Palestine

08 Sep 2021; MEMO: Islamic Jihad in Palestine warned Israel yesterday not to harm the six Palestinian escapees or those prisoners still held in its jails, local media have reported.

"Harming the prisoners is a red line, and the occupation must consider carefully what we say and understand that we are ready and able to protect our prisoners by all means," a spokesman for the group's military wing, Al-Quds Brigades, told journalists in Jenin.

07 Sep 2021; MEMO: Palestine's Mufti Mohammad Hussein warned on Monday about Israeli raids at Al Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday season. The mufti's statement came in response to calls by Jewish groups for their followers to show up in large numbers at the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa, the third holiest site in Islam, during the holiday period.

07 Sep 2021; MEMO: President Mahmoud Abbas called Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Defence Minister Benny Gantz on Monday and congratulated them on the occasion of the Jewish New Year, the Palestinian leader's office has announced. Abbas expressed his hopes for peace in the coming year.

According to Herzog's spokesperson, Abbas also wished for more cooperation and dialogue that will bring hope for both peoples.

07 Sep 2021; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces and settlers committed 2,063 violations against Palestinians in August, killing eight including a child, the Palestinian media office in the occupied West Bank reported.

07 Sep 2021; MEMO: Rights group Lawyers for Justice presses Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh to discuss freedoms in the occupied West Bank.

According to Safa news agency, the questions relate to the summoning and detention campaigns carried out against activists by the PA security services without judicial orders.

"What do you, Shtayyeh, say about the detentions that have been documented since the announcement of the state of emergency?" the group asked.

06 Sep 2021; MEMO: The Israel "Defence" Forces handed over orders to Palestinian farmers on Sunday in the village of Battir on the outskirts of Bethlehem, giving notice that soldiers will be razing their farms to the ground and destroying their grapevines, Anadolu has reported.

GAZA, Sept 4 (NNN-PNN) – Three Palestinian men were found dead yesterday, inside a smuggling tunnel underneath the borderline area between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, medics and a security official said.

Paramedics said, they were informed that three workers, who worked in a smuggling tunnel had been missing since Thursday morning. Paramedics and rescue crews have taken out the three bodies from the tunnel and sent them to hospital, Eyad al-Bozzom, spokesman of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry, said, in a press statement.

04 Sep 2021; MEMO: Israeli and Palestinian sides have agreed that they are not ready for resuming peace talks as the Palestinian Authority (PA) is suffering serious internal crises and Israel has a fragile coalition government.

Therefore, Al Khaleej Online reported that the US administration had ordered both to deescalate the tension dominating their relationship over the past few years.

03 Sep 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has rejected the framework agreement signed between the United States and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) regarding the restoration of US funding for the agency.

Hamas pointed out that the agreement signed on 15 July contains "dangerous and humiliating" conditions imposed by Washington on the agency in return for funding.

02 Sep 2021; MEMO: Israel's Ofer Military Court today agreed to release nine-month pregnant Anjhar Al-Deek, issuing 40,000 shekel ($12,500) bail and releasing her on house arrest, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Authority said today.

Twenty-five-year-old Al-Deek is from the Kafr Ni'ma town west of Ramallah and has been imprisoned for five months on charges of attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near an illegal settlement outpost, however no verdict has yet been issued against her yet.