Press Releases

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(MENAFN) Crowds numbering in the hundreds converged on central Stockholm on Saturday to voice fierce opposition to Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, in one of the Swedish capital's most visible recent displays...

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(MENAFN) A flotilla of 25 vessels converged on Lake Geneva Saturday in a symbolic act of defiance against the G7 summit being held across the water in the French city of Evian, drawing roughly 100 activists from 15 nations, a Swiss newspaper...

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(MENAFN) Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central Stockholm on Saturday to protest Israel’s military operations in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.

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(MENAFN) On the edges of Marda, a Palestinian village north of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, Israeli bulldozers continue uprooting olive groves as part of intensified settlement projects.

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(MENAFN) French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot used a high-profile diplomatic forum Friday to condemn the deepening crisis in Gaza as "tragic" and issue a renewed, impassioned call for a two-state solution — warning that the window for lasting...

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(MENAFN) Three Palestinians, including a woman, were injured on Thursday in separate incidents involving Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, while Israeli troops also demolished a Palestinian house under construction in the occupied West Bank,...

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces reportedly ordered the evacuation of a residential area east of the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Wednesday to carry out military exercises, according to local sources.

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(MENAFN) Residents of the Palestinian village of Marda in the northern occupied West Bank say ongoing Israeli settlement-related construction is placing increasing pressure on their community, threatening agricultural land and further limiting...

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(MENAFN) More than 460 former European political leaders have signed an open editorial urging the European Union to adopt stronger measures in response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, according to reports.

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(MENAFN) Farmland on a hill in the town of Taybeh, a predominantly Christian community located east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, was set ablaze after a late-night incident involving settlers, according to local officials and reports.

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(MENAFN) Germany has ruled out backing new sanctions targeting extremist Israeli settlers, even as violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank continues to rise.

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More Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military and settlers across the occupied West Bank in the last three years than in the previous 17 years combined, analysis from Oxfam has found.

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(MENAFN) United Nations humanitarian officials confirmed Wednesday that medical evacuations for Gaza patients requiring treatment abroad are set to restart, following the reopening of a critical border crossing sealed for two days.

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa on Monday called on the international community to intensify efforts aimed at pressuring Israel to end what he described as unlawful actions and ongoing violence by occupiers in the occupied...

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(MENAFN) According to reports, fires were set on agricultural land in the Palestinian town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, in an incident described by the local mayor as an attack on cultivated farmland.

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(MENAFN) Amnesty International UK has called on the British government to impose wider sanctions on senior officials in Israel, arguing that recently announced measures do not go far enough to hold those it describes as the “architects” of...

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa on Monday issued an urgent call for stepped-up international pressure on Israel to put an end to what he described as Tel Aviv's "illegal measures" and occupiers' "terrorism," as violence across...

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin has urged the international community to take concrete steps to halt what she described as illegal Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and ongoing displacement of...

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(MENAFN) The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Norway announced on Tuesday coordinated sanctions targeting networks accused of financing and enabling attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...

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(MENAFN) Palestine issued an urgent appeal to the international community on Wednesday, accusing Israel of exploiting ongoing regional instability to entrench its territorial ambitions, with UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour warning that unchecked...