Tag: Palestine
Pakistan condemns Israel’s killing of Palestinians
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday condemned the killing of Palestinians by Israel’s armed forces.
In a statement, the Foreign Office (FO) said, “The international community has...
US peace plan aims to raise $50 bn, create million Palestinian...
The United States said Saturday that its Middle East peace plan to be presented next week in Bahrain aims to raise more than $50...
Palestine says U.S. ambassador helps Israel to annex part of West...
WARSAW: The Palestinian foreign minister said on Monday that comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel were intended to help Israel annex parts of the...
Germany supports two-state solution to Middle East conflict
Germany’s top diplomat on Sunday reaffirmed his country’s support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ahead of a long-awaited US peace plan.
“We...
Palestinians break with Saudi Eid date for first time in years
The Palestinians will celebrate Eid on a different day from Saudi Arabia for the first time since 1994 due to differences in the sighting...
Israeli police arrest seven during clash at Al-Aqsa mosque, 45 wounded
JERUSALEM: Israeli police clashed with Palestinian worshippers at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Sunday as an Israeli holiday coincided with the final...
Tens of thousands Palestinians rally at Israel-Gaza border
--some 40,000 people gathered for mass rally
--Israeli military uses live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters
GAZA: Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied...
Palestinian PM willing to quit ‘if President Abbas wishes’
WEST BANK: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday offered to resign, his spokesman said, amid efforts by President Mahmoud Abbas to form a...
Palestine beat Pakistan 2-1 in football friendly
Palestine football team defeated Pakistan 2-1 on Friday in a friendly football match that took place at Faisal al-Husseini Stadium, Al-Ram.
Hassan Bashir gave Green...
Palestine solution imperative for regional peace: Maleeha Lodhi
NEW YORK: Permanent Representative of Pakistan at the United Nations (UN) Maleeha Lodhi has called for a resolution of the Palestinian dispute, describing it as...
Palestinians crush dissent with torture, reveals Human Rights Watch
GAZA: Security forces of the rival Palestinian governments routinely use torture and arbitrary arrests, among other tactics, to quash dissent by peaceful activists and...
Pakistan calls for diplomatic solution of Palestine issue
NEW YORK: At the United Nations, Pakistan has called for pursuing diplomatic solutions to the violence-ravaged parts of the Middle East.
Speaking in a debate on the Middle...
Our ‘rights are not up for bargaining’, says Palestinian president
NEW YORK: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Thursday that his people's rights "are not up for bargaining" and he accused the United States (US) of...
Trump cuts $25 million in aid for Palestinians in East Jerusalem...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has ordered that $25 million earmarked for the care of Palestinians in East Jerusalem hospitals be directed elsewhere as...
Israel demolishes family home of Palestinian attacker
KAUBER, West Bank: The Israeli military on Tuesday demolished the family home of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank who killed an...
Trump cuts more than $200m aid to Palestinians
--State Dept official says funds, originally planned for programmes in West Bank and Gaza, would address 'high-priority projects elsewhere'
WASHINGTON: The United States is cutting more...
‘No one will be allowed to turn Kashmir into another Palestine’
Yasin Malik says state subject law is guaranteeing Kashmiris’ unique identity, right to self-determination
SRINAGAR: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik has...