Palestine

RAMALLAH, Jun 17 (NNN-WAFA) – U.S. President, Joe Biden, is following the same “crude and hostile” foreign policy of his predecessor, Donald Trump, in dealing with Middle East issues, a Palestinian writer wrote yesterday.

“The truth is that, Biden’s foreign policy, so far, didn’t show any difference from Trump’s crude and hostile policy, especially in the Middle East,” Rajab Abu Sariya, a Palestinian political analyst and columnist, wrote in an opinion piece, published in the Al-Ayyam newspaper.

16 June 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel have rejected the US proposal to meet ahead of US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel and the West Bank, news agencies reported on Wednesday.

The meeting, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, would be similar to the one attended by Israeli, US and Arab officials held in the Negev in March.

RAMALLAH, Jun 15 (NNN-WAFA) – The two-state solution is the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ishtaye, stressed here yesterday.

He reiterated this position, during a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, and her deputy, Hady Amr, ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s planned visit to the Middle East next month.

GAZA, Jun 14 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, yesterday called for immediate Arab and international interference, to halt Israeli violations against the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The factions’ leaders made the appeal in a joint press statement, issued after a meeting held in Gaza City, which was initiated by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), to discuss the latest Israeli violations in Palestinian territories.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official increasingly seen as a successor to the 86-year-old President Mahmoud Abbas, says relations with Israel have gotten so bad that Palestinian leaders cannot go on with business as usual.

But even if they are serious this time around, they have few options. And they appear unlikely to do anything that undermines their own limited power in parts of the occupied West Bank, which largely stems from their willingness to cooperate with Israel.

JENIN, West Bank (AP) — Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh?

Almost two weeks after the death of the veteran Palestinian-American reporter for Al Jazeera, a reconstruction by The Associated Press lends support to assertions from both Palestinian authorities and Abu Akleh’s colleagues that the bullet that cut her down came from an Israeli gun.

Any conclusive answer is likely to prove elusive because of the severe distrust between the two sides, each of which is in sole possession of potentially crucial evidence.

23 May 2022; MEMO: The Chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi, has pledged to finance the reconstruction of Al-Jalaa Tower. The tower block, which housed a number of major media companies, was destroyed by Israeli bombs a year ago.

23 May 2022; MEMO: A member of the Islamic-Christian Committee in Support of Jerusalem and its Sanctuaries has called for civil disobedience in occupied Jerusalem next Sunday to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from the planned incursion by illegal Jewish settlers. Father Manuel Musallam made his call on Monday in a public statement.

24 May 2022; MEMO: Islamic institutions in Jerusalem warned on Monday of "dangerous" Israeli decisions that undermine the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, stressing that they will never recognise any of these decisions, Quds Press has reported.

RAMALLAH, May 23 (NNN-WAFA) – The U.S. State Department’s decision to remove the Israeli extremist “Kach” movement from the list of foreign terrorist organisations, has sparked condemnation and outrage among Palestinians.

The Palestinian presidency said in a press statement yesterday that, it strongly condemned the decision as the movement was responsible for “incitement to kill and expel Palestinians.”