Weather today in Palestine is clear, dry and hot in the daytime and warm at night with no change in temperature, which remains 2°C above the seasonal average, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department (PMD). Winds are northwesterly and light to moderate, while sea waves are low. Temperature in the capital, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem is […]
Day: 5 June 2022
Two Palestinian hunger-striking detainees remain in critical health condition
The Israeli Prison Service rejected today a petition submitted by the attorneys of Palestinian detainees Khalil Awawdeh and Raed Rayyan demanding their clients’ immediate transfer to hospital after 95 and 60 respectively on hunger strike, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Awawdeh, 40, from the town of Idna in the southern West Bank Hebron […]
Newspaper Review: Dailies highlight President Abbas’s call with Macron
Palestinian Arabic-language dailies focused today on President Mahmoud Abbas’s call yesterday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron which discussed the latest political developments in the region. Al-Ayyam said it its main headline: “President Abbas tells Macron: We’re about to take a series of steps in response to the Israeli escalation.” Al-Quds reported on the same […]
Sharp decrease in Palestine’s Industrial Production Index, says PCBS
The overall Industrial Production Index (IPI) in Palestine reached 98.63 points during April 2022 which indicates a sharp decrease of 11.04% compared to March 2022, said the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in a report today. PCBS said IPI for April 2022 decreased due to the sharp decrease in the activities of Manufacturing Industry […]
Palestinians manage to foil settlers’ attack on Ramallah-area village
Palestinian residents of the village of Nabi Saleh to the north of Ramallah managed tonight to foil an Israeli settlers’ attack against their village, according to security sources. Sources told WAFA that a group of settlers, backed by military soldiers, gathered at the main entrance to the village of Nabi Saleh in an attempt to […]
Israeli forces open fire at farmers and shepherds in the Gaza Strip
Israeli occupation army opened its heavy machine gunfire and fired tear gas canisters at Palestinian farmers and shepherds in the southern and central Gaza Strip, according to sources. Israeli soldiers stationed at the borders opened heavy fire and tear gas canisters at farmers working on agricultural land to the east of Rafah city in the […]
Israeli soldiers force mother to undress her toddler for wearing T-shirt with riffle drawing
Israeli occupation forces stationed at Tura military checkpoint to the southwest of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, forced a Palestinian mother to undress her three-year-old child because he was wearing a T-shirt with a riffle drawing on it. The child’s parents said during a telephone call with WAFA that the mother was stopped […]
Israeli forces storm Tulkarem-area village, remove all Palestinian flags
Israeli military forces today stormed the village of Shufa to the southeast of Tulkarem, in the northern occupied West Bank, and removed all the Palestinian flags hoisted on the poles and walls throughout the village, according to the security of Fatah movement in Shufa, Murad Droubi. Over the previous few days, the Israeli army has […]