The Israeli military demolished on Tuesday a structure in the Bedouin community of Jabal al-Baba in al-Eizariya to the southeast of Jerusalem and detained a Palestinian who protested the demolition, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that Israeli forces demolished the structure under the pretext it was built without permit …
Read More »Pro-Palestinian Dutch activist passes away at 91
Pro-Palestinian Dutch activist Margriet Teders passed away last Tuesday in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She was 91. Teders was born on February 18, 1926 and was considered one of the oldest activists in the Netherlands and Europe who fought for freedom and equality all over the world as she spent many …
Read More »Israel issues 17 administration detention orders against Palestinians
Israeli military authority issued 17 administration detention orders against Palestinians ranging in time between two to six months, Mahmoud Halabi, an attorney with the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, said on Tuesday. Nine of the orders were issued against Palestinians detained for the first time or were detained once then released and …
Read More »Israel removes illegal settlement outpost in Nablus area
Israeli forces removed on Tuesday an illegal outpost set up by Jewish settlers earlier this month on Beita, Qabalan, and Yatma lands to the south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, according to a local official. Beita Mayor Fouad Maali told WAFA that Israeli forces removed at dawn the …
Read More »Humanitarian Fund fills gap for vulnerable Palestinians following cut in aid to UNRWA
The United Nations Humanitarian Fund for the occupied Palestinian territory released on Tuesday approximately $900,000 for health and food support over the next six months to around 140,000 Palestinians, almost half of them children, in dozens of West Bank communities, including in East Jerusalem, according to a press release by …
Read More »Presidents Abbas briefs Kuwaiti foreign minister on the latest developments
President Mahmoud Abbas met on Monday in New York the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Sabah and briefed him on the latest political developments in the Palestinian issue. The meeting took place ahead of a speech Abbas is going to deliver at a meeting for the United Nations Security …
Read More »Russian envoy for Middle East: Political settlement is under a real threat
Mikhail Bogdanov, Special Envoy of the Russian President for the Middle East and Deputy Foreign Minister, said that the Middle East [political] settlement based on the two-state solution is under a real threat, noting that the point of no return is very close. Addressing the Valdai International Discussion Club, Bogdanov …
Read More »Ashrawi of PLO: Israeli occupation emboldened by Trump’s irresponsible policies
PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi said that the Israeli occupation has been emboldened by [US President Donald]Trump’s irresponsible policies in defiance of international law and the requirements of peace. addressing a visiting delegation of representatives of the German Federal Foreign Office in charge of the Middle East Department to …
Read More »President Abbas proposes peace plan at Security Council
President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday proposed a peace plan at the United Nations Security Council that tackles core issues, which have foiled peace efforts over the past few decades. Abbas said in his highly anticipated speech in front of the UN Security Council that the plan calls for holding an international …
Read More »Palestinian peace negotiator tells US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley to ‘shut up’ over Abbas criticism
Saeb Erekat accuses US ambassador of calling ‘for overthrowing the democratically elected Palestinian president’ A Palestinian peace negotiator has told the US envoy to the United Nations to “shut up” with her criticism of Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority. Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation …
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