Palestine Financial News

By Dan Williams

The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic smoke following the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio

By David Shepardson

swimmers in Gaza — as a qualified swimming coach who runs his own school. Parents bringing their children to swimming classes for the first time are surprised to see Tattar standing on two crutches, but their doubts soon turn into confidence when they see his skills in the water. Tattar, now aged 42, lost his right leg when he was run over by a car. Faced with the problem of finding a job in the Palestinian enclave, where nearly half the working-age population is unemployed, he took to swimming and qualified as a coach. «I told myself I had to turn this ordeal into a blessing, I made the amputation of my leg a motive for me to become an active member of the society,» he said. «I developed my skills and that enabled me to start a swimming school,» Tattar told Reuters as a few dozen of his students trained in the water.

By Kanishka Singh

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli police said, drawing threats of revenge by Palestinian militant factions.

Thousands of families in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are struggling with deep food insecurity two months after being cut from the United Nations’ main food assistance program

Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm at railroad crashes causing potential disasters

The Palestinian foreign minister has attacked the Biden administration as weak and uninterested in the Mideast conflict

A minor coal train derailment in Virginia in early July prompted Norfolk Southern to rethink the way it responds to problems with overheating bearings

BEIRUT (Reuters) -At least six people were killed in two days of clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, where the mainstream faction Fatah fought against rival groups that support Islamists, security sources said.

Saudi-Iran peace deal that it brokered, China is looking to mediate between Israel and Palestine, hoping this will boost its image in the Muslim world. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to visit Beijing and he may seek Beijing's assistance to secure a deal with the Saudis, ET has learnt. India is keeping a close watch on any China-Israel deal, given its high stakes in Israel.

When death threats forced Irish pop singer Sinead O’Connor to call off a peace concert in Jerusalem in the summer of 1997, a young man named Itamar Ben-Gvir took credit for the campaign against her

The costs associated with Norfolk Southern's fiery February derailment in Ohio have more than doubled to $803 million as the railroad works to clean up the mess and moves forward with all the related lawsuits

Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said Saturday, in what the army described as a «car ramming attempt» near Nablus. Fawzi Mukhalifa, 18, «was killed by the occupation (Israeli) bullets in the town of Sebastia» late on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said. He was the second Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank within hours.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

By Dan Williams

China’s fast expanding economic footprint across the Arab world, with a focus on opportunities in various sectors, including healthcare, retail and infrastructure. The sixth edition of the conference is also aimed at promoting a multidirectional flow of investment and facilitating investment in areas of new opportunities, officials said.

Former CNN reporter Saima Mohsin has launched a legal battle against the news channel, accusing them of unfair dismissal and racial discrimination following a serious injury she sustained while reporting in Israel. The British-Pakistani journalist was left with a disability after her foot was run over by her cameraman's car during coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in Jerusalem. The incident caused extensive tissue damage, making it challenging for her to sit, stand, walk, or return to work full-time.

The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew-size requirement that Ohio imposed after a fiery train derailment in East Palestine in February

The Associated Press.  Grave violations include the recruitment and use of children by combatants, killings and injuries, sexual violence, abductions, and attacks on schools and hospitals. UNICEF also expressed particular concern about their plight in Haiti, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Ukraine, where Russia has been put on the UN blacklist.