An Al-Aqsa solidarity march organized this Friday in occupied Hebron was heavily repressed by Israeli Forces. Soldiers and border police fired stun grenades, teargas, putrid-smelling “skunk” water, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition at demonstrators, injuring many. Several young protesters were also beaten and detained. The Al-Aqsa solidarity march started …
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Israeli forces on Thursday night, 27th July, attacked a peaceful demonstration which was taking place outside Shuhada checkpoint, which leads to Shuhada street in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) . The demonstration was intended to protest the continued presence of heightened security measures at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque. The demonstrators, who numbered about …
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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns that Members of al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Movement, beat up and broke the hands of an elderly man in Deir al-Balah. PCHR confirms that the Qassam Brigades are neither a police force nor judicial police, and its members …
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By ISABEL KERSHNERAUG. 2, 2017 RAMALLAH, West Bank — Saeb Erekat, a leading voice of the Palestinian cause for decades, now finds himself battling for his own health along with that of the long-ailing peace process. Both came into sharp focus this week as headlines in the Israeli news media …
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JERUSALEM – Islamic Waqf Wednesday announced that King of Jordan Abdallah II donated $1 million to the Islamic Museum at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Firas Dibs, media coordinator at Islamic Waqf said that King Abdallah II decided to reward Waqf personnel, especially the guards who remained strong throughout the crisis at …
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HAIFA – Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre in the Golan Heights sent a letter to senior Israeli military officials on 30 July demanding that they evacuate Israeli military outposts and minefields from the occupied Syrian town of Majdal …
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RAMALLAH – Palestinian officials said Wednesday that Israeli murderers of Palestinians who get pardoned by their government or get a lenient sentence in spite of the gravity of their crime should be tried by international criminal courts. Issa Qaraqe, head of the Prisoners Commission in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), …
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JERUSALEM – Islamic figures in Jerusalem warned on Wednesday that Israel’s repeated intervention in al-Aqsa Mosque affairs could lead to grave consequences. Head of Islamic Waqf Council, head of the Supreme Islamic Committee, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and acting Chief Islamic Justice said in a joint statement that Israeli …
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RAMALLAH – The Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which met in Istanbul in an urgent meeting over the situation in Jerusalem and its Al-Aqsa Mosque, has decided to ask the United Nations Security Council to provide protection to the mosque from Israeli abuses, Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said on …
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NABLUS – Israeli forces Wednesday detained at least 20 Palestinians, including a lawmaker, during multiple overnight raids across the West Bank, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and security sources. The PPS said Israeli forces raided Asira al-Shamaliya, northwest of Nablus, where they detained five Palestinians, including member of Palestinian …
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