Dozens of settlers stormed this morning the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Al-Ghazali Square near Bab Al-Asbat, and performed Talmudic rituals. Eyewitnesses said that the settlers broke into the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, and performed Talmudic rituals at the gate, in the middle of the cemetery, on the wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic dances in Imam Al-Ghazali Square in front of Bab al-Asbat, one

The Russian Foreign Ministry said today that representatives of the Middle East Quartet discussed steps to accelerate the easing of the ‘conflict’ between Palestine and Israel. The Foreign Ministry added that representatives of the Quartet, which includes Russia, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations, stressed the need to comply with the rules of humanitarian law in the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’. The ministry indicated that Russia stressed, during

Israeli forces Monday overnight detained at least eight Palestinians, including a mother and her three children, in multiple West Bank raids, according to local and security sources and the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS confirmed that Israeli forces rounded up a mother together with her two sons and 17-year-old daughter, all members of the Kaabneh clan, from north of Jericho city. In the northern West Bank, special Israeli forces abducted

Pope Francis said that peace must be established and the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’ in the Middle East should be ended. During Sunday mass, Pope Francis added that “a solution must be found with the help of the international community” to stop “the escalation of violence. Many people were injured and many innocent people were killed, including children. It is horrible and unacceptable.” The Ministry of Health announced that the death toll

Four Palestinians were killed and a number of others were wounded in fresh Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that Israeli warplanes targeted a vehicle with a missile near the seaport, west of Gaza city, killing three Palestinians, including two who were in the vicinity. The warplanes also pounded several civilian houses in Beit Lahia and Jabalya towns in the northern besieged enclave,

The Education Ministry today stated that 20 out of some 200 Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza were school students. It mourned in a press release the 20 students, enrolled in public and private schools as well as UNRWA-run schools, who were killed in Israeli aerial and artillery bombardment on the besieged coastal enclave. It affirmed the necessity of international intervention in order to deter Israel and

The Palestinian leadership today called for intensified US pressure on Israel to halt the ongoing onslaught on Gaza and the forced expulsions of Palestinian from Jerusalem. Fatah Central Committee member, Hussein al-Sheikh, General Intelligence chief, Majid Faraj, and President Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor for Diplomatic Affairs, Majdi Khaldi, urged the US to spare no effort and bring every pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately stop their aggression against Gaza

Palestine today recorded 247 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths in the last 24 hours, according to Health Minister Mai Alkaila. Among the new 247 cases, 175 cases were recorded in the West Bank, and 72 others in the Gaza Strip. She added in her daily report on the disease that 1285 Covid-19 patients recovered; 575 recovery cases in the West Bank and 710 others in the Gaza Strip. Nine

The Ramallah-based Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) condemned in an urgent appeal to the international community the Israeli occupation forces continued systematic aggression against the Gaza Strip and its escalation for the sixth consecutive day. ICHR held the occupying Power, [Israel], fully responsible for the lives of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory, for the scheme of expulsion and forced displacement of dozens of Palestinian families from the Sheikh

A Palestinian minor was killed and dozens of others suffocated by tear gas during clashes with Israeli forces in al-Aroub refugee camp to the north of the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, according to WAFA correspondent. Clashes reportedly broke out at the entrance to al-Aroub refugee camp, during which Israeli army forces fired live and rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades towards the camp’s residents