Palestine

07 Apr 2023; MEMO: Two female Israeli settlers were killed and a third was seriously injured on Friday in an attack in the northern occupied West Bank, reports Anadolu Agency.

In a statement, the Israeli army said the attack was on the settlers' car and took place near the settlement of Hamra in the northern West Bank.

Israeli public broadcaster KAN quoted the statement as saying that the perpetrator managed to escape the scene, and a manhunt began to find him.

07 Apr 2023; MEMO: Israeli settlers on Friday vandalised Palestinian properties and closed the entrance to Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank, reports Anadolu agency.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that settlers living in the settlement of Bet El closed the entrance leading to Ramallah and Al-Bireh cities using rocks and garbage containers, and prevented Palestinian vehicles to pass through the entrance.

06 Apr 2023; MEMO: The Jerusalem Religious Endowment (Awqaf) Council insisted on Wednesday that Al-Aqsa Mosque is open 24 hours a day, every day, for Muslim worshippers. The council is under the authority of the Jordanian government. It called for Muslims to visit and perform prayers in Al-Aqsa as much as possible.

06 Apr 2023; MEMO: A senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement in the diaspora has described events at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem as an "existential battle with the Zionist enemy and its racist government," Quds Press has reported. Abdel Jabbar Saeed added that it is also a "battle of wills and sacred rights."

06 Apr 2023; MEMO: Even as Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second night in a row, they also attacked medical staff on duty in the occupied city of Jerusalem. The allegation has been made by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

RAMALLAH, Apr 5 (NNN-WAFA) – Israeli police raided Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem’s Old City, and clashed with dozens of Palestinian worshippers last night, after the latter barricaded themselves in the mosque ahead of the eve of Passover, Israel Radio reported.

There were injuries during the clashes that broke out in the mosque and some other neighbourhoods in the old city, according to media reports.

GAZA, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Israel on early Wednesday carried out intensive airstrikes on military facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to rockets fired from the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

Security sources in Gaza said that the airstrikes targeted two military posts of the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement of Hamas in southwest and central Gaza Strip.

The posts suffered severe damage with no injuries reported.

03 Apr 2023; MEMO: The Israeli Occupation authorities demolished today Al-Araqeeb village, based in the Negev (Naqab) Desert for the 215th time since 2010, and the 4th time this year.

Israeli forces raided the village and forced the residents, mainly women and children, out of the village to demolish what the residents had rebuilt using wood and plastic sheets to re-shelter their families since the last demolition.

03 Apr 2023; MEMO: Palestinians across Arab cities in Israel launched a full-day's strike yesterday to protest against Israel's killing of Mohammad Al-Osaibi, a Palestinian doctor who was fatally shot by Israeli forces.

02 Apr 2023; MEMO: The family of a young Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem accused Israeli police of lying about the circumstances of his death, Anadolu reports.

Mohammad al-Osaibi, a 26-year-old doctor from Houra, a Bedouin Arab village in southern Israel, was killed by Israeli police forces at an entrance to Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city early Saturday.