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RAMALLAH – All actions taken by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza will be retracted once Hamas, the de facto power in the Gaza Strip, dissolves its recently established administrative committee, a senior Fatah official said on Wednesday. Jamal Muheisen, member of Fatah Central Committee, told Voice of Palestine radio that …

JERUSALEM – Israeli police continued on Wednesday to harass Palestinians seeking to enter the walled Al-Aqsa Mosque compound when its forces banned an employee of the Waqf from entering it. Officials from the Waqf, the Jordanian governmental body in charge of the holy compound in Jerusalem, said Israeli police stationed …

BETHLEHEM – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) was recently able to obtain an Israeli court ruling halting a decision to demolish seven homes in the village of al-Walajeh, bordering northern Bethlehem and Jerusalem, according to a local source. Hasan Burajiya, who monitors settlement activities in Bethlehem, said NRC attorney Ghayath …

RAMALLAH – President Mahmoud Abbas discussed unity on Tuesday evening with a Hamas delegation he met at his Ramallah headquarters. In addition to discussing unity and ending the internal Palestinian division, the meeting discussed as well the general situation in the occupied Palestinian territories particularly the recent developments in Jerusalem …

Israeli forces evacuated a Palestinian house in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday after reportedly using it as a military outpost for a week. Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (HRC) Director General Imad Hamdan told Ma’an that the group’s legal department had submitted a complaint to the Israeli …

Israeli forces continued to uphold a closure on the village of Azzun Atma in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya for the second consecutive week. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Monday that Israeli forces have continued to prohibit Palestinians from entering the area who are not residents …

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: “The real incitement stems from Israel’s military occupation of Palestine and its enslavement of an entire nation. The Israeli hardline extremist government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for generating a culture of hate and racism in Israel, inciting violence and feeding extremism. …

ISTANBUL – Yesterday thousands of people joined in on a demonstration in Istanbul against the security measures Israel imposed and later removed at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. It was organized by the Turkey’s Saadet Party and was called “The Big Jerusalem Meeting” and took place at the Yenikapi parade …

RAMALLAH – Government’s spokesman Yousef al-Mahmoud said Tuesday that a number of outlaws who on Monday assaulted medical staff at Razi hospital in Jenin and at Hebron public hospital, in two separate incidents, have been caught and are now in police custody. Al-Mahmoud, speaking on behalf of the Council of …

NAQAB – Israeli police backed by heavy machinery Tuesday demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Naqab region, in southern Israel, for the 116th time since 2010. Witnesses said staff from the so-called Israel Land Authority accompanied by Israeli police and bulldozers broke into the village and demolished the …