RAMALLAH, Weather today in Palestine is sunny to partially cloudy and moderately cold in most districts with a rise in temperature, which approaches 6-7 °C above annual average, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department (PMD).
Cold weather conditions are expected …
Day: January 3, 2021
Settlers chase herders off pastures in Jordan Valley
JORDAN VALLEY, Colonial Israeli settlers last night attacked Palestinian herders in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, said Muataz Bsharat, an official in charge of monitoring Israeli settlements in the area.
He said the settlers from the …
Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for 21st day against detention without trial
RAMALLAH, Palestinian detainee in Israeli jails Jibril Zubaidi has been on hunger strike for the 21st day in a row in protest of his unfair detention without charge or trial, yesterday said Qadri Abu Bakr, Chairman of the Detainees and …
Health Minister raises alarm about a COVID-19 outbreak among Palestinian detainees
RAMALLAH, Minister of Health Mai Alkaila raised the alarm today about an imminent COVID-19 outbreak in the densely crowded Israeli prisons where hundreds of Palestinian political prisoners are currently held.
She said in a statement today that all of the …
Israel delaying badly needed treatment of a sick prisoner, says body
RAMALLAH, Israeli prison authorities have been delaying a badly needed medical treatment of a sick Palestinian political prisoner in the Israeli Nafha prison, today said the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission.
Since 2018, Jamal Amr, 49-years-old from the occupied West Bank …
Thirty more cases of COVID-19 among Palestinian detainees in Naqab
RAMALLAH, Thirty more cases of COVID-19 were registered among the Palestinian political detainees in the Israeli prison of Ktzi’ot in the Naqab desert since Thursday, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) in a statement today.
According to the PPS, the …