Month: March 2024

Omar Ashour, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says that the Israeli announcement of building 3,500 settlement units in the occupied West Bank only seeks to increase violence against Palestinians. “We know that October 7 happened partly because of settlement activities, escalations in Jerusalem, and the unresolved history of this conflict,” he…

Israeli forces have raided several towns overnight in the Occupied West Bank. In the northeastern city of Tubas, several explosive devices went off during confrontations between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters. At least one Palestinian man was injured. Israeli forces were seen preventing an ambulance from reaching him. Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi has the latest…

This is the moment protesters used a truck to smash open the door of Mexico’s presidential palace while the president was inside. The demonstrators were demanding justice for 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check…

Al Jazeera’s Senior Political Analyst Marwan Bishara says any efforts by South Africa or the International Court of Justice to push Israel to take extra measures to protect civilian life in Gaza are unlikely to have any effect and that Israel’s weaponization of hunger in Gaza is a deliberate and particularly sadistic war crime and…

Houthi attack kills three sailors in group’s first fatal strike on shipping Houthi-claimed missile attack on Greek-operated, Barbados-flagged commercial ship kills three sailors off the coast of Yemen. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE…

Pakistan is expelling thousands of undocumented Afghans across the border According to the United Nations, Pakistani authorities have forced more than 450,000 to return home and Human rights watch organisation says more than 20,000 have been directly deported. They include women, human rights defenders, journalists and former government employees who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban…

Human rights groups have described the near complete destruction of schools and universities in Gaza as the hallmark of a terrorist organization, not a democracy. Israel has also killed dozens of educators there. In the West Bank, Israel has detained at least 135 students from Bir Zeit university in Ramallah for opposing the war. Campus…

In Colombia, thousands of protesters vented their anger against President Gustavo Petro’s push for economic and social reforms. The President’s attempts to overhaul healthcare, pension and labour laws are facing widespread opposition. Demonstrators also accuse Petro’s government of targeting former President Alvaro Uribe. Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from Colombia’s capital Bogota. Subscribe to our…