Israeli army and settler attacks injure at least 19 Palestinians across the West Bank
Israeli military raids and attacks by settlers have injured at least 19 Palestinians across several locations in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian health officials and local reports. The incidents were reported on Saturday in ar-Ram, Tubas, Masafer Yatta, Arrabeh and Tammun. The injuries included gunshot wounds, beatings and tear gas exposure.In ar-Ram, near occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians who were trying to enter the city, the Jerusalem Governorate said. It said the incident was part of near-daily attacks against Palestinian workers who have been barred from jobs in Israel since the war in... [Continue Reading]
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Two Palestinians killed in separate West Bank shootings as violence continues
The Palestinian Health Ministry said a 17-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead in Sa'ir, north of Hebron, in one of two separate fatal shootings in the occupied West Bank on Friday. In a second incident, the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs said 58-year-old Fathi Khazem was killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin. The two deaths were reported hours apart and involved different locations, different circumstances and different Israeli actors.In Sa'ir, the ministry identified the teenager as Karim Sanad Raja Shalaldeh. It said Israeli settlers shot him dead and wounded an elderly man after Palestinians allegedly threw rocks in... [Continue Reading]
Day News Recap: Ukraine under renewed attack as Middle East tensions and market jitters deepen
Russian strikes killed civilians across Ukraine, with a hit on a busy shopping centre in Kryvyi Rig leaving six dead and more than 90 wounded, while separate missile and drone attacks were reported in Pechenihy, Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv as the toll rose further. đź”— đź”—In Kyiv, local authorities said Russian ballistic missile strikes killed 17 people and injured more than 40 in and around the capital on Thursday, underscoring the scale of the latest wave of attacks. đź”— Moscow said any peace plan must reflect what it calls the realities on the ground, signalling no shift in its position... [Continue Reading]
International condemnation grows over Israel's E1 West Bank settlement plan
Multiple governments and the United Nations have condemned Israel's opening of construction tenders for more than 1,200 housing units in the E1 settlement project in the occupied West Bank. The latest criticism came after a joint statement from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway described the plan as unacceptable. The move has intensified diplomatic pressure on Israel over a project long seen as one of the most sensitive in the occupied territory.The European and Canadian statement warned that the plan would undermine the territorial contiguity of the Palestinian territories and said it could carry legal... [Continue Reading]
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Breakfast News Recap: Ebola response expands as US pressure on Iran and global tensions mount
The World Health Organization is allocating 70,000 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the country faces a worsening outbreak, underlining the scale of the health emergency. đź”—In the Middle East, fighting in Yemen has intensified sharply, with government forces saying they carried out 81 attacks on Houthi positions in the past 24 hours, while the Houthis said they had launched their own strikes. đź”— The United States has also sent a new carrier strike group to the region to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, adding to the military build up. đź”—Washington is... [Continue Reading]
HRW says settler violence and settlement expansion are forcing Palestinian displacement in the West Bank
Human Rights Watch says escalating attacks by Israeli settlers, together with rapid settlement expansion, are driving forced displacement across the occupied West Bank. In a report released on Thursday, the rights group said dozens of Palestinian communities are at risk of erasure. It said the pattern is being reinforced by state support for settlers and by the failure to stop repeated attacks.The report accuses Israeli authorities of arming, funding and granting impunity to settlers who carry out the violence. It says settler attacks have increased since the current government took office in December 2022, and that they spiked in the... [Continue Reading]
Qusra siege enters second week as families remain trapped in West Bank homes
For more than a week, three Palestinian families in Qusra, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, have remained besieged in their homes by Israeli settlers. The families have been cut off from basic supplies and emergency services, according to the supplied report. The incident has drawn international condemnation and has become a focal point in the wider debate over settler violence in the territory.The report says 15 Palestinians, including two children, are still trapped in their homes in the Ras al-Ain area of Qusra. It adds that on 13 August Israeli forces ordered the families to evacuate, saying... [Continue Reading]
Israel orders plan to transfer West Bank civilian law enforcement to police amid annexation warnings
Israel's defence minister has ordered the military to prepare a plan to transfer civilian law enforcement in the occupied West Bank to the Israeli police. The move was announced on Friday and is being presented by officials as a change in how civilian matters are handled in the territory. It comes after criticism of the army's response to Israeli settlers who besieged a Palestinian home in the village of Qusra.Defence Minister Israel Katz said the army's role is to combat Palestinian terrorism and not to pursue what he described as "hilltop youth". The Defence Ministry said the police would establish... [Continue Reading]
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Fear the Shia, Arm the Sunnis: The Uncomfortable Numbers Behind America’s War Narrative
“When fear is managed carefully enough, a nation can be taught to look away from the blood on the floor and stare instead at the shadow on the wall.” A friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal because he asked me not to, sat across from me over dinner and placed a question on the table that would not leave me alone. He was born into a Muslim Shia background, and for the angle of this article, that detail matters, not because I wish to reduce a man to a sect, but because sect has become one of... [Continue Reading]


