During the last three months, more than 10,000 housing units were advanced, Tor Wennesland told ambassadors at the UN Security Council in New York. “Settlements further entrench the occupation, fuel violence, impede Palestinian access to their land and resources, and systematically erode the viability of a Palestinian State as part of a two-State solution”, the…
“People and our planet are in crisis”, the UN chief said, highlighting how conflicts continue to drive the vulnerable from their homes, while heatwaves and floods claim lives and division prevails. ‘Leave no one behind’ This year’s Peace Day coincides with the halfway point on the road to the Sustainable Development Goals, and the UN’s…
Settlers have attacked Palestinians and their property in many areas of occupied Palestine, with the Israeli army targeting villagers with tear gas bombs. According to a report by a foreign news agency, eyewitnesses say that Jewish settlers in the West Bank have attacked Palestinians and their property. Settlers in the village of al-Muzrah, northwest of…
Palestine Foreign Office Building The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Palestine announced the retirement of 35 ambassadors. This decision was taken by President Mahmood Abbas, which will be implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that the said ambassadors have been informed as their retirement phase has started. The…
On the second row from the right, the top leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Shinwar, is sitting, while the Intelligence Chief Abbas Kamil is on the desk of Egypt. A delegation of the Palestinian organization ‘Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’ (PFLP) met with the Intelligence Chief of Egypt. The delegation of PFLP…
Ramla: The Israeli army killed an unwashed Palestinian youth by shooting in the West Bank city of Ramla. A foreign news agency According to the report After the incident, the Israeli forces have said in their confession that we were attacked with explosives, after which we shot and killed the young man as a suspect….
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu separately to Ankara next week. This will be Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s first visit to Turkey. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Turkey in 2008. Netanyahu will visit Turkey on July 28, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit…
—File photo Israel announced visa relaxation for Palestinian Americans. Palestinian-Americans with dual citizenship living in the West Bank and Gaza will also be able to benefit from the visa waiver. There are 100,000 Palestinians living in America, who will now be able to easily go to their homeland, Palestine. Earlier, the American Palestinians living in…
In a news release issued by the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), the experts said it was “deeply shocking and heartbreaking” to see an elderly Palestinian couple, Nora Ghaith and Mustafa Sub Laban, evicted from their family home where they lived all their lives and raised their children. ‘Apartheid machinery at work’ “As we have repeatedly…
Geneva: The United Nations has said that Israel has practically imprisoned more than 800,000 Palestinians in the occupied territory of Palestine. According to Al Jazeera’s report, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Representative for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, while presenting a report at the ongoing 53rd session of the Human…
