West Bank

Israeli occupation forces today razed large areas of Palestinian-owned lands located near an illegal Israeli settlement in the south of the occupied West Bank, witnesses and local sources told WAFA. They said Israeli occupation forces raided an area known as Khirbet Zanouta, near the illegal Israeli settlement of Shimaa, as army bulldozers proceeded to raze lands owned by local families. …

An Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian child on Sunday evening near the Kiryat Arba settlement which is built on Hebron lands in the occupied West Bank. Eyewitnesses reported that a settler ran over the child with his vehicle, moderately wounding him before fleeing the scene towards the Kiryat Arba settlement. The Palestinian medical teams provided first aid to the …

Five new deaths from coronavirus were recorded in the last 24 hours in Palestine, according to the minister of health Mai al-Kileh. She said that two Palestinians in Gaza, and three others in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron and Bethlehem, have died of the coronavirus. The ministry recorded today 632 new coronavirus cases in the West Bank, distributed …

Palestine today recorded 806 new novel coronavirus cases and three fatalities in the last 24 hours. Health Minister Mai al-Kaileh announced in a press statement that 806 Palestinians contracted the highly contagious virus and three other died of it in the occupied territories in the last 24 hours. Among the 806 cases, 220 cases were recorded in Hebron district, 27 …

Five Palestinians have died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours and 596 new cases were recorded, today said Minister of Health Mai Alkaila, adding that 612 patients have also recovered. Speaking at the daily briefing on the pandemic, Alkaila said the five deaths included four in their mid-70s and one in his mid-60s from different areas of the West …

A Palestinian man suffered a bullet injury, on Wednesday, when an Israeli soldier opened fire at him at the northern entrance to Bethlehem city, in south of the West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said that Ahmed Abu Akr, 32, from Aida refugee camp, was shot by an Israeli soldier who was stationed in a military watchtower …

Israeli occupation forces, on Wednesday, detained several Palestinians from various areas of the occupied West Bank, the Jerusalem Press reported. Occupation forces detained Mu’taz Jumaa Jadal Abu Muhaimid, 29, from the al-Fardis area, east of Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank, after they stormed and searched his father’s home. In the northern West Bank, south of Jenin, an Israeli army …

Israeli Soldier Kneels On Neck Of Elderly Palestinian ManAn elderly Palestinian man brutally attacked today by an Israeli soldier during a peaceful protest against the occupation on Shufa village, near Tulkarm.#Palestine #Palestinians #PalestinianLivesMatter #UAEIsrael pic.twitter.com/oA8I0LY1uY— DOAM (@doamuslims) September 1, 2020 A video circulating on social media shows an Israeli soldier kneeling on an elderly Palestinian protester’s neck while arresting him …

The Palestinian health ministry on Wednesday reported three new deaths associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus), 719 new positive tests, and 266 recoveries in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours. According to the ministry’s daily report, the new COVID-19 victims were identified as an 80-year-old man from al-Khalil province, a 68-year-old woman from Nablus and …

A Palestinian being shot this morning by the Israeli occupation forces with moderate wounds after the occupation forces shot him for allegedly carrying out a run-over attack at Za’tara checkpoint, south of Nablus