Palestine

06 Dec 2022; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces yesterday demolished a mosque in the Khallet Taha neighbourhood of the town of Dura, southwest of Hebron, the Wafa news agency reported.

Occupation forces armed with heavy machinery stormed the area and tore down a 100 square metre mosque. The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowment said Israeli occupation forces demolished Rasoolallah Mosque in Hebron.

05 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Brazilian Ambassador and Head of the Representative Office of Brazil to the State of Palestine, Francisco Mauro Holland, visited Gaza Strip where he was received warmly by the residents of Gaza.

RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestine is to attend a meeting of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC), scheduled for today in The Hague, a senior Palestinian official announced yesterday.

Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, told the official Voice of Palestine radio that, he will deliver a speech at the assembly, and meet other officials in The Hague, to discuss the Israeli escalation against the Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.

05 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) has asked the international community to deal with the Israeli occupation state as an "apartheid regime", Wafa news agency reported yesterday.

In a statement, the PA's Foreign Ministry said: "The occupying state is not only perpetuating the occupation, but is also aspiring to annex more areas of the occupied West Bank through a long series of expansionist colonial measures and statements by far-right leaders."

04 Dec 2022; MEMO: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the shooting of a young Palestinian by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, reports Anadolu Agency.

On Friday, Palestinian activists shared a video on social media of an Israeli soldier while scuffling with a young man in Huwara town, south of Nablus city.

As the young man, who was identified as Ammar Mefleh, tried to escape, the Israeli soldier shot him at point blank, leaving him badly injured. The Palestinian was later pronounced dead.

04 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Israeli army bombed two sites Sunday belonging to the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip with no casualties reported, according to an Israeli official, reports Anadolu Agency.

"The warplanes attacked a weapons workshop, which is a significant center where rockets belonging to the Hamas are produced," Army spokesman Avichay Adraee wrote on Twitter.

Warplanes also targeted a tunnel belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza, said Adraee.

RAMALLAH, Dec 3 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ishtaye, yesterday called on the United Nations, to present an initiative for peace in the Middle East, to end the conflict with Israel.

Ishtaye made the remarks during a virtual meeting, organised by the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), at the UN headquarters in New York, to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

02 Dec 2022; MEMO: A group of Israeli settlers stole dozens of honey bee hives and olive harvesting equipment from Palestinian farms in the Occupied West Bank village of Deir Sharaf, based in Nablus, reported Wafa news agency.

According to Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the Nablus district, the settlers sneaked their way into a farm belonging to Aziz Antari, a local villager and stole 30 honey bee hives and olive picking equipment.

02 Dec 2022; MEMO: An Israeli soldier executed, on Friday, a Palestinian youth in the West Bank city of Nablus following a short scuffle between them, eyewitnesses said.

The Israeli soldier carried out the execution at point-blank range, in the centre of Huwwara, to the south of Nablus.

03 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Israeli occupation army on Friday declared the city of Hebron a "closed military zone" to prevent a tour organised by human rights organisations with the participation of hundreds of activists in the city. This came a week after the occupation soldiers in the city attacked Israeli activists who showed solidarity with the city's residents against settler attacks.