Palestinians are Friday observing a general strike in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin to mourn four Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire, according to a Fatah official. Secretary-General of Fatah movement in Jenin, Ata Abu Rmeileh, said that heading a call from nationalist factions, Palestinians are observing a one-day general strike to mourn the killing of four Palestinians in a surreptitious Israeli raid on Jenin on Thursday. Businesses,

A Gallup poll Thursday revealed that Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis for the first time. The Gallup poll found that Democrats’ ‘sympathies in the Middle East now lie more with the Palestinians than the Israelis, 49% versus 38%.’ ‘Today’s attitudes reflect an 11-percentage-point increase over the past year in Democrats’ sympathy with the Palestinians. At the same time, the percentages sympathizing more with the Israelis (38%) and those

Israeli police today blocked off a number of traffic arteries in the occupied city of East Jerusalem to make room for a settler marathon, according to WAFA correspondent. She said that police closed dozens of roads in Jerusalem, starting from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the French Hill colonial settlement, north of the city, to the Jerusalem-Hebron Road, south of the city, including roads in the Musrara neighborhood, the Jaffa

Israeli occupation authorities today rejected a renewed appeal against the demolition of a school in Jub adh Dhib community, close to Beit Ta’mir village, southeast of Bethlehem, according to a local activist. Coordinator of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Hassan Brijiyeh, that the Israeli Supreme Court dismissed a petition lodged by the Commission against the demolition of al-Tahadi 5 (Challenge 5) School in the southern occupied West Bank village.

Eight people today sustained gunshot injuries as Israeli forces quelled an anti-settlement rally in Kafr Qaddum town, east of Qalqiliya, according to local sources. They said that heavily-armed Israeli soldiers opened fire towards the participants in the weekly Friday anti-settlement rally, causing gunshot injuries to eight and leading to dozens of suffocation cases. All the suffocation cases were treated at the scene while the gunshot casualties were hospitalized. Participants in

Israeli forces Friday afternoon quelled an anti-land-pillage rally in Beit Dajan village, east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, causing a dozen to suffocate, according to WAFA correspondent. Israeli forces used fatal violence to disperse a rally to defend Palestinian-owned land threatened with confiscation, east of the town, to make room for the construction of a colonial settlement outpost. Director of the Red Crescent Society Ahmad Jibril said

At least a Palestinian today sustained a gunshot injury as Israeli forces violently cracked down on an anti-colonial-settlement rally in Al-Lubban Al-Gharbi village, west of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to local sources. They said that the occupation soldiers used brutal force to quell the rally called for in defense of the villagers’ land at the imminent risk of takeover to make room for the construction of

Four Palestinians were injured today during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beit Ummar, to the north of Hebron, according to the Ministry of Health. Witnesses told WAFA that Israeli occupation soldiers fired live shots and rubber-coated steel rounds at protesters during confrontations in the town, injuring three by live bullets and a fourth by rubber-coated rounds. One of the injured was reported in moderate condition,

The Israeli occupation military today turned over the body of Sufyan Nawwaf Khawaja, 20, to his family at a checkpoint in the central West Bank, three years after withholding the body, according to the WAFA correspondent. Khawaja was shot dead by Israeli army gunfire on March 23, 2020 at the entrance to the town of Ni’lin, to the west of Ramallah. At the time, Israeli occupation soldiers blocked access of

A Palestinian young man was shot and killed by Israeli occupation soldiers tonight at the north entrance to the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health. The young man, identified as Yazan Omar Khasib, 23, was reportedly shot by soldiers at the Israeli military checkpoint at the entrance to Ramallah. He was arrested in critical condition by the soldiers, only to be announced