Tag: Palestine
Abbas hails ‘historic’ Swedish recognition of Palestinian state
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday hailed a decision by Sweden to officially recognise the state of Palestine, his spokesman…
Israel army kills 2 Palestinians suspected of teens murder
Israeli troops on Tuesday killed two Palestinians named as suspects in the June murder of three Jewish teenagers in the…
Jerusalem Palestinians riot after teen shot by police dies
A Palestinian teenager died on Sunday from injuries sustained when he was shot last week by Israeli border police in…
Gaza children left orphaned by bloody war
“She will call me Daddy and Mummy,” insisted 11-year-old Amir Hamad, cradling his infant sister in his arms after the…
Israeli strike kills Hamas finance official
Israel said Sunday it had killed a top Hamas financial official in an air strike on Gaza City, as it…
Israeli raid kills mother, 3 children in north Gaza
An Israeli air strike killed a mother and three children from the same family in northern Gaza on Sunday, medics…
Israeli air strike wounds 40 in Gaza City
A powerful Israeli air strike levelled a house in Gaza City late Friday, wounding 40 Palestinians, local emergency services said.…
Israeli strikes kill senior Hamas commanders in Gaza
Israeli warplanes assassinated three top Hamas commanders in southern Gaza on Thursday, inflicting a heavy blow on the movement’s armed…
US accuses Israel of targeting kin of murdered Palestinian teen
The United States on Wednesday charged Israel had targeted members of a Palestinian family whose teenaged son was kidnapped and…
Hamas says military chief alive, calling shots in Gaza war
Hamas said on Wednesday its military commander Mohammed Deif was alive and still calling the shots in the ongoing war…
Egypt urges Israelis, Palestinians to resume Gaza talks
Egypt on Wednesday called on Israelis and Palestinians to resume negotiations, expressing its “profound regret at the breach of the…
Israel army strikes Gaza ‘terror sites’
The Israeli army carried out strikes on militant targets in the Gaza Strip after rocket attacks by Palestinians at the…
All Israeli troops have left Gaza
Israel has withdrawn all its forces from the Gaza Strip, wrapping up a ground operation launched on July 17, a…
Israel to continue Gaza assault ‘as long as necessary’ – PM
Israel will keep up its military campaign in the Gaza Strip for as long as needed and with as much…
Israeli strikes kill dozens across Gaza
Israeli bombardments early on Wednesday killed “dozens” of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics…
Muslims mark sombre Eid in bloodied Gaza
The end of a month of fasting was supposed to be a time to celebrate for Abeer Shamali. But instead,…
Hamas chief: We cannot coexist with occupiers
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal demanded Israel lift its blockade of Gaza and warned that Palestinians cannot coexist with their neighbors…
Hamas claims rockets fired at Israel after truce
Hamas said it fired several rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip late Saturday, after a 12-hour humanitarian ceasefire in…
At least 76 bodies retrieved from Gaza rubble after truce
The bodies of at least 76 Palestinians were recovered from the rubble across the Gaza Strip in the first few…
Paris bans pro-Palestinian protest after recent violence
French police have banned a protest against Israel’s Gaza offensive that was due to take place in Paris on Saturday,…
Gaza toll hits 798 as 15 killed at UN shelter
Fifteen people were killed Thursday when Israeli fire hit a UN shelter in Gaza, as the Palestinian toll in the…
UN, US call for immediate truce as Gaza toll tops 500
The UN Security Council called for an “immediate ceasefire” as Israel pressed on with a blistering assault on Gaza on…
Over 60 dead as Israel batters Gaza’s Shejaiya
More than 60 Palestinians were killed Sunday as Israeli forces pounded northern Gaza, sending thousands more fleeing in terror in…
46 Palestinians, 2 Israeli troops die as Gaza conflict escalates
Israel’s operation against Hamas saw one of its bloodiest days on Saturday, with 46 Palestinians killed in Gaza and two…
Toll in Gaza hits 337 on day 12 of war
Israeli air strikes and shelling killed more than 25 people across Gaza on Saturday, among them children, raising the toll…
Israel army presses Gaza ground assault
Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes pushed deeper into Gaza on Friday in an operation to halt rocket fire…
Erdogan accuses Israel of ‘systematic genocide’ in Gaza
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched his most bitter attack yet against Israel over its air campaign…
Israel warns Gazans to flee as campaign intensifies
Israel urged 100,000 Gazans to flee their homes on Wednesday, but the warning was largely ignored despite an intensification of…
Hamas closes border crossing with Israel
Hamas said Tuesday it has closed the Erez border crossing due to Israeli shelling, in a move that stranded a…
Abbas wants Palestine under international protection
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to ask the United Nations to put the state of Palestine under “international protection” due…