowing Qatar to transfer millions of dollars to Hamas-run Gaza despite criticism from within his own government over the move aimed at restoring calm after months of unrest. The Israeli-authorised money transfer appeared to be part of talks that would […]

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Injuries were reported among Palestinians protesting at the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday afternoon. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that at least 37 Palestinians were injured with Israeli live ammunition, including six children, nine women and one paramedic woman. Medical sources told Ma’an that […]

The Israeli parliament is scheduled to discuss a bill that would ease requirements on the death penalty for Palestinians next week. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported a bill that would allow the imposition of the death penalty for Palestinians charged with attacking Israelis. Debate on the bill is scheduled to restart next week. During […]

HEBRON (Ma’an) — The Israeli authorities delivered demolition notices to one school and three housing structures in the Masafer Yatta area in the south Hebron hills in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, on Monday. Coordinator of a local settlement against the Israeli separation wall, Rateb al-Jbour, reported that Israeli forces stormed the Khillet […]

Jerusalem (AFP) – Senior Catholic clerics in Jerusalem called Sunday for Israel to repeal a controversial law giving Jews a “unique” right to self-determination in the country. “We must draw the attention of the authorities to a simple fact,” bishops and archbishops of the Roman Catholic, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic and Greek Melkite churches said […]

In his first comment on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the murder as “horrendous” but defended the Saudi royal family and described its members as “friends”. Speaking after a meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Netanyahu said that “what happened at the Istanbul consulate was horrendous […]

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Member, Hanan Ashrawi, strongly condemned Israel’s shelling and killing of three Palestinian minors, east of Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, on Monday.Ashrawi condemned the “deliberate” killing of Khalid Bassam Said, 13, Abdullah al-Hamid Abu Daher, 13, and Muhammad Ibrahim al-Satra, 13, during an […]