Patriarch Pizzaballa presides over midnight Mass in BethlehemIsraeli forces detain 17 workers from Jenin

Ramallah: The Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Card. Pierbattista Pizzaballa presided over midnight Mass at St. Catherine's Church, at the Grotto of the Nativity, in Bethlehem. The mass was attended by: Chairman of the Higher Presidential Committee to Follow up the Affairs of Churches in Palestine Ramzi Khoury representing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Mayor of Bethlehem Hanna Hanania, ambassadors of Jordan, Egypt, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands, Arab member of the Knesset Ayman Odeh, a number of consuls of foreign countries, and a number of Italian mayors. Source: Jordan News Agency JENIN: Israeli occupation forces detained a number of workers and merchants from Jenin Governorate. WAFA correspondent said, quoting the families of a number of detainees, that yesterday evening, the occupation forces detained 17 workers and merchants from Jenin Governorate at the Barta'a military checkpoint, south of the governorate, after interrogating them, adding that today they were transferred to Salem Camp and then to detention in Huwwara Camp, south of Nablus. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA