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Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to one of his fellow directors and other witnesses. The filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained in …
Read More »Wife of detained Palestinian Columbia student says she was naive to believe he was safe from arrest
Two days before U.S. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist asked his wife if she knew what to do if immigration agents came to their door. Noor Abdalla, Khalil’s wife of more than two years, said she was confused. As a legal permanent resident of …
Read More »Mediators agree to swap of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages following delay
Mediators have reached a deal to release Palestinian prisoners who were originally set to be freed by Israeli authorities last Saturday, along with the handover of Israeli hostages’ bodies by Hamas, an Egyptian official said on Wednesday. The source, who was briefed on the matter, said the handovers would take place under Egyptian supervision but did not specify the release date. …
Read More »Israel releases Palestinian detainees after delay over chaotic handover of 8 hostages
Hamas freed three Israeli and five Thai hostages in Gaza on Thursday, and Israel began releasing 110 Palestinian prisoners after delaying the process in anger at the swarming crowds at one of the hostage handover points. Arbel Yehoud, 29, abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Hamas-led assault on Israel …
Read More »Gaza medics say Israeli strike killed 5 Palestinian journalists, while IDF says it hit militants
Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital on Thursday, but the Israeli army said it had attacked a vehicle carrying Islamic Jihad militants. Medics said the five were among at least 21 people killed in Israeli air assaults across the Palestinian enclave before dawn …
Read More »6 children killed as Israeli army pushes into Khan Younis area, Palestinian medics report
Israeli tanks pushed into northern parts of the Khan Younis area in the south of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and Palestinian medics said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 20 people across the enclave. The latest strikes came as Hamas said it had information that Israel intended to carry out a …
Read More »Palestinian paramedic recounts ‘massacre’ on school shelter in northern Gaza
WARNING: The story contains graphic details of wounded children and people. As one of the few paramedics left in northern Gaza, Niveen Al-Dwawsa, 21, is often one of the first on the scene in the aftermath of an airstrike, running to help as many wounded people as she can. Even …
Read More »In northern Gaza, ‘hell is boiling’ for civilians who remain, Palestinian says
Mohammad Atteya has been separated from his family in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya for two weeks since being evacuated to hospital with a head wound. Now, he is torn by regret for leaving them in the epicentre of a massive Israeli military assault. “They speak to me about their …
Read More »Israel bans Palestinian refugee relief agency UNRWA from its country
Israel passed a law on Monday banning UNRWA from operating in the country, legislation that could impact the UN Palestinian refugee agency’s work in war-torn Gaza. The lawmakers who drafted the law cited the alleged involvement of some UNRWA staffers in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, and that some UNRWA staffers …
Read More »With olive harvest underway, Palestinian farmers fear Israeli settler attacks
As Abdel Kareem Na’ssan stands on the edge of an olive grove near the village of Al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank, he is visibly uncomfortable. The farmer’s eyes scan the ridge line of rugged hills at the outposts belonging to Israeli settlers. Any sound of traffic on a nearby road causes …
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