The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan reiterated during a meeting in New York yesterday their commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East based on international law and relevant United Nations resolutions. The meeting, held in the presence of Josep
Nasser Abu Bakr, the head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, the former president of the International Federation of Journalists current member of its administrative board, Jimmy Boumleiha, and Anton Abu Akleh, brother of the slain Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, today submitted a
Yesterday, Sunday, the Israeli occupation police allowed groups of settlers to storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque through the Al-Asbat Gate, the first storming through the gate since the occupation of Al-Aqsa. The director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, said that the occupation’s
Yesterday, Thursday, dozens of settlers desecrated the Al-Aqsa Mosque, under heavy escort from the occupation police. The Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem reported that dozens of settlers raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, performing defiant tours. Namely that associations of extremist
22 members of the American Congress denounced the closure of Palestinian civil society organizations by the Israeli occupation government. The 22 members of Congress said in a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines that signatures are
The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned in a statement what it described as “the continued crimes” of the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian land, particularly its assassination yesterday of three Palestinian citizens and wounding of 70
The European Union condemned in a statement, on Sunday, a recent increase in violence by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank, which on Friday resulted in the killing of a Palestinian teenager near Ramallah. Amjad Nash’at Abu Alia, 15, died on Friday afternoon shortly after
The South African Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Coalition has welcomed South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor’s comments last week accepting the overwhelming body of detailed, factual evidence demonstrating that Israel is committing the crime of
A group of deputies from the Algerian National People's Assembly submitted to the parliament's presidency a bill criminalizing normalization with the Israeli occupation, including provisions prohibiting travel or any direct or indirect contact with Tel Aviv. In a press
A number of US congress members Monday introduced to the US House a bill that recognizes the Palestinian Nakba, the forced expulsion and ethnic cleansing of some 750,000 Palestinians by the Zionists 74 years ago and turning them into refugees to establish a Jewish-majority state in
The Director-General of the League of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds, Dr. Mohammad Makram Balawi, welcomed today, Thursday, the Iraqi parliament approvement, in the first reading, of a bill to ban normalization with the Israeli occupation. Balawi stressed, in a statement, that the draft law
The Belgian Federal Representative for the Labor Party, Nabil Boukili, called on his country's government, and the European Union, to take a clear position and condemn crimes against humanity, violent repression and the illegal occupation of Palestine by the apartheid state. "For the
The Israeli police forces stormed al-Aqsa Mosque in large numbers to facilitate the entry of groups of Jewish settlers into the holy shrine on Wednesday morning. The Israeli forces forced Muslim worshipers to leave its courtyards as the settlers started their provocative tours at the Islamic
Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra reiterated his country's firm position in support of the Palestinian cause, without reservations, in order to end the Israeli occupation and embody an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. He condemned during a telephone
The Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union condemned today the repeated storming of al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli occupation forces and settlers. In a statement, the pan-Arab organization also condemned the escalation of Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people during the holy month of
The European Union today expressed concern about the recent violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents and human rights defenders in the southern West Bank village of al Tuwani and the South Hebron Hills, demanding that Israel, as the occupying power, must take measures to
Foreign Minister Riyad Malki today welcomed the adoption of two resolutions on Palestine by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Executive Council of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), at its 214th session
Nearly 500 Palestinian detainees have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings for 93 days in protest of their unfair detention without charge or trial under Israel’s controversial administrative detention policy. The boycott includes hearings for the renewal of
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Maliki commended today a unanimous vote by the UN Human Rights Council in favor of two resolutions on the self-determination of the Palestinian people and the illegality of Israeli settlements. 38 countries voted in favor of the draft
Jordanian MP Mohammad Dhahraoui considered that the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and its attempts to change the status of the city of al-Quds with the endless invasions of the holy mosque and palestinian villages and homes, "prompted the Palestinian people
The European Union today called for the protection of Palestinians and the prevention of “violence” following the recent string of settler attacks against Palestinians and their property. “Last night, Israeli settlers injured several Palestinians, torched cars, and damaged
The UN has conditioned Israel’s request for an exhibit on the Knesset at the organization’s headquarters in New York on the removal of some content, including references to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Israeli media sources revealed Friday. The exhibit, titled “The
The deputy in the Algerian National People's Assembly, Mohamed Anouar Bouchouit, denounced the policy of double standards in dealing with international crises by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and international institutions towards the Palestinian cause. In his intervention at the
Today, Sunday, Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim called on representatives of Arab, African and Asian groups in the Inter-Parliamentary Union to support the league's obtaining of observer membership in the union. During his speech, at the Islamic group’s session at
Civil society activists from 21 countries across Africa have pledged to intensify the fight against Israel’s apartheid practices against the Palestinian people; isolate Israel in the same way that apartheid South Africa was sanctioned; and will work to have Israel’s accreditation to the
The head of the Algerian National People's Assembly, Ibrahim Bogali, called for the renewal of the covenant of full support for the Palestinian people so that they obtain their inalienable rights, including the establishment of their independent state, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its
Activists from across Africa are gathering in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from 10 to 12 March to mobilize support for the Palestinian liberation struggle and strategize against Israeli apartheid under the theme: “From Africa to Palestine, United against Apartheid.” Hosted by
The head of the Palestinian-Turkish Friendship Committee, member of the executive body of the League of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds, MP Hasan Turan, criticized the Western bias in its handling of the Palestinian issue compared to its handling of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. Representative
On this day in 1994, a US-born Israeli military physician walked into the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron armed with a Galil assault rifle. It was early morning during the holy month of Ramadan, and hundreds of Palestinians were gathered inside, bowed in prayer. Baruch Goldstein, who had emigrated to
The European Commission should prohibit EU trade with settlements in occupied territories globally, Human Rights Watch said today as it signed onto a European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI). The citizen-led initiative, registered with the European Commission in September 2021 and
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