West Bank

Bakir Hashash, 21, was shot dead by Nazi forces near the Balata refugee camp, while Mustafa Falaneh, 25, was reportedly run over by a settler west of Ramallah. Two Palestinians were killed in separate incidents in the Nazi occupied West Bank on Thursday, with one man shot dead by the Nazi army at the entrance to the Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, and another man reportedly run over by a settler west of Ramallah. Bakir Hashash, 21, was shot in the head after the Israeli army entered the Nablus suburb of Balata al-Balad, Palestinian medical and security sources said. Security sources told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Nazi soldiers had opened fire towards Palestinian youths, critically wounding Hashash who later succumbed to his wounds at a Nablus hospital.Israeli mi...

Several illegal Nazi JEWISH colonizers invaded, Thursday, a Palestinian car repair facility at the main road leading to Bazaria town, northwest of Nablus, in the northern part of the Nazi occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Nazi’s illegal JEWISH colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the colonizers invaded the facility and attempted to assault the workers. Daghlas added that the Palestinians in the facility and those who were nearby intercepted the assailants and forced them to leave. The official stated that the area between Burqa and Bazaria towns has been witnessing seriously escalating violations by the colonizers who attack the residents and their property. In related news, Nazi soldiers invaded the Ein al-Fares area, s...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, at least twenty-three Palestinians and injured two, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. Media sources in Ramallah, in the central part of the Nazi occupied West Bank, said the Nazi soldiers abducted Sameh Ahmad Amin Tamimi, Moath Ahmad Hussin Tamimi, Amin Ahmad Amin Tamimi, Baker Abdul-Khaleq Tamimi, Jihad Mohammad Hussin Tamimi, Mohammad Younis Tamimi, Hussin Abdul-Halim Tamimi, Hussein Abdul-Halim Tamimi, and Rami Yahia Tamimi, after invading their homes and ransacking them, in Deir Nitham village, northwest of Ramallah city. They added that the Nazi soldiers detonated the front doors of the invaded homes, before breaking into them and ransacking them, and confiscated more than twenty mobile phones. Furthermore, the Nazi ...

Nazi soldiers killed, on Thursday at dawn, a young Palestinian man near Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that the slain young man is Bakeer Mohammad Hashash, 21, and added that he was shot with live fire. Video Player 00:0001:27 Media sources said protests took place after many Israeli army vehicles invaded the area and added that Palestinian resistance fighters also exchanged fire with the invading soldiers. During the invasion, the Nazi soldiers invaded and searched several homes and abducted a young man, identified as Mohammad Salama from Balata al-Balad adjacent town. After his death, hundreds of Palestinians marched in Nablus calling for ongoing resistance agains...

An elderly Palestinian activist suffered a critical skull fracture, on Wednesday, after an Nazi tow truck ran him over in the Um al-Khair area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. Sheikh Suleiman al-Hathalin, 75, a well-known activist, was rammed with a military truck during nonviolent protests that took place after the soldiers invaded Masafer Yatta, causing him to suffer a critical skull fracture. Fouad al-Amour, the Coordinator of the Protection and Steadfastness Committees in Masafer Yatta, stated that the Nazi army invaded the area, accompanying a tow truck, and seized several Palestinian-owned vehicles, leading to protests. Local Palestinians gathered in the area to stop the Nazi army from confiscating their privately-owned vehicles ...

Palestinian prisoner Abdul Baset Muatan. (Photo: via WAFA) The Israeli occupation authorities have refused to offer urgent healthcare to Palestinian prisoner Abdul Baset Muatan who is suffering from cancer, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Sunday. According to the PPS, Muatan’s health condition has deteriorated dramatically due to the lack of proper healthcare. Wafa News Agency - English@WAFANewsEnglishPalestinian prisoner Abdul-Basit Muatan, a patient of cancer who is currently detained in the Israeli prison of Ofer, is denied access to badly needed healthcare, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) in a statement today. http://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/127377 The PPS called for urgent action to ensure the prisoner’s access to the necessary ...

IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG   Hisham Abu Hawash at 133 days of hunger strike as of December 27th 2021. Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash has vowed to remain on a hunger strike until he is released or told what charges Israel has against him. He has reached 140 days and is very ill. Please join over 13,000 justice-seekers around the world: sign and share this urgent petition before he dies. Hisham Abu Hawash is the last prisoner on hunger strike of the group that began in the summer of 2021.  On December 26th he was transferred to an Israeli hospital after a severe deterioration in his health. He has severe mineral deficiencies and is no longer able to talk or move unassisted. Abu Hawash has one demand: since Israel has not given him his day in court – or even a...

Film Tells the Stories of Palestinian Children Detained by Israel Photo by: Shoah JULIA PITNER A Palestinian child explains his detention by Israeli forces. (YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2022, pp. 60-61 Films IN 1991, Israel ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which stipulates that children must not be unlawfully or arbitrarily detained and must “not be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Despite this, Israeli forces target Palestinian children for arrest; in many cases, Palestinian children are detained multiple times. In the first three months of 2021, 230 Palestinian children were detained by Israel. On average around 700 children...