RAMALLAH, Israeli forces Thursday overnight detained nine Palestinians mostly from the northern occupied West Bank, according to local and security sources.They said that Israeli forces rounded up six Palestinians, all members of the Gawadra family, in…
RAMALLAH, The illiteracy rates decreased by 84% throughout the last two decades, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).PCBS said in a press release on the occasion of International Literacy Day that the illiteracy rate in Pal…
HEBRON, Israeli settlers today set up tents on a tract of land in Birin village, southeast of Hebron city, according to a local municipal source.Head of Birin Village Council, Farid Burqan, said that scores of settlers, under military protection, took
HEBRON, Israeli forces today obstructed the work of three journalists and an activist in the Old City of Hebron, according to the activist.Aref Jaber, a local anti-colonial-settlement activist, said that the heavily-armed soldiers held him along with t…
GAZA, The Israeli army today infiltrated Gaza’s eastern border, east of Juhor Ad Dik town, and destroyed agricultural land, according to WAFA correspondent.He said that a convoy of over eight army tanks and bulldozers, backed by drones, advanced severa…
RAMALLAH, Nasser Abu Hmeid, 49, a critically ill Palestinian freedom fighter and cancer patient serving a life sentence in Israeli jails, is currently battling death due to his worsening health condition, today said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (…
RAMALLAH, The Israeli occupation authorities today banned a formerly-detained Palestinian novelist from traveling to Jordan.Esmat Mansour, 45, said that Israeli forces manning the Al-Karama border crossing, the only border crossing available to West Ba…
JERUSALEM, Israeli occupation authorities forced today a Palestinian citizen of occupied Jerusalem to self-demolish his own house in the neighborhood of Silwan, citing unpermitted construction as a pretext.Local sources told WAFA that Isam Sharaf, a Pa…
