PALESTINIAN militants - The African Mirror

Feb

2024

Algeria pushes UN Security Council to demand Gaza ceasefire

ALGERIA has drafted a U.N. Security Council resolution to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a move that the United States - a council veto power - opposes because it says it would only benefit the Palestinian militants. The draft, seen by Reuters on Thursday, also "rejects the forced displacement of the Palestinian civilian population" and again demands all parties comply with international law and calls for full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access into and throughout the entire Gaza Strip. Algeria shared the draft with the 15-member council on Wednesday, diplomats said, after the body met to…

Feb

2024

By RANEEN SAWAFTA

Disguised Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinian militants in raid on West Bank hospital

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Israeli commandos disguised as medical workers and Muslim women burst into a hospital in the occupied West Bank and killed three Palestinian militants, one of them lying paralysed in bed, witnesses and authorities said. The Israeli military said the three militants were killed in a joint undercover operation by the army, Shin Bet security service and border police in the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, one of the most volatile cities in the West Bank. The military identified one of the men as Mohammad Walid Jalamna, a Hamas member who, it said, was planning an attack inspired by the Hamas-led…

Jan

2024

By HENRIETTE CHACAR and MOHAMMAD TOROKMAN

For Palestinians, ICJ genocide case against Israel is ‘test for humanity’

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PALESTINIANS in the occupied West Bank welcomed the case brought by South Africa in the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide, saying the proceedings were an opportunity to hold Israel to account for its military assault in Gaza. Israel has reacted with outrage at the charges brought against it, describing the accusation as "profoundly distorted" and saying South Africa's bid to make it halt its offensive against the Hamas movement in Gaza would leave it defenceless. But for many Palestinians, the charges represent a chance to bring world attention to what they see as Israel's historic suppression of…

Oct

2023

By The African Mirror

Egypt pushing Israel and Hamas to prevent escalation -Egyptian sources

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EGYPT has been in close contact with Israel and Hamas to try to prevent further escalation in fighting between them and ensure the protection of Israelis taken hostage by Palestinian militants, two Egyptian security sources said. Egypt had urged Israel to exercise restraint and Hamas to hold its captives in good condition to keep open the possibility of de-escalation soon, although successive Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip made mediation difficult, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. Palestinian fighters took dozens of hostages in an attack launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including soldiers and…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Israel’s Netanyahu pledges more action against Palestinian attackers

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PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a stronger Israeli response in dealing with a spate of Palestinian attacks in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, as pressure swelled within his right-wing government to employ more severe tactics. His remarks came two days after a car-ramming attack in the Jerusalem outskirts killed three Israelis and two weeks after a lone Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue, adding to rising anxiety in Israel over security. Tensions are also high in the West Bank, where Israeli forces have carried out hundreds of arrests in recent months during near-daily raids that have seen…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Blinken meets Egypt’s Sisi as U.S. seeks to secure Gaza ceasefire

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AIDAN LEWIS and NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met top officials in Cairo yesterday, during a Middle East tour aimed at shoring up a ceasefire that ended the worst fighting in years between Israel and Palestinian militants. Egypt has long standing relations with both sides in the conflict and played a key role in brokering the Gaza ceasefire after 11 days of violence, in coordination with the United States. In a brief visit, Blinken met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and intelligence head Abbas Kamel at the presidential palace. The United States and Egypt…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Truce calls mount as Israel-Palestinian conflict rages on

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NIDAL al-MUGHRABI, DAN WILLIAMS and STEPHEN FARRELL ISRAEL bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants resumed cross-border rocket fire on Tuesday after a brief overnight lull during which the U.N. sent a small fuel convoy into the enclave, where it says 52,000 people are now displaced. Israeli leaders said they were pressing on with an offensive to destroy the capabilities of the armed factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad, amid calls by the United States and other world powers for an end to the conflict. Two Thai workers were killed and seven people were wounded in a rocket strike on…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Gaza conflict intensifies with rocket barrages and air strikes

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NIDAL al-MUGHRABI and RAMI AYYUB PALESTINIAN militants fired more rockets into Israel's commercial heartland yesterday as Israel kept up a punishing bombing campaign in Gaza and massed tanks and troops on the enclave's border. The four days of cross-border violence showed no sign of abating and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the campaign "will take more time". The violence has also spread to mixed communities of Jews and Arabs in Israel, a new front in the long conflict. Synagogues were attacked and fighting broke out on the streets of some communities, prompting Israel's president to warn of the danger…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Senior Hamas commander killed as Israel strikes Gaza, Palestinians fire rockets

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NIDAL al-MUGHRABI and JEFFREY HELLER ISRAEL said it killed 16 members of the Hamas military wing in an airstrike on Gaza yesterday and Palestinian militants rained rockets into Israel as global concern mounted over their most intense hostilities in years. At least 53 people have been killed in Gaza since violence escalated on Monday, according to the Palestinian territory's health ministry. Six people have been killed in Israel, medical officials said. Israel's Shin Bet security service said the brigade commander for Gaza City was among senior members of the Islamist militant group Hamas who had been killed. "This is just…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Jerusalem violence leads to Hamas rockets on Israel, nine dead in Gaza

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JEFFREY HELLER and NIDAL al-MUGHRABI PALESTINIAN militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets toward the Jerusalem area and southern Israel yesterday, carrying out a threat to punish Israel for violent confrontations with Palestinians in Jerusalem. The Gaza health ministry said nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes in the Palestinian territory after the barrages against Israel. The Israeli military issued no immediate comment on any action it had taken in the enclave. Rocket sirens sounded in Jerusalem, in nearby towns and in communities near the Gaza minutes after an ultimatum from the enclave's ruling Islamist Hamas group demanding Israel…