A ranking Palestinian security source said Tuesday night that four journalists held by the security forces are accused of leaking “sensitive information to hostile parties.” The four were identified as Mamdouh Hamamreh, Tareq Abu Zeid, Amer Abu Arafeh and Qutaybeh Qasem. The source said the matter is under investigation without …
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Israeli warplanes Wednesday attacked a number of targets in the Gaza Strip injuring several Palestinians, one critically, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that Israeli F16 warplanes bombed a site northwest of Gaza City and another to the west of the city causing damage to both sites and to civilian …
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Israeli state vengeance against the Palestinian village of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah, continued on Wednesday with another army raid of the village, arrest of people and destruction of infrastructure. Local sources told WAFA that soldiers raided the village in the early hours, specifically the homes of relatives of Omar el-Abed, …
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Israeli forces detained 880 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the besieged Gaza Strip in the month of July alone, according to joint report from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and the Palestinian Committee of …
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A Jerusalemite Palestinian family is facing eviction on Wednesday from the home where they have lived for more than 50 years, after Israeli courts ruled that the house was Jewish property. Ayoub Shamasna told Ma’an on Monday that his family had exhausted all legal avenues after Israeli courts ruled that …
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Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished a Palestinian home in the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, leaving a family of four homeless. The owner of the home, Hamza Shaludi, told Ma’an that bulldozers, escorted by Israeli Jerusalem Municipality crews and large Israeli police forces broke into the family home …
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Israeli authorities raided the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank on Tuesday to issue demolition orders for 14 structures. Silwad Mayor Abd al-Rahman Saleh told Ma’an that the demolition orders were issued over allegations that they were built without the necessary Israeli-issued construction permits. …
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The Palestinian Shamasneh family has until Wednesday to vacate its home located in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem following an Israeli court order to turn the home over to Jewish settler organizations. The occupation authorities threatened that unless the Shamasneh family leaves its home voluntarily, Israeli police will use …
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Israeli authorities Tuesday distributed demolition notices for commercial structures and a school in the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, according to a local official. Silwad mayor, Abdel-Rahman Saleh, told WAFA Israeli army forces stormed the town and handed demolition notices for al-Salam school built 10-years ago, an iron factory …
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Israeli settlers torched on Tuesday a large area of land planted with citrus trees near the village of Aqraba, to the south of Nablus in the West Bank, according to a local source. Yousef Deriyeh, who monitors settlement activities in the area, told WAFA that settlers from the illegal Itamar …
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