Tag: Palestine
Israeli officers shoot dead knife-wielding Palestinian woman
Israeli security officers shot dead a Palestinian woman who tried to stab them on Monday, officials said, the latest episode in an outbreak of...
Palestinians urge faster ICC probe into Israel ‘war crimes’
Top Palestinian officials Friday urged the world's only permanent war crimes court to speed up a probe into allegations of Israeli abuses amid an...
343 UK academics announce Israeli universities boycott
They said they would not accept invitations to visit Israeli academic institutions, participate in conferences funded, organised or sponsored by them, “or otherwise cooperate with them”
Israel jails Islamic cleric 11 months for inciting violence
An Israeli court on Tuesday upheld a conviction of firebrand Islamic cleric Raed Salah and jailed him for 11 months for inciting violence over...
Palestinian factions call for ‘day of rage’, diplomats push on for...
Hours after the announcements, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier in the West Bank, before being shot and wounded by other troops, the Israeli military said, part of a wave of violence that has killed around 60 people
Israeli soldiers kill Jewish man after mistaking him for Palestinian
A Jewish man was shot and killed in a scuffle with Israeli soldiers who suspected he was a Palestinian attacker, police said Thursday, in...
UN chief ‘pessimistic’ about Israel-Palestinian peace
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered the Security Council a grim assessment Wednesday of prospects for defusing the latest wave of violence between Israel and...
Israeli airstrike kills pregnant woman and toddler
Gaza health officials reported that an Israeli airstrike killed a pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter in Gaza on Sunday.
And in the West Bank,...
Palestinian flag raised at UN for first time
The Palestinians raised their flag at the United Nations on Wednesday for the first time as President Mahmud Abbas called on the world body...
Fury as Palestinian toddler burned to death by Jewish settlers
A Palestinian toddler was burned to death and four family members wounded in an arson attack by Jewish settlers on two homes in the...
Israeli police enter Al Aqsa mosque to break Palestinian protest
Israeli police fought their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al Aqsa mosque Sunday to root out Palestinian protesters suspected of stockpiling fireworks and petrol bombs...
UN report cites Israel crimes against children, no consensus on listing
UN agencies in Israel and the Palestinian territories reported an alarming number of child victims in last year’s war in the Gaza Strip but...
Pope Francis to meet Palestinian president after treaty announcement
On Wednesday the Holy See announced that it was preparing to sign its first treaty with Palestine, two years after officially recognising it as a state
Palestinian schoolgirl freed after six weeks in Israeli jail
Israel freed on Friday a 14-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl, whose jailing six weeks ago for planning to attack Israelis became a focus for anger over...
Palestinian girl, 14, in Israel prison for throwing rocks
BETIN—
The fate of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl, tried before an Israeli military court for hurling rocks at passing cars in the West Bank...
US blasts ICC war crimes probe of Israel as ‘tragic irony’
The United States joined Israel in condemning the International Criminal Court decision to open a preliminary probe into possible war crimes committed against Palestinians,...
Palestinians recognise ICC jurisdiction for period covering Gaza war
The International Criminal Court said Palestinian authorities had formally recognised the court's jurisdiction to investigate crimes allegedly committed during last summer's Gaza war.
The legal...
