ISTANBUL (AA) – The Taliban-led interim administration in Afghanistan has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rejected any plans to displace Palestinians from their homeland. The interim Afghan Foreign Ministry said it “unequivocally condemns the Israeli occupying leader’s statement” that suggested the establishment of ...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) — Britain will oppose any efforts to move Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip to neighboring Arab countries, the UK government says. “There must be no forced displacement of Palestinians, nor any reduction in the territory of the Gaza Strip,” the UK’s Minister for Development at the Foreign Office, Anneliese Dodds, said...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine has slammed the US silence about the creation of buffer zones aimed at forcing the population to flee from their homes and lands in northern Gaza. “The silence of the US administration regarding Israeli policy and its provision of financial and military support are what encouraged the Israeli oc...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed a new controversial law that allows the deportation of family members of Palestinians involved in “attacks against Israelis.” The bill was approved in the second and third readings by 61-41 votes, making it an effective law. The legislation is widely seen to be targeting Ara...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has warned that the Israeli government plans to bring in illegal settlers and force Palestinians out of their villages in the occupied West Bank. Senior Hamas figure Mahmoud Mardawi, in an official statement, said: “We warn of the grave danger posed by the plans led [&hel...
GENEVA (AA) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that more than 14 million people, including those internally displaced and those who crossed borders, are on the move in conflict-torn Sudan. Eleven million are internally displaced within the country, while 3.1 million are those who have crossed borders, Director-Gene...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has rejected the idea of mass displacements of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for the “temporary evacuation” of Palestinian civilians to carry out an operation. “We reject the idea of mass displacements of Palestinians in the West...
ANKARA / GENEVA (AA) – Israeli foreign minister’s call to forcibly displace people from the West Bank is “completely unacceptable,” the EU foreign policy chief said on Thursday. Before attending the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Josep Borrell told reporters that UN’s Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordina...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Approximately 100,000 displaced Palestinians in the eastern part of Deir al-Balah city in Gaza have no place to seek refuge from Israeli forces’ bombardment, as Israel destroyed 20 shelter centers over the last two days after issuing evacuation orders, the city municipality has said. In a brief statement, the ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army has issued new evacuation orders for residents in several areas of central and southern Gaza Strip, which were previously designated as “humanitarian safe zones.” Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee announced that residents of Blocks 89-2356 in the neighborhoods of east Deir al-Balah and those in the neig...
