Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Saleh Higazi, said that what’s currently happening the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan ‘is yet another illustration of Israel’s criminal policy of forced displacement of Palestinians in motion.’ “By continuing to pursue this court case – after the outcry over the planned forced evictions in Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem – Israel is fanning the flames of the latest

Japan today announced the provision of $10 million in prompt assistance to address Gaza’s urgent needs following the recent Israeli onslaught. In a telephone call with Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, Riyad al-Malki, Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Motegi Toshimitsu, stated that his country was providing USD $10 million to help the war-torn coastal enclave address its urgent needs arising from the recent Israeli relentless bombardment, which killed 254

The Israeli occupation authorities today revoked the health insurance of 16 former Palestinian prisoners and their families in the occupied city of East Jerusalem, according to an activist. Speaking in a phone interview with WAFA, Chairman of the Jerusalem Residents Committee, Amjad Abu Asab, said that the decision to revoke the health insurance of the former prisoners and their families was all of a sudden discovered when a formerly imprisoned

Palestine recorded 379 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours, according to Health Minister Mai Alkaila in her daily report on coronavirus in Palestine. She said the West Bank had 63 new cases, one fatality in Bethlehem, and 260 recoveries in the last 24 hours, while the Gaza Strip had 316 new cases, and three deaths. Alkaila said 45 patients are in intensive care units, among

Israeli settler extremists stole today 110 Straw bales belonging to a Palestinian resident in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to a local activist. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said settlers stole around 110 straw bales belonging to local resident Mohammed Raja Eid in the village of Burin near Huwwara military checkpoint. Israeli settlers’ vandalism in

Pakistan on Wednesday called for the deployment of an international protection force in Palestine. Pakistan’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, said that an international protection force should be deployed in Palestine to ensure lasting peace in the Middle East region and protect innocent people from Israel’s atrocities, as reported in the Daily Times. “If international peacekeeping troops can be deployed in Africa, Asia, Europe and Far East,

The Humanitarian Coordinator of the occupied Palestinian territory, Lynn Hastings, launched an emergency plan to support people affected by the latest escalation and violence in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Along with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock, Hastings called on all Member States to contribute generously towards the $95 million plan, to allow for a swift and full implementation over

The Mission of the State of Palestine in Ireland welcomed in a statement the move by Oireachtas members – the Irish parliament – to unanimously vote in favor of the motion moved by Sinn Féin which recognized that the illegal settlement expansions constitute de facto annexation of occupied Palestinian territory. “This landmark decision represents the first time that an EU country has broken the consensus and truthfully called out the

Israeli authorities approved today the construction of hundreds of new settlement units to expand the illegal settlement of Mtsad, built on Palestinian land southeast of Bethlehem, according to a local activist. Hasan Brijiyeh, a local anti-settlement, and anti-wall activist told WAFA Israeli authorities approved the construction of 560 new settlement units in Mtsad settlement, built on Palestinian residents’ land in the village of Kisan and al-Rashaydeh, southeast of Bethlehem. He