The firing of a veteran Associated Press cameraman is causing a stir in Palestine after allegations that the Palestinian Authority had a hand in the matter.
Since the beginning of April, Israeli forces have been documented shooting holes into the water tanks on the rooftops of people’s homes in Kafr Qaddum. B’Tselem has concluded that “the shooting is deliberate”, and described the damage to the tanks as “sheer abuse” and “an illegal act of collective punishment.”
The Palestinian Authority officially declared an end to the coronavirus lockdown in the occupied West Bank on Monday, nearly three months after the first state of emergency was declared.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared an end to “all agreements and understandings” with Israel and the United States in response to Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank with U.S. support. But many are doubtful he will follow through.
It’s been nine months since Laith Abu Zeyad, an Amnesty International staff member based in the occupied West Bank, was banned from traveling outside of the country and from entering Israel. After months of rejected petitions, unanswered questions, and painstaking delays, Abu Zeyad is finally getting his day in court — even if he is not allowed to be there.
Five years after the infamous arson attack that killed three members of the Dawabsheh family, one of the Israeli settlers responsible for the attack was convicted on Monday.
May 15 marked the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba, or the mass displacement of Palestinians from their homelands in 1948. This year demonstrations were smaller due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with Palestinians opting for smaller scale and online commemorations of the occasion.
15-year-old Zaid Qaysia was shot in the head during an Israeli raid on the Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron. Soldiers were reportedly looking to arrest another teen from Fawwar for “insulting a soldier on Facebook” when Qaysia was shot.