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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas receives visiting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Bethlehem, south of the occupied West Bank, today.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas receives visiting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Bethlehem, south of the occupied West Bank, today.

A Muslim cross-country runner was disqualified from a race in Ohio for wearing hijab. A week later, she broke her personal record in another competition. Via: AJ+

Abu Hitteh told the Committee that he was assaulted by a group of Jewish settlers, who surrounded and threatened him, before a large number of Israeli soldiers arrived and brutally beat him, claiming that he had tried to stab the settlers. http://qudsnen.co/?p=11402

Typical of the Levantine cuisine, Awwama is a delicious dessert made of deep fried dough, soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame. Did you ever have some?

A Palestinian mother spreads her children's clothes inside the tent she lives in - #Gaza City, #Palestine Photo by Mohammed Zaanoun.

Israeli soldiers caught 15-year-old Ma’rouf Al Atrash from Beit Jala when his family was driving him home after he was released. They brutally beat him with their rifles. They also pointed their weapons at Ma’rouf’s mother and another relative of him. http://qudsnen.co/?p=11390

21-year-old Jordanian citizen Mohammad Mesleh was sentenced today by the Israeli military court to 5 years in prison. Mesleh was arrested by IOF last year after he was shot, claiming he attempted to stab soldiers, at the city of "Hadera" in northen occupied #Palestine.

Israeli occupation authorities order three Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem to stay away from the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city for periods between 4 and 6 months, today.

The agricultural sector in besieged #Gaza has lost what amounts to 1.5 million dollars as a result of "Israel's" spraying of pesticides on Palestinian farmers' lands in eastern the Strip this winter! Source: Ministry of Agriculture.