Prince Turki Al Faisal, former head of Saudi intelligence, says President Donald Trump’s proposed plan for Middle Eastern peace is a monstrous conception of Palestinian state
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Al-Aqsa mosque
Gallery: Saudi soccer team visits al-Aqsa mosque
Saudi Arabia’s national football team arrived in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, on a groundbreaking visit to play against Palestine on Tuesday.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Saudi Arabia says Netanyahu annexation pledge a ‘dangerous escalation’
Saudi Arabia also called for an ’emergency meeting’ of the foreign ministers of the 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Electrosteen
Palestinian DJs bring past into present with fresh beats
‘Electrosteen’ – a word combining Electro and ‘Falesteen’, Arabic for Palestine -created songs by drawing on local folk music
BabyFist
‘Not your habibti’: Palestinian designer seeks to empower women
Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli offers women the freedom to express their feelings and tell stories they cannot share elsewhere.
Gaza Strip
Jordan king seeks urgent funding for Palestinian refugees after US exit
President Donald Trump, a staunch supporter of Israel, has ended all $350 million provided by the United States each year to UNRWA
Gaza
US to cut $25m in aid to hospitals serving Palestinians
Trump administration this year cut funds to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and scrapped around $200 million in payments by USAID to the Palestinians
Chris Gunness
Gallery: US aid cut to UN Palestinian refugee agency
UNRWA, established in 1949, was already facing financial crisis after Trump announced a $300 million funding freeze in January. The agency, which helps more than five million registered Palestinian refugees, says it now faces major closures to its network of schools and health centres.
Chris Gunness
Palestinian anger as US ends funding for UN agency
The move by President Donald Trump’s administration was described as ‘cruel and irresponsible’ by senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi.
Antonio Guterres
Gallery: New school year starts in occupied West Bank and Gaza City
Tens of thousands of Palestinian children returned to United Nations-run schools on Wednesday after the summer holidays, though major US cuts have thrown their funding into jeopardy beyond next month. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said all 711 schools it runs for 526,000 pupils in Gaza and the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria would reopen in the next few days despite the $300 million US funding cut.
Amman
In pictures: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan at Husseiniya Palace in Amman
Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday said that his meeting today with His Majesty King Abdullah II comes within the framework of continuous coordination between the Jordanian and Palestinian sides on the latest developments in the Palestinian issue and means of developing bilateral relations.
Ahed Tamimi
Video: Palestinian Ahed Tamimi on her months in prison
The seventeen-year-old spent eight months in jail and was released this week to a hero’s welcome and praise from the Palestinian President. A regular child protester Ahed was arrested after being filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her home on the same day a teenage relative had been injured by what’s thought to have been an Israeli plastic bullet.
Al-Ram
In pictures: Iraq’s national football team plays first friendly match with Palestine in occupied West Bank
Iraq’s national team played its first-ever football match in the Palestinian territories on Saturday and beat the home side 3-0 in a friendly. Some 2,000 people attended the match in Al-Ram near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, next to Israel’s separation wall cutting off the Palestinian territory.
Gaza Strip
Iraq football team plays first match in Palestinian territories
Some 2,000 people attended the match in Al-Ram near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank
Ahed Tamimi
Gallery: Crowds greet Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi after freed from jail
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi left prison Sunday and was greeted by crowds of supporters after serving eight months for slapping Israeli soldiers, an episode that made her a symbol of resistance for Palestinians. Tamimi, 17, and her mother Nariman, who was also jailed over the incident, arrived in their village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank, where they were mobbed by journalists.
Ahed Tamimi
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi jailed for slapping soldiers leaves prison
Ahed Tamimi and her mother were sentenced to eight months in an Israeli military court following a plea deal over the December incident
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Amal al-Batsh
UN Palestinian agency to axe 250 jobs after US funding cuts
154 employees in the occupied West Bank and 113 in the Gaza Strip will be let go, UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said