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Mr. Essawy, 65, used to be an eminent member of a clan who passed away just a few months ago. He was buried on land owned by his family located between East Jerusalem and the large Israeli settlement of Maale Read more
In the West Bank territory exists a region called E1 that Israel captured in the 1976 war. Since then many development plans have been made for the site but each time the United States blocked the project. However, Israel announced Read more
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the intrusion by some fanatic Jewish settlers into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its esplanades under the watch of the Israeli forces. “It is an aggression against the Islamic Ummah”, says the Read more
IFC, a global development institution, member of the World Bank Group, has helped arrange a $125 million financing package for Wataniya Mobile Palestine to aid in making mobile services more accessible and affordable in the West Bank and Gaza. IFC Read more
The West Bank formed a new cabinet which was sworn in by Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah’s leader and President of the Palestinian Authority. The new cabinet comprises of 25 members and is tasked with taking up from where the former one Read more
The World Bank will grant US$6.5 million to finance a project aiming to increase the employment prospects of Palestinian students graduating from higher education institutions. The unemployment rate in 2011 was 21 percent with youth unemployment at 46.5 percent in Read more
The World Bank has approved a $40 million grant to support reforms made by the Palestinian Authority (PA) that will help improve services delivered to Palestinians in the occupied territories. The Palestinians have already received from the WB three similar Read more
The humanitarian situation in Palestine is worrying due to Israel’s continued settlement activity in the West Bank and its adverse effects on economic development and Palestinians’ access to basic services, says UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. The UN official also Read more