Month: January 2024

Amman: After 52 years in the throne, Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, has announced her abdication.

On January 14, the 83-year-old queen, who ascended to the throne in 1972, will abdicate. In her yearly speech on Sunday, Queen declared that her eldest son, Crown Prince Frederik, will succeed her.

The queen said she had “decided that now is the right time”. “Time takes its toll, and the number of ‘ailments’ increases. One cannot undertake as much as one managed in the past,” she said.
Source: Jordan News Agency

RAMALLAH: Weather today in Palestine, the first day of the New Year, is expected to be partly cloudy to clear and relatively cold in the mountainous areas, warm in other areas, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department.

Winds are northeasterly to northwesterly, light to moderate, and low sea waves.

Temperature in the capital, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem is expected to reach a high of 16°C and a low of 10°C, and in Ramallah and Hebron a high of 15°C and a low of 9°C. In Jericho, the Dead Sea, and the Jordan Valley temperature is expected to reach a high of 25°C and a low of 14°C, and a high of 20°C and a low of 15°C in Gaza and the coastal areas.

A slight drop in temperature is expected tomorrow, Tuesday, and a chance of light scattered rain in some areas.

No change in temperature or weather conditions is expected on Wednesday, but a slight rise in temperature is expected on Thursday with a chance of rain remaining in some areas, said the PMD.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAF
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RAMALLAH: The Israeli occupation forces detained last night and this morning 32 Palestinians, including the mother of a Palestinian killed by its forces after an alleged attack, today said Palestinian prisoners’ groups.

They said the forces detained at the East Jerusalem neighborhood of \Jabal al-Mukabber the mother of Ahmad Illian, killed by soldiers last week following an alleged stabbing attack at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem.

Another woman was detained among 12 other people in the village of Qatana, in the Jerusalem district. The woman was detained as a hostage to have her sons turn themselves over to the army, said the groups. Most of the detainees were later released following interrogation at the location.

Detentions were also reported in the West Bank governorates of Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem, Tulkarm and Ramallah, which brings the total detained by the Israeli army since October 7 to 4910, according to the prisoners’ groups.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: The Palestinian presidency today expressed its strong rejection of any suspicious attempts to name Tony Blair or anyone else in charge of displacing the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, considering it a condemnable and rejected act.

‘We will demand that the British government not allow this meddling with the fate and future of the Palestinian people, and we will also demand that the Secretary-General of the United Nations do what is possible in order not to allow such actions that violate international law and international legitimacy, which is considered an interference and an endeavor that only serves Israel’s interests and harms the Palestinian people and their rights by pushing them to abandon their land,’ it said in a statement.

‘It seems that Tony Blair is completing the Balfour Declaration issued by the British government with American involvement, which led to the catastrophe of the Palestinian people and started dozens of wars in the region,’ said the presidency, adding, ‘We also conside
r Tony Blair to be an unwelcome person in the Palestinian territories.’
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: At least 21 people were killed and dozens were injured today as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing of several areas in the Gaza Strip.

In al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, 15 people were killed and dozens were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted civilian homes.

In Beer al-Naja area, west of Jabalia, six people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on several homes.

Several people were also injured as a result of Israeli artillery shelling on the town of al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, and airstrikes on Juhr al-Dik and the southern neighborhoods of Gaza City.

Violent Israeli artillery shelling targeted areas north of Gaza City and the camps in the central areas.

More than 21,822 Palestinians were killed and 56,451 others were injured, most of them children and women, in addition to thousands of missing people, in the Israeli occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip for the 87th day.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

HEBRON: Israeli colonists Monday attacked a house in the Taibe neighborhood, west of Hebron.

The owner of the house, Ali Asila, told WAFA that colonists attacked his house, that is a brick hut, which he used as a residence during the summer, and smashed its windows and interior belongings, and wreaked havoc on its contents.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

JORDAN: Israeli occupation authorities Monday imposed a fine on a Palestinian citizen in exchange for the release of his cows that had been detained for days.

Human rights activist Arif Daraghmeh said that the occupation imposed a fine of NIS49,000 on Qadri Daraghmeh in exchange for the release of 19 of cows that the occupation seized a few days ago while they were grazing in the Jordan Valley.

A few days ago, the Israeli occupation forces, at the instigation of settlers, seized a herd of cows belonging to Daraghmeh, while they were grazing in the pastoral areas of the Jordan Valley.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

QALQILYA: Israeli occupation forces Monday demolished two agricultural and industrial rooms and a wall on the lands of the village of Nabi Elias, east of Qalqilya.

Local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces demolished, in the northern area of the village, an agricultural room with an area of 24 square meters located on a land area of half a dunum.

The occupation forces also demolished the fence that surrounded the land and was approximately two meters high. The occupation also demolished an industrial room with an area of approximately 200 square meters, under the pretext that it was built without a permit.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

JERUSALEM: The Jerusalem Governorate issued its annual report on the crimes and violations of the Israeli occupation in the occupied capital during the past year, 2023.

The governorate explained in the annual report issued by the Public Relations Unit that the attacks by the occupation authorities and their colonialists are continuing, under the right-wing occupation government, which is implementing an extremist program aimed at annexation, displacement, Judaization, seizing lands, and deepening colonialism and apartheid.

51 Jerusalemites were killed

During the past year, 51 Jerusalemite citizens, including 20 children, were killed, in addition to 13 Jerusalemites who were killed in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip, and 7 others were killed on the territory of the occupied capital from other governorates.

Colonial attacks

During the year 2023, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored about 224 attacks by colonists, including 50 attacks involving physical abuse.

During the sa
me year, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored injuries resulting from the use of excessive force by the occupation forces against Jerusalemites in various parts of the occupied capital. 543 injuries were also monitored as a result of live and rubber-coated metal bullets and severe beatings by the occupation forces, in addition to hundreds of cases of gas suffocation.

Crimes against Al-Aqsa Mosque

55,158 colonists stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with heavy protection from heavily armed special occupation forces, during the past year.

Arrests

During the year 2023, about 3,081 cases of arrest of citizens were monitored in all areas of the Jerusalem Governorate, and among the detainees were 318 children and 135 women.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: 15 Palestinian civilians were Monday evening killed and others were injured, most of them women and children in an Israeli bombing of a house in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

A number of civilians were also killed and others were injured in an Israeli raid on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip. A number of citizens were also injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted the center of the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Earlier this evening, seven civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing of two homes in Deir al-Balah.

Nine civilians were also killed and dozens were injured, as a result of the continued Israeli bombing of Khan Yunis since this morning.

More than 21,822 Palestinians were killed and 56,451 others were injured, most of them children and women, in addition to thousands of missing people, in the Israeli occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip for the 87th day.
Source: Palestine news & Information A
gency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said on Monday evening that a Palestinian prisoner has been killed in the Israeli occupation prisons.

The Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that the Israeli Prison Services assassinated prisoner Abdul Rahman Bassem Al-Bahsh, 23, from Nablus, in Megiddo prison.

They said that he has been detained since May 31, 2022, and has been sentenced to prison for a period of 35 months, noting that Al-Bahash is the first slain Palestinian killed by Israeli forces on the first day 2024, and the seventh in the occupation prisons since October 2023, along with a number of Gaza detainees.

The Commission and the PPS said in a joint statement that assassinating prisoner Abdul Rahman Al-Bahash in Megiddo prison, who was one of the prisons that witnessed horrific crimes and systematic torture against prisoners after October 7, in which three prisoners were killed before him, confirms that the occupation continues without no deterrent, or
any consideration, in carrying out more assassination operations against prisoners and detainees in its prisons, in addition to the systematic crimes of torture and abuse, which aim to kill them directly.

Qaddoura Fares, head of The Commission, said that the detainee’s killing comes within the framework of the occupation’s crimes against detainees in its prisons, which raised the number of detainees who died inside prisons since October 7 of last year (2023) to seven.

Fares pointed out that the seven slain detainees in the occupation prisons are the only ones known so far, noting that there are other slain prisoners from the Gaza Strip detainees that no one knows about yet.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

BETHLEHEM: The Israeli occupation forces Monday evening seized a house and turned its roof into an observation point, in the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.

Local sources told WAFA correspondent that the occupation forces seized a house in the Umm Rukba area, south of the town, belonging to local resident Hassan Marzouq, and turned its roof into an observation point, amidst the firing of stun grenades and toxic tear gas in the area.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA