Category: 1. Palestine

Bethlehem / PNN – 

The Bethlehem Municipal Council has agreed that Maher Nicola Qanawati will assume the presidency of the municipal council, succeeding lawyer Anton Salman. 

The agreement was reached under the auspices of General Intelligence Chief, Minister Majed Faraj.

The decision came during a special session of the council held today, attended by Minister Majed Faraj Head of Palestinian Intelligence, Bethlehem Governor Mohammad Taha Abu Alia, former Nablus…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) warned that Israel’s so-called “evacuation orders” in Gaza are, in fact, forced displacement orders. These directives have pushed Palestinians into overcrowded, unsafe areas with no access to food, water, shelter, or medicine.

Since March 18, Israeli forces issued 21 evacuation orders, including one on March 31 that targeted nearly all of Rafah. Israel then launched a large ground operation in the same area. Tens of…

European defence ministers from the so-called “coalition of the willing” have been meeting in Brussels to discuss boosting military support for Ukraine.

Some countries are considering the possible deployment of peacekeepers if a ceasefire is agreed.

The talks are part of a renewed push by Europe to arm Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, after the US made military support a condition of Kyiv’s…

On March 28, Beirut’s southern Dahiya suburb was targeted with four Israeli airstrikes on the neighborhood of Hadath — the first attack on Beirut since the truce in November 2024. A residential building, which housed a number of Lebanese families, was left completely flattened by the airstrikes. 

“The entire building is gone. The only thing left is cement and glass,” a local business owner told Mondoweiss. “We were sitting with our grandchildren when we heard the…

GAZA / PNN /

The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 50,912, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 115,981 others have also been injured.

Medical sources confirmed that of the total casualties, 1,542 civilians have been killed and 3,940 have been injured since March 18, 2025, when the Israeli occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire agreement.

Sources…

Bethlehem / PNN /

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said that an estimated 400,000 people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip following the breakdown of the ceasefire.

“They are now also enduring by far the longest blockage of aid and commercial supplies since the start of the war,” said UNRWA in a post on X.

UNRWA called for the immediate renewal of the ceasefire and the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid and…

Copenhagen (Quds News Network)- Denmark’s Eastern High Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by several NGOs seeking to halt military exports to Israel, despite ongoing genocide in Gaza, reported Al Jazeera . The case focused on the role of Danish authorities in approving arms sales amid Israel’s genocide.

The court ruled that the organizations had no legal standing in the case. It claimed that they lacked a direct connection to the matter. Activists expect to appeal the…