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Israel today seized a plot of farmland in Yaabad town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, said WAFA correspondent. He confirmed that the Israeli military phoned the landowner, identified as a member of the Abu Baker family, and informed him about a military decision to seize his …

Israeli forces today set up a checkpoint at the entrance of Silat al-Harithiya town, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, said local sources. Sources confirmed that Israeli forces erected a checkpoint at the entrance of the town, stopping Palestinian vehicles and inspecting passengers’ ID cards. Israeli severely …

Israeli occupation forces ordered today a halt on a road rehabilitation project in the village of Rashaida, to the east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, local sources said. The Israeli occupation army ordered workers at the site to immediately stop the work under the pretext it was in …

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has documented 106 violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law (IHL) perpetrated by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied Palestinian Territories last week. It said in a report that Israeli forces shot and wounded five Palestinian civilians, including a …

Israeli occupation forces prevented today the call for dawn prayer at the flashpoint Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, as well as denied access of worshipers to the mosque, local sources said. Hefzi Abu Sneneh, head of the Waqf Department in Hebron, said dozens of Israeli …

Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, called for not being drowned in betting on a political role for the International Quartet, after it had turned into a dead body that …

President Mahmoud Abbas today declared an end to the agreements and understandings signed with Israel and the United States and turned over responsibility over the occupied territories back to Israel. “The Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Palestine are absolved, as of today, of all the agreements and understandings …

Minister of Health, Mai Alkaila, confirmed today one more case of COVID-19 (coronavirus), bringing up the total cases in Palestine to 615. She said the new case was for a 36-year-old man from the town of Beit Ula, in Hebron Governorate, who came into contact with a COVID-19 patient. (WAFA)

The European Union missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah expressed concern today over an increase in home demolitions by Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2020. “These demolitions, including of EU and EU Member States-funded structures, have resulted in the displacement of Palestinians and negatively …

After around two months of forced closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, will reopen for worship starting Sunday, according to the Islamic Waqf department in Jerusalem, which is in charge of the Mosque. It said in a statement that, however, worshippers …