Wednesday marks the annual Jerusalem Day holiday when Israelis celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli control after the 1967 Six-Day War. However, this year's celebrations are taking place amid heightened tensions and an escalating conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Thousands of Israeli police officers took up positions across Jerusalem in preparation for the […]
Life for Palestinians in Hebron hasn't been the same since October 7. After two months of almost total lockdown, they are now confined to their homes from 7 P.M. until 7 A.M. daily. False arrests, violence and humiliation at the hands of Israeli soldiers and settlers are their daily lot
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged the international community to ensure Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are not displaced from their war-ravaged territory, reports Agence France-Presse. “I … call on the international community to immediately provide for long term humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip and to end the Israeli siege,” Sisi said. According to AFP, he also called for the international community to “stop any attempt at forcing Palestinians to forcibly flee their land”. Sisi’s comments come after the Israeli army said on Wednesday it had gained “operational control” over the strategic Philadelphi corridor (see 07.48 BST) along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. “Sisi has a deep sense that Egypt is increasingly backed into a corner and wants every support from major countries he can get,” Ahmed Aboudouh, an associate fellow at London’s Chatham House thinktank, told AFP.
As we bleed and grieve, and in the case of families like my own – hang suspended between hope and despair for the fate of our loved ones, I sometimes want to shout that the self-congratulatory hatred of Israel by the far left is futile. What we need urgently instead is their support for Israelis and Palestinians working for justice and peace
A Palestinian woman was severely wounded when the military vehicle in which she was held drove over an explosive device; Since Israeli forces began operating on Teusday, Ramallah's health ministry says 25 Palestinians have been wounded
Netanyahu: Conditions Gantz set are euphemisms that spell Israel's defeat ■ Body of hostage Ron Binyamin retrieved from Gaza, IDF says ■ Nearly 800,000 Palestinians evacuated Rafah since Israeli offensive, IDF estimates ■ Sirens activated in northern Israel throughout Saturday; 10 rockets fired from north Gaza at south Israel, Israeli army says
Since Israelis' lives were engulfed in horror on October 7, a catastrophe that has yet to end for Palestinians in Gaza, we bereaved families from both sides of the conflict are coming together to remember the innocent children whose only crime was being Palestinian or Israeli
Watching protesters around the world call for a cease-fire in Gaza, some Gazans are asking Palestinians in Israel to join the protests to end to the war. 'Seven months of silence is enough,' says one of them
Anti-Israel group claims arson against Portland Police vehicles. Rachel Corrie's Ghost Brigade calls for escalated violence in support of Palestinians.
After Israel shuttered the local offices of the Qatari-owned news network, Palestinians criticized the ban as an attempt to hide its intensive coverage of the war in Gaza
Reports that Palestinians are being charged at least $5,000 to flee Gaza has led to accusations of Egypt profiting from their plight. 'Has the Rafah border crossing turned into the second Suez Canal?' asks one Gazan
For years, the radical settlers who committed arson, physical attacks or even pogroms on Palestinians were regarded marginal extremists, and widely condemned. But as once-fringe vigilante terror becomes lethally routine, Israelis are failing to respond
The body of a 14-year-old Israeli settler was discovered, days after he went missing. In response, settlers rampaged nearby Palestinian villages, assaulting residents and setting fire to property. Palestinians reported at least eight wounded, one of them critically
Nazareth-born Mustafa Qablawi recently relocated to the West Bank, from where he is reaching out to Palestinians everywhere, hoping they will want to learn about the challenges facing Palestinians in Israel, especially since October 7. 'Israeli Palestinians are an orphan people,' he tells Haaretz
When publications retract articles by Israelis, postpone Jewish film festivals or cancel exhibitions by Palestinian artists, we should confront the control wielded by largely homogeneous and monolingual cultural gatekeepers over Israelis, Jews, and Palestinians, shrinking the space for any of them to express themselves
Even those who mocked finance minister minister Bezalel Smotrich are participating, or supporting out loud and by their silence, the government's overwhelming use of force against the Palestinians everywhere
Italian police have arrested three Palestinians based in central Italy for planning attacks in an unspecified country, a police statement said on Monday. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram The three terrorists, who live in l'Aquila, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Rome, had set up a cell linked to the […]
According to the IDF, Israeli forces entered the Tul Karm refugee camp in the West Bank to arrest a wanted Palestinian who was involved in terror attacks and suspected in the murder of Palestinians who allegedly collaborated with Israel