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Ahlam Khazen, an Arab Israeli business woman is planning to run for President in Israel in replacement of the outgoing President Reuven Rivlin whose term ends next year in July, reports say. “I want to represent all the people of Israel and all the parties,” Khazen said. “I want to reinforce coexistence.” Khazen, who will […]
Saad Dine El Othmani head of the Moroccan Government and chief of the Islamist PJD party said he was speaking in the name of his party when he said Morocco rejects concessions and normalization of ties with Israel. le360 news portal said El Othmani explained to them that he was speaking in his quality as […]
Returning to diplomatic normalcy in relations with Israel is not on the agenda of the Moroccan government, that is what can be deduced from the remarks of Saad Dine El Otmani, head of the Moroccan government. Speaking in the name of the state at a meeting of the youth section of his party, Saad Dine […]
UAE will open a mission in Tel Aviv following the historic peace deal between the two countries, the Foreign Minister of the Gulf country has said. “The embassy will be in Tel Aviv. This is very clear,” Anwar Gargash said Thursday during a video conference with US-based Atlantic Council think-tank. The Gulf country and Israel […]
Palestinian factions, Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank, have closed their ranks in reaction to the unprecedented normalization of ties between Israel and the UAE, announced Thursday. Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, held a phone conversation with Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh. Both Palestinian leaders adopted a joint stance in reaction to the […]
The UN Secretary General has called on Israel to abandon its annexation plans in the West Bank, deploring that these plans bring the region further than than ever from peace. “We are at a watershed moment”, António Guterres told a virtual meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday. “If implemented, annexation would constitute a most […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo would appoint an envoy to Israel in the coming days after a 20-year void. The announcement was made President Felix Tshisekedi while he was addressing Sunday the American- Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a powerful lobby group. “Relations between my country and Israel have long been lethargic. Yet we have […]
“Impunity continues to prevail,” the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a report on accountability for alleged violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) since 2008, including during large-scale protests beginning in March 2018 along the Gaza-Israel fence. According to the report, which is produced annually […]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanyahu held a “historic” meeting with Sudan’s sovereign council head Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Monday. Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir was a fierce opponent of Israel, and his government was accused of helping arm militant Palestinian group Hamas. Sudan is a longtime member of the Arab League and joined other members […]
An independent UN human rights expert hailed earlier this week the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to consider a formal criminal investigation into allegations of war crimes in Palestine as a “momentous step forward in the quest for accountability” in the five-decade-long Israeli occupation. “Accountability has, until now, been largely missing in action throughout the […]