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Palestinian demonstrators attend an anti-Palestinian Authority protest in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 3, 2021. The banner reads: ‘Leave out Abbas’. Reuters pic
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RAMALLAH (Palestinian Territories), July 4 Hundreds of Palestinians demanded the resignation of president Mahmud Abbas at a West Bank protest yerday sparked by last month’s death of an activist in custody.
Relatives of Nizar Banat, who died after security forces stormed his home and violently arrested him, were at the forefront of the protest in Ramallah where Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA) is based.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank For your next getaway, you might consider this: four nights and five days in sunny “Palestine: land of miracles”.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank For your next getaway, you might consider this: four nights and five days in sunny “Palestine: land of miracles”.
It’s a tough sell for a place that has become synonymous with Middle East violence, for a country not yet a country which does not even control all of its territory, let alone its major tourist attractions.
And yet the figures are up for the third year running. Palestinian tourism ministry records show that some 2.6 million tourists visited the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2009.
BBC News
By Joel Greenberg
image captionPalestinian security forces have broken up the rare daily protests against the authorities
The death in custody of an activist after his arrest by Palestinian security forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has exposed deep discontent among Palestinian civilians towards their leaders.
Amid mounting evidence that Nizar Banat had been severely beaten when security personnel raided his home before hauling him away, hundreds have taken to the streets calling for the resignation of the Palestinian president.
Denouncing the authorities, protesters have chanted for the overthrow of the regime , a phrase taken from uprisings across Arab states a decade ago.
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