Palestine

GAZA, July 22 (Xinhua) -- At least one Palestinian was killed and 10 others injured on Thursday in a huge explosion in the largest public market in the Gaza Strip.

The explosion caused massive destruction in the al-Zawya market, damaging several homes in the overcrowded neighborhood, the Hamas-run Ministry of Interior said in a statement.

Eyad al-Bozzom, spokesman of the ministry, told reporters that the civil defense managed to extinguish the fire caused by the explosion and evacuated the survivors.

22 July 2021; MEMO: Palestinian institutions today accused the Israeli authorities of torturing a Palestinian detainee to death, Anadolu Agency reports.

Forty-three-year-old Abdo Al-Khatib was killed yesterday after being tortured during interrogation at the Al-Maskobiya interrogation centre in occupied Jerusalem.

GAZA, Jul 19 (NNN-WAFA) – The partnership between the United States and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), is fully restored, a senior UNRWA official said.

The UNRWA media advisor in Gaza, Adnan Abu Hasna, said, the U.S. financial aid to the UNRWA has reached 320 million U.S. dollars this year, which is “close to the same level of financial aid as the United States used to donate, before former President Donald Trump.”

19 July 2021; MEMO: The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, reiterated on Sunday that access to and the use of Al-Aqsa Mosque "is an exclusive right" for Muslims.

"Any aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque or on the Muslims who pray in it is considered aggression against the freedom of worship guaranteed by international conventions and humanitarian ethics," said the Patriarch. A copy of his statement was sent to MEMO.

19 July 2021; MEMO: The United Nations yesterday called on the Israeli authorities to halt the demolition of Palestinian homes.

"Our humanitarian colleagues in the occupied Palestinian Territory tell us that on Wednesday, in the community of Ras Al-Tin in Ramallah governorate, 84 Palestinians lost their homes when Israeli forces confiscated at least 49 structures," the deputy spokesman for the UN's secretary-general, Farhan Haq, told reporters in New York.

19 July 2021; MEMO: Egypt yesterday condemned "renewed Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli forces."

"Egypt categorically rejects these violations," the Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement, warning against "breaching the sanctity of the holy site, which is revered as the third holiest site in Islam by Muslims worldwide."

18 July 2021; MEMO: Protected by heavily armed Israeli occupation police, 1,371 Israeli Jewish settlers accompanied by Knesset members stormed Al Aqsa Mosque and clashed with Palestinian Muslim worshipers inside the third Islamic holy site.

Media sources and eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli settlers stormed Al Aqsa Mosque early on Sunday morning to celebrate their fast day which commemorates their alleged day of temple destruction thousands of years ago.

17 July 2021; MEMO: Following Israeli lobbying for intensifying raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas warned Israel not to test its patience because it is ready to defend the Palestinian holy sites, land and property.

17 July 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) has urged the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the international community on Friday to put pressure on Israel to rein in its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Jerusalem and Area C.

16 July 2021; MEMO: Israel's Beitar Jerusalem Football has cancelled a friendly match against Barcelona after the Spanish club said it would not play the game in Jerusalem.

Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, Sami Abu Shehadeh, said the Palestinian people's vigilance prevented a great propaganda victory for the racist Beitar Jerusalem FC, explaining that the decision came after extensive Arab and Palestinian pressure in cooperation with the Barcelona fans earlier this month.