Israel has vowed to crack down on the Lion’s Den, an armed Palestinian resistance group in West Bank that has attacked Israeli soldiers and civilians numerous times over the past six months.
Last week’s controversial visit by Israel’s newly appointed police minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, to a holy site in Jerusalem, which sparked controversy was discussed by U.N. Security Council. The visit sparked criticism from the Arab world and Israel’s closest ally, the United States.
Malaysian authorities are investigating whether Israel’s spy agency was involved in the kidnapping of a Palestinian in Kuala Lumpur in late September, a senior police official said Wednesday
Israeli volunteers with Humans Without Borders transport young, critically ill Palestinian children from the West Bank to and from Israeli hospitals, where they receive care that is not available by the Palestinian healthcare system, every week. The Palestinian Authority covers medical expenses, but not for transport. Many patients are too weak and some cannot pay the bus fare
Due to cultural pressures to stay at home to raise their family as well as a lack of educational options in the Israeli-annexed Palestinian sector of East Jerusalem, more than three-quarters of Palestinian women there are unemployed. Hebrew is not a language that many Palestinian women can use professionally. They are now being turned to beekeepers through a new scheme, which includes hives on their rooftops
After three days of fierce fighting, an apparent cease-fire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad appears to be holding. The 2 million Palestinians who live there continue to confront difficulties, as evidenced by the most recent fighting in Gaza. 95% of the water is undrinkable, and unemployment and poverty are also rampant
Tons of electronic waste pass through the West Bank’s border with Israel every week. The copper inside the waste, which is primarily cables, is extracted by burning it, and Israel is then sold the copper. The scrapyards are the sole source of income for thousands of Palestinian households. However, the health of the residents is being severely harmed by the burning
Amnesty International said that President Joe Biden must keep his promise to place human rights at the forefront of his first trip to the Middle East and North Africa since taking office and exert all of his influence to push for rapid and significant change
Young extreme Jewish settlers have been attacking Palestinian farmers and Israeli peace activists in the West Bank in recent months, according to Palestinian farmers and Israeli peace activists. Hundreds of peace activists helped plant olive trees in the Palestinian town of Burin two weeks after Israelis attacked and injured seven Palestinians
A group of Arab and Jewish women in Israel’s Galilee collaborate to make and sell fair trade olive oil. They claim to be working from the ground up to bring about change, with all profits going to promote Arab women’s education and economic opportunity