Important News
- Colonists tear up landscape for construction of new road northwest of Jerusalem
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- Israeli forces detain several workers at checkpoint near Jerusalem
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- Israeli forces storm village near Qalqilya
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- ICRC facilitates transfer of three released detainees to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza
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- Colonists renew raid on Solomon’s Pools, provoke Palestinian citizens
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- Occupation issues and renews administrative detention orders against 39 Palestinian detainees
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- Israeli forces begin bulldozing Palestinian land west of Hebron to establish new colonial settlement
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- OIC warns against Israeli occupation's plans targeting the city of Hebron and its holy sites
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- Field tours with international partners to develop tourism sector in Salfit
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- PPS: Gaza detainee Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's case highlights the plight of hundreds of detainees in Israeli prisons
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- Israeli forces demolish Palestinian house south of Hebron
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- Amnesty International: Israel's mass evacuation, no-return orders in Lebanon violate international humanitarian law
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- Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf strongly denounces arson attacks on two mosques near Ramallah
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- UNHCR: Some 2.4 million refugees around the world will require resettlement in 2027
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- Haaretz: Settlement expansion in northern West Bank advancing at rapid pace
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- Israeli forces issue demolition order for residential villa northwest of Nablus
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- Israeli colonists seize agricultural tractor and water tanker near Tubas
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- Israeli colonists hurl stones towards Palestinian house south of Nablus
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- Israeli forces raid village near Jerusalem, detain residents and conduct field interrogations
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3 Killed by Israeli Fire, Several Houses Demolished in Gaza
RAFAH, March 24, 2004, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot dead Wednesday two citizens in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah while another died of wounds in Gaza city, medics and witnesses said.... Mohammed al-Qadi, 22, and Yasser al-Sultan, 19, were killed early on Wednesday after being shot by Israeli soldiers in Rafah, medical and security sources told WAFA.... Witnesses said that al-Qadi was killed as the Israeli soldiers stationed at the colony of "Moragh, south of Rafah, deliberately opened fire at him.... Security sources said that Israeli soldiers still keep al-Sultan's body and have not handed it over yet.... In the meantime, one more citizen died of wounds he sustained two weeks ago after being critically wounded by IOF in Gaza City, medics said.... Hospital official told WAFA that Hammam Abu al-'Amrain, 21, was critically wounded by IOF on the eleventh of February, when the Israeli troops committed the latest massacre in al-Shijai'ya neighbourhood of Gaza.... The death toll of al-Shijai'ya massacre raised to fourteen citizens.... Meanwhile, IOF destroyed Wednesday several Palestinian houses in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khanyounis, witnesses and security sources said.... Palestinian security sources said Israeli armoured vehicles and bulldozers, backed by helicopters, swept into the al-Namsawi, al-Atatra and Zo'rob neighbourhoods, west of Khanyounis, and destroyed several houses.... Witnesses told WAFA reporter that Israeli troops stormed the al-Namsawi neighbourhood, destroyed several houses and razed arable land.... Some of the houses owned by Mohammed A. Riziq and Yaqoub Syam, security sources added.... Cultivated lands, near the checkpoint of al-Tuffah, were razed by Israeli bulldozers....



