Topic: Jenin
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Once again, it can be easier to find a rifle than a job in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin.Residents say occasional bursts of gunfire in its narrow streets are an economic indicator as telling as ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A top Palestinian security official said police had arrested a member of the Islamist Hamas group over the assassination of award-winning Arab-Israeli actor and director, Juliano Mer Khamis."One of those arrested is a prime suspect in the ...
Masked gunmen shot dead a well-known Jewish-Arab actor and director on Monday in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian police and medics said.The killing of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a rare figure straddling the bitter Israel-Palestinian divide, sparked outrage on both ...
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - A masked gunman shot dead on Monday a well-known Israeli actor and director who worked in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin, a Palestinian security source said.Juliano Mer Khamis, 52, was killed in his car in ...
The Battle of Jenin was a conflict in a Palestinian Refugee camp outside the city of Jenin. The Israeli Defense Force had concluded that the Jenin Refugee camp was a center for the terrorist operations during the Second Intifada . The fighting lasted ...
What is life like as a perpetual refugee? Before reading ?Mornings in Jenin,? my only real insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had come from dry news reports of atrocities on both sides over the years. It won?t necessarily change your political ...
Launched in 2005, Ma'an News Agency (MNA) publishes news around the clock in Arabic and English, and is among the most browsed websites in the Palestinian territories, with over 3 million visits per month. Considered the main source of independent news ...
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - The big screen is back in Jenin after a 23-year intermission, marking a fresh start for the West Bank city that was a bastion of armed militias at the peak of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.Mothballed ...
A grieving Palestinian father's decision to donate his 12-year-old son's organs to Jewish and Arab children has brought an unexpected blessing to this former militant stronghold — a new state-of-the-art cinema.Five years after Ismail Khatib's son Ahmed was shot ...
A film festival opened on Thursday in a newly restored cinema in Jenin, a West Bank town battered by some of the worst violence of the 2000 Palestinian uprising.The festival is the brainchild of German filmmaker Marcus Vetter and Ismael Khatib ...