Beyond Borders

Scores of   Palestinians demonstrated afternoon Friday in a protest against an Israeli order of seizing  20 dunams of Palestinians land in   Deir Alhatab and Azmout villages in the south of Nablus. This order comes for the settlers purposes to open a bypass road for illegal settlement   Alon Morey   which also will prevent Palestinians land owners to access to their lands that exist behind the road. Locals   said that Israel attacked protesters and injured 5, one of them a journalist using sound bombs and rubber bullets. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank , told Palestine TV that Alon Morey settlement was one of the isolated settlement according to the classification of Netanyahu but giving the American green light from   president Trump encouraged every settlement to expand on the context of Palestinians land. “ He added that Palestinians who want to go to their lands be...

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was first used for commercial purposes in the mid 19th century to sell newly invented breakfast cereal food stuffs. However, researchers found out that breakfast meal can affect humans physically and mentally. Breakfast immediately raises the energy level of the body, increasing vigor and vitality. It reduces blood cortisol levels and helps control appetite, which over the long-term, can significantly impact on body composition. Breakfast also increases cognitive function and the ability to concentrate. A team of researchers of Cardiff University in Wales, Britain found that those who regularly had breakfast performed better than their peers who skipped that meal. Nutritionists say the body needs a strong energy booster in the morning to fully wake up from its night-time break. “People who leave the house without eating anything in the morning tend to have trouble focusing,” says Harald Seitz, of the Germ...

Scores of UNRWA employees demonstrate today Monday against US policy in cutting the fund to the agency. In a speech by the head of UNRWA staff union, Ameer Al-Meshal said that U.S fund cuts threaten to put the vital services at risk and he called to enable UNRWA to carry out its duties towards Palestinian refugees. The development of UNRWA crisis comes after Trump decision to withhold $65 million of a planned $125 million funding installment. “We would like to see some reforms be made,” said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, adding that changes are needed to the way the agency operates and is funded. “This is not aimed at punishing anyone.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the move and accused the agency of perpetuating the Palestinian refugee problem and narrative of erasing Zionism, "This is the first time this thing is challenged. It’s a good thing that they’re moving forward and challenging this body.” In contrast, The Israeli army warned the gove...

Israel plans to deduct from tax funds it collects for the Palestinians to compensate Israelis living near the Gaza Strip who have fallen victim to a wave of arson attacks. Israel has been battling fires caused by kites rigged with incendiary devices or attached to burning rags launched by Palestinians in Gaza due to Israeli excessive force used against Palestinians in Great March of Return rallies. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted on Sunday that he had asked for the deduction. The kites have been flown by Gazans who have staged weekly protests since late March, during which more than 120 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire and injured thousands. On Monday, the Israeli military said it fired at two Palestinians who were attempting to breach the border fence, killing one of them. The Palestinian Authority condemned the move, saying it would violate past agreements signed with Israel and called it “robbery and cowardly aggression” against the Palestinians....

Israeli Bulldozers demolished on Wednesday, a Palestinian home, hair salon, a barn and a Palestinian home funded by EU in different parts of Jerusalem under the pretext of having no .building license Many army jeeps and bulldozers, in addition to police officers and workers of the City Council invaded Shu’fat neighborhood, after isolating it, and demolished a home and a barn, owned by Saleh Abu Khdeir. Abu Khdeir told the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) that his home was 115 square meters and was built in 2006, but he and his family were only able to inhabit it in 2012, after completing all the needed work and furnishing. He added that the City Council issued the demolition order in October 2017, but Abu Khdeir managed to obtain a court order halting the demolition until further deliberations are held, but the soldiers went ahead and demolished the property. The house that funded by UN  was owned by Hani Abu-Eweeda and a 13-member fam...

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned the Guatemala`s decision to move its  embassy to Jerusalem and it described this move as” shameful “. “It’s a shameful and illegal act that goes totally against the wishes of church leaders in Jerusalem”  and violates a non-binding UN General Assembly resolution condemning the US move, the ministry said in a statement. “The state of Palestine considers this as a flagrant act of hostility against the inalienable rights of the  Palestinian people and international law,” it added. “The state of Palestine will act with regional and international partners to oppose this illegal decision,” the ministry stressed. Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales announced that the Central American country will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, becoming the first country to follow the lead of US President Donald Trump in ordering the change. Guatemala was one of nine countries that voted with the Unite...

The Local Committee for Planning and Construction in the Jerusalem municipality is expected to approve on Wednesday a plan to expand the Israeli settlements of Nof Zion in east Jerusalem, Israeli media reported. If the plan of constructing new buildings is approved, Nof Zion will be the biggest Israeli settlement in Arab areas of east Jerusalem. For now, there are 91 housing units in the neighborhood, which is surrounded by the southeastern Arab neighborhood of Jebel Mukaber. In 1994, the construction of 395 housing units was approved, and in the early 2000s the first phase of the project saw the construction of the current 91 housing units in Nof Zion. Left-wing NGO Peace Now condemned the future move, saying that the expansion of settlements in east Jerusalem will harm Israel’s international status and will be a big obstacle to achieve the two-state solution.”