Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, the wife of a political prisoner, and their infant, while visiting him in Ofer Israeli prison, near Ramallah, in central West Bank.

The Palestinian Detainees Radio has reported, Tuesday, that three detainees, held by Israel, are ongoing with hunger strikes protesting being held without charges, bad living conditions and treatment.

Israeli forces have uprooted dozens of fruit trees and leveled Palestinian land west of Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tulkarem.

The United States has inaugurated a permanent military base in Israel, poised as “the first ever stationary unit” there.

Erdogan has threatened Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region with sanctions in case it goes ahead with plans to hold an independence referendum.

An overwhelming majority of Palestinians is worried about the future of liberties in Palestine and two-thirds demand the resignation of President Mahmoud Abbas and half of the public views the Palestinian Authority as a burden on the Palestinian people

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Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki has denounced a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq, warning that Baghdad would not tolerate the establishment of “a second Israel,” after the occupying regime became the only entity to support the so-called plebiscite.

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Hundreds of Israelis have rallied in 'Jerusalem' (al-Quds) to protest active duty in the military, and the regime’s arresting of around 40 people, including the grandson of a famous rabbi, for dodging draft.

Israel’s Army Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed on Sunday that illegal settlement outposts ensure Israel’s security and protects Israelis from outsider threats.

The National Islamic Commission for Development and Social Solidarity (Takaful) has called on Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to end all his punitive measure against the Gaza Strip after Hamas dissolved its administrative committee.