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Israeli government ministers are teaming up with US officials in their efforts to dissolve the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) during next week’s UN General Assembly meeting in New York. Israel’s deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely is reported to have headed to Washington DC today for a meetings …

The activities of Israeli banks in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories contribute to serious human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Tuesday. By providing services to and in settlements, which are illegal under international humanitarian law, and partnering with developers in …

Israeli army Wednesday confiscated a lorry that was carrying vegetables in Ras al-Ahmar area, south of Tubas in the Jordan Valley, according to local sources. Aref Daraghmeh, who monitors settlement activities in the area, told WAFA that Israeli forces confiscated a lorry belonging to Ammar Wakhaymeh as it was driving …

A man wanted on criminal and drug-related charges was shot dead on Wednesday and another one injured during a pursuit by the security forces in Yatta, to the south of Hebron in the West Bank, according to Adnan Damiri, spokesman of the Palestinian security forces. He told WAFA that the …

Several Israeli military bulldozers crossed the border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning and leveled lands in the “buffer zone” east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the besieged coastal enclave, according to Palestinian security sources. The sources said that four D9 bulldozers arrived from Israel’s Kissufim …

Two Palestinian detained juveniles in Israeli Ofer prison affirmed being subjected to abuse and inhuman treatment during their arrest and through their transfer journeys to detention centers. The lawyer of Detainees and Ex-detainees Committee, Luai Ukkeh, quoted the 17-year-old captive Mahmoud Zeid, from al-Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah and Yousef …

Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Tuesday handed over an entry ban order to the Fatah Secretary General in Occupied Jerusalem, Shadi Mutawar, preventing him from accessing al-Aqsa Mosque for six months. The Jerusalemite activist, Fadi Mutawar, told Quds Press that the Israeli intelligence apparatus summonsed his brother to be questioned …

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party announced on Tuesday that it is keen to intensify dialogue with Egypt to end over 10 years of internal Palestinian division. Fatah announcement was made in an official statement issued after an emergency meeting for its central committee chaired by Abbas in Ramallah. The …

The Palestinian consensus government welcomed Tuesday the Arab League’s agreement to a request from the Palestinian Authority to form a committee aimed at foiling Israel’s bid to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2019/2020. The Palestinian cabinet called, in a statement issued after the weekly …

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received Monday a letter bearing signatures of a million Palestinians, mostly students, to be delivered to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during their meeting next week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The letter handed to Abbas by the head of …