Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion
Bulldozers flatten refugee housing while Israel approves 126 settler housing units and targets UN agencies.

Bulldozers flatten refugee housing while Israel approves 126 settler housing units and targets UN agencies.





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Foreign ministers from several Arab, Islamic states have met to discuss Gaza ceasefire and an international peace force.

Omar M. Yaghi, a chemist born to Palestinian refugee parents in Jordan, has been awarded a Nobel Prize.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II told the UN General Assembly that Israel is “burying the very idea of a Palestinian state.”
Closure of King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge is the latest in long line of collective punishments imposed by Israeli forces.
Israel says perpetrator ‘neutralised’ after entering in humanitarian aid truck from Jordan.
The visit is Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani’s first since Israel’s strike on Doha last week.
Arab, Muslim leaders gather in Qatar to condemn Israeli attack in Doha and warn Gaza war is a campaign of extermination.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry says it ‘condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the brutal Israeli aggression’.
It also focused on supporting ‘the Syrian government’s efforts to consolidate’ a ceasefire in Suwayda province.

Israeli settlers attacked an aid convoy for the second time in days, delaying 30 trucks from Jordan on their way to Gaza