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June 18th, 2026 - 11:16 GMT

Sally Shakkour

Video: Car blast reported in Kiryat Gat, 1 killed

ALBAWABA - At least one person was killed in a car explosion in Israel's Kiryat Gat on Thursday. A car blast was reported in Kiryat Gat, a city in Southern Israel. A video was released on social media showing thick black smoke rising into the sky following the explosion. A man was killed Thursday in a car explosion in Kiryat Gat. A spokesperson for Magen David Adom (MDA) stated, "At ...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (C-L) Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat (2-L), Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi (2-R) speak during a meeting of Arab foreign ministers, on May 28, 2016. (AFP /STRINGER)

March 22nd, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Coming Arab summit: Palestinian cause given top priority

A Palestinian protester throws a stone towards Israeli security forces during clashes following a weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank on March 17, 2017. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

March 18th, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Head of UN agency resigns following report accusing Israel of being ‘apartheid’ state

Palestinians demonstrate in the centre of the West Bank city of Ramallah against the security coordination between Palestinian security forces and Israel on March 13, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

March 14th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Hundreds of Palestinians rally in Ramallah to protest police brutality

A Palestinian TV correspondent is transported away from clashes following a weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank on March 3, 2017. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

March 13th, 2017 - 04:00 GMT

Palestinian Journalists Union calls for boycott of government-owned news

British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Boris Johnson. (AFP/File)

March 9th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

Boris Johnson: Alternative to two-state solution is apartheid

Israeli soldiers are seen close to settlers who appear to attack a photographer's car. (AFP/File)

March 7th, 2017 - 04:00 GMT

Israeli occupation forces raid Bethlehem home, transform it into military post

A number of Palestinian activists have criticized the two-state solution as unsustainable and unlikely to bring durable peace, proposing instead a binational state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. (AFP/File)

March 6th, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Palestine’s Fatah tells US Congress an embassy move to Jerusalem will ‘explode the situation’ in all MENA

Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the Jewish state in a move never recognized by the international community. (AFP/File)

March 3rd, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Al-Aqsa partitioned to make space for Jewish worshippers

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. (AFP/File)

March 3rd, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Damning Gaza report provokes calls for Netanyahu resignation

This photo taken on February 9, 2017 shows a picture taken from the southern Gaza Strip of Egyptian soldiers patrolling the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing. (AFP/Said Khatib)

March 2nd, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Hamas takes hundreds of opponents, extremists to court

Israeli soldiers stand guard at the Qalandiya checkpoint. (AFP/File)

February 28th, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

Israeli forces shoot and injure Palestinian woman at Qalandiya checkpoint

Palestinians run from tear gas smoke during clashes with Israeli security forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint. (AFP/File)

February 27th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

Palestinian activists block roads to Jerusalem in protest against PA