Lingering tensions over Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem following a month of civil protests against Israeli measures at the holy compound dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Monday. The three dailies said a total of 84 far-right Jewish settlers forced their way into the mosque compound …
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Palestinians Monday decried an Israeli hate campaign against Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna for standing up to Palestinian rights. They accused in a statement Israeli media of waging “an unprecedented incitement campaign” against the 52-year old Palestinian-born Archbishop of Sebastia because of a recent solidarity visit to a church in …
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Israeli Interior Minister’s efforts to enforce Israeli domestic law on Palestinian occupied territory amounts to a de facto annexation of West Bank land to Israel, which is a gross violation of international law, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel said on Monday. According to the …
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Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Monday afternoon, a Palestinian father in the al-Jisir area in Salfit, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, and abducted him along with his teenage daughter. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers assaulted Yasser Suleiman, causing various cuts and bruises, and prevented Palestinian medics from providing …
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Israeli soldiers invaded, overnight until early morning hours Monday, several Palestinians areas in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, searched many homes and abducted fifteen Palestinians, including many teenagers. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in Silwan town, in …
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At least three Israeli army tanks, and three armored military bulldozers, invaded on Monday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands, fired live rounds and bulldozed large sections close to the border fence, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza. The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that the …
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Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Monday morning, a Palestinian worker, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, while trying to enter occupied East Jerusalem for work. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers shot Anas Hijazi al-Harsh, 25, from the at-Reehiyya village, south of Doura, in the southern West Bank governorate …
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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several homes in Palestinian communities in the West Bank governorates of Bethlehem and Tulkarem, abducted three Palestinians, and summoned three others for interrogation. The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers abducted a former political prisoner, identified …
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The European Union missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah expressed concern at the imminent threat of eviction by Israeli authorities of the Shamasneh family from their home in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. In a statement Sunday, EU missions called on the Israeli authorities to reconsider the decision, …
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The meeting of the PLO’s Executive Committee which discussed convening the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the PLO’s parliament, was the highlight of the Sunday issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies. The main front page headline in al-Ayyam said that the Executive Committee decided to continue consultations and dialogue with …
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