The Palestine Government today denied that Palestine will shortly be placed under martial law as reported by the “Mokattam,” Arab publication of Cairo.
The denial was issued by the government in response to an inquiry by the “Palestine Post” which had received inquiries from Cairo.
The government plans to prosecute the correspondent of the “Mokattam,” a Palestine Arab, who wrote the report.
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