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Foreign Ministry Praises Germany, UK, France for Warning against Dealing with Settlement Products
Friday, 27 June 2014 10:32

RAMALLAH (WAFA) – Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed, in a press statement Thursday, online publications on the official websites of the foreign ministries of France, the UK and Germany, in which they warned against the legal and economic consequences of investing in the Israeli settlements, as it is illegal under international law.

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Statement by PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi on behalf of the National Prisoners’ Committee: We urge the international community to intervene
Monday, 23 June 2014 15:25

­There can be no justication to the collective punishment Israel is imposing upon the Palestinian people. In the last few days alone, Israel has conducted incursions in almost every Palestinian city in the West Bank, arrested over 380 Palestinians, bombed the Gaza strip, and killed two Palestinians, Mahmoud Dudin, a 13 year old boy from Dura and Mustafa Aslan, 22 years old from Kalandia refugee camp, and injured hundreds. We urge the international community to intervene to end this Israeli aggression, as this dangerous escalation may lead to dramatic consequences for the entire region. We consider such international intervention to protect the Palestinian civilian population, as an integral part of the 3rd parties legal, moral and political obligations.

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In photos: Israeli bulldozers raze Bedouin community
Friday, 20 June 2014 10:51

The village of al-Araqib, a Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) desert in the south of present-day Israel, was razed to the ground by state authorities for the sixty-ninth time since July 2010. Hundreds of Israeli forces encircled al-Araqib village at 9:30am on 12 June; by 11:30am police had demolished most of the homes of the twenty remaining residents of al-Araqib who have lived in dire conditions since July 2010 when their village was first razed to the ground.

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Palestine’s Permanent Observer to UN Sends Identical Letters on Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory
Thursday, 19 June 2014 09:57

NEY YORK (WAFA) – Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, sent Tuesday identical letter to the UN Secretary-General, President of the Security Council (Russian Federation) and President of the General Assembly on the critical situation of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons and on Israel's colonial settlement campaign and aggressive actions and measures against the Palestinian people.

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian during Ramallah arrest raid
Tuesday, 17 June 2014 10:50
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli troops shot dead a young Palestinian man in al-Jalazun refugee camp north of Ramallah during overnight clashes with locals, medics said.
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