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There is no shortage in the US dollar or Jordanian dinar currencies in the Palestinian market, Governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA) Azzam Shawa said on Thursday. He added however in a meeting with reporters at the new PMA building in Ramallah that the Monetary Authority has managed to …

Three Palestinian judges from the Judicial Inspection Department of the High Judicial Council (HJC) together with two chief prosecutors from the Attorney General office concluded on Thursday a four-day study trip to the Homolog Institution in Romania, according to a EUPOL COPPS press release. The study trip, facilitated by the …

Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Thursday that the visit of the American delegation to Ramallah and the meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas later in the day is important and crucial particularly since it comes after the delegation’s talks in the region and meeting with Arab leaders. He said President …

As President Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet later Thursday at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah with the US peace team, Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said the Palestinians are awaiting answers to questions they had raised regarding resumption of Palestinian-Israeli talks. Malki told the official Voice of Palestine radio that …

Israeli police Thursday prevented Palestinian children from reaching their schools inside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City because they were carrying Palestinian textbooks with them, according to officials at the Islamic Waqf (Endowment) department, which is in charge of the schools in the mosque. Administrations of four schools located …

Construction, road, water and sewage indices increased in the West Bank during July compared with the previous month, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said on Thursday. Construction Cost Index (CCI) for residential buildings increased by 0.26% due to the increase in rental of equipment by 0.67% and prices …

Following Israel’s demolition of two Palestinian schools in the West Bank days before the start the new schoolyear, international aid agencies described the act as heart breaking. First it was the only kindergarten for Jabal al-Baba Bedouin community destroyed on August 21. The next day, a primary school in Jub …

The Foreign Ministry Condemns the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to allow Knesset members to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque starting next week, which is considered a serious escalation in the occupation’s attempts to promote the illegal annexation of Al-Aqsa Mosque, perpetuate its temporal division, and provoke the feelings of Muslims.The …

United States and Israeli campaign to block the publication of a list of companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is morally repugnant, a PLO official said on Wednesday. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), denounced these efforts saying …

Israeli police Wednesday detained a Palestinian man outside the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem allegedly for having a knife in his possession, according to witnesses and Israeli police. They said security guards at one of the city’s train stations stopped a young man and after searching him he was …