Israeli forces today delivered stop-construction orders for a number of Palestinian houses and shacks in Barta’a, a village isolated behind Israel’s separation wall, southwest of Jenin. Local sources said an Israeli military force raided Barta’a and handed eight residents notices ordering them to halt the construction on their houses and …
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Israeli forces demolished today two agricultural structures in the village of Atouf in the Jordan Valley, reported Mutaz Bsharat, a local official. He described the structures as a caravan and a shack. Bsharat also said soldiers seized a tractor owned by a Palestinian resident of the village of al-Ras al-Ahmar, …
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Israeli bulldozers razed today a large area of Palestinian land in the village of Hajjah, to the east of the occupied northern West Bank city of Qalqilya, according to Mohammad Abu al-Sheikh, who monitors settlement activities in Qalqilya district. He told WAFA that the bulldozers razed 145 dunums of agricultural …
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President Mahmoud Abbas is set to begin on Thursday a three-day official visit to Norway, according to the President’s Adviser for Diplomatic Affairs Majdi Khaldi. Speaking to Voice of Palestine radio, Khaldi said that the President is expected to meet with the Crown Prince of Norway Haakon Magnus, the Prime …
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Shortly after the Israeli government approved the establishment of a new settlement on the outskirts of Jericho city, the European Union slammed all settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, as a serious breach of international law. “The European Union reiterates that all settlements in the occupied Palestinian …
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The results of Israel’s closely-fought parliamentary elections hit the front page headlines in Wednesday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies. Al-Quds reported that neither current Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu nor former military chief Benny Gantz won the elections. Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said that the elections results were not …
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Israeli forces today morning shot and killed a Palestinian woman at Qalandia military checkpoint, located to the north of Jerusalem, said WAFA correspondent. He said that Israeli forces deployed at the checkpoint opened fire at the woman, wounding her even though she did not pose an immediate threat as was …
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The presidency today condemned Israeli demolition of several Palestinian residential buildings in Wadi al-Hummus area of Sur Baher, an East Jerusalem neighborhood. The presidency held the Israeli government “fully responsible for this serious escalation against our defenseless Palestinian people,” and considered it as “part of the plan to implement the …
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Fatah Central Committee said today that Israel is committing a war crime and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in Wadi al-Hummos area in Sur Baher in the occupied city of Jerusalem, adding to its black record of successive crimes against human rights, land and holy places, particularly in Jerusalem, the eternal …
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Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki and his Bolivian counterpart Diego Pary Rodríguez signed an agreement on development cooperation between the Ministry, represented by the Palestinian International Cooperation Agency (PICA) and the Ministry of Development Planning of the State of Bolivia, on the sidelines of the ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement …
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