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Under the auspices and in the presence of Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, Belgian Consul General Wilfried Pfeffer in Jerusalem signed today on behalf of the Government of Belgium a cooperation program worth 70 million Euros for the years 2022-2026. PM Shatyyeh stressed the importance of this cooperation program since it …

A Palestinian youth was shot and injured today evening during clashes that broke out in the town of Burqa to the northwest of Nablus, according to a local activist. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the north of the West Bank, said clashes erupted between forces and residents …

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Malki met today in Ramallah with his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts, Sameh Shokri and Ayman al-Safadi, respectively, where they discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian arena. During a consultative meeting held in Cairo, the three ministers discussed the efforts exerted during the …

Three Palestinians were shot and injured today by rubber-coated steel bullets, and dozens of others suffocated as Israeli forces attacked a memorial service held for Ammar Shafiq Abu Afifeh, who was shot and killed by the Israeli army last week. Israeli forces stormed the campus of Khadouri Technical University to …

Two hundred thousand doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines have been donated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, today said UNRWA in a press release. The delivery of vaccines to three UNRWA …

Israeli settlers today uprooted and stole grape saplings and demolished retaining walls in Kufr al-Dik town, west of the northern West Bank city of Salfit, and also razed land they had seized in the town of Battir, west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. In Kufr al-Dik, Saadat …

Israeli forces today razed a house and assaulted its Palestinian occupants in Khallet al-Eideh locality, east of Hebron, according to a local activist. Aref Jaber, a local anti-colonial-settlement activist, said that Israeli forces escorted a bulldozer to the southern West Bank locality, where they brutally assaulted the family of Saddam …

Six people died of coronavirus in Palestine in the last 24 hours and 203 new cases were recorded, today said the Ministry of Health. Three people died in the West Bank where 73 new cases were confirmed and 130 corona patients have recovered, one person died in occupied East Jerusalem …

The Israeli military government handed a Palestinian resident of Abu al-Nuwwar Bedouin community, east of Jerusalem, a demolition order for his family shelter, according to the community’s spokesman Daoud Jahalin. He told WAFA that Ahmad Jahalin has received a final demolition order for the shelter where he lives with his …

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and partners in Europe and Palestine, including Al-Haq, wrote to key European Union (EU) institutions and Member States and the United Kingdom (UK) urging them to uphold the rule of international law and human rights for the Palestinian people at the current …