The Ministry of Information lashed out on Thursday at British Prime Minister Theresa May for insisting to hold celebrations marking 100 years for the infamous Balfour Declaration. The ministry said in a statement that May’s insistence to hold the celebrations and bragging about Britain’s role in creating Israel “is a …
Read More »PLO calls for sanctions against Israel for its settlement activities
The international community should impose sanctions on Israel for violating international law with its settlement activity instead of paying lip service to the two-state solution and simply denouncing the settlement activity, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said on Thursday. Reacting to the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation’s upcoming vote …
Read More »Newspapers Review: Expansion of East Jerusalem settlement focus of dailies
Israeli occupation authorities’ plan to expand the largest settlement of Nof Zion in the heart of East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal Mukabber dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies on Thursday. The dailies reported Israel has approved the construction of 176 new settler units in illegal settlement built …
Read More »PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Nine Palestinians In The West Bank”
Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, nine Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS office if Jenin, in northern West Bank, said the soldiers abducted Yousef Ezzat Shakarna, Mo’in Ibrahim Hamamra, Ahmad Mohammad Khaliliyya and Samer Mohammad Abbas. …
Read More »Two Detainees Continue Hunger Strike Protesting Their Illegal Administrative Detention
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Thursday, that two detainees, illegally held by Israel under arbitrary detention orders, without charges, are ongoing with hunger strikes their separately started on October 11, and October 18. The PPS stated that detainee Hasan Shouka, 29, from Bethlehem, started a hunger strike on …
Read More »Army Demolishes A Palestinian Home Near Nablus
Several Israeli army jeeps invaded, on Thursday morning, the village of Khirbit Yanoun, southeast of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and demolished one home, during training. Media sources in Nablus said the soldiers demolished the home of Adwan Bani Jaber, in the ad-Dowwa area, where the army has …
Read More »Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Jenin And Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, several homes in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin, and Hebron, in southern West Bank, and abducted two Palestinians. In Jenin, several army jeeps invaded Qabatia town, south of the city, searched homes and abducted a young man, identified as Yousef Ezzat …
Read More »Palestinian Engineers Create Phone App for Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Palestinian doctors and engineers claim to have developed an app that would allow women to detect early signs of breast cancer by simply snapping a picture from their phones. Al-Quds University released a statement saying that Dr. Zaidoun Salah and engineer Yazid Al Badarin invented the app, which is still …
Read More »Dozens of Extremist Settlers Break into Al-Aqsa Mosque
Scores of Israeli extremist settlers, backed by Israeli special forces and rapid intervention troops, broke into the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday morning. Jerusalemite sources reported that some 51 settlers stormed al-Aqsa via Maghariba gate, and carried out provocative tours in its courtyards where they were met with …
Read More »Palestinian Village Demolished for 120th Time
Israeli occupation forces demolished the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, in Al-Naqab (Negev), southern Israel for the 120th time. Palestinian sources said that the Israeli land authority, accompanied by Israeli police and bulldozers, raided the village and demolished the Palestinian homes. An Israeli court ruled, last month, that six residents …
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