Refugees

Hamas spokesman: The Zionist occupation's establishing a transportation station near Nablus is a new Zionist aggression against our Palestinian people.

An Israeli planning committee approved plans advancing the construction of thousands of homes in Givat Hamatos, an illegal East Al-Quds’ settlement that threatens to cut off parts of the city from its Palestinian residents and the West Bank.

On this day in 1953, two Israeli military units under Ariel Sharon besieged the village of Qibya, located 11 km northwest of Ramallah, and isolated it from the rest of the neighboring villages.

The Zionist regime’s occupation has demolished about 172,900 Palestinian homes, displaced 1,324,000 Palestinians and confiscated 19 million dunums (19,000 square kilometres) of the land of historical Palestine "to bring 5 million Zionist immigrant from around the globe to replace the indigenous people."

Violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank has increased dramatically over the past two years, while Israeli officials continue to cover them up, Haaretz reported on Sunday.

Palestinian representatives of national and Islamic forces and refugees meeting in Ramallah have rejected a recent framework agreement signed between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the United States, saying it cancels the rights of return for the refugees.

Palestine has strongly rejected and boycotted Israel’s so-called settlement project in the occupied al-Quds as a colonization attempt, warning that the scheme is aimed at annexing the Arab part of the holy city to the occupying regime.

The United Nations says Israeli authorities have torn down, seized, or forced owners to demolish a total of 31 Palestinian-owned buildings across the occupied West Bank in two weeks.

A Palestinian family from the occupied Al-Quds neighborhood of Silwan embarked on demolishing their own home after they were forced to do so by Israeli municipality, according to local sources.

Mohammed Dwaik proceeded to tear down his house at Khilet al-Ein area in the town of at-Tur to avoid paying exorbitant costs if the Israeli municipality carries out the demolition on its own.

The Israeli occupying state is trying to deceive world public opinion when it says that Palestinians will be allowed to build in Area C of the occupied West Bank, said Ahmad Majdalani, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Zionist regime’s authorities have ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem (Beit-ul-lahm), the occupied West Bank.