The International Criminal Court (ICC) has requested clarifications from the Palestinian Authority regarding its decision to end all agreements with Israel in light of the latter’s decision to annex a large part of the occupied Palestinian territory, according to a Palestinian Foreign Ministry official. Omar Awadallah, head of the General …
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Israeli demolitions in several Palestinian districts and destruction of agricultural land were highlighted on the front page of the three Palestinian Arabic dailies published today. Al-Quds and al-Ayyam made these measures their top front-page story while al-Hayat al-Jadida had them lower on the page below a picture showing the destruction …
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The first coronavirus case in the northern West Bank in weeks was confirmed this morning, raising the total number of confirmed cases in Palestine 614, according to Health Minister Mai Alkaila. She said in a statement that a Palestinian from the village Azzun Atma, to the east of the occupied …
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Adnan Salah says settler attacks in occupied West Bank have increased since Donald Trump was elected president Seventy-year-old Adnan Salah, a retired school administrator-turned-farmer, got an unexpected call from his neighbours on Thursday morning. They told him to come immediately to his farmland on the outskirts of the Bethlehem-area village …
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‘All settlements are illegal under international law and remain a substantial obstacle to peace,’ UN envoy said. Israeli plans to build new settlement units in occupied West Bank, namely E1 area, “fuels instability,” UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, said on Wednesday. “I am very …
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Vermont senator says if he is elected US president, he would consider moving US embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “reactionary racist” at the Democratic presidential debate. Sanders said if he is elected, he would “take into consideration” …
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Statement by United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, on Israeli settlement announcements Jerusalem, 26 February 2020 “I am very concerned about Israel’s recent announcements regarding the advancement of settlement construction in Giv’at Hamatos and Har Homa, as well as the worrying plans for 3,500 …
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Eight year old Malik Issa, who was shot in the face by an Israeli police officer on 15 February, has lost his left eye. Malik was shot in the eye by a rubber-coated metal bullet while on his way home from school in Wadi Al-Joz neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, along …
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The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories- B’Tselem said on Wednesday that 19 Palestinian protesters in Gaza lost one of their eyes during the last two years due to the Israeli shooting at their eyes during Gaza’s weekly peaceful protests near the separation fence. The center …
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Donald Trump’s Peace to Prosperity plan for the Middle East envisages an outcome with characteristics similar to apartheid, say 50 former foreign ministers and leaders from across Europe As Europeans dedicated to promoting international law, peace and security worldwide, we express our deep concern about President Trump’s Middle East plan, …
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