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☆ Israel Strikes West Bank Mosque Compound
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli aircraft struck the compound of Al Ansar Mosque, located in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, overnight. The Israel Defense Forces said the site housed underground bunkers used by Hamas to orchestrate and plan attacks. Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that two people were killed and three were injured, citing the Palestinian Red Crescent. Jenin refugee camp has long been a focus of Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank. Strikes on mosques remain rare, however.

Persons: Al Ansar, WAFA Organizations: West Bank, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian Locations: Al, Jenin, Palestinian, Crescent

In video clips verified by The New York Times, scores of Palestinian bodies were filmed strewn across the courtyard of the Ahli Arab Hospital, some bloodied, charred, mangled or in pieces. The explosion at the hospital came a day after Iran warned that “other multiple fronts will open” if Israeli attacks continued to kill civilians in Gaza. Hundreds of families had fled to the hospital in search of refuge after 11 days of Israeli strikes elsewhere in Gaza. Image Two Palestinian children injured in the explosion at Ahli Arab Hospital were taken to another hospital in Gaza, Al-Shifa, for treatment. The Health Ministry in Gaza said that Ahli Arab Hospital was also struck on Sunday.

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☆ First hostage video of 21-year old Mia Shem posted by Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The short video clip shows Mia Schem lying on a bed, her right arm being bandaged by someone out of the frame. Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman, is being held hostage by the militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The video released by Hamas on Monday is the first footage of any of the dozens of people held in the enclave. Schem’s mother told CNN on Monday that she believed her daughter’s resilience would help her survive. She is being held hostage by the group, which released a video of Schem on Monday.

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☆ Palestinian Authority President Criticizes Hamas in Call With Venezuelan Leader
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Fatima Abdulkarim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas criticized the actions of Hamas in a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA, his first public comments on the group since the Oct. 7 killings of Israeli civilians by Hamas. Abbas, who said Hamas’s actions don’t represent the Palestinian people, called for the release of “civilians, prisoners, and detainees on both sides of the conflict.” He also urged an “immediate cessation of Israeli aggression against Palestinians” and called for the opening of urgent humanitarian corridors to Gaza.

Persons: Mahmoud Abbas, Nicolás Maduro, WAFA, Abbas, ” Organizations: Venezuelan Locations: Gaza

☆ Palestinian President Abbas condemns violence against civilians
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Ali Sawafta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet on the sidelines of the 6th summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA), in Astana, Kazakhstan October 13, 2022. Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsRAMALLAH, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned violence against civilians on Thursday in the wake of the devastating attack by Hamas gunmen on Israel and the relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israeli jets that followed. "We reject the practices of killing civilians or abusing them on both sides because they contravene morals, religion and international law," the official Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted Abbas as saying. Earlier, Israeli settlers in the West Bank killed two Palestinians when they opened fire on a funeral procession. A 37-year-old woman was also killed when she was shot by security forces near Ramallah, the main city in the West bank, according to Palestinian health services.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Abbas, Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Antony Blinken, Abbas, Wafa, Blinken, Israel, Fatah, Ali Sawafta, James Mackenzie, Mark Heinrich, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Sputnik, U.S, Palestinian Authority, West Bank, Thomson Locations: Asia, Astana, Kazakhstan, RAMALLAH, Israel, Gaza, Jordan, East Jerusalem, Al Aqsa, Jerusalem, Old City, Palestinian, Ramallah, West

☆ Palestinians accept first Saudi ambassador
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

At a ceremony in Jordan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khalidi received a copy of the credentials of Ambassador Nayef Al-Sudairi as a non-resident envoy, official Palestinian news agency Wafa said. Palestinian analyst Talal Okal said the diplomatic appointment was a half-step toward an official Saudi representation office in the occupied West Bank. "It is also a message Saudi Arabia was committed to the rights of the Palestinians in a fully sovereign state," he added. PALESTINIAN CONCERNPalestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said last week that Abbas's Western-backed Palestinian Authority is hoping to engage with Saudi Arabia over their concerns about the potential normalisation with Israel. Saudi Arabia has quietly accepted the so-called Abraham Accords that have normalised ties between Israel and Gulf states United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

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☆ Israeli forces kill two Palestinians who carried out attack, army says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] People check damage in a house where two Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank July 7,2023. REUTERS/Raneen SawaftaNABLUS, West Bank, July 7 (Reuters) - Israeli security forces on Friday killed two Palestinians who carried out a shooting attack against police this week, Israel's military said. Israeli forces raided the occupied West Bank town of Nablus, the military said, and "both terrorists were killed following an exchange of fire." The Israeli military said it had targeted infrastructure and weapons depots of Palestinian militant factions in Jenin in the operation. Israel says all the Palestinians killed were combatants.

Persons: WAFA, Raneen Sawafta, Ali Sawafta, Nidal, Ari Rabinovitch, Toby Chopra, Ros Russell Organizations: REUTERS, West Bank, West, Popular Front, Liberation, Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian, United Nations Relief, Works Agency, UNRWA, Thomson Locations: Nablus, Raneen, NABLUS, West, West Bank, Palestine, Ramallah, Israeli, Israel, Jenin, Gaza

☆ Palestinian gunman opens fire at Israeli checkpoint and is shot dead, police say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 24 (Reuters) - A Palestinian militant opened fire at an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, wounding a security guard before he was shot dead by forces at the scene, Israel's police said. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed group associated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, claimed the gunman as a member. Police distributed a photo of an M-16 rifle they said was used by the gunman to carry out the shooting. Violence surged this week in the West Bank, where for over a year the military has conducted regular sweeps leading to repeated clashes with Palestinian fighters amid a spate of Palestinian street attacks on Israelis. The past few days saw deadly clashes in the city of Jenin, a fatal Palestinian shooting attack near a settlement, attacks on Palestinian villages by settlers and a rare Israeli air strike in the West Bank against militants.

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☆ Israeli forces stage rare incursion into Ramallah to blow up bombing suspect’s home
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Israeli security forces regularly raid Palestinian cities such as Jenin, Nablus and Jericho, but an incursion into Ramallah on this scale is extremely unusual. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported more than 100 Israeli military vehicles were involved in the incursion, calling it an all-night raid. Among the wounded was a photojournalist for Al-Arabi TV, Moumen Sumrin, who was hit in the head with a rubber bullet. Palestinians inspect the site where Israeli forces demolished the house of Islam Faroukh, who was accused of carrying out two bombings in November. No IDF troops were injured, the military said.

Persons: Islam Faroukh, Wafa, Moumen Sumrin, Fadel, Batran, “, Issam, Mohammad Shtayyeh, ”, Faroukh, Molotov Organizations: Jerusalem CNN, Palestinian Authority, West Bank, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel Defense Forces, Al, IDF, Anadolu Agency, Getty Locations: Jerusalem, Ramallah, Islam, Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, Arabi, Palestinian

☆ Israeli forces kill Palestinian officer in clashes, WAFA says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Israeli settlers walk past structures that were erected for a new Jewish seminary school, in the settler outpost of Homesh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank May 29, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunJENIN, West Bank, May 29 (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian security officer during clashes in the occupied West Bank flashpoint city of Jenin on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said. In another part of the West Bank on Monday, Jewish settlers inaugurated a seminary in an area that has been a focus of U.S. scrutiny, drawing Palestinian condemnation. "With God's help ... there will be many more new settlements in northern Samaria," he said, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name. "Statements of condemnation are no longer enough in the face of the (Israeli) extremist right-wing government," said his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh.

☆ Five dead in Israeli raid on Palestinian militants in W.Bank
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Ali Sawafta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Bullet holes are pictured on a door at the scene where Israeli forces killed a number of armed fighters during a raid at a refugee camp near the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 6, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanJERICHO, West Bank, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a number of armed fighters on Monday during a raid on a refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho aimed at capturing suspected Hamas militants, the Israeli military said in a statement. Five people were killed, governor of Jericho Jihad Abu al-Assal said, in the raid in Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in southern Jericho and eight were arrested, according to a statement published by official Palestinian news agency WAFA. The Palestinian health ministry said three people had been wounded, one critically, but gave no details on any dead. Ahead of discussions in Cairo with Egyptian officials hoping to prevent further escalation, Haniyeh indicated the raid could impact the talks.

☆ Israeli army kills teen girl in West Bank raid, Palestinians say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A Palestinian hospital said Israeli forces killed a teenage girl during an army operation in the occupied West Bank early on Monday. The Israeli military said it was aware of the teenager’s death and that an investigation was underway. Palestinians inspect the area Monday where a teenage girl was killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. A dozen more Palestinians were arrested in other overnight raids in the West Bank, the military also said. At least 31 people have died in Arab attacks in Israel and the occupied West Bank this year, according to Israeli figures.

“The murder of the child Jana Majdi Zakarneh adds to the horrific murders of children that the occupation soldiers continue to commit,” Shtayyeh said. Israel has also recorded the highest number deaths from Palestinian attacks this year in nearly 20 years, with 31 killed. According to the IDF, the suspects threw explosives and fired at the IDF soldiers, who responded with “live fire.” No IDF injuries were reported. On Thursday, a 16-year-old boy died after he was shot by Israeli forces in Ramallah, according to a separate statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health last week. The IDF said in a statement that Israeli soldiers “shot toward suspects” for throwing rocks and paint bottles at vehicles “endangered the lives of passersby” near the town of Aboud in Ramallah.

☆ Israeli troops kill Palestinian woman in car, say incident under review
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] A Palestinian man is seen through the damaged window of a car near the scene of an incident near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 14, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanRAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank on Monday, medics said, in an incident in which the military said the soldiers opened fire on a vehicle that was accelerating towards them. Palestinian medics said a 19-year-old woman from Hebron was shot dead. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said a 26-year-old man with her was detained by the troops. The incident is under review," the spokesperson said, without giving details on casualties or arrests.

☆ West Bank: Several dead after Israeli joint security forces raid in Nablus
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Kareem Khadder | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —At least four Palestinians were killed during an Israeli military raid in the old city of Nablus in the West Bank in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. “The (Israeli) troops responded with live fire toward the armed suspects who were shooting at them,” the statement said. Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli forces stormed several neighborhoods in Nablus, “where the sounds of shooting and explosions were heard and columns of smoke and flames were seen emanating from several neighborhoods,” followed by fierce clashes between residents and Israeli military forces. Mourners in the West Bank on October 25, 2022. Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty ImagesWafa also reported that the Israeli military then sent reinforcements backed by drones.

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