West Bank

IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Israel’s designation of Palestine’s most cherished human rights organizations as “terrorists” puts all Palestinians at risk. (“Palestinian Man” by JulianeKravik is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Christians and other faith-based groups are speaking out against Israel’s latest attempt to silence the discussion on human rights for Palestinians. We can all be a part of this fight for justice. by Kathryn Shihadah, reposted from Patheos, November 1, 2021 Following Israel’s announcement that six respected Palestinian human rights groups are now considered “terrorist groups,” Christian organizations all over the world are saying No. For starters, ten well-known Christian organizations based in Palestine (several of which I have personal exper...

Nazi forces repressed, on Friday, two non-violent demonstrations in the northern occupied West Bank towns of Beita and Beit Dajan, injuring dozens, according to medical sources. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) stated that in Beita, southeast of Nablus, seven people were injured with rubber-coated steel rounds and stun grenades, fired at them by Israeli soldiers, including one international activist, while thirty people suffocated from teargas inhalation. Several Palestinian protesters have been killed by Nazi forces during the weekly protests in Beita, in rejection of the Israeli occupation’s colonial schemes in the West Bank. In Beit Dajan, southeast of Nablus city, Nazi forces attacked a peaceful demonstration, causing at least twenty Palestinian civilians to su...

by  Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inboxI have already subscribed | Do not show this message again "We strongly oppose the expansion of settlements, which is completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm, and it damages the prospects for a two-state solution," a State Department spokesperson said. "We also view plans for the retroactive legalization of illegal outposts as unacceptable." The United States on Tuesday voiced strong opposition to Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, saying such a move damages the prospects for a two-state solution. "We are deeply concerned about the Israeli government's plan to advance thousands of settlement units tomorrow, Wednesday, many of them deep in the West Bank," State Department sp...

By: teleSUR People attend a demonstration to express solidarity with the Palestinian people in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar on May 21, 2021. | Photo: Saeed Ahmad/Xinhua Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inboxI have already subscribed | Do not show this message again Israeli politicians and media intentionally exaggerate the ‘threat’ posed by the Gaza protesters to Israel’s security. A large Israeli army campaign is taking social media by storm. The unstated aim of what is known as the “#Untie_Our_Hands” initiative is the desire to kill, with no accountability, more Palestinian protesters at the Gaza fence. The campaign was motivated by the killing of an Israeli sniper, Barel Hadaria Shmueli, who was reportedly shot from the Palestinian side of the fence on August ...

Nazi soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Khirbat Hamsa al-Foqa village, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank, and confiscated agricultural equipment from the Palestinians. Mo’taz Bisharat, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s colonialist activities in the Northern Plains, said several Israeli army jeeps, and a big truck, invaded the village and confiscated agricultural tools, and tents, used by the shepherds in the area. He added that the Nazi soldiers invaded and searched the homes and sheds, owned by Ismael Eferih Abu al-Kabbash, Nitham Natherm Abu al-Kabbah, Harb Suleiman Abu al-Kabbash, Walid Suleiman Abu al-Kabbash, and Mohammad Abu al-Kabbash. The Nazi soldiers interrogated the Palestinians, and took their ID cards, in addition to confiscating their agricul...