HEBRON – A group of Israeli settlers injured four Palestinians in Hebron city overnight on Friday as they raided the Wadi al-Hassin neighborhood, located directly beside Israel’s illegal Kiryat Arba settlement. The Palestinians sustained light to moderate wounds in the attack, according to locals. Palestinian Red Crescent sources said that …
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HEBRON – A Palestinian toddler was killed, while three adults were injured in a car accident on Saturday on the main road connecting the Hebron and Bethlehem districts of the southern occupied West Bank. Palestinian police spokesman Luay Irzeiqat said that Muhammad Samer Tablishi, 2, was killed in the accident, …
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S.H., 58, lives in Silwan, East Jerusalem. He is a metalsmith and has five children. On 13 June 2017, at around 12:00 noon, S.H. was watering the garden in front of his home, while his 15-year-old son was sitting in the family car, in front of the house, listening to …
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BETHLEHEM – Hundreds of Palestinians in the Bethlehem district participated on Saturday in the funeral of two Palestinians shot dead by Israel in recent days after their corpses were released. Muhammad Tnouh, 26, was buried in Tuqou, and Abdallah Taqatqa, 24, was buried in Marah Maala, two villages in the …
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RAMALLAH – If Israel is chosen to fill a seat in the United Nations Security Council as non-permanent member state, it will be a political farce and a scandal, Ahmad Majdalani, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said on Saturday. He said that there are efforts now to allow Israel …
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JENIN – A number of Palestinians Saturday suffocated from tear gas inhalation during clashes that broke out following an Israeli army raid of the town of Yabad, southwest of Jenin, said the town’s mayor Samer Abu Baker. Soldiers stormed the town after midnight, said Abu Baker, and clashed with residents. …
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RAMALLAH – The Ministry of Information said Saturday that Israel committed 76 violations against journalists in July, more than 60 per cent of them in East Jerusalem, the highest since the start of the year. It said that most of the violations were related to coverage of events at Al-Aqsa …
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Bethlehem (IINA) – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) succeeded Thursday in obtaining an Israeli court ruling halting a decision to demolish nine homes in the village of al-Walajeh, near Bethlehem in southern West Bank, WAFA reported citing a local source. NRC succeeded the day before in getting a court order …
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Istanbul (IINA) – The foreign ministers of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) reaffirmed the centrality of the Palestinian cause and the religious and spiritual character of Jerusalem for the entire Muslim Ummah and its determination to defend it from all threats caused by the Israeli …
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New York (IINA) – United Nations Secretary General António Guterres will pay his first visit since taking the UN helm to Israel and Palestine, including the Gaza Strip, at the end of the month, diplomats said on Thursday. During the three-day visit beginning August 28, the UN chief will hold …
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