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A total of 55 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank this year, all by live ammunition, according to a UN report.

The UN and the EU expressed concern Tuesday over a spate of arrests of activists by Palestinian security forces, as the death of a leading activist in custody sparked persistent protests.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said recent Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah violated Lebanon's sovereignty.

Total infections in the Occupied Territories of Palestine reached 951,226 since outbreak.

The Arab Joint List announced it would lodge a violation complaint against Israeli practices in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil (Hebron).

An Israeli court transfers the property rights of an elderly man to a Zionist settler organisation, leaving him paralysed.

Palestinians performed the Friday prayer in front of the mosque to protest against an Israeli construction plan.

Israel plans to authorize the construction of 2,000 new settlement homes next week, the first major approval of settlement construction by the new government.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar

Palestinian officials sent a warning to the United States, the European Union and other Western countries on Saturday, saying that the continued occupation of Palestinian land by Israel was no longer tolerable.

Oman will not be the third country to normalize ties with Israel Oman's Foriegn Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi told Asharq Al-Awsat Saturday.

Demonstrators in Ramallah chant ‘the people want the fall of the regime’ and urge Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to ‘leave’.

"When they forcefully arrested me on a baseless charge, I felt that they were determined to get rid of us," rights activist Issa Amro said.

Two Palestinian women who had just returned from the UAE to the West Bank tested positive with the new variant. The first two cases of the Delta variant of the coronavirus have been detected in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila confirmed on Sunday.

Today, the PA is one of the main, if not the primary barrier to Palestinian liberation from Israeli occupation.

Palestinians were staging rallies across the occupied West Bank as part of daily protests against illegal Zionist settlements

The exhibition showed a Palestinian family's life whose house was destroyed during the latest Zionist attack in Gaza.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has cancelled a deal to receive soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccines from Israel, just hours after the deal was announced on Friday.

A Palestinian woman was shot and martyred in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday after attempting a heroic attack against Zionist troops with her car, Palestinian health ministry said.

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy has been shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Beita, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, during a public protest against Israel’s construction of a colonial settlement outpost near the village.

Route of flag march to be determined by Israeli police, organizers

226 Palestinians died inside Israeli prisons since 1967.

After 11 days of Israeli airstrikes which killed 256 Palestinians, including 66 children, many in Gaza are digging out their lives from the rubble of their former homes.

Israel has committed massacres against 19 Palestinian families during its 11-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Sunday.

"This is a new equation that they did not take into account in the rules of conflict with the invaders. They believed that they were able to separate and divide the land and the people as they wished," Haniyeh said.

Simultaneously, Egyptian intelligence head to visit Israel Sunday for talks with PM on Gaza truce, reconstruction.

A prominent leader in Hamas said Wednesday that a cease-fire may be reached between Israel and Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza within two days.

Jordanian MPs on Monday called for Israel’s ambassador in Amman to be expelled in response to “Israel’s crimes against humanity.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians at Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

The number of people injured rose to 90 in clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in East Al-Quds, the Palestine Red Crescent reported early Sunday.

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter censor, delete posts, hashtags related to tensions in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Secretary General of Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement stressed un wavering Yemen’s full support for the Palestinian ideals in Sanaa on Tuesday, reiterating: Our nation will not remain indifferent in campaign in favor of the Islamic world and in assisting the Palestinians.

Israel carried out air strikes overnight in the southern Syrian province of Quneitra, Syrian state media and a war monitor said Thursday, though there were no reports of casualties.

The Israeli Ariel University is granting academic credit to students volunteering in illegal outposts built in usurped Palestinian lands, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed last week.

An elderly Palestinian woman was shot and martyred by Israeli troops near the Gush Etzion junction south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Sunday morning.

Talal Atrisi

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah saluted Palestinian people over heroic confrontations they have been engaged in A-Quds, as he offered condolences to Iraq over Baghdad hospital fire tragedy.

The Shin Bet continues its deliberate campaign to criminalize humanitarian aid work in Palestine by arresting yet another aid worker on trumped-up terror charges.

In a statement, Berri saluted “the Ramadan uprising of the Palestinian people at the al-Aqsa Mosque and in the neighborhoods of the city of Jerusalem (Al-Quds).”

Ahmad Reza Roohallahzad

Israel slashed Gaza's offshore fishing zone after multiple rocket launches carried out over the weekend, the head of Gaza’s fishermen’s union, Nizar Ayyash, told Sputnik.

Ali Maqsoud

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According to an official reported issued on Tuesday by the Israeli Ministry of Finance, Israel's debt has jumped to NIS 984 ($302 billion).

Explosion heard, mushroom cloud seen in Ramle city.

Senior Saudi and Iranian officials have held direct talks in a bid to repair relations between the two regional rivals, four years after they cut off diplomatic ties, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing officials briefed on the discussions.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blasted the Israeli government on Friday, saying that he knew well how Israel is “an enemy of Islam”, over the country’s most recent air strike on targets in Gaza.

The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces informed of attacking targets on Thursday in the southern Saudi city of Jazan, including one belonging to state oil giant Aramco which caused a fire.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (MOFAE) called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to cut ties with Kosovo, in the wake of inaugurating Kosovo’s embassy in Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Whatever the damage at enrichment facility, Amos Yadlin says Iran has the knowledge to push its nuclear program forward; 2nd analyst says Tehran may soon lash out at Israel.

Hossein Ruivaran

Israel carried out a missile attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs early Thursday that wounded four soldiers, Syria´s state media said.

Hossein Ruivaran

Authorities also arrested two aides after raiding King Abdullah’s half-brother’s palace in capital Amman.

Normalisation with Israel would bring "tremendous benefit" to the region, the Saudi foreign minister has said, but such an accord with the kingdom would depend on progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Bahraini king appoints ambassador to head his country's diplomatic mission in Israel

Israeli and Palestinian NGOs have asked Israel’s Supreme Court to order the vaccination of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where coronavirus vaccine supplies against coronavirus are dangerously low.

The Israeli army detained three prominent Hamas leaders the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron).