West Bank

Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh received a call from Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan informing him that Turkish medical assistance will reach Palestinian territories this week. In a statement, a copy of which was sent to MEMO, Haniyeh disclosed that Erdogan congratulated him and the Palestinians on the start of the holy month of Ramadan. According to Haniyeh, Erdogan noted that …

In an economic forecast for the year 2020 in light of the current coronavirus pandemic, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said the Palestinian economy will incur losses of about $2.5 billion in case the coronavirus pandemic lasts for three months, and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will decline by 14% in 2020 compared to 2019. Following the reporting …

Turkey’s state-run aid agency on Friday sent medical aid to Palestine amid the fight against novel coronavirus pandemic, Anadolu Agency reports. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) delivered medical and personal care packages to Palestinian health officials at a ceremony held at the Health Ministry building in Ramallah. It provided COVID-19 testing kits, masks, special clothing and other basic equipment to the ministry. During …

Dozens of Palestinian citizens were wounded on Friday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violently dispersed the weekly demonstration against the settlement in Kafr Qaddum village in the West Bank district of Qalqilya. Popular resistance activist Murad Shtewi said that the IOF stormed Kafr Qaddum and heavily fired live ammunition, tear gas canisters and rubber-coated metal bullets at the peaceful demonstrators. …

A Palestinian worker was shot and injured late last night and anther one detained in an IOF pursuit near the separation barrier in the north of the West Bank, according to local sources and witnesses. They told that soldiers pursued workers near the barrier separating the West Bank from occupied Palestine near the village of Rummaneh, west of Jenin, and …

The Israeli occupation army on Thursday notified several Palestinian families in the Jiftlik village in the central Jordan Valley of its intent to demolish their homes and displace them within a few days. Local activist Aref Daraghmeh said that the Israeli occupation forces arrested one of the residents in Khilat al-Fula area in Jiftlik, where the demolitions will take place. …

An Israeli settler opened fire in the air today as he approached in his car a post Palestinian volunteers had set up in the south of the West Bank as part of efforts to fight the spread of coronavirus pandemic, according to local sources. The settler fired several shots in the air as he passed near the post set up …

Violent clashes broke out on Thursday morning between the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Palestinian young men in Kafr Aqab town in east Jerusalem. According to local sources, the IOF intensively clashed with the young men and fired rubber bullets and a hail of stun and tear gas canisters at them. The sources said that Israeli soldiers used a tool …

Turkey has accepted Palestine’s call for medical and financial assistance in the fight against the novel coronavirus, according to an official statement Thursday, Anadolu reports. Turkey announced an aid package for Palestine during an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said in a statement. COVID-19 test kits, masks, special clothing and other basic …

Israeli occupation government’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit yesterday approved the expropriation of Palestinian land adjacent to the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied West Bank city of Hebron. According to Arab48, after Mandelblit’s approval, the Palestinian land will be under the control of Defence Minister Naftali Bennett. The land belongs to the Islamic charitable trust in the Palestinian city, which oversees the Ibrahimi Mosque. …