اقتحمت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، مساء اليوم الأربعاء، بلدة علار، شمالي طولكرم (شمالي الضفة الغربية)، واعتقلت شابين فلسطينيين شرق المدينة. وأفادت مصادر محلية بأن “قوة عسكرية كبيرة من جيش الاحتلال، داهمت عددا من المحلات التجارية في المنطقة الغربية للبلدة، واخضعت الشبان للاستجواب، دون التبليغ عن اعتقالات”. وأضافت المصادر أن “البلدة شهدت مواجهات مع قوات الاحتلال، التي أطلقت قنابل الغاز السام المسيل للدموع والصوت صوب الشبان، ولم يبلغ عن وقوع إصابات لحد

RAMALLAH– A slight drop in temperature is expected today in Palestine with partly cloudy skies and cold conditions, particularly in the mountains, and a slight chance of scattered rain over some areas, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Depar…

NABLUS/JENIN– Israeli settlers today set a Palestinian-owned car on fire and attacked commuters on roads in the north of the West Banks.Ghassan Daghlas, an official, said settlers sneaked into a neighborhood in the town of Urif, south of the city of N…

RAMALLAH– The Israeli occupation forces today detained at least 21 Palestinians during various raids across the occupied territories, two of them minors, according to various sources.In the Bethlehem governorate in the south of the West Bank, the Isra…

WASHINGTON– The US State Department yesterday withdrew the nomination of human rights defender James Cavallaro, executive director of the University Network for Human Rights and former Stanford Law and Harvard Law professor, only days after nominating…

RAMALLAH- The unemployment rate among labor force participants in Palestine reached 24% in 2022, compared to 26.4% in 2021, and the total labor underutilization reached 31%, according to the International Labor Organization standards, today said the P…

HEBRON– An Israeli army force today demolished a residence and uprooted 100 saplings in Masafer Yatta, in the south of the occupied West Bank.Local activist Rateb al-Jabour told WAFA that soldiers broke into Shaab al-Battem area in Masafer Yatta and d…

NABLUS/HEBRON– Israeli settlers today attacked schools and homes in a village in the north of the West Bank and slashed car tires in the south.Dozens of settlers attacked two schools and homes in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, throwing roc…

OSLO/BRUSSELS– Norway, Luxemburg, Denmark, and Finland have rejected in separate statements Israel’s legalization of settlement outposts and the construction of more settlements in the occupied West Bank, warning that this policy could increase tensio…

RAMALLAH- The State of Palestine, represented by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), ranked 17th in the world and second in West Asia in the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) 2022 with an overall score of 74, today said the PCBS.The Open Dat…

RAMALLAH- President Mahmoud Abbas today called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to express condolences over the devastating earthquake which killed over 40,000 in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria.During the phone call, President Abba…