American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib on Friday turned down Israel's offer to let her visit her grandmother, owing to restrictions she termed oppressive/ Palestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib on Friday turned down Israel's offer to let her visit her grandmother, owing to restrictions she termed ...
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., listens to a question from a constituent in Wixom, Mich., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)/ JERUSALEM (AP) — Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she would not visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank, despite being granted an Israeli ...
released documents, apparently written in haste, unintentionally reveal quite a few details that both Israel and the United States would have preferred to keep hidden about a remarkable diplomatic eruption here. For the first time in its history, Israel denied entry to two members of the United ...
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting/ In this Aug. 9, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Trump is showcasing the growing effort to capitalize on western Pennsylvania's natural gas deposits by turning gas into plastics. ...
In this July 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, right, speaks, as U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. listens, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. The U.S. envoy to Israel said he supports Israel's decision to deny entry to two Muslim congresswomen ahead of their ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (left) and Ilhan Omar are critics of Israeli policy US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has rejected Israel's offer to allow her to make a "humanitarian" visit to her grandmother in the occupied West Bank. Ms Tlaib ...
President Donald Trump reacts at the end of his speech at a campaign rally, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)/ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's encouragement and support of may play well to his political base, but it could endanger the foundations ...
- Israel barred entry to two Muslim members of the U.S. Congress after President Donald Trump asserted that letting them into the country would be a sign of weakness and that the pair “hate Israel & all Jewish people.” The Interior Ministry said Thursday that Democratic Representatives Ilhan ...
In this Feb. 5, 2019 file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, joined at right by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., listen to President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, at the Capitol in Washington. Israel's prime minister is holding consultations with senior ministers and aides to ...
Representative Rashida Tlaib said she will not visit Israel to visit her grandmother and other Palestinian relatives on the West Bank after being treated “like a criminal” by Israel, which announced Thursday that Tlaib and Representative Ilhan Omar would not be allowed into the country on a ...
The politics of Israel are beginning to grow divisive in the Democratic Party, after decades of near-unanimous support. But, like many intra-party disputes, nothing brings the family together like an attack by President Donald Trump. Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress and on the campaign ...
US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib -- seen here in July 2019 -- is of Palestinian descent/ US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib -- seen here in July 2019 -- is of Palestinian descent (AFP Photo/BILL PUGLIANO)/ Washington (AFP) - Israel's decision to bar two Muslim members of the US Congress drew ...
Ilhan Omar (front) and Rashida Tlaib (left) will be barred from entering Israel - AP/ Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to bar two Muslim-American Democrat congresswomen from entering Israel after Donald Trump said it would show “great weakness” to allow them in. The move will inflame tensions ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Israel has decided to block two US Democratic lawmakers from visiting after US President Donald Trump urged the country to ban them. On Twitter Mr Trump said "it would show great weakness" if Israel allowed entry to congresswomen Ilhan Omar ...
Israel said Thursday that it will bar two Democratic congresswomen from entering the country ahead of a planned visit over their support for a Palestinian-led boycott movement.
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday barred U.S. Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from making a planned trip to Israel, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump called on his ally not to let them in. Tlaib and Omar, the first two ...
WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has that Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., were barred from entering the country ahead of a trip planned this weekend to visit sites at Jerusalem and the West Bank, among other stops. Netanyahu said on Twitter that the ...
Two lawmakers also plan to go to occupied West Bank * Both back pro-Palestinian movement to boycott Israel * Israeli law allows banning entry of boycott supporters JERUSALEM, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Israel is considering barring a visit by two of its sharpest critics in the U.S. Congress, Democrats ...
08PM [Updated: Fri Aug 16, 2019 03:13PM ]/ US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speaks at the opening plenary session of the NAACP 110th National Convention at COBO Center on July 22, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by AFP)/ US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has rejected Israel’s offer to allow her to ...
31AM [Updated: Fri Aug 16, 2019 06:06AM ]/ US President Donald Trump has defended Israel’s decision to bar two Muslim Congresswoman from visiting the occupied territories, even as he claims he didn’t “encourage or discourage” the move. Trump told reporters on Thursday that he “did speak to ...
01AM [Updated: Fri Aug 16, 2019 01:01AM ]/ US lawmakers have slammed President Donald Trump after he asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deny two Muslim congresswomen entrance to Israel for a fact-finding visit. Israel on Thursday listened to Trump and barred Ilhan Omar, a ...
Israel has decided to prevent two American congresswomen from traveling to the occupied territories over their support for a boycott of the Tel Aviv regime. Ilhan Omar, a representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, and Rashida Tlaib, a representative for Michigan’s 13th ...
JD Vance and his wife Usha were greeted by US ambassador Mike Huckabee and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin on arrival in Tel Aviv/ US Vice-President JD Vance has arrived in Israel as part of the Trump administration's efforts to strengthen the Gaza ceasefire agreement. He is expected ...
The masked settler struck Umm Saleh Abu Alia with a stick used as a club/ A 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives. The unprovoked attack, which took place on Sunday morning in the ...
Sunday saw the deadliest day of attacks since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October/ One week ago, US President Donald Trump was given a hero's welcome in Israel after securing the Gaza ceasefire and exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. But the days since have shown just how ...
Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv was filled with smoke before the scheduled kick-off/ The Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was cancelled before kick-off on Sunday, after what police described as "public disorder and violent riots". "Dozens of smoke grenades ...
Smoke billows after an Israeli strike in central Gaza on Sunday/ The Israeli military has said it will resume enforcement of the ceasefire in Gaza after launching air strikes on Sunday in response to what it called Hamas's "blatant violation" of the deal. Strikes began in southern Gaza after the ...
"I rode away on a camel with my grandmother, along a sandy road, and I started to cry." Ayish Younis is describing the worst moment of his life – he still regards it as such, even though it was 77 years ago, and he's lived through many horrors since. It was 1948, the first Arab-Israeli war was ...
run civil defence says 11 people were killed, all from the same family, after the bus they were in was hit by an Israeli tank shell in northern Gaza. The Abu Shaaban family, it said, were trying to reach their home to inspect it when the incident happened in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza ...
A Red Cross vehicle in Gaza City. Photo: 15 October 2025/ Israel's military says a coffin of a deceased hostage has been transferred to the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip and is now "on the way to IDF [Israel Defense Forces] troops" in the territory. Posting on X, the IDF urged the public ...
Hallaq was playing football when soldiers arrived in the village/ A 10-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed by Israeli forces in a village south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military says its soldiers opened fire on Thursday in response to "confrontations and ...
The controversial US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has confirmed it suspended operations in Gaza after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October. Despite being funded until November, the organisation said its final delivery was on Friday. ...