Day: 25 October 2022

The Israeli army Tuesday evening sealed off secondary roads in Huwara town, south of Nablus, according to local sources.

They said that the army used a bulldozer to block all secondary access roads leading to the main road of the town with earth mounds, cutting the village off entirely from the surrounding villages and towns.

This came as the occupation authorities continue to impose a siege on Nablus for the fifteenth consecutive days, bringing daily life in the occupied West Bank city to a virtual halt with devastating economic impacts on its residents.

For fifteen days in a row, the Israeli military has closed all eight surrounding military checkpoints to enter and exit Nablus. It has also erected dozens more flying checkpoints, and has sealed off a network of side roads across the district, which is home to over 425,000 people spread across four refugee camps, 55 villages, and one city.

The military has also conducted large-scale nighttime raids in the city and the surrounding villages and “stop and searches” incursions under the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency

Israeli settlers Tuesday evening assaulted the villagers of Einabus, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local activist.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli colonial settlements in the northern West Bank, said that masked settlers hurled rocks at the villagers’ houses, north of the village. No injuries were reported though.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Settlers‘ violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency

The Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Hussain al-Shaikh met today with ambassadors of the Munich Group (Egypt, Jordan, France, and Germany”, where he briefed them on the latest field developments and the dangerous Israeli escalation.

“We exchanged views on the mechanisms of activating the group’s role regionally and internationally to create a political horizon, as well as place pressure on Israel to stop all unilateral measures,” he said in a tweet.

He also thanked the four countries for the effort exerted by them and their continuous support for the necessity of having a political vision based on international legitimacy to end the Israeli occupation.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency

Hundreds of Palestinians and French supporters of the Palestinian cause demonstrated this evening in the French capital, Paris, in protest against the Israeli occupation’s crimes against the Palestinian people, and rejecting to host the Israeli Maccabi Haifa team to play in French stadiums.

Protesters carried the Palestinian flag and banners condemning Israel, such as “The Israeli team is not welcomed here.”

Paris Saint Germain will play against Maccabi Haifa team tonight as part of the UEFA Champions League.

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President Mahmoud Abbas today congratulated new UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

President Abbas sent a telegram to Sunak expressing his pleasure at the latter’s election as the new leader of the Conservative Party and on assuming the post of the UK Prime Minister and wishing him every success in his tasks.

He stated that he availed himself of this opportunity to voice his interest in engaging with UK Prime Minister Sunk on furthering bilateral relations in the spirit of friendship and cooperation while stressing the importance of the need for UK to exert more efforts to safeguard the two-state solution against collapse and achieve just and comprehensive peace in line with the United Nations resolutions and international law.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency