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The Palestinian leadership rejected an invitation by the United States to attend a donors meeting on the humanitarian situation in Gaza planned for March 13 at the White House, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said on Saturday. Ahmad Majdalani, member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, told Voice of Palestine …

A Washington State court ended on Friday a seven-year litigation battle against former volunteer board members of the Olympia Food Co-op over their decision to boycott Israeli goods, according to a press release. The lawsuit was first filed in 2011 by five co-op members seeking to block the co-op’s boycott …

The developments in Hebron, particularly the Israeli army killing of a handicapped Palestinian youth, were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies on Saturday. Al-Ayyam said the murdered Palestinian was 24 years old and he was deaf, with al-Quds saying he was also mute. The papers …

A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents of the southern occupied West Bank village of al-Tiwani, and attempted to set fire to the village’s mosque, according to locals. Locals from al-Tiwani, located in the South Hebron Hills, told Ma’an that a group of 30 settlers from the Maon and …

Umm al Fahm, one of the largest Palestinian cities in Israel’s 1948 borders, continues to lack street names and house numbers. Of the 301 street names selected by the Umm al-Fahm municipality, the Israeli Interior Ministry has stalled the approval of 60. All of the street names that have not …

A young Palestinian man was rushed, on Friday evening, to Beit Jala governmental hospital, after Israeli soldiers repeatedly assaulted him, and struck him with their rifles and batons. The young man, identified as Jihad Zawahra suffered moderate wounds, when a group of soldiers assaulted him after stopping him near the …

Several Palestinian civilians suffocated by teargas during clashes with Israeli forces on Friday in the town of Jaba’, to the south of Jenin in the West Bank, according to witnesses. Israeli army set up a flying checkpoint at the entrance to the town and assaulted two commuters who were attempting …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Friday slammed Israeli settlers’ erection of tents in the yards of al-Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron as a serious and unprecedented escalation aimed at Judaizing the Ibrahimi Mosque and its surroundings and the Old City of Hebron. The ministry in statement condemned in the …

President Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on religious affairs, Mahmoud al-Habbash, Friday condemned Israeli settlers’ erection of tents in the yards of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron earlier today. Al-Habbash said in a statement that Israel, the occupying power, continues to violate all international conventions and treaties and the resolutions of the …

Israeli forces Friday detained a Palestinian youth after shooting and injuring him during clashes that broke out in the village of Madama, south of the West Bank district of Nablus, said a local activist. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in northern West Bank district, told WAFA Israeli forces opened …