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Public sector employees in the Gaza Strip have recently encountered difficulties collecting their salaries due to the severe cash shortage faced by area banks. The shortage is in part a result of the Israeli blockade that has prevented many from traveling freely to and from Gaza – a detrimental effect on business, especially with regard [...]
Undercover Israeli troops suspected that Jihah Nwada, a fighter involved with the Islamic Jihad group, was planning to carry out an attack in the West Bank town of Jenin. Nwada fled when troops attempted to arrest him outside of a café, causing them to open fire and kill him. Overnight, a total of 22 Palestinian [...]
Bombs were dropped today by Israeli forces in an air strike on the Gaza Strip that killed two unidentified Palestinians. There was also confirmation that a group of Israeli policemen killed a Palestinian “terrorist” named Mohammed Abu Dhara in the West Bank. The Israelis reason that they needed to do so because he was part [...]
Infighting between militant political parties in the Palestinian territories has recently taken to a tragic new venue. As hostilities between the Palestinian West Bank-based Fatah party and rival Islamist faction Hamas continue to intensify, Gaza’s hospitals have emerged as an additional arena in which the two groups are able to engage one another using mutually [...]
The Israeli rights groups Hamoked and B’tselem have accused the Israeli government of curtailing the rights of Palestinians living in the West Bank, the BBC reports. The groups claim that “Israel has instituted a policy requiring Palestinians from Gaza who are living in the West Bank to apply for a temporary three-month permit to stay [...]
