‘Largest in the history of resistance in Gaza’: Palestinian Islamic Jihad unveils new weapons...
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / October 4, 2023
Palestine Chronicle Correspondent in Gaza, along with a number of journalists were invited to attend, and report on a military rally for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.
Describing it as the “largest military parade in the history of the Palestinian Resistance...
Jewish settlers urge government to annex the Jordan Valley
Qassam Muaddi
The New Arab / October 4, 2023
Jewish settlers are campaigning for the annexation of the Jordan Valley. Palestinians say Israel-annexation is already a fact on the ground.
According to a campaign launched by settlers last week, the Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley is "a national consensus" and called...
Israel detains 9 Palestinian minors aged 8 to 13 in Hebron
Middle East Monitor / October 4, 2023
Israeli occupation forces yesterday detained nine Palestinian students aged between eight and 13 in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron/Al-Khalil.
WAFA news agency said the children were detained as they were on their way home from school...
UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign urges Labour Party to confront reality of Israeli apartheid
Middle East Monitor / October 4, 2023
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has today called on the UK Labour Party to confront the reality of Israel’s practice of the crime of apartheid rather than avoid using the term. The move follows the decision by Labour administrators not to allow...
Israeli police arrest suspects for spitting near Christian pilgrims and churches in Jerusalem
Julia Frankel
AP / October 4, 2023
JERUSALEM – Israeli police said Wednesday they arrested several people suspected of spitting in the direction of Christian pilgrims and churches in Jerusalem this week as religious tensions flared anew in the contested capital that the three Abrahamic faiths consider holy.
As Jews...
Gaza Strip protesters received bullet wounds to ankles, medics report
Bethan McKernan & Hazem Baloush
The Guardian / October 4, 2023
Influx of injuries may suggest deliberate targeting by Israel’s army, which human rights groups say is unlawful.
Medics in the Gaza Strip have reported treating an influx of protesters who appear to have been deliberately targeted in the ankle in recent...
Israel prevents 3 European ministers from entering West Bank
Middle East Monitor / October 4, 2023
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has prevented three European foreign ministers from entering the occupied West Bank, Israeli media revealed yesterday.
The foreign ministers of Ireland, the UK and Norway all visited the region in recent weeks, The Times of Israel reported, and all requested...
Senior Israel police officer’s daughter gets Arabic media monitoring job despite not knowing language
Middle East Monitor / October 4, 2023
The daughter of Israel’s Police Commissioner, Kobi Shabtai, has been appointed to an Arabic media monitoring role within the force, even though she doesn’t speak the language.
According to The Times of Israel, Ya’ar Shabtai assumed several positions within the police force seven...
Fears for Khaled al-Qaisi’s wellbeing after his release in Israel
Lidia Ginestra Giuffrida
Al-Jazeera / October 4, 2023
The Palestinian Italian researcher has been released from Israeli custody but still isn’t allowed to return to his wife and child in Italy.
Khaled al-Qaisi, 28, has not been heard from since he was released by Israeli authorities on October 1 and...
Israeli police arrest five for hostile gestures towards Christians
Reuters / October 4, 2023
JERUSALEM – Israeli police on Wednesday arrested five people suspected of spitting towards Christians or churches in the Old City of Jerusalem and formed a special investigative team to deal with growing complaints of hostile gestures against Christians.
"Unfortunately, we witness the continued disgraceful...