“Hell worse than what we have already?” Gazans reject Trump plans
Cairo, Egypt/Ramallah, West Bank/Gaza Reuters With his Gaza home destroyed in Israel’s military offensive, Shaban Shaqaleh had intended to take his family on a break to Egypt once the Hamas-Israel ceasefire was firmly in place. He changed his mind after US President Donald Trump announced plans to resettle Gaza’s Palestinian residents and redevelop the enclave, […]
Israel to stop engagement with UN human rights council, alleging bias
Jerusalem/Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Israel has told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it is disengaging from the body, alleging it was biased, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday. Council members have frequently raised allegations of Israeli human rights violations in the Gaza war, while a UN inquiry it set up found last year […]
Israel-US relations: Why conservative American evangelicals are among Israel’s strongest supporters
TIFFANY STANLEY, of Associated Press, reports that a meeting between US evangelicals and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a reminder of the influence evangelical Christian Zionists wield as Trump begins his second term…
Israeli military blows up buildings in West Bank refugee camp
Ramallah, West Bank/Jerusalem Reuters The Israeli military blew up buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Sunday in an operation that the Palestinian state news agency said levelled around 20 buildings. Footage capturing the demolitions showed a series of simultaneous explosions in the densely populated camp. Smoke rises after an […]
Palestinian teen among five killed in Israeli airstrikes on West Bank, health ministry says
Ramallah, West Bank/Jerusalem Reuters A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was among five killed on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as a large-scale Israeli military operation there looks set to continue for a third week. The Israeli military began raiding the city in the northern West […]
Israeli airstrike kills 10 Palestinians in West Bank, health ministry says
Ramallah, Best Bank Reuters An Israeli airstrike on Wednesday killed at least 10 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, in an attack which the Israeli military said targeted armed militants. The airstrike was in the area of Tubas, in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. Violence in […]
Residents leave homes in Jenin as Israeli West Bank raid continues
Ramallah, West Bank Reuters Hundreds of Jenin residents left their homes on Thursday, prompted by messages from drones fitted with loudspeakers, witnesses said, as the military demolished a number of houses on the third day of a major operation in the West Bank city. The operation, involving large columns of vehicles backed by helicopters and […]
Israeli minister says army applying lessons from Gaza in West Bank operation
Jerusalem/Jenin, West Bank Reuters Israel’s defence minister said on Wednesday forces were applying lessons learned in Gaza as a major operation continued in Jenin, which the military said was aimed at countering Iranian-backed militant groups in the volatile West Bank city. A military spokesperson declined to give details but said the operation was “relatively similar” […]
Israel launches “significant” military operation in West Bank, at least nine Palestinians killed
Jerusalem/Ramallah, West Bank Reuters Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least nine Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “large-scale and significant military operation”. The action, launched a day after US President Donald Trump declared he was lifting sanctions on ultra-nationalist […]
Hamas frees hostages, Israel releases Palestinian prisoners on day one of ceasefire
Last updated: 11:15am, 20th January, 2025 (AEDT) Cairo, Egypt/Gaza Reuters Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East. The truce allowed Palestinians to return to bombed-out neighbourhoods to begin […]