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Israeli gov orders demolition of 5 homes, 3 wells in occupied West Bank

09 Jan 2023; MEMO: Israeli occupation authorities notified Palestinians on Sunday of their plan to demolish five homes and three water wells in Masafer Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank.

Local Palestinian anti-occupation activist, Rateb Jabour, said Israeli occupation forces raided the village of Al Jawaya in Masafer Yatta and handed five demolition orders to local residents.

Kushner's memoirs: Washington pressured Saied to dismiss pro-Palestine UN ambassador

07 Jan 2023; MEMO: Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former US President Donald Trump, revealed in his memoirs that the Trump administration pressured Tunisian authorities to dismiss former Tunisian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Moncef Baati.

Israel returns bodies of Palestinians it killed 2 years ago

06 Jan 2023; MEMO: Palestinian authorities on Wednesday received the bodies of two Palestinians withheld by Israel for more than two years.

In a statement, the Palestinian Civil Affairs Ministry said Israeli authorities handed over the body of Ashraf Halaseh, 30, from Al-Sawahreh town in occupied East Jerusalem and Mohammad Amro, 36, from Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

UK Prince Harry reveals he killed 25 people in Afghanistan as a helicopter pilot

06 Jan 2023; MEMO: Britain's Prince Harry revealed in an upcoming book of his memoirs that he killed 25 people as an Apache helicopter pilot during his second tour in Afghanistan, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Prince Harry's claim in the book, titled "Spare", which will be available at bookstores in the UK next week, came as the book's Spanish version was accidentally put on sale in Spain.

Israel police arrest two suspects in Protestant cemetery vandalism

06 Jan 2023; MEMO: Israeli police said, on Friday, they had arrested two people suspected of vandalising a Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem earlier this week, Reuters reports.

Police said in a statement that extensive damage had been caused to gravestones at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery, calling it an "act of intentional vandalism and defacement."

Turkiye FM protests Israel minister's storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque

05 Jan 2023; MEMO: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday called his Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, and conveyed Ankara's protest and rejection of the Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, provocative act of breaking into Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday, according to a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

Israel shoots dead 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Occupied West Bank

05 Jan 2023; MEMO: A 16-year-old Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli Occupation Forces this morning in the northern Occupied West Bank city of Nablus, reported Wafa news agency.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Amer Abu Zaytoon, was killed following an Israeli military raid that resulted in him being shot in the head.

US warns Israel over illegal colonial outposts in Palestine

05 Jan 2023; MEMO: Israel's illegal settlement expansion has triggered a rare warning from the US, which has issued a red-line over the illegal West Bank outpost of Homesh. The far-right Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for the legalisation of the outpost in defiance of Washington. This could lead to further clashes with the administration of President Joe Biden.

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