Statement by Sarah Muscroft, Head of OCHA in the occupied Palestinian territory, James Heenan, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory, and Lucia Elmi, UNICEF Special Representative in State of Palestine United Nations representatives met yesterday with the Palestinian Bedouin community of Humsa al Bqai’a, …
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Latest development (outside the reporting period) On 3 February, the Israeli authorities demolished or confiscated 21 structures in Humsa al Bqai’a, two days after the previous operation took place, as described below. The two military operations displaced 60 people, including 35 children. Highlights from the reporting period Two Palestinians reportedly …
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By Maan Rimawi RAMALLAH, Saturday, February 13, 2021 (WAFA) – Bilal Bawatneh, 52, from Ajoul village, north of Ramallah, was eager to visit the northern Jordan Valley because this would be the first time for him in that area. So he decided to join a group of 25 Palestinians going …
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JERUSALEM, Saturday, February 06, 2021 – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory issued the following flash update on the situation in Humsa al-Fouqa al-Bqai’a Palestinian community in the northern occupied Jordan Valley, recently uprooted by the Israeli occupation forces. The …
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Rights group B’Tselem labeling Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ is important development, tells former UN rapporteur February 03, 2021 A former UN human rights rapporteur and international law expert at the US-based Princeton University said a “peaceful future” in the Palestinian issue “will not arise until Israel dismantles apartheid.” “A …
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03 February 2021 In the summer of 2019, settlers established a new outpost southeast of ‘Ein Samia and east of Kafr Malik. In November 2020, they relocated it north, near the Bedouin community of Ras a-Tin, whose residents graze their flocks there. Area residents have repeatedly demonstrated against the establishment …
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Communities Facing Expulsion 02 February 2021 Israel has taken two unusally broad measures this week as part of its ongoing efforts to forcibly transfer Palestinian communities in order to take over their land: The Jordan Valley Yesterday, Monday, 1 February 2021, Israeli forces confiscated most of the residential structures and …
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A Routine Founded on Violence 02 February 2021 The town of Silwad, which lies northwest of Ramallah, is home to some 10,000 people. For three weeks, from mid-November 2020, four soldiers who were apparently stationed at a military watchtower near the main entrance to the town abused residents daily, attacking …
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January 27, 2021 by New Unions In cold blood, the Israeli occupation forces killed a 48-year Palestinian worker on Sunday morning, Jan. 24th near Tulkarm, north of Occupied West Bank. Fuad Sebti, a 48-year worker from the town of Iraq at-Tayeh, east of Nablus district, is a father of four …
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Repudiate Trump Slurs against Activists Critical of Israel and its Settlements By: Eric Goldstein Over the last four years, the Trump administration upended the global politics of the Israel-Palestine issue. On November 19, 2020, a year after declaring that West Bank settlements did not violate international law, Mike Pompeo became …
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