Palestine

Residents of the city of Tulkarem in the West Bank were scrambling to save their belongings after Israel issued additional evacuation orders announcing the demolition of over one hundred buildings

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed yesterday 24 May as Israeli forces opened fire on hundreds of people seeking food in Gaza; the death toll outside aid sites has now risen to over 500 in the past two weeks

A bakery in southern Gaza is now producing 40.000 loaves of bread daily to support thousands of displaced families amid border closures, severe shortage of flour and soaring food prices thanks to Jordan Hashemite Charity and the Jordanian aid campaign

Ahmad Manasra was released after 10 years in Israeli prisons: apprehended when he was 13 years old, is now 23 years old upon his release; according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office, he was released in a remote location away from the prison gates

Hamdan Ballal, Oscar winner and co-director of the documentary film No Other Land, was reportedly attacked by Israeli settlers before being detained by the Israeli military; he has now been released

The Arab plan for early recovery and reconstruction in Gaza includes removal and recycling of 50 million tons of rubble in 6 months in phase 1, while phases 2 and 3 are fully dedicated to reconstruction; comprehensive and detailed, it covers five years

In supermarkets and grocery shops in the West Bank it is increasingly difficult to find bottles of Coca-Cola, focus of a boycott campaign against companies supporting Israel; Chat Cola, an alternative produced by Palestinian company, is gaining ground

A ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israeli territory has come into force, affecting the organisation's work in Gaza and the occupied West Bank

Israeli security forces, backed by helicopters, raided the West Bank town of Jenin, killing at least eight Palestinians in what Prime Minister Netanyahu called a 'large-scale and significant military operation'

The number of victims of the war in the Gaza Strip as reported by Ministry of Health may be underestimated by at least 40%: the actual death toll may have already exceeded 70.000, according to analyses by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine