Palestine

05 May 2023; MEMO: Israeli authorities yesterday banned the export of furniture products from the occupied Gaza Strip.

The economic ministry said in a statement that the Israeli move aimed at "inflicting more losses on the enclave's industries that have been suffering due to the blockade."

05 May 2023; MEMO: The Palestinian city of Jericho in the northern occupied West Bank has incurred huge economic losses estimated in the millions of dollars due to the suffocating Israeli blockade imposed on the city since February.

Local sources said Israeli occupation forces continue to erect military checkpoints at the main entrances to the city and the surrounding refugee camps and have closed the military checkpoint at the southern entrance, which has delayed citizens and impeded their movement.

05 May 2023; MEMO: The Palestinian Lions' Den armed group in the city of Nablus has issued a statement mourning the martyrs who were killed by Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning in the city.

The group pledged to continue resisting the Israeli occupation and protect Palestinians, until the last inch of Palestine is free.

This came after a special Israeli army force stormed the old city of Nablus, cordoned a neighbourhood where Palestinian freedom fighters were hiding and assassinated them.

05 May 2023; MEMO: The project for a new road in the E1 area of the Occupied West Bank that will segregate Israeli settlers and Palestinians is being finalised, reported Haaretz.

06 May 2023; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces murdered two Palestinian youths in Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm on Saturday morning.

This came in a raid carried out by the Israeli occupation forces and undercover border police, the Israeli occupation army announced in a statement.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health shared that the two youths were brought deceased to a hospital in Tulkarm, and a third was brought with injuries to the limbs and in stable condition.

04 May 2023; MEMO: Israeli authorities yesterday demolished a residential building comprising 25 apartments and located in the Palestinian town of Anata in occupied Jerusalem. 

04 May 2023; MEMO: Hamas has welcomed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' call for a "transparent investigation" into the death of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan who died in an Israeli jail after 86 days on hunger strike.

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops on Thursday killed three Palestinian militants wanted in connection with a shooting attack that killed a British-Israeli woman and two of her daughters, the Israeli military said, the latest bloodshed in a relentless wave of violence.

In a rare daytime incursion launched as residents were starting their day, the military said forces entered the heart of the flashpoint city of Nablus and raided an apartment where the men were located. Troops and the suspects exchanged fire and the three men were killed.

02 May 2023; MEMO: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on Tuesday, called on the Israeli authorities to release the body of Palestinian hunger striker, Khader Adnan, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Adnan, a senior Islamic Jihad group member, died in prison on Tuesday, after 86 days of hunger strike in protest of his detention.

30 Apr 2023; MEMO: Israeli occupation authorities have started plans to confiscate 70 Palestinian homes in the Old City of the southern occupied West Bank governorate of Hebron.

Director of the Hebron Construction Committee Imad Hamdan said the Israeli occupation plans to hand over the Palestinian homes to Israeli settlers.