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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

Hossam Ezzedine

Pictures of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh are displayed inside the news channel's office in Ramallah, May 9, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
May 10, 2023, 10:45 pm
A year on, Shireen Abu Akleh’s legacy still reverberates, as colleagues seek justice
Road in Ramallah home to Al Jazeera bureau where journalist worked renamed in her honor, while construction set to begin on a media museum named for her
By Hossam Ezzedine
Palestinian female candidates for local council elections prepare campaign merchandise in their village of Burqin, west of Jenin in the West Bank, on December 2, 2021. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
December 11, 2021, 12:28 am
All-female electoral list seeks to shake-up male-dominated Palestinian society
The slate dubbed Qaderat, meaning capable in Arabic, will run in Saturday’s local elections in the West Bank; Hamas boycotting election, no voting to be held in Gaza
By Hossam Ezzedine and Yasmin Zaher
A Palestinian man counts a stack of Israeli Shekels in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 5, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
October 17, 2021, 7:58 am
Palestinians blame shekel surplus for weighing down West Bank economy
Bank of Israel, citing security risks, says it doesn’t want to accept ‘uncontrolled’ funds that have accumulated in the Palestinian market
By Hossam Ezzedine
A doctor inspects a donkey at the Safe Haven for Donkeys sanctuary in the town of Rujayb, east of the city of Nablus in the West Bank, on February 25, 2021 (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
March 9, 2021, 1:06 pm
Charity provides West Bank shelter for unsold and abandoned donkeys
Safe Haven For Donkeys rescues the animals that can’t attract buyers at market because they are young and not yet at full strength; also offers free drop-in treatment
By Hossam Ezzedine
Hanin Abu Mariam, a 21-year-old Palestinian female referee, after a football match at Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium in the West Bank city of Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, February 11, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)
February 18, 2021, 11:59 pm
Palestinian female soccer referee raises flag for women
Hailing from small West Bank village of Burham, Hanine Abu Mariam dreams of a global career officiating international soccer games — men’s and women’s alike
By Hossam Ezzedine
Palestinian children gather around a street vendor in the Amari refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 29, 2020. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
July 30, 2020, 9:37 am
Cramped Palestinian refugee camps fear virus surge
Number of cases across West Bank spiking after Israel and later PA eased restrictions in April, May; situation exacerbated by breaches of limits on public assembly and movement
By Hossam Ezzedine
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy dressed in a costume as an elderly ultra-Orthodox Jew walks by an elderly ultra-Orthodox Jew (who is not in costume), two days ahead of the official holiday of Purim, in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, on March 8, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
March 9, 2020, 7:04 pm
Rabbis dispense advice, some even factual, for handling outbreak
Orthodox televangelist under quarantine blames COVID-19 on ‘the fact that non-Jews eat’ everything, while another rabbi links it to the coming of the messiah
By Michael Blum and Hossam Ezzedine
In this photo from July 17, 2018, Palestinian protestors hold portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and US President Donald Trump during a rally in support of the Fatah party in the West Bank city of Nablus. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)
January 24, 2020, 11:22 pm
Palestinians dismiss ‘biased’ Trump peace plan, predict it will fail
Mosque-goers in Ramallah shrug off expected release of US president’s proposal in the coming days: ‘Whatever they do will not affect us as we have nothing to lose’
By Joe Dyke and Hossam Ezzedine
Members of Saudi Arabia's national soccer team are welcomed in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 13, 2019, where they will play for the first time their match in the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup against Palestine in two days. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
October 14, 2019, 8:48 am
Saudi fans delight in West Bank soccer match, shrug off geopolitics
Game marks a change in policy for Riyadh, which has previously played against Palestinians in third countries in keeping with the decades-long Arab boycott of Israel
By Aziz El Massassi and Hossam Ezzedine
Spectators hold a huge flag depicting Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock shrine during a match between Palestinian team Hilal al-Quds and Morocco's Raja Casablanca in the Arab Champions Cup at Faisal Husseini stadium in the town of al-Ram, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, on October 3, 2019. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
October 3, 2019, 9:21 pm
In first, Moroccan soccer team plays in West Bank, Saudis next
Thursday’s game between Raja Casablanca and Palestinian team Hilal al-Quds outside Jerusalem marks slow shift in Arab attitudes on playing in Palestinian areas
By Hossam Ezzedine
Players of the Palestinian national soccer team take part in a training session in Sharjah, northeast of Dubai, on January 4, 2019, on the eve of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. (Karim Sahib/AFP)
January 5, 2019, 3:43 pm
With help from diaspora, Palestinians hope for Asian Cup soccer surprise
Odds are stacked against the West Bank team, but players are optimistic they can bring some pride back home
By Hossam Ezzedine and Anne Levasseur
A Palestinian postal worker sifts through sacks of previously undelivered mail dating as far back as 2010, which has been withheld by Israel, at the central international exchange post office in the city of Jericho in the West Bank on August 14, 2018. (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)
August 15, 2018, 6:12 am
Palestinians scramble to deliver 10 tons of mail blocked by Israel for years
Packages, letters and even a wheelchair previously stuck in Jordan transferred to PA in one-time deal; postal workers expected to take two weeks to sift through everything
By Hossam Ezzedine
Hamas's overall leader Ismail Haniya (L) and Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah are seen together at Haniya's office in Gaza City on October 3, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)
October 9, 2017, 8:03 pm
Palestinian rivals head to Cairo for reconciliation talks
Disarmament, recognizing Israel, salaries and border crossings likely to be sticking points in closed-door Fatah-Hamas meetings
By Adel Zaanoun and Hossam Ezzedine
Palestinian sports teacher Rajaa Hamdan (R) leads a football training session with young girls in the northern West Bank village of Deir Jarir, near Ramallah, on September 13, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)
September 16, 2017, 9:59 am
Palestinian all-girl soccer team breaks cultural barriers
Hundreds of young women are enjoying an opportunity denied their mothers’ generation in the socially conservative West Bank
By Hossam Ezzedine
Palestinian female soccer players (in red) are seen during a qualifying match against Thailand for the Asian Women football Cup in the West Bank town of al-Ram on April 3, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)
April 4, 2017, 5:25 pm
For Palestinian women, soccer not just about winning
In the West Bank, the score is not as important as challenging traditional attitudes and ‘an outdated vision of girls’
By Hossam Ezzedine
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