Nablus

An Israeli settler yesterday attacked a 14-year-old Palestinian child with pepper spray in Huwara, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, Quds Press reported. The child’s father, Suleiman Al-Mukhtar, told reporters that a settler stopped his vehicle at the main street in the town of Huwara, and sprayed pepper spray out of the window at the face of his 14-year-old son Faisal, causing him burns.

An Israeli soldier executed, on Friday, a Palestinian youth in the West Bank city of Nablus following a short scuffle between them, eyewitnesses said. The Israeli soldier carried out the execution at point-blank range, in the center of Huwwara, to the south of Nablus. Video footage of the shooting has…

Head of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh yesterday hailed “anti-Israeli occupation resistance” carried out by Lions’ Den martyrs who were killed in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. In a statement issued following the assassination of five Lions’ Den members, Haniyeh said: “Nablus draws the path of dignity and pride with the blood of martyrs.” “The sacrifices of martyrs fuel the flames of the revolution in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli occupation will regret committing its crimes against Palestinians.”

Israel is holding the corpses of 22 Palestinians killed this year, Arab48.com reported on Monday. According to the news website, eight of the dead Palestinians came from Jenin, five were from Ramallah, three from Jerusalem and its outskirts, two from Bethlehem, two from Hebron, and one each from Tulkarem and Nablus. In total, the Israelis have withheld the corpses of 112 Palestinians since 2016. One of those killed in September this year, Sa’ed Al-Koni, had some parts of his body buried by the Palestinians and another part was taken by the Israeli occupation authorities.

A security prisoner held by the Palestinian Authority was transferred to hospital on Sunday following the deterioration of his health due to alleged mistreatment, lawyer Mustafa Shatat has revealed. “Musab Shtayyeh was tortured by the PA security services which detain him in Jericho Prison,” said Shatat. Shtayyeh is suffering from…

The Palestinian Authority’s security forces yesterday handed over to Israeli forces two Jewish female settlers and their children after they entered Nablus’ Old City in the northern West Bank by mistake and were found and stopped by Palestinian locals, Israeli media reported. Videos circulated on social media showing dozens of…

Israel’s Channel 12 said that the PA had failed to negotiate with a group of resistance fighters in Nablus who call themselves the Lions’ Den, with the aim of disarming them. The channel claimed that the PA offered to integrate the resistance fighters into the PA agencies, buy the weapons…

Dr. Hani Q. Khoury didn’t have an easy life. Born in Nablus, Palestine, in 1965, he faced two major life challenges from an early age. He was born with a rare and progressive physical disorder known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a neuromuscular disease, which led him to use an electric…

Three Palestinian militants have been shot dead by Israeli counter-terror police in the West Bank city of Nablus. The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry accused Israel of carrying out an assassination. A security source told CNN one of the attacks was on an Israeli army post near Nablus in September, three others were on separate army posts since the start of the year, and a fifth targeted Israeli soldiers inside Nablus. There were no casualties in any of the incidents.