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RAMALLAH, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said today that three deaths from coronavirus and 253 new infections were registered for Palestinian expatriates abroad during the last 24 hours. It said all of the deaths were registered in the United States, and that the …

NABLUS, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – Residents of the villages of Qusra and Asira al-Qibliya, in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus, today fended off an attack by dozens of hardcore Israeli settlers targeting the outskirts of the two villages, according to local sources. Ghassan Daghlas, an official in …

QALQILIA, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – At least one Palestinian was injured today and many others suffocated from gas inhalation as Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinians taking part in a rally in the village of Kafr Qaddum, northwest of the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. Soldiers fired rubber-coated rounds, …

NEW YORK, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – Human Rights Watch has strongly condemned remarks made by Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne in which he said the International Criminal Court had no jurisdiction to investigate Israeli war crimes in Palestine. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said that the ICC had no …

Human Rights The ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that is does have jurisdiction over grave crimes committed in occupied Palestinian territory is a “significant step forward in the quest for justice and accountability”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Tuesday. “This offers profound hope to those …

As part of the IOF collective punishment policy against Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against IOF or settlers, on Wednesday, 10 February 2021, IOF demolished Mohammed Kabha’s family house. Kabha, from Toura village, southwest of Jenin, is imprisoned in Israeli jails. According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre …

HEBRON, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – The Israeli occupation forces today forced a Palestinian resident of Khirbet al-Thaala hamlet in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank to remove a tent he had set up to shelter his family of 13 people, according to a local activist. Rateb …

RAMALLAH, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – President Mahmoud Abbas today cabled Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi congratulating him on assuming his duties as the new prime minister and expressing hope for joint cooperation between them. “In the name of the State of Palestine and its people, and on behalf of …

JERUSALEM, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – A group of Israeli Jewish fanatics today trespassed and desecrated a Muslim cemetery located just below Jerusalem’s old city wall, according to a Palestinian official. Munther Siam, member of the committee in charge of Muslim cemeteries in Jerusalem, told WAFA that the Israelis first …

RAMALLAH, Saturday, February 13, 2021 – Fifteen people have died of coronavirus in Palestine in the last 24 hours, 938 new cases were recorded, and 779 patients have recovered, today said Minister of Health Mai Alkaila. She said in her daily report on coronavirus in Palestine that nine people have …