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At least 24 Palestinians Monday were detained by Israeli forces during military raids across multiple West Bank districts, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Israeli army detained eight Palestinians, including two aged 18, from the Hebron area. Eight others, including a 17-year-old, were detained in the towns of Hizma, Biddu, …

Israeli navy Monday opened fire at Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza coast while army vehicles crossed the borders in Khan Younis area in the south of the Gaza Strip , WAFA correspondent said. The fishermen were forced to leave the sea and return to shore in fear of getting shot. …

Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Ahmed Majdalani, said Monday that the US administration’s peace efforts focus on minor issues rather than the major ones and therefore there are no signs they will make a quantum leap in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Speaking on Voice …

Israeli police demolished on Monday a home in the village of Barta’a al-Gharbiyeh, an Arab town in northern Israel, under the pretext of building without permit, according to local sources. The demolished home belonged to Mohammad Qabaha, a Barta’a resident, and had an area of 100 square meters. He was …

Israeli forces demolished on Monday a kindergarten in Jabal al-Baba Bedouin community to the east of Jerusalem, and seized all its contents, according to local sources. It claimed the demolition was because the kindergarten was built without an Israeli permit, something Palestinians are never able to obtain. Jabal al Baba …

Masked gunmen Monday opened fire at a Hamas post, a police station and a Hamas checkpoint in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, local source said. No casualties were reported. The series of attacks were apparently a response from Salafist Jihadist groups to Hamas crackdown on its …

Saudi Arabia transferred $30.8 million to the Palestinian Authority’s treasury as part of its financial aid to the Palestinian budget, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Egypt, Ahmad Qattan, said on Sunday. He said in a statement that Saudi Arabia has committed to support the Palestinian Authority’s budget with $7.7 million a …

Over 40 Portuguese photographers, teachers of photography and photography students pledged on Saturday, which marked World Photography Day, not to accept professional invitations or financing from Israel, and to” refuse to collaborate with Israeli cultural institutions complicit in Israel’s regime of occupation, colonialism and apartheid,” according to the official website …

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, is currently seeking to double the budget required for expanding the new illegal settlement of Amichai, north of Jerusalem, West Bank. The total of the budget would almost reach quarter a million NIS, set for evacuating 40 settler families from Amona outpost near Ramallah, …

On a large fishing boat on the tip of land that stretches a few meters into the water of Gaza City beach, Hana al-Jarousha, a young woman enjoyed herself in the first leisure restaurant of its kind in the blockaded Gaza Strip. The fishing boat, whose owners decided to transform …