Palestine

06 Oct 2021; MEMO: Hamas and Egypt agreed to strengthen the ongoing ceasefire between the Palestinian resistance and Israeli occupation, Anadolu reported yesterday.

The news service reported an informed source as saying that the two sides also agreed to accelerate the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which suffered massive destruction during the latest Israeli offensive in May.

05 Oct 2021; MEMO: For fifteen years, the Israeli occupation authorities have denied a regular electricity supply to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The suffocating siege imposed by Israel has left the residents unable to find a simple solution to the electricity problem, which affects all civil society sectors serving Palestinians and their essential institutions.

05 Oct 2021; MEMO: Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip are dying slowly as 97 per cent of the water in the coastal enclave is undrinkable, Euro-Med Monitor said yesterday.

04 Oct 2021; MEMO: Hamas has not signed a prisoner swap deal with Israel, a Hamas official announced yesterday.

Al-Arabiya yesterday reported that there was "significant progress" in negotiations between Israel and Hamas regarding a potential prisoner exchange deal.

Safa quoted Zaher Jabarin as saying that rumours would "never succeed in pressuring the resistance's leadership."

04 Oct 2021; MEMO: Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have said that the US is to reopen its consulate in occupied East Jerusalem in a few weeks, Haaretz reported yesterday.

According to the Israeli newspaper, the PA officials told Haaretz that senior US officials had revealed this information to them.

The American consulate in occupied East Jerusalem served Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

04 Oct 2021; MEMO: Palestinian farmers in the Gaza Strip are facing hardships and working at a loss as a result of the terms set out for exports by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Holding a protest yesterday, farmers said rules – which include the transport of goods to their intended buyer without lids – mean they are damaged and do not reach their intended markets in a good condition, leaving the farmers out of pocket as they do not subsequently get paid for them.

04 Oct 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) called on states worldwide to enlist members of settlement organisations and groups on terror lists, a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry said.

Settlement groups and their armed members should be added to terror lists as a result of their "aggression on Palestinians citizens," the statement said, reiterating that they should be prosecuted and prevented from travelling freely.

RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday said, Israel’s rejection of the two-state solution will oblige the Palestinians to go for other political choices.

Abbas made the remarks, during a meeting held with representatives of Bethlehem and Hebron, at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

According to report, Abbas told the representatives that Israel’s rejection of the two-state solution will “force us to go for other options.”

03 Oct 2021; MEMO: According to the Ministry of Agriculture some 12,440 dunums (12.44 square kilometres) of land are ready for harvest and will produce 14,000 tonnes of dates.

On average, individuals eat six kilogrammes of the valuable crop a year, the minister added.

Once harvested the fruits will be sent to the occupied West Bank.

01 Oct 2021; MEMO: Palestine Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has today reinstated the state of emergency in the occupied West Bank for 30 days following an increase in the number of coronavirus infections, Wafa reported.

Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila said that 1,340 new cases have been confirmed in the occupied Palestinian territories today, along with 22 deaths. She also reported that 1,989 people have recovered from the virus.