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Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in protests near the border fence separating the besieged Gaza Strip from the occupied territories, leaving scores of people injured.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli authorities demolished 197 Palestinian structures in West Bank during the first half of 2018 as the Tel Aviv regime presses ahead with its land expropriation policies in the occupied territories.

Illegal settlers and Israeli soldiers invaded, ‘Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Tuesday at dawn, and injured approximately 100 Palestinians, after the locals intercepted an invasion carried out by Israeli illegal settlers.

The Bedouin community in al-Baba Mountain, in the town of Al-Eizariya, in the occupied old city of al-Quds (‘Jerusalem’), stands steadfast in face of Israeli plans which aim to evict them.

Representatives of water institutions operating in the Gaza Strip, international figures and Palestinian activists held a press conference in Gaza city on Saturday about the catastrophic situation of water in the Gaza Strip and asked the international community to resolve the crisis.

Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian home in the occupied old city of al-Quds ('Jerusalem') neighborhood of Silwan on Wednesday morning, displacing eight Palestinians, including four children.

Israel has increased the powers of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) by giving them the formal authority to manage their own “municipal” affairs

Hundreds if not thousands of Palestinian Bedouins have been stripped of their Israeli citizenship in the Negev Desert, a report says as the regime pushes ahead with its policy of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories.

Taking advantage of the impunity enjoyed by its troopers, and the immunity against any legal prosecution, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue to target Palestinian children, whether by killing, wounding or arrest.

As the Gaza Strip marked the ten-year anniversary of Israel’s siege of the small Palestinian enclave on Thursday, the humanitarian situation has continued to alarm rights groups, which have denounced the “inhuman conditions unparalleled in the modern world.”

Gaza residents have electricity for less than six hours a day, now, due to the 10-year-old Israeli-Egyptian siege.

Lieberman said plans to build 3,651 settler homes in the West Bank were approved last week, adding that the number of settlement units slated for construction is at its highest since 1992.