Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians in occupied territories days after Mahmoud Abbas calls for peace talks
Two people were killed in Jenin in the West Bank and three others in the Beit Anan village in Jerusalem when Israeli forces stormed Palestinian villages early in the morning
Security forces arrest anti-Palestinian Authority demonstrators
Palestinian Authority forces used violent means to suppress the protests and beat up protesters with metal batons amid a wave of protests against the killing of activist Nizar Banat
Palestinian prisoner Rushdi Abu Mokh is released after 35 years in Israeli custody
Rushdi Abu Mokh was arrested in 1986 and charged along with three others with the murder of an Israeli soldier and membership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Elections to be held in Palestine for the first time since 2006
The legislative elections encompassing all the occupied Palestinian territories, including West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, are scheduled to take place on May 22 while the presidential elections are to be held on July 31
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