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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (all times local):

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Gaza’s Health Ministry says a 26-year-old Palestinian was killed after exchanging fire with Israeli troops along the perimeter fence surrounding the coastal territory.

The Israeli military says an “armed terrorist” approached the frontier early Sunday and opened fire toward troops on the other side, who responded by shooting at the attacker. The army says a tank also targeted a nearby military post operated by the Islamic militant group Hamas.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Muslim worshippers and Israeli police clashed Sunday at a major Jerusalem holy site during prayers marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Palestinian medics said at least 14 people were wounded, one seriously, in the skirmishes with police at the site, which Muslims refer to as the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and Jews refer to as the Temple Mount. Police said at least four officers were wounded. Witnesses said at least two people were arrested.

9 Aug 2019; MEMO: Three auditors have resigned from a crucial committee overseeing the corruption cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after his recent pick for government watchdog chastised them for insisting the prime minister repay his own legal fees.

9 Aug 2019; MEMO: Palestinian organisations in Jerusalem will close all the mosques in the city during Eid Al-Adha in a bid to protect the city’s Al-Aqsa Mosque from planned raids by illegal Israeli settlers.

8 Aug 2019; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday condemned Israel’s approval of 2,300 settlement units in the occupied West Bank.

In a radio interview, the PA’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Al-Maliki said: “Israel got the support of the current American administration to escalate its settlement projects in the Palestinian territories.”

7 Aug 2019; MEMO: Temple Mount Groups, a body of extremist Jewish organisations, have called for massive raids of Al-Aqsa Mosque during the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha, Arab48 reported yesterday.

Asthe calls were being made, Israeli occupation police started to tighten restrictions on the entry of Palestinians to the holy site.

The raids, reports said, are to mark the anniversary of the destruction of an alleged Jewish Temple.

6 Aug 2019; MEMO: Some 30 Israeli soldiers are battling cancer, the majority of whom operate the defence system Iron Dome, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday.

According to what the Israeli journalist Adam Shafir wrote on Twitter: “30 soldiers from the Israel Defence Forces who suffer from cancer, many of them work on the Iron Dome, demand to check the relationship between their work and the disease.”

3 Aug 2019; MEMO: Due to difficulties collecting donations that led to its bankruptcy, The Israel Project (TIP) on Wednesday closed its office in Israel, Haaretz reported yesterday .

The US NGO has faced a severe budget crisis and, according to the Israeli daily, is on its way to being completely shut down.

3 Aug 2019; MEMO: European diplomats revealed to Israeli newspaper Haaretz that Israeli officials have been holding secret meetings with Iraqi government officials.

In a long report published by the newspaper yesterday, Zvi Bar’el – Haaretz’s Middle Eastern affairs analyst – said that some of the meetings were even held in Israel.

29 July 2019; MEMO: Israel’s electricity company has been approved by the Finance Ministry to collect half a billion shekels ($ 141 million) from Palestinian tax money collected by Israel, a Hebrew economic newspaper reported on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports.