Ramzi Hamed, 17, died on Monday from wounds sustained by Israeli gunfire in the town of Silwad, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry's announcement did not clarify whether he was shot by the military or Israeli settlers.

Locals pointed to a settler from Ofra who was responsible for the shooting on Wednesday. 

Armed Israeli settlers shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian after storming his West Bank village on Friday evening.

19-year-old Qosai Jammal Mi'tan was shot dead in his hometown of Burqa, east of Ramallah, while four other Palestinians were injured. The Israeli settlers also set two vehicles on fires, as part of a wider attack on property.

Local sources said that the settlers had brought their livestock, signalling an intention to set up an outpost. 

A 4-year-old Palestinian boy was lightly injured on Friday when he was run over by a settler in Tel Rumeida, near Hebron.

The child, identified as Jude Al-Fakhouri, was evacuated to hospital with fractures in his foot.

Washington – The U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke to  his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, on Friday about joint efforts to promote regional stability, according to the State Department. 

The two discussed the Palestinian territories, Israel, Sudan and Libya, the State Department's readout said.

The American and Egyptian diplomats discussed a unified position to end the conflict in Sudan, and their support for the UN Special Representative in reaching an agreement. They also said that they would work toward free and fair elections in Libya and to achieve "security, dignity, and prosperity for Israelis and Palestinians.”

Blinken also affirmed the United States' full support for a diplomatic solution to the dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Blinken welcomed the recent release of Egyptian human rights defenders Patrick Zaki and Mohamed El-Baqer, and said that "progress in the field of human rights will enable the strongest possible partnership between the United States and Egypt."

The head of the Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Moayad Sha'aban, was beaten by Israeli occupation forces on Friday during a demonstration in the town of Derastia, west of Salfit.

Sha'aban sustained bruises in the abdomen and chest during the weekly anti-settlement march in the West Bank town. Israeli settlers are trying to set up a new outpost north of the town, in the Al-Qada area, adding urgency to the protests.  

According to local sources, the troops also fired tear gas at the demonstrators, and the minister was evacuated to hospital for treatment.

Israeli border police detained two Palestinians at dawn on Friday that they suspect of aiding Muhannad al-Mazra'a, who injured six Israeli settlers in a shooting attack at the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim earlier this week.

According the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, the two Palestinians are from the shooter's hometown of Al-Eizariya, near Jerusalem. They were taken to an unknown site for interrogation. 

An 18-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation forces in a raid on Nour Al-Shams refugee camp, east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm.

The teenager – identified as Mahmoud Abu Sa'an – was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers during clashes in the camp. He was transferred a nearby hospital, where he announced dead at the scene. 

The violent confrontations in Nour Al-Shams erupted after Israeli forces raided the camp. The troops fired live ammunition, as well as stun grenades and tear gas.

Later on Friday, thousands of Palestinians turned up at Sa'an's funeral. His body was carried from Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital to the Al-Rawda mosque, where funeral rites were performed over his body, before his burial. 

Abu Sa'an, who graduated high school last year with high grades, is from Nour Al-Shams camp.

A 28-year-old Palestinian was killed and others were injured on Thursday evening in family quarrel in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.

Palestinian spokesman, Colonel Ayman Al-Batniji, said in a statement that the police managed to get the incident under control and opened an investigation. The police said that they are currently working to locate the killer.

Every morning, for several hours, you will find Rami Salameh hunched over a desk to restore a number of ancient manuscripts located in a historic library in east Jerusalem.

Salameh, a local Palestinian man in his forties, told Xinhua that he launched his individual initiative about two-and-a-half years ago in order to preserve the books and manuscripts in the Khalidiya Library in Jerusalem, which hold insights about the period of the city before it was taken over by Israel.

The Al-Khalidiya Library is one of the largest Arabic libraries in the city of Jerusalem. It was established in 1900 inside part of an old, Mamluk-style residential building from the 13th century. It was owned by the Al-Khalidi family, who used to live in the city.

Salameh explains that the library contains more than 1,200 ancient manuscripts, dozens of which are over 1,000 years old, which documented the lives of the city's residents throughout history. 

His main motivation is to show what life was like in Jerusalem before Israel's occupation, and to refute the accounts that the city was empty – what he describes as "systematic attempts to obliterate its Arab history."  

He notes that an Israeli court even ruled that a religious Jewish school to acquire part of the library, though the total takeover was prevented by testimonies by left-wing Jewish academics about the importance of the collection to Arab history. 

In light of these threats, Salameh didn't want to waste any time, and began restoring and digitizing the manuscripts himself. Their subjects range from Persian to Ottoman history, from astronomy to the Koran.

He has already began on 11 manuscripts, and seven others in other libraries.

The local council of Nahf in the Galilee announced a general strike on Thursday after the latest crime-related homicide in the Arab community in Israel.

On Wednesday night, a man in his forties – Falastin Mattar – was shot dead in the locality. 

The death toll in the Arab community from crime-related killings since the beginning has reached 129, the highest point for this point in the year. Twenty-four Palestinians have been killed in the month of July alone.

Israeli occupation forces carried out a massive campaign of arrests in separate areas of the West Bank on Thursday.

The arrest raid was concentrated in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, with 13 young men targeted. 

They also detained the representative of the Islamic Bloc at Al-Najah University in the town of Qabalan.

In Jenin, Israeli forces arrested three Palestinians from the town of Burqin, including local leaders of the Islamic Jihad.

They also arrested three other Palestinians in the town of Jayyous. 

The Palestinian government denied on Wednesday that Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh sent a memo to Qatar to air his objection to their contribution to a fourth power station in the Gaza Strip. 

The office of Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said that the headline on local Palestinian local websites is "incorrect news."

A group of Israeli settlers set up a tent on Wednesday on Palestinian land in the South Hebron Hills, in the occupied West Bank, assaulted local residents and prevented them from reaching a well in Masafer Yatta.

The settlers erected the structure under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces on land belonging to Awad Makhamra, in the Al-Tuba area of Masafer Yatta, according to local sources.

A 31-year-old Israeli settler was injured on Wednesday afternoon in a shooting attack at the Al-Hamra checkpoint in the Jordan Valley.

According to the Israeli public broadcaster Kan, the settler sustained minor face injuries after the windows of her vehicle were shattered by the gunfire. 

The channel added that a large number of Israeli forces are conducting a manhunt for the perpetrator, who escaped the scene in his vehicle. 

A fragile quiet has been secured in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein-Hilweh after a ceasefire agreement was reached on Tuesday night. Eleven Palestinians were killed in the interfactional fighting in the Lebanese camp in the last three days.

The Palestinian Joint Action Committee held an emergency meeting on Tuesday night with the Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon, Ashraf Dabour, to discuss the events at the camp.

Eleven Palestinians were killed, including senior Fatah commander in Sidon Major General Abu Ashraf al-Armoushi, and several others were injured. On top of this, many Palestinian families were displaced and the fighting caused significant damage to property and infrastructure. 

Among the remit of the Palestinian Joint Action Committee is to encourage gunmen to withdraw from the streets in order to ensure safe passage for families wishing to return, and to investigate the cause of the confrontations and to bring them to the Lebanese judicial and security authorities.

Other than the judicial overhaul, which has captured the imagination of the streets and the world, Israel's far-right government is advancing a series of steps that amount to the de facto annexation of the occupied West Bank, the newspaper Haaretz reported.

Beyond the transfer of civilian authorities in the West Bank to extremist minister Bezalel Smotrich, the Knesset has already passed a law that allowed Israelis to return to the four settlements evacuated as part of the disengagement plan in 2005.

As part of a gradual process described by the newspaper, other bills are being prepared that would give Israeli institutions a greater foothold in the West Bank, apply Israeli sovereignty over antiquity and heritage sites, and bolster the ability of military courts to collect fines from Palestinians. 

Haaretz also reported that another string of laws will target Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

In the last days of the last Knesset term, one law passed a first of three votes in the Knesset that would allow families of Israelis killed in attacks to file compensation claims with the Palestinian Authority, as well as preventing payments of Palestinian prisoners. 

Hebron — A Palestinian man was shot dead by an Israeli soldier near the town of Samu, south of Hebron, on Tuesday.

Local sources said that the Israeli soldiers deliberately shot the man. 

Israeli sources claimed that the man had attempted to carry out a stabbing attack. 

Six Israeli settlers were wounded on Tuesday in a shooting attack inside the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, east of occupied Jerusalem. The Palestinian assailant was killed.

According to Israeli media, two of the wounded are in a serious condition.

The perpetrator was identified as Muhannad al-Mazra'a, 20, from the town of al-Eizariya, and reportedly carried out the shooting with an M16 rifle.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praised the attack.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem hailed the "valiant resistance" for taking revenge in the "war against our sanctities and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque." 

After the attack, al-Mazra'a's father – who works in the Ma'ale Adumim municipality  –  was dismissed from his job, while the two brothers were detained in their homes on Tuesday.

A Palestinian leader who took part in reconciliation talks between different Palestinian factions in Egypt over the weekend has disclosed new information to Al-Quds.

Walid Al-Awad, a member of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian People's Party, revealed that his party presented an initiative that prohibits political arrests and not exclude the resistance's weapons in any internal disputes.

While all parties rejected political arrests in principle, Palestinian President Abbas rejected the notion that the PA had carried out arrests on "political grounds," and that those arrested had attacked public, police and security headquarters. He invited all factions who disputed this to independently verify his claim. 

Al-Awad said in an interview with Al-Quds.com that the meeting "discussed political issues and visions in detail" for the first time in years, and focused on narrowing political differences rather than solving them entirely, in order to confront the Israeli occupation as effectively as possible.

Other aspects that were agreed upon by consensus was the role of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole legitimate representative of the people, and the need to reactivate the body and elect its representatives.

Al-Awad said that while the meeting only lasted four hours, but "opened the door for dialogue." He also pointed to the agreement to hold regular meetings as another positive step, and said that it was essential to name and kick start the follow-up committee as soon as possible.

Washington — Amnesty International has condemned the "deep discrimination" of an Israeli court after it ruled to demolish the village of Ras Jrabah in the Negev region of southern Israel and to evict its 500 Palestinian Bedouin residents. 

The international rights group said that the decision, which would pave the way to build a new neighborhood for the Israeli city of Dimona, testifies to the ongoing practice of "apartheid" carried out by Israel. 

On Thursday, the Be'er Sehva Magistrate's Court ordered the Palestinians community in Ras Jrabah to vacate their homes and pay a fine of about 117,000 shekels ($31,700).

The authorities refused for the people to merge into the new neighborhood of Dimono, and will instead be transferred to the nearby Bedouin town of Qasr al-Sir.

“This judgment shows how Israel's deeply discriminatory laws around land and property ownership are used to enforce apartheid against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are systematically denied the same rights as Jewish Israelis,” Heba Morayef, the Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said.

"This judgment underscores the need to dismantle Israel’s apartheid system, right now. The international community must put pressure on Israeli authorities to scrap these cruel plans, and end their policy of forcibly evicting Palestinians in the Negev/Naqab,” she added.

Several Palestinians were suffocated by tear gas fired by Israeli troops on Monday in clashes in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, the confrontations erupted after Israeli occupation forces stormed the town. 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi in the coastal city of El Alamein on Monday.

Abbas thanked his Egyptian counterpart for hosting the reconciliation talks between Palestinian factions on Sunday, who in turn stressed the importance of achieving "national unity."

The president also briefed Sissi on the latest development in Israel's ongoing assault against the Palestinian people and their rights.

The two committed to strengthening their bilateral ties, and Egypt also reiterated their support for the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Eleven Palestinians have been killed in inter-factional fighting in Lebanon's Ein el-Hilwe refugee camp in the last three days

The fighting between Fatah and Islamist factions in the southern Lebanon camp started on Sunday and have seen at least 40 others injured in the fighting.

Fatah confirmed that one of its commanders in the camp was killed in the confrontations.

Hamas has called for talks to de-escalate the situation. 

As the fighting continued into its third day, residents of the camp were urged to remain in their houses.

The violence kicked off as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian political chief Ismail Haniyeh met in Egypt on Sunday in reconciliation talks. There were no immediate announcements after the meeting that indicated any breakthrough.

Two analysts who spoke to Al-Quds believe that the convention between Palestinian factions in Egypt over the weekend was a "formality" that will not yield any changes to the impasse on national unity. 

Led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the meeting did not vastly differ from previous meetings in terms of content, and the final statement by the parties also echoed past attempts to secure an agreements. 

Abbas called for the establishment of a follow-up committee to discuss the issues raised in the meeting, which reportedly included demands from Abbas to limit the resistance to peaceful means that conform to "international legitimacy."

The leader of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh had called on Abbas on Sunday to end security cooperation with Israel and to release political prisoners that were detained in a recent crackdown by the Palestinian Authority.

Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - the General Command, the Ba'athist party As-Sa'iqa (the Vanguard for the Popular Liberation War - Lightning Forces) and the Fatah splinter group known as Fatah al-Intifada all boycotted the confab over the issue.

Despite the rare photo-op at the end of the meeting, political analyst Mustafa Ibrahim believes that "no real output" came from the long-awaited meeting. Ibrahim said that the briefing echoed another reconciliation attempt in September 2020 that also fizzled out. 

Political analyst Ibrahim Al-Madhoun, however, said that merely holding the meeting at this time warrants "cautious optimism," especially since the gap between Fatah and Hamas is "huge," especially over forms of resistance against Israel's occupation, and in light of the Palestinian Authority's quashing of resistance groups in the northern West Bank.

He also added that the Palestinian people have largely lost hope in such processes. 

The meeting of general secretaries was held on the coastal city of El Alamein on Sunday was the latest attempt to achieve intra-Palestinian unity in recent years.

Numerous attempts to end the split between Fatah and Hamas during the 2006 civil war in Gaza, where Hamas secured power in the Strip after winning the election the previous year, have failed.

Israeli settlers launched a string of attacks against Palestinian farmers and land across the West Bank on Friday.

One Palestinian suffered from a hand injury after settlers attacked his car in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah. 

Local sources say that settlers also attacked another vehicle in the nearby town of Beitunia, injuring his hand and cracking the motorist's windshields. He was evacuated to a medical center in Al-Mughayyir.

In the town of Einabus, south of Nablus, Israeli settlers also set fire to Palestinian-owned olive trees.

Several Palestinians were injured on Friday in confrontations with Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank.

In the northern West Bank town of Kafr Qaddum, two Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated bullets fired by Israeli occupation forces during the weekly anti-settlement march. 

According to local sources, Israeli troops also fired stun grenades and tear gas at the peaceful demonstration, and dozens were treated for tear gas inhalation. 

In Beit Dajan and Beita, near Nablus, Palestinians also confronted occupation forces, who fired tear gas at them.

Tens of thousands of worshippers performed Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict military measures by Israeli occupation forces at the gates of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

The Waqf estimated that about 45,000 worshipers were present at the holy site. 

Israeli occupation forces were deployed across the streets of the Old City and around the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and checked the ID cards of worshippers.

Israeli occupation forces raided a school in the West Bank town of Beita, south of Nablus, on Friday.

Palestinian sources from the area said that the soldiers broke down the doors of the Bir Quza mixed school, tampered with and destroyed equipment, and confiscated the CCTV cameras. 

On Thursday night, clashes erupted nearby after Israel troops stormed Jabal Al-Arma in Beita. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, 10 Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation after occupation forces fired smoke and stun grenades.

Cairo — A delegation from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine arrived in the Egyptian capital on Thursday evening ahead of the upcoming meeting between all Palestinian factions next week.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had called the meeting to try and secure "national unity" after Israel's invasion of Jenin refugee camp at the start of July. 

Despite tensions over the release of political prisoners arrested by the Palestinian Authority, Abbas and the head of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh met in Ankara.

Over a dozen factions are set to participate in the meeting in Cairo, including Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP.

The delegation from the Palestinian Marxist–Leninist group DFLP includes Magda Al-Masry and Saleh Nasser, and a member of their central committee, Anas Sheikh Qassem.

Israeli occupation forces carried out a string of arrests in dawn raids across the West Bank on Friday. 

One of the detainees was identified by local sources as Abed al-Karim Hajjah, a resident of the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.

Israeli occupation forces arrested Mohammad Maher Qabha and Ramzi Iyyad Amarna on Thursday night at the village of Tura, near Jenin, and confiscated their bikes.

The troops also detained Waed Mahmoud Salem Alzgharneh from the town of al-Ramadin, south of Hebron, and Samer Sami Oweidat from Shuyukh Al'Arrub, north of Hebron. 

They also raided the home of Yasser Al-Masri in the city of Yatta, as well as a hair salon of the Adham Ziyad Abu Aisha.