An-Najah News - The Health Ministry  announced that  Palestine recorded Tuesday night two novel coronavirus fatalities, raising the total death toll to 89.

It announced that two Palestinians from the southern West Bank district of Hebron died due to the highly contagious virus.

The confirmed cases in the occupied territories (West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza) reached 16,628.

Out of the 16,628 cases, 12,692 are recorded in the West Bank, 78 in the Gaza Strip and 3,858 in East Jerusalem.

An-Najah News - A local municipal source said that Israeli occupation forces  uprooted some 100 palm trees in the village of al-Jiftlik north of Jericho.

The land owner  was identified as Anwar Abu Joudeh, who planted the trees.

 al-Jiftlik located 33 kilometers to the north of Jericho, with a population of some 5,500.

 predominantly the village depend on agriculture and livestock for their main source of livelihood with a total area of 185,032 dunums.

Israel has severely restricted Palestinian access to water in the area, particularly the 23 underground wells used for agriculture.