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JERUSALEM (AA): Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers Thursday forced their way into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound where they performed Talmudic rituals, according to a Palestinian official. “Around 48 extremist settlers — backed by Israeli police — stormed the mosque compound through the Al-Mugharbeh Gate,” Firas al-Dibs, a spokesman for the Jordan-run Religious Endowments Authority, told […]

3rd Apr 2017

Palestine: Palestinian shot dead in knife attack in E Jerusalem

By Abdul-Rauf Arnaut JERUSALEM (AA): A Palestinian teenage boy was shot dead in an alleged stabbing attack in East Jerusalem on Saturday, according to Israeli police. Police spokesperson Luba al-Samri in a statement the Palestinian stabbed and lightly injured two Israeli settlers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli police forces opened fire on the assailant and […]

26th Oct 2016

Palestine: 1,640 Jewish settlers entered Aqsa Mosque compound

By Anees Barghouti JERUSALEM (AA): Over 1,600 Jewish settlers forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound last week to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a Palestinian official said Tuesday. Firas al-Dibs, a spokesman for the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf (a Jordan-run organization responsible for overseeing the city’s Islamic sites), told Anadolu […]

24th Oct 2016

Palestine: Israel arrests 19 in Jerusalem, closes West Bank

By Kaamil Ahmed JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli police have arrested 19 Palestinians during overnight raids in the occupied West Bank as the military closed off the occupied Palestinian territories ahead of a Jewish holiday starting Sunday. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld tweeted that those arrested had been involved in “riots” during the Yom Kippur holiday two […]

28th Jul 2016

Palestine: Israel issues tenders for occupied E Jerusalem settlement units

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA): The Israeli government has issued tenders for the construction of 323 new housing units for Jewish settlers in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli media reported Wednesday. According to Israeli Radio, the plan includes 130 new housing units in the Jewish-only Har Homa settlement and another 89 units in the […]

13th Jul 2016

Palestine: Jewish settlers enter holy sites in Jerusalem, Nablus

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA): Scores of Jewish settlers on Tuesday entered East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex and performed religious rituals, a Palestinian official told Anadolu Agency. They were led by the Rabbi Yehuda Glick, protected by Israeli security forces. “Around 285 Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli police, stormed the holy compound via […]

20th Jun 2016

Palestine: Palestinians decry Rabbi call to poison West Bank water

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, (AA):The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has denounced a Jewish rabbi’s permission for settlers to poison water sources in Palestinian areas in the occupied West Bank as “an order to kill”. Rabbi Shlomo Mlma, chairman of the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank settlements, has issued an advisory opinion in […]

13th Jun 2016

Palestine: 130 Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque complex

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA): More than 130 extremist Jewish settlers on Sunday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, where they tried to perform Talmudic rituals, a Palestinian official has said. “Around 135 extremist settlers stormed the mosque holy compound through Al-Mugharbeh gate under the protection of Israeli police officers,” […]

10th May 2016

Palestine: Jewish settlers seize E Jerusalem building

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA): Dozens of Jewish settlers on Monday took over a building in the Al-Sadia neighborhood of Jerusalem’s Old City, eyewitnesses said. “About 45 Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli police and army troops, stormed the building early Monday and began performing Talmudic rituals,” Fakhri Abu Diab, a local Palestinian activist, told Anadolu […]

29th Apr 2016

Palestine: Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa compound

By Alaa Rimawi JERUSALEM (AA) – Scores of Jewish settlers on Thursday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound where they performed Talmudic rituals, a Palestinian official said. “The situation is very dangerous at Al-Aqsa Mosque amid repeated attempts by settlers to storm it,” Al-Aqsa Mosque Director Sheikh Omar al-Qiswani told […]

8th Apr 2016

Palestine: 1,000 Jewish settlers storm West Bank shrine

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, (AA): Over a thousand Israeli settlers stormed a local shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, triggering clashes with Palestinian youths. “At least 1,150 Israeli settlers forced their way into the [Joseph’s Tomb] shrine under the protection of the Israeli army and performed Talmudic rituals,” Ahmed Shamekh, […]

18th Mar 2016

US: Daesh committing genocide

[Photo: US Secretary of State John Kerry said Daesh commiting genocide against minorities. Photo: Erkin Keci/AA] By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA) – Daesh is committing genocide in territories it controls in Iraq and Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday. “In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its […]

1st Jan 2016

Palestine: Israeli settlers assault taxi driver, shut down road

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement, Mabo Dothan, built on the land of Yabad, to the southwest of Jenin, Thursday, assaulted a Palestinian taxi driver and hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles. Mohammad Mahmoud from the village of Tura said that a number of Israeli settlers attacked and beat him up after […]

25th Oct 2015

Palestine: Israeli settlers burn car & write racist graffiti

IMEMC News: Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Sunday, five Palestinians, including two children, in occupied East Jerusalem, while a number of fanatic Israeli settlers burnt a car, and wrote racist graffiti. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said the soldiers kidnapped five Palestinians, after invading their homes and violently searched them, causing property damage, […]

9th Oct 2015

Palestine: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian communities

IMEMC News & Agencies: Palestinian sources reported Israeli settlers’ attacks on Thursday night all over the West Bank and closed roads connecting villages and cities. In the southern Hebron hells village of Sousyia, a group of radical Israeli settlers attacked residents homes with stones casing damage to a number of house. The settlers tried […]

9th Sep 2015

Palestine: Israeli settlers burnt Olive orchards near Nablus

IMEMC & Agencies: A group of Israeli extremists, living in illegal Israeli colonies in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, burnt on Wednesday at dawn, Palestinian olive orchards and farmlands, belonging to residents of Burin village, south of Nablus. Local sources said the burnt orchards are close to the Yitzhar illegal Israeli colony, built […]

24th Aug 2015

Palestine: 20 Palestinian women barred from entering Al Aqsa, Israeli settlers allowed in

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli police, on Sunday, prevented around 20 Palestinian women from entering al-Aqsa mosque, while allowing Israeli settlers into the mosque’s compound, according to WAFA correspondence. Special Israeli police units erected metal barricades near al-Aqsa mosque, imposing restrictions on the entry of Palestinians and preventing around 20 women from entering for attempting […]

23rd Aug 2015

Palestine: Israeli settlers attack farmers in Qasra

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli settlers attacked, on Saturday, Palestinian farmers in the village of Qasra, to the south of Nablus, whereas the Israeli army raided and searched several Palestinian homes, setting up military checkpoints in the Hebron district, according to a local activist. WAFA correspondence reports that Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in […]

12th Aug 2015

Palestine: Israeli settlers set fire to West Bank park

IMEMC News & Agencies: Jewish Israeli settlers, at dawn on Tuesday, used molotov cocktails in an attempt to set fire to a public park in the northern West Bank village of Qaryut. Local Palestinian sources said that a number of settlers arrived in three vehicles at 2 am and threw several molotov cocktails into the […]

6th Aug 2015

Palestine: Israeli settler violence increase: homes stoned, tagged with racist graffiti

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli Jewish settlers last night attacked Palestinian homes with stones as they provocatively approached the outskirts of Silat ad-Daher, some 20 kilometers to the south of Jenin in northern West Bank, security sources told WAFA. The settlers, who also chanted racist slogans against Arabs and Palestinians, provoked a scuffle with angry […]

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