Latest News Headlines of Palestine
His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah sent on Sunday a cable to Pakistani President Arif Alvi expressing his sincere condolences over the victims of the floods in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Source: Kuwait News Agency
The Arab League affirmed on Sunday that it was important support all legal measures to ensure the rights of the Palestinian people.
Speaking to the press on the sideline of the second meeting for the Arab committee to support Palestinian legal rights, Assistant Secretary General for Palestinian and Occupied Arab Lands Affairs at the League Saeed Abu-Ali said that it was vital to hold such meetings for the sake of people of Palestine.
He added that the meeting would discuss legal mechanisms to look into the legal rights of the Palestinian people and achieve justice for them.
Providing legal protection to Palestinians against Israeli aggression and violations would also be discussed, he affirmed.
He revealed that the gathering would also look into the plead motion submitted by international lawyer Dr. Ralph Wilder on part of the Arab League to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Source: Kuwait News Agency
Hundreds of Palestinian students rallied today in the universities of Haifa and Tel Aviv and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in protest of the ongoing crime wave across the Arab sector in Israel and the failure of the Israeli police to take serious action against this phenomenon. During the demonstration, students raised banners condemning all forms of violence and murder, including ‘Arab blood is not cheap,’ ‘Yes, we bear responsibility and we face it responsibly,’ and ‘The police are partners in crime.’ On Thursday, five Palestinian nationals of Israel, including a 15-year-old, were shot dead at a carwash in the town of Yafa an-Naseriyye, an Arab town near the city of Nazareth. Since the start of the year, 100 people have been killed in crime-related violence in Arab communities in the 1948-occupied territories, according to NGOs. Palestinians have long blamed the Israeli police for turning a blind eye to gun violence among Arab Israelis and even complicity with criminal gangs. Arabs in today’s Israel are Palestinians who stayed on their land following the establishment of the occupying state in 1948 and their descendants. They make up about 20 percent of the country’s nine million people. By law, their rights are equal to those of Jewish citizens. But in practice they suffer discrimination in employment, housing, policing and other essentials.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
Israeli settlers today grazed their sheep on Palestinian groves in Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, causing significant destruction to planted crops, according to a local official. Osama Makhamreh, a local Palestinian activist, told WAFA that a group of settlers grazed their livestock on a land planted with crops, belonging to local Palestinian residents. He said local Palestinians were denied access into their own lands by the Israeli occupation army during the presence of the settlers. Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
Israeli occupation soldiers tore down a fence surrounding a farm today in the village of Azzun Atme, to the south of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. Abdelkarim Ayyub, a member of the village’s council, said an Israeli army force broke into the village and destroyed a 100-meter-long fence erected around a Palestinian-owned farm, under the pretext that the farm is located in an area classified as Area C, under full Israeli control. The farm belongs to Abdul-Rahim el-Sheikh, a local Palestinian resident. During the raid, the Israeli army forced staff of the village’s municipal council to stop working on a land reclamation project in the village, under the pretext of lacking an Israeli permit, added Ayyb.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
Israeli occupation forces detained seven Palestinians, including an injured youth, during military raids last night across the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. In north of the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces conducted a military raid in the town of Yabad, southwest of Jenin, that resulted in the detention of three Palestinians, including a youth who had recently been injured by Israeli gunfire. The soldiers also raided and vandalized the houses of former prisoners Tarek Qabaha and Ali Amarna in the town, provoking confrontations with local residents. In south of the West Bank, Israeli forces detained a Palestinian youth and inspected several commercial structures in Hebron governate. No arrested were documented in the province. Another Israeli military raid was carried out in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem, which resulted in the detention of a 16-year-old youth and an 18-year-old teenager. Israeli also forces raided the town of al-Issawiya, east of occupied Jerusalem, where they detained a Palestinian man after ransacking his family’s house.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
Member of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement, the Commissioner General for Arab Relations and China, Abbas Zaki, said today that the upcoming visit of President Mahmoud Abbas, to Chiba is of special and great importance. President Abbas is making a three-day official state visit to China, from June 13-16, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. In an interview with WAFA, Zaki the visit has special and great dimensions, as it culminates those strategic historical relations between Palestine and China, noting it is President Abbas’s fifth visit to Beijing since 2005. The President’s visit to Beijing comes on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and within the framework of the Palestinian and Chinese leaderships’ keenness to promote and consolidate strong bilateral relations in all fields. Zaki explained that the visit is the culmination of China’s growing role in the Middle East after the Riyadh-Chinese Arab Summit for Cooperation and Development in December 2022, and after China’s sponsorship of restoring relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, ad well as the return of Syria to the Arab League. It is also an affirmation of the position of Chinese President Xi, who considers Palestine the first Arab issue. He added, “China’s hosting of President Abbas, who is the first Arab leader to pay an official visit to Beijing this year, is only an indication and evidence that there is no security or stability in the Middle East unless a just solution to the issue of the Palestinian people is reached in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions and the Chinese president’s initiative for achieving the two-state solution and establishing an independent and sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.” Zaki stressed that the Chinese President’s reception of President Abbas, in light of the turbulent international situation and the changes taking place in the region and the world, reflects interest in the Palestinian cause and confirms the depth of bilateral relations. Regarding the results of President Abbas’s visit to China, Zaki expected will reiterate its role in finding a just solution to the Palestinian issue, especially given President Xi’s speech at the Riyadh summit when he touched on the injustice that befell the Palestinian people. He indicated that the President’s visit to China will witness confirmation of continued mutual support in international forums, especially with regard to the independence of Palestine and one China, non-interference in internal affairs, and discussion of support for Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations this year. Zaki added that hopes are pinned on opening prospects for development and joint cooperation in various fields, because many issues were settled between Palestine and China after Palestine obtained membership in the Belt and Road Initiative, noting that there is a joint committee to discuss free trade, while work is underway for Palestine to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Zaki also expected that the visit would witness the signing of cooperation protocols in many fields, alin addition to China’s affirmation of moving forward with its assistance to Palestine in the fields of construction, energy, health, education, training and rehabilitation missions for Palestinian youths. “There is an expectation that China will have a greater role at the global level, and the more China progresses, the more fairness we will enjoy in Palestine,” Zaki added.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA