Israeli navy Wednesday overnight shot and injured a Palestinian fisherman offshore Beit Lahia town in the northern besieged Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that the fishermen were sailing within three nautical miles, west of the town, when Israeli naval boats opened gunfire toward them, lightly injuring one of them. Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains

Israeli settlers Wednesday overnight set three Palestinian-owned vehicles ablaze near the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem, according to local sources. They said that a group of Israeli settlers torched the vehicles, which were parked nearby the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Ramot, east of the village, spray-painted racist graffiti and smashes the window shields of other vehicles parked in the area. The

Israeli forces Tuesday evening through Wednesday overnight detained at least eight Palestinians, including a paramedic, from various parts of the West Bank, according to security and local sources. They confirmed that Israeli police rounded up a Palestinian from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya. The detainee was identified as Mansour Mamoud, the head of the Fatah Youth Organization in the neighborhood, who sustained injuries after being by policemen using the

Palestine today recorded 1,084 new Covid-19 cases and 14 deaths, according to Health Minister Mai Al-Kaileh. She announced that 1,084 Palestinians tested positive for the highly contagious virus and 14 others died of it in the occupied territories. Among the new 1,084 cases, 289 cases were recorded in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and 795 others in the besieged Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, Nablus district was ranked

President Mahmoud Abbas received today at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah the Representative of the European Union in Palestine, Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, and discussed with him the latest developments regarding holding Palestinian legislative elections planned for May 22. The President briefed his guest on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and efforts by the Palestinian leadership to hold elections in all the Palestinian territories, including in Jerusalem as

Palestinians in the West Bank village of Nilin succeeded today in kicking out Israeli settlers who came to their lands to level it in order to open a road for the settlers, according to the activist Murad Amira. He told WAFA that the settlers, protected by soldiers, came to an area in the north of the village in order to continue work they started two days ago to open a