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By Esat Fırat and Mohammad Ghefari JERUSALEM (AA) :A Palestinian man was shot dead late Tuesday by Israeli forces in the village of Beita in occupied West Bank. In the northern Jordan Valley area 13 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli forces as they protested against settlement activity. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said […]

28th Mar 2020

Israel confiscates Palestinian clinic tents designated for coronavirus treatment

B’tselem (Israeli human rights group): Israel confiscated materials used to build a field clinic designated for coronavirus treatment for Palestinians. On Thursday, 26 March, at around 7:30 am, officials from Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank arrived with a military jeep escort, a bulldozer and two flatbed trucks with cranes at the Palestinian community […]

11th Sep 2019

Palestine: Netanyahu says he would annex Palestinian Jordan Valley

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): If Israel annexes parts of the occupied West Bank, all agreements signed with Israel will end, warned the Palestinian president on Tuesday. “All agreements and their resulting obligations would end if the Israeli side annexes the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea, and any part of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967,” […]

10th Mar 2019

Palestine: Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank

By Qais Abu Samra and Osama al-Ghassani RAMALLAH (AA): A Palestinian youth was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Salameh Kaabneh was killed by Israeli fire near the city of Jericho, the ministry said in a statement. Israeli police, for its part, […]

28th Nov 2018

Palestine: Israel to seize Palestinian land in Jordan Valley region

By Anees Suheil Barghouti RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): The Israeli authorities on Tuesday issued confiscation notices for hundreds of dunums of church-owned land in the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank. (An Ottoman-era unit of land measurement, one dunum is roughly equivalent to 1,000 square meters.) Mutaz Bisharat, a Palestinian Authority (PA) official, […]

27th Mar 2016

Palestine: 1/3 of Palestinian village left homeless by demolitions in 2016

IMEMC News & Agencies: Mass Israeli demolitions, in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbet Tana, have left more than a third of its Palestinian residents homeless since the beginning of the year, the UN said Friday. A Palestinian Bedouin woman stands next to her destroyed tent in the village of Atouf in the Jordan Valley. […]

9th Jan 2016

Palestine: Israeli military kills 2 Palestinians near Nablus

[Photo: Israeli security forces make crime scene investigation after the killing of two Palestinians allegedly attempted knife attack at Huwwara district in Nablus, West Bank on December 27, 2015. Photographer: Nedal Eshtayah/AA] Celine Hagbard IMEMC News & Agencies: Early Saturday morning, two Palestinians were shot dead at the al-Hamra (Beqaot) checkpoint in the northern part […]

19th Aug 2015

Palestine: 12 residential tents demolished in Jordan Valley

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, demolished a number of residential tents in the village of Fasayel, in the southern Jordan Valley, according to local sources. jordanvalley2maan.jpg Hamza Zubedat, a local activist, said that an Israeli army force accompanied by bulldozers demolished 12 residential tents, which shelter members of the Bedouin tribes Rashaydeh […]

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