Akram Al-Rajoub, the governor of the West Bank city of Jenin, called on Friday for former Palestinian Authority (PA) ministers and officials to return money they had stolen while in office, Safa Press Agency reported.

On his Facebook page, Al-Rajoub declared that there had been an order by President Mahmoud Abbas for the return of the funds, which has since been ignored.

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RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 25, 2019 (WAFA) – About 1,300,000 Palestinian students went to their schools today throughout the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as the new schoolyear begins.

About 854,390 students will be studying in public schools and around 100,000 in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The rest of the students, estimated at 150,000, will be studying at private schools.