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The Jordanian State Security Court yesterday sentenced four Jordanians to 20 years in jail for transporting weapons and explosives to the Palestinian resistance in the occupied West Bank, Quds Press reported.

The defendants, Huthaifa and Ibrahim Jabr, Khaled Al-Majdalawi and Ahmed Ayesh were arrested during a security campaign carried out in July 2023 and in March 2024.

The prosecution charged the defendants with “committing acts that disturb public security…

The Sudanese army yesterday denied statements by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) about thwarting an attempt to smuggle illegal weapons and military equipment to the Sudanese army, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.

A spokesman for the Sudanese armed forces, Brigadier General Nabil Abdullah described the accusations as “ridiculous, untrue” and “very strange”.

He explained that Sudan is a fully sovereign state that has the right to obtain weapons…

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) imposed a complete closure on Beita village in southern Nablus yesterday, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

This came after an Israeli occupation soldier was seriously injured when an explosive device went off in a military vehicle.

The Beita Municipality said in a statement today that occupation forces closed all entrances leading to the village and stormed it in large numbers while firing at citizens’ homes and their…

Palestinian prisoner Hasan Salameh has been subjected to severe torture and held under inhumane conditions in solitary confinement at Israel’s Megiddo Prison, according to the Asra Media Office.

In a statement issued yesterday, Asra Media said Salameh had been assaulted by Israeli jailers six times in the last two months, adding that his weight dropped drastically to 62 kilogrammes as a result of his exposure to deliberate starvation.

“Salameh suffers from…