Palestinian dies from tear gas fired by Israeli forces
The Palestinian health ministry said on Friday (July 1) that a middle-aged man had died from tear gas fired by Israeli forces during a clash in the occupied West Bank. “A man in his 50s died of tear gas asphyxiation after (Israeli) soldiers used tear gas against Palestinians at Qalandia,” the ministry said in an Arabic-language post on its official Facebook page. “He arrived dead to Ramallah hospital,” it said,...
Israeli troops kill Palestinian bystander after Israeli cars attacked
Israeli troops mistakenly killed a Palestinian bystander on Tuesday (June 21) while responding with gunfire to a petrol bomb and rock attack on Israeli vehicles in the occupied West Bank, the military said. An earlier statement from the military had identified the Palestinian as an assailant. The mayor of his village said he was a 15-year-old. The military said several Palestinians threw petrol bombs and stones at vehicles, injuring...
Israel Plans to Destroy Only Water Source in West Bank Village
Media and informed sources revealed Israel intends to demolish a water-holding reservoir which serves 20 Palestinian Bedouin families and their livestock in the Ain al-Hilweh area in the Northern Jordan Valley on the pretext of unlicensed construction. The sources said a flood last year destroyed another holding tank that served the families, also blocking the spring’s exit, Middle East Monitor reported. The families are concerned...
Israel cuts water supplies to West Bank during Ramadan
The Israeli water company Mekorot has closed the valves which supply major areas of the northern West Bank since the beginning of the month of Ramadan, giving priority to Israeli colonies while service to Palestinian cities, towns and villages is routinely reduced or cut off. Mekorot, Israel’s national water company cut off water supplies to the entire governorate of Jenin, several Nablus villages, the city of Salfit and surrounding...
Israel detains 47 Palestinians in major raids in East Jerusalem, West Bank
Israeli forces detained at least 47 Palestinians in overnight raids in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli sources told Ma’an. Israeli police carried out a major detention campaign in the al-Tur and al-Suwwana neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, detaining at least 29 Palestinian men and teenagers, locals told Ma’an. The sources said groups of infantry troops along with intelligence officers stormed several...
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