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The decision to suspend the taxation of church-owned properties is insufficient and Israel must be obliged to rescind it, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi said on Wednesday. She said in a statement that Israel must rescind all moves that target Palestinian Christian and Muslim holy sites …

The Palestinian Authority is facing a vicious war from Israel over textbooks in occupied East Jerusalem’s Palestinian schools, according to Deputy Minister of Education Basri Saleh. He told the official Voice of Palestine radio on Wednesday that Israel is doing its best to change the Palestinian curriculum and to prevent …

Some European Union countries are negotiating with the US administration to persuade it to amend terms in its so-called “deal of the century” in order to avoid rejecting it, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said on Wednesday. He told Voice of Palestine radio that it was agreed with the EU countries …

Israeli forces Wednesday detained 21 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The PPS said in a statement that Israeli forces detained seven from Hebron, including a minor, and five from Ramallah, also including a minor. According to the statement, soldiers also detained four …

Two Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces on Wednesday during clashes at Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, according to medical sources. Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah reported that two Palestinians were admitted to the hospital sustaining injuries from live bullets, one in the upper abdomen and will undergo surgery, and …

Dozens of students on Wednesday suffered suffocation due to gas inhalation fired at their school in Wadi al-Nasara in Hebron, according to a school official. School secretary, Suleiman Abu Sharkh, told WAFA that the Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters at Jaber Elementary School near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement …

The Israeli prison administration at Nafha imposed new punitive measures against Wael Natsheh, including tying his hands and feet to an iron bed for a week, ban from visits for one month, a fine of $70 and charging him of hitting an Israeli officer, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said …

Israel seized on Wednesday 24 dunums of lands belonging to the village of Burin, to the south of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank in order to open a road for a settlement, according to a local activist. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern …