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Employing systematic violence and terror, Zionist settlers have taken over Palestinian territory the size of the city of Holon, blocking Palestinian access to lands they used to cultivate crops and graze livestock, according to a report published by Israel’s Haaretz daily newspaper.

The Israeli occupation’s court decided to seize thousands of dunams of the lands of Umm Al-Fahm and ‘Ara in the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands.

Hamas spokesman: The Zionist occupation's establishing a transportation station near Nablus is a new Zionist aggression against our Palestinian people.

An Israeli planning committee approved plans advancing the construction of thousands of homes in Givat Hamatos, an illegal East Al-Quds’ settlement that threatens to cut off parts of the city from its Palestinian residents and the West Bank.

On this day in 1953, two Israeli military units under Ariel Sharon besieged the village of Qibya, located 11 km northwest of Ramallah, and isolated it from the rest of the neighboring villages.

The Zionist regime’s occupation has demolished about 172,900 Palestinian homes, displaced 1,324,000 Palestinians and confiscated 19 million dunums (19,000 square kilometres) of the land of historical Palestine "to bring 5 million Zionist immigrant from around the globe to replace the indigenous people."

Violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank has increased dramatically over the past two years, while Israeli officials continue to cover them up, Haaretz reported on Sunday.

Palestinian representatives of national and Islamic forces and refugees meeting in Ramallah have rejected a recent framework agreement signed between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the United States, saying it cancels the rights of return for the refugees.

Palestine has strongly rejected and boycotted Israel’s so-called settlement project in the occupied al-Quds as a colonization attempt, warning that the scheme is aimed at annexing the Arab part of the holy city to the occupying regime.

The United Nations says Israeli authorities have torn down, seized, or forced owners to demolish a total of 31 Palestinian-owned buildings across the occupied West Bank in two weeks.

A Palestinian family from the occupied Al-Quds neighborhood of Silwan embarked on demolishing their own home after they were forced to do so by Israeli municipality, according to local sources.

Mohammed Dwaik proceeded to tear down his house at Khilet al-Ein area in the town of at-Tur to avoid paying exorbitant costs if the Israeli municipality carries out the demolition on its own.

The Israeli occupying state is trying to deceive world public opinion when it says that Palestinians will be allowed to build in Area C of the occupied West Bank, said Ahmad Majdalani, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Zionist regime’s authorities have ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem (Beit-ul-lahm), the occupied West Bank.

Zionist regime has torn down more than 81 buildings in East Al-Quds since the beginning of this year, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Refusing to give in and surrender, the Palestinian people will continue fighting Israeli schemes with all their might. The Palestinian resistance is ready to respond to the Israeli occupation aggression.

Palestinian resident of East Al-Quds forced to demolish own house to avoid paying heavy fees

10 truckloads of aid include food parcels, medical equipment, hygienic supplies and clothing.

A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Israeli occupation authorities to halt its demolition and confiscation of Palestinian property in the occupied Palestinian Territories.

The European Union (EU) announced on Tuesday that Israel had displaced 595 Palestinians, including 320 children, since the beginning of 2021, representing an increase of 50 per cent compared to last year.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) received a contribution of $1 million from the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) towards supporting food assistance in Gaza.

UNOCHA: So far in 2021, the Israeli authorities have demolished, seized or forced people to demolish at least 421 Palestinian-owned structures, including 130 donor-funded [in the West Bank].

The Israeli authorities must immediately halt attempts to forcibly transfer around 70 Palestinians, including 35 children, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said, after bulldozers demolished all of the property of Humsa al-Bqai’a Bedouin community in the north of the Jordan Valley property.

Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Ministry condemns Zionist regime’s demolition of Humsa al-Fawqa as a step toward annexation of Jordan Valley.

Zionist regime’s new cabinet vows to build more settlements by stealing the Palestinian people’s lands, continue Netanyahu’s land theft policy.

The Israeli forces demolished, seized or forced the demolition of 26 Palestinian-owned structures and injured at least 1,075 Palestinians across the West Bank during last 2 weeks of June, OCHA reports.

"The return of seven million Palestinian refugees to their towns and villages in Palestine is a legitimate right that we will never abandon or waive at any cost," Haniyeh said

The Norwegian Refugee Council stressed the need for the Zionist authorities to immediately stop forcibly displacing people and demolishing their homes and property.

The Palestinian ambassador to the UN pointed out that the Zionist regime’s occupation forces have demolished 72 buildings in just three months, which led to the displacement of 78 Palestinians, including 47 children and 15 women.

The deadline set by the Israeli occupation authorities ends for 13 Palestinian families who received orders to self-demolish their homes in the Al-Bustan quarter in the occupied Al-Quds neighbourhood of Silwan within 21 days.

Zionist troops delivered demolition orders against some 20 Palestinian houses in Rujeib town, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.

Zionist regime’s occupation forces issued demolition orders against eight Palestinian structures in the village of Jawaya, based near Al-Khalil, reported Wafa news agency.

Fakhri Abu Diab, member of the Defense of Silwan Land Committee, warned that 17 homes belonging to Palestinian families in the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, south of occupied Al-Quds, will be demolished by the end of next month by the Israeli authorities.

The Al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan, which is south of the Old City, has 119 families in 88 buildings that are under threat of demolishment to make way for an Israeli archaeological park.

A committee representing Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in the occupied city of Al-Quds warned that the Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's decision not to intervene in their case paves the way for their forcible displacement from their homes.

The term ‘Naksa,’ or the ‘setback,’ refers to the beginning of the 1967 Six Day War on June 5, which saw Israel triple in size beginning over 54 years of occupation.

Palestinians forced to destroy their own homes to avoid the large demolition costs and fines charged by Zionist regime's municipality.

The United Nations (UN)’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the Zionist regime’s ongoing onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip has left more than 52,000 Palestinians displaced and nearly 450 buildings destroyed or badly damaged in the coastal enclave.

The government press office in Gaza said that the Zionist regime’s aggression against Gaza, which started on Monday, resulted in great financial losses and extensive destruction to infrastructure, homes and services.

Zionist regime’s Police officers reportedly assaulted the protesters and beat up some of them, and also asked those protesting inside the homes slated for evacuation to leave them.

Hamas denounces in the strongest terms the resolution by the European Parliament announced on Wednesday condemning the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) over school curricula’s content.

The UN agency said in a report that the demolition led to the displacement of 13 Palestinians, and damaged the livelihoods of about 90 others.

Zionist regime’s occupation authorities issued demolition notices to 13 houses inhabited by Palestinians in the village of Qabalan, south of the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus, reported Wafa news agency.

The Zionist forces demolished a Palestinian Bedouin village in the southern Negev region for the 186th time despite the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The Zionist authorities demolished and forced people to demolish, or seized 58 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank and displaced 81 people, including 42 children in March 2021.

In February and March, Zionist regime’s courts approved the eviction of seven Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Al-Quds. Illegal settlers will benefit from this.

Over the last couple of weeks, Zionist regime’s occupation troops shot and wounded 53 Palestinian citizens during raids across the occupied West Bank.

International law views West Bank as occupied territory and considers all Jewish settlement-building activity there illegal.

On the 5th Brussels conference on "Supporting the Future of Syria and of the Region", the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reiterated its call to support Palestine refugees who are in Syria and in neighboring countries, said an UNRWA press release.

Rights groups say Israel's 'separation policy' is keeping apart dozens of families.

This programme awards scholarships to disadvantaged youth and in-service teachers. Launching in spring 2021, the new programme will grant 339 scholarships over the next eight years.

A study released today by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Water Authority suggests that only four percent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safely managed water, compared with 39.5 percent in the rest of Palestine.

According to the Committee, the imminent demolition of the 100 Palestinian homes in Silwan’s Al-Bustan will displace 1550 people, most of whom are women and children.

Since the launch of the project in April 2020, which has also been run in Jordan and Haiti, around 20 people have been fitted in Gaza, an enclave of two million Palestinians wedged between the Zionist regime, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Zionist regime’s occupation authorities forced a Palestinian to demolish his house in the East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) neighborhood of Silwan, according to local sources.

Mohammed Rashwan is worried for his family of 10 after a decision from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to reduce aid to Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says what Zionist regime’ is doing in demolishing Palestinian homes and displacing women and children is “a war crime” that can be punished under international law.

The Israeli occupation authorities demolished or confiscated 89 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank in two weeks and displaced 146 Palestinian citizens, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said.

Report: Zionist regime has demolished nearly 166,000 Palestinian homes since it was forged on the land of Palestine in 1948.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas slammed Israeli occupation for ethnically cleansing the Palestinians by proceeding with its policy of home demolitions.