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Days of Palestine – Ramallah – Prisoner Maher Al-Akhras, 49, enters his 97th consecutive day in his open hunger strike on Saturday rejecting his administrative detention amid a serious deterioration of his health condition.
Doctors expected a relapse of Akhras’s physical health coupled with blurred vision, inability to stand and severe pain in all his body.
Read More: Palestinian detainee ‘Akhras’ continues hunger strike for 93rd day
Qadri Abu Bakr, the head of the Prisoners and Ex-prisoners Affairs Authority, warned of his martyrdom at any moment.
Akhras is married and has six children. He was arrested several times and the first time was in 1989 for seven months. The second arrest was in 2004 for two years, then he was re-arrested in 2009, and remained in administrative detention for 16 months. He was arrested again in 2018 and was held in custody for 11 months.
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Days of Palestine – Hebron – The Israeli occupation forces on Friday evening assaulted a Palestinian teenager and his mother in Hebron city.
According to local sources, the Israeli occupation forces kidnaped 17-year-old Mohamed Jaber, the son of human rights activist Aref Jaber, after assaulting him and his mother.
Read More: Palestinian injured in hit-and-run by Jewish settler in Hebron
The sources said that the Israeli occupation forces subdued and detained the kid to protect extremist Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba after they attacked homes in Jaber neighborhood in the Old City of Hebron.
The family of activist Jaber had exposed to similar assaults before by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers because of his role in documenting and exposing Israeli crimes in Hebron.
(Source / 31.10.2020)
Days of Palestine – Jerusalem – A UN human rights expert has urged the international community to take decisive action against Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, describing a recent plan to build 5,000 settler homes as a grave violation of the international law.
“The international community must answer this grave breach of international law with more than mere criticism,” Michael Lynk, UN special rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, said in a press release on Friday.
Read More: UN expert calls for Israel to immediately release Maher Al-Akhras
“As the Israeli settlements continue to devour the land that is meant for the independent Palestinian state, the international community observes, it sometimes objects, but it does not act,” Lynk underscored. “It is high time for accountability.”
The latest announcement means that the Israeli government has approved more than 12,150 settlements…
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Days of Palestine – Qalqilya – The Israeli occupation forces raided at dawn Saturday various areas in the West Bank and clashes erupted in Al-Bireh city. Two Palestinians were arrested in Azzun town, Qalqilya district.
In Ramallah, Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Bireh city and clashes broke out between the IOF soldiers and the Palestinian youths.
Local sources reported that Israeli occupation forcesbroke into the Seth Marhaba neighborhood in Al-Bireh and stationed in several areas.
In Qalqilya, Israeli occupation forces stormed Azzun town and started a searching campaign of several houses in the town. The Israeli forces arrested two Palestinians after they surrounded their homes, searched them and damaged their property.
Read More: Israel raids and arrests in Ramallah and Jerusalem
Azzun is witnessing almost daily incursions by Israeli occupation forces in a bid to end the throwing…
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Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- The PLO’s National Bureau for Defending Land revealed that the occupation state demolished a record number of Palestinians’ houses in the occupied capital in 2020.
In its weekly report, the Bureau reported that Israeli authorities demolished 129 in the period between January and October, in comparison with 123 houses in 2016.
The report added that Palestinians are being banned from construction in Jerusalem as well as Israeli authorities try to expel native Palestinians from the city and replace them with Jewish settlers.
The report described the Israeli policy to replace native Palestinians with Jewish settlers as a “silent ethnical cleansing”.
(Source / 31.10.2020)
Jenin (QNN)- Three children were wounded on the early morning of Friday, including one with critical wounds after Israeli soldiers opened fire at their car near the Jalameh military checkpoint in Jenin.
Local sources said Israeli forces, stationed at the Jalameh military checkpoint, randomly opened fire at the vehicle, wounding Taha Shadi Al Samen (16 years old) with shrapnel in his back, Muhammad Zubeidi (16 years old), and Mahmoud Halaijeh (15 years old) with a bullet in his head.
All children were taken to hospitals in Nablus and Jenin.
After the Israeli attack, Israeli forces raided Jenin and carried out a security sweep in the area.
(Source / 31.10.2020)
![Palestinians seen during a protest against comments by French President Emmanuel Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, held after the Friday Prayer outside the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on October 30, 2020 [Mostafa Alkharouf / Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201030_2_45102139_59329704.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Thousands of Palestinians gathered on Friday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in Jerusalem to protest French President Emmanuel Macron’s anti-Islamic remarks.
Preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Ekrima Sabri condemned the republication of caricatures insulting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), as well as Macron’s statements.
“The French president has declared his hostility towards Muslims around the world,” Sabri announced.
After Friday prayer, thousands of worshippers gathered at the Al-Aqsa complex, holding banners praising the Prophet Muhammad, criticising Macron and calling for aboycott of French products.
Israeli police prevented thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque, impeding them from performing Friday prayer.
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![Gabi Ashkenazi during the final stage of Blue and White election campaign in Tel Aviv, Israel, 15 September 2019 [Faiz Abu Rmeleh - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190915_2_38230320_47614591.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has asked his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio to persuade the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s leadership to return to the negotiating table, news agencies reported on Thursday.
“TheAbraham Accordsare a window of opportunity to renew talks with the Palestinians in order to find a just and lasting solution of peace and mutual respect,” Ashkenazi told Di Maio during a visit to Jerusalem.
“Unfortunately,” he claimed, “the ones who continue to refuse to take advantage of the window of opportunity is the Palestinian Authority leadership.”
The Times of Israelreported Ashkenazi stating that he had asked Di Maio, before visiting Ramallah on Friday, to help persuade PA leadership to return to the negotiating table with Israel.
Meanwhile, Italian news agencyANSAreported Di Maio welcoming the…
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Clashes broke out between citizens and the Israeli occupation forces, today, Friday, in the Bab Al-Zawiya area, in the center of Hebron.
And the official news agency reported that the occupation forces stationed at the entrance to Al-Shuhada Street fired stun grenades and tear gas at the citizens, which led to the outbreak of clashes, without injuries reported until this moment.
He added that the occupation soldiers closed all gates leading to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and prevented citizens from reaching it.
(Source / 31.10.2020)
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