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Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel,Based in Ashdod,took up the cudgel (Hebrew) on behalf of Biblical Judaism. He said that if Erekat wanted to be a Canaanite, very well then, we Israeli Jews should give him his wish; while remembering the Biblical command to exterminate those tribes which inhabited the land before the Israelites …

Extremist Jewish settlers burned Palestinian crops on Friday in the north of the occupied West Bank, Anadolu has reported. The arson attack took place in Asira to the south of Nablus. According to the Director of field operations for an Israeli rights groups, Zakaria Al-Saddah, fruit trees and ripe crops were destroyed in the attack. In the wake of the …

.The health of imprisoned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader, Ahmad Saadat, and prisoners Ahed Ghalmeh and Muhammad Al-Qeq have seriously deteriorated, with all three vomiting blood, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs revealed in a statement yesterday. The three are being held in Israel’s Ohalei Kedar prison, where the media committee of the hunger strike has …

People have held demonstrations in several parts of the world ahead of the 69th anniversary of the Nakba Day in solidarity with Palestinians who are enduring years of Israeli oppression and occupation. People rallied in Berlin on Saturday in remembrance of the Day of Catastrophe, marking the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands by Israel 69 years ago. The occasion …

.An updated study by the Al-Quds Center for Israeli and Palestinian Studies, revealed that the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli fire since October 1, 2015, has arrived to 309 Palestinians, including Saba’ Nidal Obeid, who was fatally shot on Friday, May 12, 2017. Al-Quds Center stated that the soldiers have killed eighty Palestinians in the Hebron governorate, 64 in …

.Some university staff and students say invitation to Mark Regev is provocative and urge director to stop meeting Students and academics at Soas University of London have said a visit by the Israeli ambassador Mark Regev this week could lead to serious tension and substantial distress on the campus. Regev has been invited by two student societies to speak about …

.Israeli forces shot and injured four Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, after residents in a Palestinian village south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank gathered to defend their homes from a mob of Israeli settlers that stormed the community. Hours later, two Palestinians were hospitalised when a group of settlers attacked Palestinians in a nearby village. Ghassan Daghlas, …

.Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails began a hunger strike on Monday in response to a call by prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, widely seen as a possible future Palestinian president. Palestinians termed the open-ended strike a protest against poor conditions and an Israeli policy of detention without trial that has been applied against thousands since the 1980s. Israel said the …

. One of the biggest human rights abuses ever in the history Israeli authorities have detained approximately one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 1967, according to a joint statement released Saturday by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ …

. Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, Teqoua’ town, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, searched homes, and abducted two young Palestinian men, in addition to summing another for interrogation. The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers abducted Ekrema Odah al-Amour, 20, and Mahmoud Yousef al-‘Amour, 21, and took them to an …