CultureSliman Mansour, painter of Palestinian identity, dies at 79
His family announced the death on Monday. Born in Birzeit in 1947, he helped found an art centre in East Jerusalem and later an academy in Ramallah.
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West Bank30 Palestinians detained in a day of West Bank raids
The Palestinian Prisoner Society counted arrests in five governorates on Wednesday, and puts the number of Palestinians now held by Israel at about 9,400, a third of them without charge.
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West BankIsrael puts 1,234 settlement units in E1 out to tender
Three Israeli organisations petitioning against the plan say the state had undertaken to warn them before any E1 tender, and told them in July that none was due for two to three months.
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