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Europe Grants Nine Million Euro to Palestinian Industrial Zones

Vendors wait of customers in Gaza on Wednesday. (AFP)
Vendors wait of customers in Gaza on Wednesday. (AFP)
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Europe Grants Nine Million Euro to Palestinian Industrial Zones

Vendors wait of customers in Gaza on Wednesday. (AFP)
Vendors wait of customers in Gaza on Wednesday. (AFP)

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh signed Wednesday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the European Union (EU) to support the incentives program of Palestinian industrial cities.

The MoU is worth 9 million euros, including 7 million euros allotted to the Gaza Industrial Estate.

Shtayyeh signed the MoU with Henrike Trautmann, Acting Director of the Southern Neighborhood Directorate at DG NEAR (Directorate-General for Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations - European Commission), in Ramallah.

In a statement, the PM said the fund is aimed to support the incentives for investors and companies in the industrial cities and those interested in moving to them, underlining efforts to create job opportunities.

Moreover, up to 2 million euros would go to the Bethlehem Industrial Estate and Jericho Agro-industrial Park.

Shtayyeh extended gratitude to the EU for its unwavering support to Palestine and the industrial zones.

He said this significant MoU is in line with the Palestinian Industrial Estates program and the Palestinian National Development Plan and would help in increasing the GDP, boosting exports, and creating job opportunities.

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Palestinians in Jenin Observe a General Strike

A Palestinian police officer attempts to disperse demonstrators during a protest against clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
A Palestinian police officer attempts to disperse demonstrators during a protest against clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
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Palestinians in Jenin Observe a General Strike

A Palestinian police officer attempts to disperse demonstrators during a protest against clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
A Palestinian police officer attempts to disperse demonstrators during a protest against clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinians in the volatile northern West Bank town of Jenin are observing a general strike called by militant groups to protest a rare crackdown by Palestinian security forces.
An Associated Press reporter in Jenin heard gunfire and explosions, apparently from clashes between militants and Palestinian security forces. It was not immediately clear if anyone was killed or wounded. There was no sign of Israeli troops in the area.
Shops were closed in the city on Monday, the day after militants killed a member of the Palestinian security forces and wounded two others.
Militant groups called for a general strike across the territory, accusing the security forces of trying to disarm them in support of Israel’s half-century occupation of the territory.
The Western-backed Palestinian Authority is internationally recognized but deeply unpopular among Palestinians, in part because it cooperates with Israel on security matters. Israel accuses the authority of incitement and of failing to act against armed groups.
The Palestinian Authority blamed Sunday’s attack on “outlaws.” It says it is committed to maintaining law and order but will not police the occupation.
The Palestinian Authority exercises limited authority in population centers in the West Bank. Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Mideast War, and the Palestinians want it to form the main part of their future state.
Israel’s current government is opposed to Palestinian statehood and says it will maintain open-ended security control over the territory. Violence has soared in the West Bank following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza, which ignited the war there.