Mustafa Barghouti
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Mustafa Barghouti leads the Palestinian National Initiative and is a ubiquitous international-media voice.
Independent British MP Jeremy Corbyn: Israel's decision to bar me and 11 other British MPs from entering the entity will not deter me from continuing my campaign for Palestinian rights
Translated from ArabicIsraeli Army Radio: Leak of the “Farm Union” map: The grazing and settlement farms that were quietly established in the West Bank now control more than 1.1 million dunams (one-third of the area of Area C), with calls to cement “de facto control” over an additional million dunams.
Translated from ArabicPalestinian elections... an opportunity for change or continued stagnation?
Translated from ArabicIsraeli extreme minister Smotrich announces 1,000 new settlement units in the West Bank, a day after 12 Western countries announced their intention to impose restrictions on settlement goods.
🚨 Breaking | Masafer Yatta Israeli terrorist settlers are pursuing and chasing teams from the Palestinian Medical Relief Society while they carry out their humanitarian duties in Masafer Yatta, in yet another attack that is obstructing medical teams from reaching local residents and providing treatment to the injured and sick.Even medical teams have not been spared attacks and harassment in Masafer Yatta.
In another act of ethnic cleansing Israeli occupation army bulldozers completely demolished the northern section of Khirbet al-Fakheit in Masafer Yatta today. The area included ten homes, as well as sheds and sheep pens belonging to the al-Hamamdah family. The demolition also destroyed water tanks, sanitation units, and solar panels, and a water well was demolished.
The occupation army killed five Palestinian civilians , including a boy and a girl, in the Gaza Strip, while a terrorist Israeli settler killed a Palestinian young man in Hajja in the West Bank.
Gaza mourns and lays to rest the remains of 100 more Palestinian victims, whose bodies were recovered from under the rubble after having been missing for three years during the genocidal war. https://t.co/qhXuNPWBkI
Israeli bulldozers completely destroyed the village of Khirbet al-Tabban yesterday in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, making it the 66th village to be completely destroyed by Israel, with all of its homes demolished, in the West Bank since October 7, 2023. Khirbet al-Tabban is home to 12 families, comprising a total of 70 people, who are now left without shelter.
Nine-year-old Israa Al-Hasi and her 50-year-old mother, Amina, were killed on Wednesday when Israeli forces struck tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, in yet another Israeli crime against unarmed civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Omar Mohammad Al-Naasan ( 19 years old) and Khalil Rasem Abu Alia ( 16 years old), were killed this evening after being shot by Israeli occupation forces and terrorist settlers in the village of Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah which is subjected to continuous attacks by Israeli terrorist settlers under the protection of the Israeli army.
Dr. Mustafa al-Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement, receives the head and members of the European Union mission to monitor the Palestinian legislative elections and explains to them the seriousness of the situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a result of the continuing settler terrorism and Israeli bombardment and military operations. The two sides discussed the importance of removing all obstacles that hinder the holding of democratic elections and their integrity, including guaranteeing freedom of expression and movement, justice and non-discrimination, and guaranteeing that they be held in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip without exception. Al-Barghouti emphasized the importance of elections for restoring democracy, the separation of powers, bringing about an end to the division and restoring national unity, preventing the separation of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, and resisting occupation measures to destroy the Palestinian people's right to freedom and self-determination.
Translated from ArabicDr. Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement, receives the head and members of the European Union mission to monitor the Palestinian legislative elections and explains to them the gravity of the situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a result of the continued settler terrorism, bombardment, and Israeli military operations. The two sides discussed the importance of removing all obstacles that impede the holding and integrity of democratic elections, including ensuring freedom of expression and movement, justice, and non-discrimination, and ensuring that they are held in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip without exception. Barghouti affirmed the importance of elections for restoring democracy, separating powers, ending the division, restoring national unity, preventing the separation of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, and resisting the occupation's measures to destroy the Palestinian people's right to freedom and self-determination.
Translated from ArabicAs part of Israel’s efforts to illegally annex the West Bank, Israel has seized approximately 110,000 dunams of land in the West Bank since 2023, through a parallel set of military, administrative, and legal measures that have changed the status of the land, restricted its use, and wrested control of it.
The Israeli occupation army uprooted dozens of Palestinian olive trees along the road connecting the towns of Arraba and Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin. https://t.co/6G0TlAw0VV
I met today in Ramallah with the European special envoy for the peace process, Christophe Bigot, and explained to him the seriousness of the attacks by terrorist settlers, settlement expansion, and the continuation of Israeli bombing. I clarified that it is impossible to deter these attacks without imposing serious sanctions. During the meeting, we also discussed the importance of, and conditions for the success and integrity of, the Palestinian elections, so that the Palestinian people may exercise their natural right to choose their leadership and their political and social vision.
Translated from Arabic15-year-old Palestinian child Muhammad Salman was detained in Israeli prisons for a year. As a result of inflammation in his hands, he suffered an arterial crisis while at Shaare Zedek Hospital. His foot was amputated a short while ago, and his life may be at risk. The cause was reportedly being kept in handcuffs for hours.
Israeli occupation forces have begun demolition operations in the Al-Saqi area of the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah. Meanwhile, Israeli terrorist settlers are besieging a home in the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah. https://t.co/D5SLEUYCg9
Four Palestinian civilians were injured in an attack by Israeli settler terrorists on the town of Al-Mughayyir, in the Ramallah area, https://t.co/LN3E4drFKT
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory: Three Palestinian families in the town of Qusra remain isolated. We have documented more than 1,540 settler attacks since the beginning of 2026. Around 1,040 Palestinians have been injured in settler attacks since 2026. Eighty settler attacks during the second and third weeks of August resulted in injuries.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz: The Israeli military and Shin Bet are operating five armed militias in Gaza as an operational arm for the forced displacement of civilians. An Air Force officer acknowledged that he was tasked with protecting these groups while they carried out war crimes and extrajudicial killings, in direct coordination with Israeli military forces.
Israeli terrorist settlers enhance their criminal terrorist attacks against Palestinian communities in tge West Bank https://t.co/2cPnRATVUU
Local sources: A crew from the American NBC network was violently attacked today by dozens of Israeli settlers in Jalud, south of Nablus.
Israeli terrorist settlers attacked Palestinian civilians in the villages of Al Mughayer and Burqa in Ramallah area. The attack on Al Mughayer was joined by the Israeli army which threw tear gas and shot bullets at the Palestinians.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has killed more than 20,000 children in the Gaza Strip, 235 children in the West Bank, while Israeli settler terrorists have killed another five children. During the past 24 hours, the Israeli army killed eight Palestinians in airstrikes—three in Jenin in the West Bank and five in the Gaza Strip—in addition to injuring dozens in joint attacks carried out by Israeli settler terrorists and the occupation forces in Al-Mughayyir, Al-Amari Refugee Camp, and the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, and Nablus.
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