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Asharq Al-Awsat
2 days ago
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Israeli Settlers Torch Cars in Christian West Bank Village, Palestinians Say
Palestinian residents of the Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank said on Monday Israeli settlers torched two cars and left graffiti overnight. It was the latest in a series of recent settler attacks on the village near Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered. Taybeh is the only entirely Christian village in the Muslim-majority West Bank and home to a brewery popular with tourists and foreign diplomats. The Israeli military said it sent forces to the village after receiving a report that suspects had set fire to Palestinian property. It said it has opened an investigation. The West Bank has seen a rise in settler violence since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza triggered the war there.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Israeli settlers torch cars in Christian West Bank village, Palestinians say
It was the latest in a series of recent settler attacks on the village near Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered. Taybeh is the only entirely Christian village in the Muslim-majority West Bank and is home to a brewery popular with tourists and foreign diplomats. (AP Video and production by Jalal Bwaitel) Solve the daily Crossword
Wamda
2 days ago
- Business
- Wamda
Olivery secures seed investment from Ibtikar Fund, Flat6Labs
Ramallah and Amman-based B2B SaaS startup Olivery has raised an undisclosed seed investment from Ibtikar Fund and Flat6Labs Mashreq Seed Fund to expand its logistics SaaS platform. Founded in 2020 by Ram Merei, Malak Duraidi, and Obada Abdelkareem, Olivery helps logistics providers and merchants automate order management, routing, driver tracking, COD reconciliation, and customer communications. Funding will support AI-powered features such as predictive routing and customer support while expanding regionally and improving onboarding operations. Press release: Ibtikar Fund and Flat6Labs Mashreq Seed Fund have announced a joint seed investment in Olivery, a fast-growing B2B SaaS company offering an end-to-end, low-code/no-code platform that enables logistics providers and merchants to fully digitise their delivery operations. Founded in 2020 by Ram Merei, Malak Duraidi, and Obada Abdelkareem, Olivery has grown from a lean startup into a regional player, serving over 200 active clients across nine countries. Its cloud-based platform consolidates every step of the delivery lifecycle—from order creation and driver tracking to automated routing, cash-on-delivery reconciliation, and customer notifications—into one intuitive dashboard. The platform empowers non-technical teams to easily configure workflows, reduce operational costs, accelerate delivery times, and improve customer satisfaction for couriers, retailers, and e-commerce brands alike. 'We are proud to back the Olivery team as they modernise logistics across our region,' said Habib Hazzan, Managing Partner at Ibtikar Fund. 'Their platform is not only scalable and robust—it's thoughtfully designed for the realities of local markets. We believe Olivery is well-positioned to become a key enabler of digital transformation in MENA's logistics sector.' Rasha Manna, General Manager of Flat6Labs Mashreq Seed Fund, said, "We are proud to be Olivery's first institutional investor and to have supported the founders from the very beginning of their journey. Over the course of our partnership, we have worked closely with the team and continue to be highly impressed by both their vision and their ability to execute. As we look ahead, we are excited to reinforce our commitment by participating in this follow-on investment as part of the current round led by Ibtikar to further fuel Olivery's growth and expansion across the MENA region in the next phase of their journey." The investment will fuel Olivery's product roadmap, including the launch of new AI-powered features for predictive routing, automated data entry, and proactive customer support. It will also support regional expansion efforts and strengthen customer success and onboarding operations. 'This investment is more than a financial milestone—it's a strategic partnership that empowers us to build the backbone of modern logistics infrastructure across the Middle East and North Africa,' said CEO Ram Merei. 'Together with Ibtikar and Flat6Labs, we're delivering technology that allows national couriers and independent merchants alike to operate with the speed, transparency, and reliability that modern commerce demands.' With e-commerce surging and cross-border trade intensifying across MENA, Olivery is positioning itself at the heart of a multi-billion-dollar opportunity to streamline last-mile, same-day, and reverse-logistics operations. Backed by investors with deep experience scaling high-growth technology ventures, the company is poised to lead the digital transformation of delivery in the region.
News24
2 days ago
- Politics
- News24
Israel settlers launch ‘terror attack' on Christian West Bank town, says Palestinian Authority
Israeli settlers attacked Taybeh in the West Bank. Taybeh is home to about 1 300 mostly Christian Palestinians. Germany condemned the attack. Israeli settlers attacked the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, torching cars and spray-painting threatening graffiti, the Palestinian Authority said on Monday. 'Israeli colonial settlers launched a terror attack tonight on the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh (Ramallah), setting fire to Palestinian vehicles and spray-painting racist threats in Hebrew on homes and property,' the Ramallah-based authority wrote on X. A Taybeh resident, speaking anonymously for safety reasons, told AFP the attack occurred at about 02:00 (23:00 GMT), with at least two vehicles burned. They said one vehicle belonged to a journalist, while noting the damage appeared to target Palestinian property broadly. A photo shared by a Palestinian government agency on X showed graffiti on a Taybeh wall that read: 'Al-Mughayyir, you will regret', referring to a nearby village that was also attacked by settlers earlier this year. The Palestinian Authority's foreign ministry condemned the attack, calling it 'settler terrorism'. Germany's ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, also condemned it, writing on X: 'These extremist settlers may claim that God gave them the land. But they are nothing but criminals abhorrent to any faith.' Zain Jaafar/AFP Taybeh and its surroundings have experienced several bouts of settler violence in recent months, including an arson attack at an ancient Byzantine church. The village - home to about 1 300 mostly Christian Palestinians, many holding US dual citizenship - is known for its brewery, the oldest in the Palestinian territories. Settlers have attacked neighbouring communities in recent months, resulting in three deaths, damage to Palestinian water wells and the displacement of at least one rural herding community. Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. The territory is home to about three million Palestinians and around 700 000 Israeli settlers, including about 200 000 in east Jerusalem. Last week, 71 members of Israel's 120-seat parliament, or Knesset, passed a motion calling on the government to annex the West Bank.
South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- South China Morning Post
Israeli settlers in ‘terror attack' on West Bank Christian village: Palestinian Authority
Israeli settlers attacked the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, torching cars and spray-painting threatening graffiti, the Palestinian Authority said on Monday. 'Israeli colonial settlers launched a terror attack tonight on the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh (Ramallah), setting fire to Palestinian vehicles and spray-painting racist threats in Hebrew on homes and property,' the Ramallah-based authority wrote on X. A Taybeh resident, speaking anonymously for safety reasons, said the attack occurred at about 2am local time, with at least two vehicles burned. They said one vehicle belonged to a journalist, while noting the damage appeared to target Palestinian property broadly. A photo shared by a Palestinian government agency on X showed graffiti on a Taybeh wall that read: 'Al-Mughayyir, you will regret', referring to a nearby village that was also attacked by settlers earlier this year. The Palestinian Authority's foreign ministry condemned the attack, calling it 'settler terrorism'.
