President Mahmoud Abbas declared today that a day of mourning will be observed on Friday across Palestine in honor of seven Palestinian workers who died in a tragic car accident near the village of Fasayil, north of Jericho, on Thursday afternoon.The P…
Year: 2022
After two Palestinians were run over today by Israeli settlers on West Bank roads in two separate incidents in which one was killed and the other wounded, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned against the rise in incidents involving Israeli settlers …
Following the demand of the six Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations that Israel designated as “terrorist organizations”, the Military Attorney responded this week that it would allow the groups to review only the unclassified infor…
Israeli occupation forces today seized a Palestinian-owned excavator while it was working on land reclamation to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to a local resident.Nabil Sharha, a landowner, told WAFA that the Israeli for…
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, arrived at Bethlehem’s Manger Square this afternoon, coming from the patriarchate headquarters in Jerusalem’s Old City, to lead the Christmas midnight mass for the orthodox church, which coinci…
Israeli forces today detained 23 Palestinians during wide-scale raiding operations in several areas in the occupied West Bank.The forces detained 11 people from Ramallah, six from Nablus, including a 70-year-old man, five from Hebron, one from Tubas, a…
The Palestine News and Information Agency (Wafa) today officially relaunched the Hebrew version of its main website.The Hebrew newscast, directed to the Israeli public, will include news about daily events in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, an…
An Israeli settler today ran over and killed a Palestinian as he was on his way to work, according to witnesses. The slain Palestinian was identified to be Mustafa Falaneh, 25, from the village of Safa, to the west of the occupied West Bank city of Ram…