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Israeli security personnel shot and killed a Palestinian woman at the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. The woman was shot four times after missing a pedestrian lane at Qalandia, checkpoint separating East Jerusalem from the central West Bank.

The just concluded “Peace to Prosperity” workshop for Palestine, held at Manama the capital of Bahrain, unveiled the bait in the "deal of the century” as a re-branded version of a US plan revised repeatedly since the 1970s asking the Palestinians to trade basic rights in return for fanciful financial promises.

Europeans take to the street to demonstrate against the “Peace to Prosperity” conference taking place in Bahraini capital, Manama. The protests took place in Athens, Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Milan, London, and The Hague, with most gathering outside the cities’ US embassies. Participants carried posters and banners saying “Palestine is not for sale”.

"The UAE supports all international efforts aimed at supporting economic progress and increasing opportunities in the region, and alleviating the suffering of people in the region, particularly our brothers in Palestine,''

The Trump administration plans to present a ‘deal of the century,’ after Ramadan on the Palestine issue. The plan was announced two years ago when the US moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Until today only he and a handful of aides know its precise details. But recently a plethora of leaks have revealed many of its details. The recent leak by a Zionist newspaper revealed the most details to date and this is most likely to build public opinion for what will be in the final deal.

Nakba, or "day of catastrophe", is officially marked each year on May 15 to commemorate the displacement of some 750,000 Palestinians who were forced from their homes during the war that led to the creation of Israel in 1948.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas turned down an offer of $10 billion from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman if he would accept the forthcoming U.S. Middle east peace plan.

Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said "there is no such thing" as Palestine because the letter "P" does not exist in the Arabic alphabet.

“Who has won the Israel election and what happens next?” is the question on the lips of people after Zionist leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and white party secured an equal amount of seats during the elections that were held in occupied Palestine.

Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak was reported to have said Israel wanted to normalise relations with Syria and to have diplomatic links with its neighbour in order to returned the occupied Golan Heights.

Head of High Follow up Committee for Arabs in Israel Mohammad Baraka has warned that Palestinians held in Israeli jails are being used as animal sample for new medical trials. “This is a clear war against humanity,” Baraka said.

Reports indicated that Israeli pharmaceutical firms are using Palestinian and Arab captives as specimens for their newly developed vaccines and that the illegal state military is using the Palestinian neighborhood for weaponry testing.