RAMALLAH, A Palestinian was shot dead Monday by the Israeli army in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
He was declared dead on arrival at Jenin government hospital after being “shot by the Israeli occupation forces,” the ministry said in a statement.
Local sources named him as Dhirar Riyad Al-Kafrini.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reported he had been killed during clashes with the army and undercover forces in Jenin refuge camp.
Israeli police said they had been operating in Jenin, but did not provide details.

ARWAD ISLAND, Syria: Khaled Bahlawan hammers nails into a traditional wooden boat he built by hand, toiling under the scorching sun on Syria’s Mediterranean coast to preserve a disappearing ancient skill.

“We are the last family that makes wooden ships and boats in Syria,” said the 39-year-old on the shores of Arwad Island, near the city of Tartus. “This is the legacy of our ancestors … We are fighting to preserve it every day.”

Located about 3km off the coast, Arwad is Syria’s only inhabited island and a haven of peace in a country torn by 11 years of war.

RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Engineers Syndicate has announced the escalation of its protest action, with hundreds of people demonstrating on Monday in front of the Palestinian prime minister’s headquarters in Ramallah as ministers met for their weekly Cabinet session.

Protesters are demanding the financial rights of public engineers and seeking a government commitment to implement a financial agreement signed between the two parties last year, syndicate sources told Arab News.

ABU DHABI: The UAE’s Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al-Nahyan met experts at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday to discuss climate change research, Emirates News Agency reported.

Sheikha Shamma, founder and CEO of Alliances for Global Sustainability, visited the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, founded in 2008 to bring together international experts on finance, geography, international development and political economy to address climate change.

PARIS: A hundred French parliamentarians, mainly from the political left, on Saturday denounced Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “policy of war” against Kurds in northern Syria.

While the rest of the world is focused on Ukraine, as Russia’s war crimes multiply there, Erdogan is “planning to launch an umpteenth bloody offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria,” the parliamentarians said in a statement published by the JDD title.