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RAMALLAH – The Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which met in Istanbul in an urgent meeting over the situation in Jerusalem and its Al-Aqsa Mosque, has decided to ask the United Nations Security Council to provide protection to the mosque from Israeli abuses, Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said on …

NABLUS – Israeli forces Wednesday detained at least 20 Palestinians, including a lawmaker, during multiple overnight raids across the West Bank, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and security sources. The PPS said Israeli forces raided Asira al-Shamaliya, northwest of Nablus, where they detained five Palestinians, including member of Palestinian …

RAMALLAH – All actions taken by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza will be retracted once Hamas, the de facto power in the Gaza Strip, dissolves its recently established administrative committee, a senior Fatah official said on Wednesday. Jamal Muheisen, member of Fatah Central Committee, told Voice of Palestine radio that …

JERUSALEM – Israeli police continued on Wednesday to harass Palestinians seeking to enter the walled Al-Aqsa Mosque compound when its forces banned an employee of the Waqf from entering it. Officials from the Waqf, the Jordanian governmental body in charge of the holy compound in Jerusalem, said Israeli police stationed …

BETHLEHEM – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) was recently able to obtain an Israeli court ruling halting a decision to demolish seven homes in the village of al-Walajeh, bordering northern Bethlehem and Jerusalem, according to a local source. Hasan Burajiya, who monitors settlement activities in Bethlehem, said NRC attorney Ghayath …

RAMALLAH – President Mahmoud Abbas discussed unity on Tuesday evening with a Hamas delegation he met at his Ramallah headquarters. In addition to discussing unity and ending the internal Palestinian division, the meeting discussed as well the general situation in the occupied Palestinian territories particularly the recent developments in Jerusalem …

Ramallah – Mercredi, l’avocat de la commission des affaires des prisonniers et ex-prisonniers, Ashraf Abu Sneineh, a déclaré que le tribunal militaire israélien d’Ofer a publié des ordres de la détention administrative contre 9 prisonniers palestiniens. WAFA

Jérusalem – Mercredi, plus de 150 colons israéliens ont envahi ce matin la mosquée Al-Aqsa. Notre correspondant à Jérusalem a rapporté, que les colons ont envahi la mosquée Al-Aqsa, par la porte des Maghrébins, sous la protection des forces spéciales israéliennes, ajoutant qu’ils ont effectué des tours provocants dans les …

Naplouse – Mercredi, les forces israéliennes de l’occupation poursuivent d’empêcher les agriculteurs du village de Jalud au sud de la ville de Naplouse, de récolter leurs cultures. Le responsable du dossier de la colonisation en Cisjordanie, Ghassan Daghlas, a rapporté à WAFA que les forces israéliennes interdisent aux agriculteurs de …

Ramallah – Mercredi, la commission des affaires des prisonniers et ex-prisonniers a rapporté que la prison de ‘Nafha’ témoigne d’une grande tension après la décision de l’administration pénitentiaire israélienne concernant le transfert agressif de 25 prisonniers palestiniens aux prisons ‘ Néguev et Rimon’, l’isolement de 40 autres et la répartition …