Palestinian school girls mourn during the funeral of their classmate 15-year-old Sadil Naghnaghiya, in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on June 21, 2023. AFP SHILO, Palestinian Territories -- Israelis and Palestinians held funerals Wednesday for teenagers killed in a shooting targeting Israelis and...
JENIN, Palestinian Territories - Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank killed five Palestinians including a militant on Monday, in a raid that saw seven Israeli security personnel wounded and rare helicopter fire. The sound of gunfire was heard across Jenin as wounded Palestinians continued to...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories -- Israeli air strikes battered Gaza and militants fired rockets again on Saturday, as deadly fighting resumed after a night of relative calm despite efforts to secure a truce. A new ceasefire proposal was circulated late Friday by Egypt, which has been mediating...
TEHRAN, Iran -- Thousands of people demonstrated Friday across Iran and several Arab countries to mark Jerusalem Day in support of the Palestinian cause, amid a surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Recent weeks have seen deadly attacks and clashes in Israel, annexed east Jerusalem...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- UN rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for an end to the "illogic of escalation" between Israel and the Palestinians, amid a spike in deadly violence between the two. Turk criticised Israel for measures that "can only lead to further violence and bloodshed", following a...
JABALIA, Palestinian Territories -- A large fire that ripped through a home north of Gaza City where fuel was being stored killed at least 21 people including seven children on Thursday, official and medical sources said. Palestinians gather in front of a building as firefighters extinguish a fire...
JERUSALEM, Undefined -- Israeli police said Sunday they had arrested a suspect in a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City that wounded eight people, two critically and including a pregnant woman. Israeli security inspect a bus after an attack outside Jerusalem's Old City, August 14,...
Nearly 24,000 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Israel -- employed mostly as caregivers, service sector employees, and hotel workers -- have returned to work after massive rocket attacks in the Gaza strip last week. Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Susan "Toots" Ople (middle) speaks...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The UN rights chief voiced alarm Thursday at the number of Palestinian children killed and wounded this month and demanded those responsible be brought to account. Mourners carry the body of Palestinian child Lian al-Shaer, after she succumbed to her injuries sustained in...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories -- Israel hit Gaza with deadly air strikes on Saturday and a Palestinian militant group retaliated with a barrage of rocket fire, in the territory's worst escalation of violence since a war last year. Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on August...
JERUSALEM, Undefined -- The US and EU led an international outcry Saturday after Israeli police charged the funeral procession of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and beat pallbearers who almost dropped her coffin. Thousands of mourners packed Jerusalem's Old City on Friday for the burial...
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories -- Thousands of Palestinians on Thursday honoured Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh across the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem, a day after she was shot dead during an Israeli army raid. Israel and the Palestinians have traded blame over the...
