Day: 30 May 2022

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the storming of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque by thousands of extremist settlers where they performed Talmudic rites and rituals with the support and protection of the Israeli occupation forces.

The OIC vehemently denounced the extremist settlers’ organization of the racist and provocative “flags march” in the occupied city of Al-Quds and the barbaric attack on Palestinian citizens. The OIC considered these acts as dangerous escalation, in addition, they constitute a blatant challenge to the feelings of the entire Muslim Ummah, and a flagrant violation of relevant international resolutions and covenants.

The OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha, held Israel, the occupying power, fully responsible for the possible repercussions of these continuous attacks, calling at the same time on the international community, especially the UN Security Council, to move to put an end to these repeated Israeli violations.

He reiterated the OIC’s firm and absolute support for the right of the Palestinian people to sovereignty over East Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

Israeli settlers today evening set fire to large tracts of land belonging to Palestinian residents in the village of Burin to the south of Nablus, according to a local activist.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the north of the West Bank, told WAFA that a number of settlers set fire to agricultural land planted with olive trees to the south of the village of Burin, destroying a large number of trees.

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Settlement is a war crime according to the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The presence of settlers in the Palestinian territories violates the basic principles of international humanitarian law, said Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

“As they are responsible for settler violence, the Israeli authorities should put an end to double standards in dealing with events in the Palestinian territories and discourage settler violence by not protecting it,” it said.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

A total of 132 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in Palestine between May 22 and 29, today said the Ministry of Health.

It said 123 new cases were recorded in the West Bank, where 106 Covid-19 patients have recovered, and nine new cases in the Gaza Strip where eight patients have recovered.

No coronavirus-related deaths were reported anywhere and none are in hospitals.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)