As the world looks towards Israel’s war on Gaza, occupied West Bank settlers attack Palestinians, take their homes. “It’s all over the West Bank,” said Hirschfeld, who was in the area four or five times since the start of the war. Area C – a stretch of the occupied West Bank under Israeli security and civil control – has seen …
Massive settlement in the heart of Palestine between Ramallah and East Jerusalem would be the final nail in the coffin of a viable Palestinian state, critics say. Hizma, Occupied West Bank – The Israeli government is forging ahead with a plan for a massive new Israeli settlement that could destroy the two-state solution and Palestinian hopes for an independent state. …
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday to demonstrate against President Mahmoud Abbas, hoping to inject new momentum into a protest movement sparked by the death of an outspoken critic in the custody of security forces. Palestinian security forces and groups of men in plainclothes violently dispersed a similar …
Demonstrators in Ramallah chant ‘the people want the fall of the regime’ and urge Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to ‘leave’. Hundreds of Palestinians have gathered in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah to demonstrate against President Mahmoud Abbas, hoping to inject new momentum into a protest movement sparked by the death of an outspoken critic in the custody of …
As a fragile ceasefire starts to take hold in Gaza, there is a dismal sense of déjà vu. The escalation started with clashes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem when Palestinians gathered to protest an anticipated eviction order and the blatantly one-sided law that allows Jewish citizens to claim properties in East Jerusalem and the West Bank that …