Day: 5 November 2022

RAMALLAH- The three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today – al-Quds, al-Hayat al-Jadida, and al-Ayyam – highlighted the news about the phone call between President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

The three newspapers also highlighted the weekly Friday protests and clashes with soldiers in the West Bank that left dozens of injuries as well as settlers storming Qaryut village and attacking homes in Madama village.

Here are the main headlines of the three newspapers:

Al-Hayat al-Jadida:

The President receives a call from Blinken, renews demand to compel the occupation authorities to stop their crimes

The President calls the released prisoner Ismail Aref, congratulating him on his release

The occupation injures dozens in the West Bank, and settlers storm Qaryut and attack homes in Madama

In Jenin camp, the guests were present but the groom was absent

Israeli media: The Netanyahu government will change the face of the country

The Israeli elections, the unprecedented influence of the extreme right

The occupation decides to evacuate its forces from Shufat refugee camp checkpoint and to provide the soldiers with 2,500 bulletproof vests

Twitter is laying off about 50% of its employees worldwide

240 American Jews accuse AIPAC of seeking to oust pro-Palestinian congressional candidates

Report: Russia threatened Israel with retaliation if it supplied Ukraine with weapons

Trump to his supporters: “I will probably run” for the presidential election in 2024

Al-Ayyam:

The President receives a phone call from Blinken and demands that Israel stop its crimes

A new Friday of marches and confrontations, and settlers attack Madama and Qaryut

Injuries during confrontations with the occupation in Aida refugee camp and Husan

The United Nations: This year is the deadliest in the West Bank since 2005

Dozens of people demonstrate again in Sheikh Jarrah against settlements

Ir Amim: Israeli measures worsened during the era of the so-called change government

Netanyahu begins negotiations to form a government, and Ben Gvir and Smotrich lead the scene

The occupation decides to convert the Shufat camp checkpoint into a “civilian crossing”

Sullivan secretly visited Kyiv and met Zelensky; new US military aid to Ukraine

South Korea deploys stealth fighters after spotting 180 North Korean warplanes

Al-Quds

The President calls on the US to stop the Israeli aggression

Israel airstrikes on Gaza; injuries during marches and confrontations in the West Bank

Tens of thousands perform Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa

Britain cancels moving its embassy to Jerusalem

Netanyahu begins contacts to form a government

A campaign against an Arab doctor who gave candy to the injured Abu Qtaish

Russia every day evacuates thousands of civilians from Kherson

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

HEBRON– The Israeli occupation’s campaign to displace and evacuate the Masafer Yatta communities in the south of the West Bank began with the closure of the entrances to the villages of Jinba and al-Markaz and Bedouin communities in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, isolating them from their surroundings.

The head of the Masafer Yatta village council, Nidal Younes, told WAFA that the occupation forces closed the entrances to Jinba and al-Markaz with dirt mounds and prevented people from entering or leaving them except through iron gates installed in the area.

He pointed out that the occupation authorities had threatened the residents a few days ago of seizing and impounding any vehicle seen moving in that area and fining its driver.

More than 1000 Masafer Yatta residents are facing the threat of forced displacement from eight communities after the Israeli High Court gave the army the green line in May to evacuate the villages and displace their residents under the claim of turning that area into a firing zone and a military training area.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

RAMALLAH– Siblings were among seven Palestinians the Israeli occupation forces detained today and last night in raids at their homes and at checkpoints in the occupied West Bank, according to various sources.

Palestinian security sources said that Israeli forces raided the village of Deir Nitham, northwest of Ramallah, and detained four people from the Tamimi family, including the secretary of Fatah movement Qusai Diab Tamimi and his brother Louai, and Yazan Fadel Tamimi and his brother Mazen, after raiding and ransacking their family homes.

In the southern West Bank city Hebron, soldiers detained two people, one of them 18 years of age and the other 24, at a flying military checkpoint after assaulting them, according to security and local sources.

In the north of the West Bank, a Palestinian said to be from Jenin was detained as he attempted to cross al-Hamra checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley and his car was seized, said Palestinian security sources.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

RAMALLAH- The Palestinian National Council (PNC), the parliament in exile, denounced today in a statement the call by the recently-declared Palestinian Popular Conference to convene conferences for the Palestinian communities at home and in the diaspora and considered these conferences an attempt to circumvent the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and efforts to unify the Palestinians.

It accused the conference organizers of perpetuating division, stressing that it does not serve the national interest and consensus.

It said that as the Palestinian people are facing “a fierce war waged by the Israeli extremist right on our Palestinian cities, the settlements that are snatching our land, Israel’s daily massacres against our people, and desecrating Al-Aqsa Mosque every day at the hands of extremists and settler gangs,” and as the Palestinian people “are in dire need of strengthening national unity,” the Palestinian Popular Conference plans to hold conferences at home and in the diaspora, “which will divide the ranks, destabilize national unity, and try to circumvent the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and the unifying house of all Palestinians.”

The PNC accused the Popular Conference of “consolidating the Palestinian division and does not serve the national interest, national consensus, and a unified resistance of the Israeli scheme.”

It called for perpetuating national unity, not division and rupture, promising that the Palestinian people who protected the PLO “will foil all conspiracies to create alternatives to the Palestine Liberation Organization, just as it foiled all previous attempts to impose guardianship, dependency, containment and control over the independent Palestinian national decision.”

The organizers of the Popular Conference were planning to convene it today in Ramallah, but an official ban was issued against it on the ground that it is an attempt to create a substitute for the PLO.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

SOFIA– King Simeon II of Bulgaria affirmed today his sympathy and solidarity with the Palestinian people, saying it is time to end the occupation, establish an independent Palestinian state and return the refugees.

The Bulgarian King’s remarks were made during a meeting today with the Chargé d’Affairs of the State of Palestine’s embassy in Bulgaria, Adham Zeineddine, held at the Royal Palace in Sofia.

Zeineddine briefed the King of Bulgaria on the political developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, and the ongoing attacks by the Israeli occupation against our people and their Islamic and Christian sanctities, stressing that these violations undermine the chances of peace and stability in the Middle East.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

RAMALLAH– Palestinian administrative detainee in Israel, Sabea al-Titi, ended today his hunger strike which lasted for 19 days after reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service ending his solitary confinement within a few days, today said the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission.

Titi, a resident of Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, was detained on April 10 and slammed with administrative detention for six months.

Three days before the end of his term, the occupation authorities renewed it for six more months.

Titi was placed under solidarity confinement for more than one month and banned from family visits and buying from the canteen.

He started a hunger strike 19 days ago to protest his solitary confinement, and has been suffering from dizziness, joint pain, headaches, and loss of weight as a result of the hunger strike, said the prisoners’ commission.

His sister, Aseel, was arrested by the occupation forces on October 2 while she was visiting her brother in Rimon prison.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

RAMALLAH– An 18-year-old Palestinian teenager identified as Musab Mohammad Nafal was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces tonight near the town of Sinjil in the occupied West Bank province of Ramallah, according to medical sources.

The Ministry of Health said Nafal had been critically injured by a live Israeli bullet in the heart, and was rushed to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah where he was pronounced dead of his wound.

MoH said also it was informed by the Palestinian Cavil Affairs Commission that another Palestinian was seriously injured by the Israeli occupation forces during the same incident.

Local sources told WAFA that Israeli occupation soldiers opened gunfire at the two Palestinians while they were walking on a dirt road near the town, seriously injuring the two. While Nafal, who was later announced dead, was handed over by the Israeli occupation army to Palestinian medical teams, the other one injured, who is not yet known, was arrested by the army.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

HEBRON– Hardcore Israeli settlers tonight attacked Palestinians’ homes in Wadi Hasin neighborhood in the city of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses.

Aref Jaber, a local Palestinian resident, told WAFA that army-guarded Israeli settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba hurled stones at homes in the area and verbally attacked the local residents, terrorizing the local Palestinian families, especially children. No injuries were reported.

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

Over 650,000 Israeli settlers live in Jewish-only colonial settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency