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Middle East Eye
a day ago
- Middle East Eye
West Bank: Israeli soldiers shoot 14-year-old and prevent medical assistance reaching him
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a teenage boy in Yabad, a village in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Friday. Israeli soldiers gunned down 14-year-old Amro Kabah on the street, and prevented ambulances from providing him with medical treatment, Haaretz reported citing local witnesses. Kabah's father tried to reach him, but soldiers violently assaulted and arrested him, witnesses added. The arrest of Kabah's father meant that the Red Crescent was able to swoop in and take Kabah to the hospital, but he was pronounced dead. The Israeli military have now sealed the main entrance to Yabad with concrete blocks.
Arab News
a day ago
- Politics
- Arab News
Clashes at West Bank march against settler outpost
RABA, Occupied West Bank: Palestinians and the Israeli army clashed on Friday during a march in a village in the northern occupied West Bank against a newly established Israeli settlement outpost. 'We came to this area to express our protest and say: 'this land is ours, not yours',' Ghassan Bazour, head of Raba's village council, told AFP. While all Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law, only outposts such as the one established overnight in Raba are also prohibited under Israeli law. An AFP journalist at the scene reported that a group of men holding Palestinian flags and those of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' Fatah party walked from Raba toward a nearby hill on top of which settlers had established the outpost. After conducting the Muslim Friday prayer at the base of the hill, people continued toward the outpost, until Israeli soldiers arrived on the scene and dispersed the crowd with tear gas, the journalist said. The army did not respond to an AFP request for comment on Friday's events in Raba. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its teams had provided support to 13 people suffering from tear gas inhalation. Village council chief Bazour said that settlers had originally taken over the hill's high ground to establish an outpost and deny Palestinians access to nearby agricultural lands. 'There is now a settler outpost here (which) will continue to devour the land and empty these areas,' Muayad Shaaban, head of the Palestinian Authority's Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, told AFP. Despite it being dispersed by the army, Shaaban was enthusiastic about Friday's march, given that violence in recent years has made all protests against settlers dangerous for Palestinians. 'This model of resistance must be applied throughout the West Bank. I call for massive marches... to stop this aggression, this terrorism,' he said. Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has soared since the Hamas attack of October 2023 triggered the Gaza war. Since October 7, 2023, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 956 Palestinians, including many militants, according to health ministry figures. Over the same period, at least 36 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations, according to official figures.
Al Arabiya
2 days ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Clashes at West Bank march against new Israeli settler outpost
Palestinians and the Israeli army clashed on Friday during a march in a village in the northern occupied West Bank against a newly established Israeli settlement outpost. 'We came to this area to express our protest and say: 'this land is ours, not yours'', Ghassan Bazour, head of Raba's village council, told AFP. While all Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law, only outposts such as the one established overnight in Raba are also prohibited under Israeli law. An AFP journalist at the scene reported that a group of men holding Palestinian flags and those of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party walked from Raba towards a nearby hill on top of which settlers had established the outpost. After conducting the Muslim Friday prayer at the base of the hill, people continued towards the outpost, until Israeli soldiers arrived on the scene and dispersed the crowd with tear gas, the journalist said. The army did not respond to an AFP request for comment on Friday's events in Raba. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its teams had provided support to 13 people suffering from tear gas inhalation. Village council chief Bazour said that settlers had originally taken over the hill's high ground to establish an outpost and deny Palestinians access to nearby agricultural lands. 'There is now a settler outpost here (which) will continue to devour the land and empty these areas', Muayad Shaaban, head of the Palestinian Authority's Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, told AFP. Despite it being dispersed by the army, Shaaban was enthusiastic about Friday's march, given that violence in recent years has made all protests against settlers dangerous for Palestinians. 'This model of resistance must be applied throughout the West Bank. I call for massive marches... to stop this aggression, this terrorism', he said. Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has soared since the Hamas attack of October 2023 triggered the Gaza war. Since October 7, 2023, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 956 Palestinians, including many militants, according to health ministry figures. Over the same period, at least 36 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations, according to official figures.
Saba Yemen
2 days ago
- Saba Yemen
Zionist Enemy injures, arrests Palestinian in Nablus
Nablus - Saba: Zionist enemy forces arrested a Palestinian citizen early Friday morning after shooting him with live ammunition in the city of Nablus. According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), security and local sources reported that the enemy forces stormed the vicinity of the western cemetery in the city, raided a house, and fired live ammunition, wounding Fadi Abu Sharkh before arresting him. They also prevented Red Crescent crews from reaching the house to provide medical aid. The sources indicated that the nature of Abu Sharkh's injury is not yet known. The sources added that the enemy arrested Ahmed al-Issawi after raiding and searching his home in the Askar al-Jadid camp, east of Nablus. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Al-Ahram Weekly
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Egypt 4th Aragouz festival: Heritage, economy, and resistance - Heritage special
Egypt recently came alive with the fourth Aragouz Festival, which took place from July 1 to 8. The festival commenced at Cairo's Al-Sennari House and concluded in Alexandria. The event explored themes such as Heritage Economy and Heritage is Resistance, featuring shadow puppets and Aragouz – an ancient form of Egyptian hand puppetry that was added to UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2018. The festival's second day featured many inspiring events. Nabil Bahgat, a theatre professor and the founder director of Wamda Shadow Puppets and Aragouz troupe, opened the day with a dedication to all children in Gaza, including the six-year-old Palestinian girl Hend Ragab, who was shot 355 bullets by the Israeli occupation while talking to the Red Crescent. Bahgat lamented the tragic loss of Hend. Bahgat also presented a summary of a paper by Mohamed Shabana, a Professor of Folk Music at the High Institute for Folk Arts, which focused on heritage music and resistance. The day's discussions concluded with remarks from Mohamed Shahata, a heritage literature researcher, who highlighted Aragouz's historical role as a tool for social criticism and a means to narrate any catastrophe that people are subjected to. He spotlighted the connection between heritage and resistance, citing popular Syra (Local Epics). He referred to the series Ali el Zeibaq, where the protagonist Ali resists injustice through "tricks, not swords," illustrating that "not all resistance was in the use of swords." He also mentioned other folks' heroes like Seif ibn Zi Yazan, who expelled the Habasha (Ethiopia) invaders from Yemen, and Al Zaher Beibars, known for his great role in resisting the French troops in Mansoura. He also recalled the Syra of Zat el Hemma, a Palestinian woman from the Abbasid era who played a significant role in resisting the Roman invasion of Arab lands. Shahata noted that proverbs, songs, popular poems, and popular heritage were the solution when facing lots of wrong and injustice. He added that when people found no one to defend them, they would "make up an imaginary hero that defies injustice." 'What is written in Syra books is not totally true, for the storyteller would add to the Syra from his imagination," he concluded. The talks were followed by two performances by the WAMDA theatre troupe, one that is dedicated to promoting the heritage of Aragouz and Shadow puppets. The troupe, which has held a weekly show for over 15 years at Beit El Sehemi House. The Shadow Puppet play, The Treacherous, Roaring Rooster, was written by Palestinian author Ghanam Ghanam and directed by Professor Nabil Bahgat. It follows a despicable rooster who tricks the villagers and steals their belongings. Eventually, the villagers teamed with the king, who defeats the rooster and restores peace to the village. As for the Aragouz performance, it was one of the classics that was played during the Egyptian-Israeli era and in it, Felfel, the son of the Aragouz, was martyred and avenged by the Aragouz. Bahgat also addressed the challenges facing traditional puppetry. "Our problem is organising the market and marketing, and we are working on that, for the products are ready, be it the puppets,' he said. He added that he attended a meeting with the culture minister to discuss plans for expanding performance opportunities and establishing a permanent exhibition space dedicated to folk puppet heritage. 'We can produce art, but the problem of art in Egypt is management and marketing, so we are trying to compensate for this by having a plan and working on it," Bahgat concluded. Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
