VIENNA — Saudi Arabia strongly condemned the ongoing attacks and violations committed by Israel against the Palestinian people, especially the systematic targeting of civilians. This was stated by Ambassador Abdulmohsen bin Khothaila, Saudi (...)
In a small village in the Hebron hills of the occupied West Bank, Hamdan Ballal stood outside his house in a track suit with a black eye.
He held the hand of his 18-month-old daughter, who stood in a pool of his dried blood.
Things looked quite (...)
A Palestinian Oscar winner has been detained in the occupied West Bank following an outbreak of violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians, activists say.
Hamdan Ballal, who was one of four co-directors of No Other Land, had his house (...)
CAIRO — A meeting of the members of the Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee and a senior official of the European Union condemned the resumption of hostilities and the targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. In a (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia condemned on Monday the new Israeli move to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed condemnation of Israeli occupation authorities' announcement about the (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired the head of the nation's security service over its failure to anticipate the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas.
The Israeli cabinet met on Thursday evening to formally approve the early dismissal of (...)
Hamas fired rockets at Israel from Gaza Thursday, the militant group's first response to Israel's renewed offensive in the Strip that shattered a fragile two-month ceasefire.
Israel resumed its offensive on Gaza on Tuesday, first bombarding the (...)
In Gaza, Palestinians have been burying their dead.
At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the Strip, Alaa Abu Hihal stands cradling his baby son Mohammed in his arms.
The child's tiny face peeps out of a white shroud.
Mohammed was one of (...)
JEDDAH — The Arab – Islamic Ministerial Committee reiterated its demand to the international community to assume its moral and legal responsibilities by immediately intervening to put pressure on Israel to halt its aggression on the Gaza Strip and (...)
Israel says it has extended its ground operations in Gaza, after launching a wave of air strikes that the Hamas-run health ministry says killed more than 430 people in two days.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said troops had moved in up to the (...)
Jihad Suleiman Al-Sawafta, 46, has lived on his farm in the occupied West Bank village of Bardala his entire life. But when Israeli settlers showed up in December, Al-Sawafta said his land, and his livelihood, shrank to a fraction of its former (...)
Israelis gathered in protest outside government buildings in Jerusalem after the military killed over 400 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip — its heaviest assault in the region since a tentative ceasefire took hold in January.
Families of hostages held (...)
At least 330 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza overnight, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
"A number of victims are still under the rubble, and efforts are underway to recover them," it said.
The Israeli military said (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting with a delegation that returned from Qatar to discuss ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip, his office announced on Saturday.
Following the meeting, which included ministers and security (...)
The Israeli military is investigating soldiers' use of Palestinian civilians as human shields during operations in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN on Tuesday night.
This is the first time the military has acknowledged that there is (...)
Mahmoud Muna looked on in disbelief as plain-clothes Israeli police officers rifled the shelves in his decades-old bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem.
The officers were looking for books they deemed "inciteful," and in the process detained him and (...)
The Israeli army arrested at least 16 Palestinians during fresh military raids across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian media reported.
According to the official news agency Wafa, six Palestinians were detained in Ramallah, including in (...)
MAKKAH — The high-profile gathering of eminent Islamic scholars, grand muftis, and intellectuals from around the Muslim world have adopted the Encyclopedia of Islamic Intellectual Consensus and approved the strategic and executive plan for the (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan reiterated Saudi Arabia's firm rejection of any calls for the displacement of the Palestinian people from their land or attempts to impose solutions that do not meet their legitimate (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Council of Ministers reiterated its full support for the resolutions adopted by the Extraordinary Arab Summit for Palestine, held in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday. Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman chaired the Cabinet (...)
The Trump administration has rejected a long-awaited plan for the reconstruction of Gaza endorsed by Arab leaders, saying the president stands by his own vision which includes expelling the territory's Palestinian residents and transforming it into (...)
CAIRO — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan stressed the urgent need for international guarantees and UN resolutions to ensure a sustained ceasefire in Gaza, preventing future aggression, and securing long-term peace in Palestine.
He (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has invited nations worldwide to participate in a humanitarian pledging conference focused on the reconstruction of Gaza, which Egypt will host in April.
Speaking at the Extraordinary Arab Summit on Tuesday, (...)
The level of destruction in Jabalia when viewed from the air is truly astonishing.
A Hiroshima-like wasteland stretches as far as the eye can see. The mangled carcasses of buildings dot the churned-up landscape, some leaning at crazy angles.
Great (...)
The Israeli government halted the entry of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip on Sunday, just hours after the first phase of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal expired.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office stated that (...)
