Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash with one of his five children. (Photo: via Social Media)
Israeli occupation forces rearrested former Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash on Tuesday night, during a massive arrest campaign across the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported.
Abu Hawwash, 40, hails from the town of Dura, near Hebron (Al-Khalil). He was arrested in October 2020 and went on hunger strike for 141 days in protest of his administrative detention, without charge or trial.
Breaking|| Israeli occupation forces detained the freed Palestinian detainee Hisham Abu Hawash after raiding his home in Dura town, south of Hebron.
It's worth noting that Hisham was released from Israeli jails 7 months ago during which he went on a hunger strike lasted 141 days pic.twitter.com/gy44LyAu92
During his detention, Abu Hawwash was hospitalized but refused medical treatment. After days of protests by Palestinians calling for his release, and mounting fears in Israel of widespread unrest if he died in custody, the Israeli government agreed to release him last February.
There are currently 4,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, including 500 prisoners in administrative detention.
Ongoing confrontations between Palestinian youth and Palestinian Authority’s ‘security forces’ in Nablus. (Photo: video grab)
The Factional Coordination Committee in Nablus announced on Wednesday that an agreement has been reached to end the tension in the West Bank city, Anadolu news agency reported.
Tensions rose on Monday after the Palestinian Authority security services arrested a young man affiliated with the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas.
The agreement was announced by Nasr Abu Jaish, coordinator of the committee, a group that includes the PLO groups. “All parties,” he explained, have agreed on the deal.
Palestinian Authority forces arrested two resistance fighters, Musaab Shtyeh and Ameed Tuleibeh on Monday. Resistance groups demanding their release or escalations of civil disobedience will ensue in Nablus. This is Huwwara pic.twitter.com/R0XlqpnOVQ
Abu Jaish told Anadolu that those behind the agreement included senior security officials, Nablus Governor Ibrahim Ramadan and city dignitaries.
“This will close the file of the detainee, Musab Shtayyeh, and lead to the formation of a committee of personalities from institutions and initiatives in Nablus to work on visiting him, following up on the conditions of his detention, and work towards a timeframe for his release.”
Abu Jaish pointed out that the agreement also provides for looking at the issue of individuals wanted by the Israeli occupation as a national issue, and not having the Palestinian security services pursuing them for security reasons.
The agreement stipulates the release of individuals arrested in connection with the recent events, with the exception of those violating private property and those arrested on charges of theft.
Hundreds of settlers regularly storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem. (Photo: via Social Media)
Extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday, injuring at least 21 of them, including children, Al-Resalah newspaper reported.
According to eyewitnesses, Jewish settlers attacked Palestinians in the Old City market, including children and the elderly, spraying gas at them.
Over 20 #Palestinians, including children, suffocate as Jewish settlers spray gas in the Old City Market in East #Jerusalem.
Israeli forces storm the town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron. (Photo: via QNN)
A Palestinian man sustained gunshot wounds on Tuesday evening from Israeli military gunfire in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron (Al-Khalil), the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Mohammad Awad, a local media activist, said that Israeli forces intercepted a funeral procession in the southern West Bank town, preventing the mourners and pallbearers from reaching the cemetery at the town entrance and triggering confrontations.
Israeli occupying forces invaded Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron and fired tear gas at Palestinians, in the late afternoon. pic.twitter.com/iGTLiTd7ZE
Israeli soldiers, who occupied the rooftops of several houses near the town entrance, opened fire on the mourners and pallbearers hitting a mourner with a bullet in the thigh and causing dozens of others to suffocate from tear gas.
Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai (R) with her Bahraini counterpart. (Photo: via Barbivai TW Page)
Israel and Bahrain announced on Tuesday the start of negotiations to reach a free trade agreement between the two countries, Anadolu News Agency reported.
Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai held official talks on Monday with her Bahraini counterpart to establish a free trade agreement between Tel Aviv and Manama, the Israeli Economy Ministry said in a statement.
Barbivai said the agreement will help strengthen bilateral relations and help “remove barriers, expand economic cooperation and build further bridges between the two countries.”
According to the statement, trade exchange between Israel and Bahrain boomed to $7.5 million in 2021, with Israeli exports to Bahrain totaling $4 million in the fields of precious metals, chemical industry products, and electric engineering machines, while Israeli imports from Bahrain were estimated at $3.5 million.
Bahrain was among the four Arab countries that signed US-sponsored agreements to normalize their relations with Israel in 2020. The other countries were the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Morocco.
Ongoing confrontations between Palestinian youth and Palestinian Authority’s ‘security forces’ in Nablus. (Photo: via QNN)
The Palestinian Authority (PA) arrested former Palestinian prisoner Musab Shtayyeh, who has been pursued by the Israeli occupation forces for a long time, the Middle East Monitor reported.
Palestinian sources indicated that the PA’s Preventive Security Service in Nablus arrested Shtayyeh with two other people.
The arrest triggered angry protests in Nablus. Young men blocked a number of streets with rubber tires, and gunmen fired in the air in an expression of protest.
Ongoing confrontations between #Palestinian youth and Palestinian Authority' 'security forces', following the arrest of Palestinian resistance fighter Mousa Shtayyeh in #Nablus. pic.twitter.com/2JPG3DcwR1
Shtayyeh has been arrested three times in the past and has spent four years in the occupation’s prisons.
The occupation forces listed him among those they wanted since June 2021 and raided his family home in the town of Salem, east of Nablus, several times to arrest him.
Shtayyeh also survived several assassination attempts.
Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip and in the occupied West Bank condemned the arrest.
Demanding Shtayyeh’s immediate release, Hamas said that the arrests are a new stain on the PA’s hands and its record of ‘security coordination.’
Israeli forces regularly destroy water wells in the occupied West Bank. (File photo: via Activestills.org)
Israeli forces on Tuesday plugged with cement two underground water wells in the occupied West Bank, deeming them useless, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The water wells were providing drinking water for residents in the villages of al-Ras and Kafr Aboush, south of Tulkarm.
The head of Al-Ras village council, Muhammad Majdoub, told WAFA that the occupation forces plugged a well in the eastern area of the village with concrete without a prior warning.
RT PalestineChron "“As Dr. Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo explain, the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements are draining already exhausted Palestinian water supplies, a fact that further attests to the apartheid nature of the Zionist regime.”
The Israeli forces also seized a water pump and a truck parked in the area owned by a local resident and forced municipality crews to leave the area.
Majdoub added that the well was dug by the municipality last year for drinking purposes to alleviate the water shortage crisis in the village, especially in the summer, after the Israeli company Mekorot refused to provide the village with more water.
Israel has total control over Palestinian water resources in the occupied territories and does not allow Palestinians to dig underground water wells or even ponds that collect rainwater.
Palestinian journalist Bushra Al-Taweel. (Photo: via Social Media)
Israeli occupation authorities on Monday extended the administrative detention of Palestinian journalist Bushra Al-Taweel for the third time in a row, for a period of three months, the Middle East Monitor reported.
Twenty-nine-year-old Al-Taweel, a resident of the city of Ramallah, was arrested on March 21 at the Zatara military checkpoint, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Israeli occupation has extended the administrative detention of Palestinian journalist Bushra Al-Taweel for an additional 3 months, for the third time since her arrest on 21 March 2022. pic.twitter.com/biJLp2gYjB
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. (Photo: Ali Khamenei website, via Wikimedia Commons)
Israel has raised the state of alert and ordered its troops to prepare for any scenario following Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah’s threats to target the offshore Karish gas drilling rig, Israeli media reported.
On Saturday, Nasrallah said that Israel’s extraction of gas from the Karish gas field before Lebanon obtained its rights is a “red line.”
“We will not allow the extraction of oil and gas from the Karish field before Lebanon obtains its rightful demands,” Nasrallah told crowds gathered for the Arbaeen commemoration, which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the seventh-century killing of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad.
Sayyed Nasrallah: Hezbollah’s Eyes & Missiles Are on Karish, We Do Not Fear Any Imposed Confrontation pic.twitter.com/5DMGlJVl0T
“Zionist officials said the extraction from Karish will take place in September, but they postponed it. The important thing is that there is no extraction from the Karish field before Lebanon obtains its rightful demands,” Nasrallah added.
“We give negotiations a chance, but our eyes and our missiles are on Karish.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Photo: Kremlin, via Wikimedia Commons) 
Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawwash with one of his five children. (Photo: via Social Media) 
Ongoing confrontations between Palestinian youth and Palestinian Authority’s ‘security forces’ in Nablus. (Photo: video grab) 
Hundreds of settlers regularly storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem. (Photo: via Social Media) 
Israeli forces storm the town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron. (Photo: via QNN) 
Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai (R) with her Bahraini counterpart. (Photo: via Barbivai TW Page) 
Ongoing confrontations between Palestinian youth and Palestinian Authority’s ‘security forces’ in Nablus. (Photo: via QNN) 
Israeli forces regularly destroy water wells in the occupied West Bank. (File photo: via Activestills.org) 
Palestinian journalist Bushra Al-Taweel. (Photo: via Social Media) 
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. (Photo: Ali Khamenei website, via Wikimedia Commons) 