The US government has appointed members of a committee tasked with mapping out areas of the occupied West Bank that Israel plans to annex as part of President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “Deal of the Century.” A senior Trump administration official told the Israel Hayom daily that US ambassador to Israel …
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President Mahmoud Abbas’ message on the occasion of Christmas hit the front page headlines in Tuesday’s issue of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies. Abbas was quoted in al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida sharing his hopes “that 2020 will be the year of ending the occupation and achieving the independence of the …
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The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights, Hurryyat said in a report that the Israeli occupation authorities prevented 7984 people from traveling during the last five years, nine percent of whom are women. Hurryyat said in a statement today that 310 travel bans were documented since the beginning …
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Israeli bulldozers demolished today a Palestinian house under construction in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, displacing a family of nine members. Wadi Hilweh Information Center, a Silwan-based watchdog, posted a video showing scores of police officers escorted a bulldozer to Issawiya, where the heavy machinery tore down a three-story …
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The Palestinian Foreign Ministry, on Tuesday, accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of “anti-Semitism,” the Turkish Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement, the ministry decried Pompeo’s usage of the Jewish term “Judea and Samaria” in describing the West Bank and his support for Jewish settlement building in the occupied …
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Israel is considering preventing the entry of officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to the chief prosecutor’s decision to investigate its possible war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Middle East Monitor reported. Israel Hayom published, on Monday, that representatives from the Israeli ministries of Foreign …
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Israeli forces seized a truck and a bulldozer owned by Palestinian residents in the town of Beit Ummar to the north of Hebron, the southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. Mohammed Awad, a media activist, said that Israeli forces confiscated a truck and a …
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave instructions to freeze the plans to annex the Jordan Valley to Israeli sovereignty, Ynet revealed Tuesday. The Israeli paper explained, according to Al Ray, that Netanyahu made his decision following that of the International Prosecutor to conduct an investigation into war crimes, carried out …
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Israeli bulldozers, on Tuesday morning, razed a large tract of Palestinian land, which belongs to the Nablus-district villagers of Jalud, in order to expand the nearby illegal Israeli colonial settlements, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the northern West Bank, …
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Thousands of Palestinians and tourists gathered on Tuesday, at Manger Square, in Bethlehem, marking the start of Christmas eve. Local faithful and pilgrims gathered at the square, outside the Church of the Nativity, where a 15-meter Christmas tree had been erected, and along the narrow cobble-stoned route, known as Star …
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