Asia Palestine Al Jazeera's Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin; the Ministry of Health said she was hit by Israeli fire, despite wearing a vest bearing the inscription PRESS
Asia Palestine Ramadan ended for Palestinians as the Israeli army intensified its campaign of arrests and raids in several West Bank cities and towns
Asia Palestine Suffolk University's UNICEF organisation held an International Food Festival event, one of the last of the semester to raise money for children in the Gaza Strip
Asia Palestine Satisfactory numbers of tourists are returning to Bethlehem and the Holy Land under the slogan "Ready", highlighting the sector's efforts to comply with Covid-19 protocols; Bethlehem depends on tourism for 90% of its economic revenue
Asia Palestine WB approved an $8 million grant to reform and modernize the public financial management system, strengthening institutions to improve their accountability and transparency and to support fiscal stability
Asia Palestine North America's largest Middle Eastern academic body, the Middle East Studies Association, officially voted to ratify the BDS - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement - resolution in support of Palestine
Asia Palestine The Palestinian economy is expected to return to pre-pandemic level only in late 2023, according to a report by the IMF technical team, which visited the country in late February and early March to assess the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Asia Palestine The Palestine Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai is as eye-catching as it is innovative, offering visitors a tour that employs all five senses of Jerusalem, giving them an authentic street scene in the city
Asia Palestine Aqsa Week 2022 which starts today, an initiative by the British-based Friends of Al-Aqsa to shed light on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, has gone global for the second year running, with more than 50 countries set to participate
Asia Palestine The Pan African Palestine Solidarity Network (PAPSN) has accused the African Union (AU) of reneging on its founding values by supporting apartheid Israel's observer status
Asia Palestine Bulldozers from Israel destroyed residential structures and shacks belonging to Bedouins in Deir Nidham village, northwest of Ramallah; Israel confiscated at least 22% of the village's land for the nearby Neve Tzuf settlement
Asia Palestine The project aimed at strengthening the fiscal position of the Palestinian Authority by improving customs revenue collection and border management, a EU-Lithuania twinning, has ended
Asia Palestine The Islamic Development Bank will finance four projects in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem: infrastructure projects, including in refugee camps, the redesign of a maternity hospital and the restoration of buildings in the old city of Hebron