UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres began his tour in Gaza Strip. He arrived in the Gaza Strip for a several-hour visit to check the humanitarian situation he called for the lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip reportedly , he said,“I am deeply moved to be in Gaza today, …
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By Maan Rimawi Perhaps the Palestinian folk singer Mohammad Barghouti, 23, did not know that he is going to end up in an Israeli jail because of his popular folk songs. But he did along with two others from his band. Israeli soldiers raided early Wednesday Barghouti’s home in the …
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By Khalil Fawadleh Palestinian Orthodox Christians Wednesday lodged a criminal complaint against Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III over the sale and lease of church property to Jewish settler groups. The complainants, the Arab Orthodox Cultural Club and Beit Sahour Society, among others, lodged the complaint against Theophilos III …
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B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, documented an incident on August 24 in which Israeli settlers from Kiryat Arba settlement used a loudspeaker to verbally abuse Palestinian residents of al-Hariqah neighborhood in Hebron, using offensive language and insulting Islam. A B’Tselem volunteer filmed parts of the incident from her window. …
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An Israeli court slammed human rights researcher Salah Hamouri with a six-month administrative detention order, the human rights group Addameer said on Wednesday. It said that the Israeli Magistrate Court of Jerusalem had first ordered the conditional release of Hamouri, 32, a dual Palestinian-French citizen from Jerusalem and former prisoner, …
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Israeli forces detained on Wednesday 16 Palestinians, including a former woman prisoner, during raids in the occupied West Bank, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Five Palestinians were detained from the towns of Hosan and Beit Fajjar, in the governorate of Bethlehem, and four from several towns in the governorate …
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat said Wednesday that he had raised in his meeting on Tuesday in Ramallah with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres the importance of preserving Item 7 of the Human Rights Council (HRC) on the impact of Israeli violations on the human rights …
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France condemned this week the latest Israeli demolition and dismantling of French and European Union-funded Palestinian educational facilities in Area C of the occupied West Bank and called on Israel to return the property it had seized from these facilities. A French Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the Israeli action was …
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The three Palestinian Arabic dailies focused in their Wednesday issue on remarks made by Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of United Nations, in which he said that Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories are the major obstacle to peace between the Palestinians and Israel. Guterres’ remarks came during a …
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Le secrétaire général des nations unies, Antonio Guterres, a demandé à Israël de lever son blocus imposé sur la bande de Gaza et d’améliorer les conditions de vie des palestiniens. Dans une conférence de presse, Guterres a déclaré que la bande de Gaza a besoin de solutions radicales, invitant la …
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