Palestine
West Bank under siege, death toll mounts
Five Palestinians have been killed and hundreds detained in "Operation Brother's Keeper," Israel's biggest West Bank deployment in a decade.
Tag: Palestine
Palestine
ISIS behind West Bank abductions?
Hebron and the West Bank are heavily militarized as Israeli troops hunt for three youths whose abductions have now been claimed (somewhat dubiously) in the name of ISIS.
Palestine
Rights group protests Israel raid on Palestine TV
Reporters Without Borders said it was "outraged" by an Israeli police raid on the East Jerusalem studio of Palestine TV, in which a producer and cameraman were detained.
Palestine
Israeli doctors refuse to force-feed hunger strikers
The Israel Medical Association opposes proposed legislation that would allow Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to be force-fed, calling the practice "torture."
Palestine
Palestinian hunger strikers in solitary confinement
Sixty hunger-striking Palestinians in Israel's Eshel prison are being held in solitary confinement, out of over 100 now striking in protest of "administrative detention."
Palestine
Marwan Barghouti to join detainee hunger strike
Jailed Palestinian leaders Marwan Barghouthi and Ahmad Saadat announced that they will go on hunger strike in solidarity with "administrative detainees" who are refusing food.
Palestine
Palestinian prisoners on 10th day of hunger strike
Over 100 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails began their tenth day of hunger strike on May 3, and three have been taken to a medical center for treatment.
Palestine
Israeli forces fire tear gas at Christian pilgrims
Dozens of Christian pilgrims suffered from tear-gas inhalation on Good Friday after Israeli troops fired gas canisters as they performed religious rites at the Tomb of Lazarus.
Palestine
Ceasefire at Syria’s Yarmouk camp: PFLP-GC
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) announced that a ceasefire was reached in Syria's besieged Yarmouk refugee camp.
Palestine
Al-Aqsa clashes as MKs tour compound
Clashes broke out between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli forces in the al-Aqsa compound following a visit by right-wing Israeli MK Moshe Feiglin.
Palestine
Ukraine and Palestine: geography denial
Zionist settlers in Hebron raise a banner reading “Palestine never existed!” This perverse denialism is alas mirrored in much that the “left” is saying about Ukraine.
Palestine
Israel demolishes Bedouin homes east of Jerusalem
Israeli forces bulldozed five structures belonging to a Bedouin community in East Jerusalem that had years earlier been displaced from its lands in the Negev.