An-Najah News - Qasem Awwad, a spokesman of the Palestinian Authority's Apartheid Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said that the Israeli occupation authorities announced their takeover of about 11,000 dunums of (1,000 hectares) of Palestinian land in the northern Jordan Valley region in the occupied West Bank.

The order comes under the pretext of transferring the property of the said land to three natural reservoirs in the area, a pretext that Israel has used sometimes to serve the illegal settlement construction and expansion project.  
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to annex the entire Jordan Valley region to Israel's sovereignty if he was re-elected as prime minister. 

An-Najah News -  Minister of Culture Atef Abu Seif condemned today the Israeli incitement campaign against Palestinian singer and Arab Idol star Mohammed Assaf,

Abu Seif described it as an episode in its war against Palestinian arts and culture.

A member of the Israeli Knesset and former Minister of Internal Security, as saying that the Israeli authorities have decided to prevent the young well-known singer from visiting the occupied Palestinian territories also wit a  possibility of calling for the cancelation all of Assaf’s events in the United Arab Emirates, where he lives with his wife.

Abu Seif pointed out that "the Israeli occupation's campaign against artist Mohammed Assaf comes as part of its war against Palestinian arts and culture," and that "the incitement carried out by the occupation against Assaf is against the Palestinian national culture that is committed to defending the rights of our people."

"This Israeli campaign and incitement against Palestinian arts and against one of the stars of Palestine -- who carry to the world the voice and story of our people suffering under the occupation -- will not succeed in undermining the eternal message of the Palestinian artists and their struggle," said Abu Seif.