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European politicians to visit J’lem, W. Bank and meet with Palestinian officials

A high-level delegation of European politicians is expected to visit on Sunday occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank in order to witness the Israeli violations there and meet with Palestinian

IOA holds MP Qufaisha in administrative custody

Hamas MPs in the West Bank denounced the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) for holding their colleague MP Hatem Qufaisha, from Al-Khalil, in administrative detention for six months.

Five Jerusalemites detained in Silwan

Israeli occupation police used force to quell separate marches by Palestinian young men in Silwan suburb, in occupied Jerusalem, on Monday evening.

Dozens of marchers injured during West Bank marches against wall

Dozens of Palestinians and foreign activists sustained injuries after Israeli soldiers assaulted them Friday during a weekly march against the separation wall and settlement activity in the Bil’in and Ma’sara

Zionist settlers damage olive trees using chemicals

RAMALLAH, --Zionist settlers destroyed tens of fruitful olive trees in Al-Mughir town, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday after spraying them with a chemical material.

Zionist settlers block Palestinian villagers from harvesting olive crop

Zionist settlers stormed the village of Al-Mughir in northern Ramallah on Sunday and wreaked havoc in olive fields, cutting trees, and stealing the harvest.

Occupation bulldozes lands in the village of Takku

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli occupation bulldozers started on Friday morning to bulldoze Palestinian lands close to a Jewish settlement built on confiscated Palestinian land belonging to the village of Takku.

Abbas is unfit to lead the Palestinian people

The reaction of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the latest Zionist provocations, including the all-out settlement expansion drive in the West Bank, has been disastrous and calamitous.

What if Peace Talks “Succeed?”

Many commentators expect the direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians to fail. But there is a much worse scenario: What if they "succeed?"

Start again with a clean sheet, Palestinians

Stuart Littlewood argues that the Palestinian National Authority has become “an abomination” whose “leaders have so fouled the nest that the stink is unbearable” and that the future “hinges largely