Tag Archives: occupied

Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service said that Ali and Waed Odeh, and two of their four children, were shot in the head. CBC | World News

Israel has given the go-ahead for the construction of 764 more houses in three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a decision likely to further stoke tensions as a watchdog group accused the Israeli government of moving toward “de facto annexation” of the Palestinian territory. CBC | World News

Masked Israeli settlers hurled stones and torched dairy trucks, farmland and Bedouin structures, injuring four people on Tuesday in the latest in a surge of settler attacks in the occupied West Bank. CBC | World News

Israel’s government has approved 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, its finance minister said on Thursday, a move condemned by Israeli human rights groups that may strain ties with key allies that have threatened sanctions. CBC | World News

Columbia University on Thursday said it had doled out a range of punishments to students who occupied a campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests. CBC | World News

Israeli tanks moved into the occupied West Bank for the first time since 2002 on Sunday, shortly after Israel’s defence minister said troops will remain ‘for the coming year’ in parts of the Palestinian territory. CBC | World News

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Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was laid to rest in Turkey on Saturday. The Turkish American activist was killed by Israel while protesting against settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. CBC | World News

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian military had attacked a large Russian airfield in occupied Crimea and thanked his top military commander for staging the strike. CBC | World News