Mohammad Arafat tells Al Jazeera authorities tried to ‘de-escalate’ tensions as UN officials urge probe into crackdown. In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera on Thursday, Mohammad Arafat said the country’s security forces had done everything “to bring back the peace” amid the student protests. In a separate statement, a group of UN experts also called for an independent probe …
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Turning a huge park in Gaza City into a sea of yellow flags, tens of thousands of Palestinians on Thursday commemorated the anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat — a rare public show of support for the Fatah faction in the heartland of its Islamist rival Hamas. The rally passed without incident, …
Israel and Hamas have implemented truce in Palestine’s Gaza after 11 days of fighting that saw rockets flying from both sides. Since then every time Israel and Palestine fight, it is a military battle between Israeli forces and Hamas’s Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades. Hamas carried out suicide bombings in Israel after the peace accord was signed, and launched a massive campaign …
