Masked gunmen Monday opened fire at a Hamas post, a police station and a Hamas checkpoint in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, local source said. No casualties were reported. The series of attacks were apparently a response from Salafist Jihadist groups to Hamas crackdown on its …
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Saudi Arabia transferred $30.8 million to the Palestinian Authority’s treasury as part of its financial aid to the Palestinian budget, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Egypt, Ahmad Qattan, said on Sunday. He said in a statement that Saudi Arabia has committed to support the Palestinian Authority’s budget with $7.7 million a …
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Over 40 Portuguese photographers, teachers of photography and photography students pledged on Saturday, which marked World Photography Day, not to accept professional invitations or financing from Israel, and to” refuse to collaborate with Israeli cultural institutions complicit in Israel’s regime of occupation, colonialism and apartheid,” according to the official website …
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, is currently seeking to double the budget required for expanding the new illegal settlement of Amichai, north of Jerusalem, West Bank. The total of the budget would almost reach quarter a million NIS, set for evacuating 40 settler families from Amona outpost near Ramallah, …
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On a large fishing boat on the tip of land that stretches a few meters into the water of Gaza City beach, Hana al-Jarousha, a young woman enjoyed herself in the first leisure restaurant of its kind in the blockaded Gaza Strip. The fishing boat, whose owners decided to transform …
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A senior Palestinian official on Sunday urged the U.S. administration under President Donald Trump to declare its support for the two-state solution and ending Israeli settlement expansion. Saeb Erekat, secretary general of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, told Xinhua in an interview that, as a sponsor of the Israeli-Palestinian …
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday stressed the importance of the role of the peace powers in Israel in order to achieve a permanent peace between the two sides. Abbas made the remarks during meeting with an Israeli left-wing party delegation in Ramallah, according to the report of Palestinian news …
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The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on Sunday warned of continuing Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Islamic and Christian holy sites in East Jerusalem. Youssef al-Mahmoud, spokesman of the Ramallah-based Palestinian National Authority (PNA), said “Israel still violates the mosque” in a press statement on the eve of the …
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Israeli authorities issued 84 administrative detention orders, without charge or trial, against Palestinian detainees, since the beginning of this month, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS noted that new administrative detention orders were issued to 47 Palestinian detainees, whereas the remaining 38 others received renewed orders. Israel’s widely …
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President Mahmoud Abbas received on Sunday a delegation from the Israeli left-wing Meretz party at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, to discuss ways to advance peace efforts in the region. The delegation, chaired by Zehava Gal-On, confirmed to Abbas the need to end the Israeli occupation and establish an independent …
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