The ruling Hamas party in Gaza held a meeting yesterday night with the Islamic Jihad group in order to discuss the fate of a six-month ceasefire deal with Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli military detained a dozen of residents from the West Bank. These stories and more are coming up, stay tuned.

A meeting between Hamas and Islamic Jihad group in Gaza yesterday discussed the fate of a ceasefire deal with Israel.

Hamas said Israel didn’t commit to the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement of June, but confirmed that extension or termination of the truce should be pre-determined by a consensus of the other Gaza-based factions.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Israeli military detained 14 Palestinian residents from the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Jenin.

Witnesses said that the Israeli soldiers ransacked Palestinian homes and forced all inhabitants out before detaining the residents.

On Tuesday, a Palestinian journalist was stoned by Israeli extremist settlers in Hebron Palestinian sources reported that Amer Abdeen, a 28-year-old photojournalist for Palmedia, was attacked by rioting settlers in the city.

A Palestinian man was stabbed by an ultra-orthodox Jewish settler in the right-wing Meashearim neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Local sources identified the victim as Hamid Abid Hamid, aged 31, from the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

A ship sailing from Qatar is scheduled to arrive in Gaza on Friday, loaded with humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza population. The Israeli naval vessels prevented a similar boat coming from Libya to reach the Gaza Shores to unload the supplies.

According to Jamal Al-Khudari, head of the committee against the siege of Gaza, and member of Palestinian Parliament, another ship sailing from Haifa on Saturday is expected to reach Gaza carrying five tons of humanitarian aid, including medicine.

At the political level, the negotiations department of the Palestine Liberation Organization reaffirmed its acceptance of a two-state solution between Palestine and Israel.

The reaffirmation came in response to a Washington Post's report, highlighting the Palestinian-Israeli conflict including solutions such as a one-state solution.


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