Palestine

18 Nov 2021; MEMO: Palestinian NGOs yesterday called for boycotting American envoy to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield over her decision not to meet with represenatives of the six Palestinian NGOs banned by Israel, a statement said.

18 Nov 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday denied Israeli claims that it would cut the salaries of the families of Palestinians killed by Israel and those detained in Israeli jails, Quds Press reported.

Speaking to the news site, PA spokesman Ibrahim Melhim said: "The PA has never and will never give up its obligations towards the Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails or the families of the Palestinians killed and wounded by Israeli occupation forces."

17 Nov 2021; MEMO: Palestinian lawmaker and member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Khalida Jarrar, has recounted her painful experience as a female prisoner in Israeli jails including the death of two of her family members while in detention.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A Palestinian doctor appealed to Israel's Supreme Court on Monday for compensation over the killing of his three daughters and a niece in an Israeli strike in Gaza in 2009.

Israel has long acknowledged that one of its tanks killed the four during a three-week offensive against Palestinian militants.

But it argued successfully in a lower court in 2018 that the deaths of Izzeldin Abuelaish's daughters Mayar, 15, Ayah, 13, and Bessan, 21, and his niece Nour, 14, stemmed from an "act of war", thereby shielding the state from damages claims.

RAMALLAH, Nov 10 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday slammed the Israeli regime, for refusing to resume the stalled Middle East peace process.

Abbas made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the new headquarters of the Palestinian Central Elections Commission, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, it said.

The Israeli regime’s refusal to resume the peace process in the Middle East “will not benefit it,” Abbas said, adding that, “Israel can’t reject making peace with the Palestinians forever.”

11 Nov 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) said yesterday it is planning to prosecute the Israeli occupation over its "crime" of hacking phones of Palestinian employees.

In a statement, the PA's Foreign Ministry said that some of its employees' phones were hacked by Israeli spyware Pegasus.

09 Nov 2021; MEMO: Miles of Smiles has coordinated the entry of a fleet of ambulances into the Gaza Strip.

Dr Essam Yousuf said that some 37 fully equipped ambulances arrived in the Strip following a campaign which brought together a number of global organisations under the banner 'Egypt and Palestine…Hand in Hand for life'.

08 Nov 2021; MEMO: The Chief of the Israeli army's Central Command signed an order on Sunday declaring six Palestinian NGOs to be "terrorist groups", Haaretz has reported. The same six organisations were designated as "terrorists" by Defence Minister Benny Gantz on 22 October.

08 Nov 2021; MEMO: Amnesty International has condemned an attack by Israeli settlers and soldiers against Palestinian children in a playground in the occupied West Bank village of Sussia near Hebron. The incident took place on Saturday, when Israeli soldiers prevented the children and their mothers from having access to the playground in their village.

The playground opened in September having been renovated. Repairs were made to eradicate safety issues.

07 Nov 2021; MEMO: Palestine on Sunday decried the Israeli refusal to reopen a US consulate to serve Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu reports.

On Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said there is no place for an American consulate to serve Palestinians in Jerusalem.

Bennett's statement is a "critical test for the US administration of Joe Biden," the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.