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“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 […]
Egypt Wednesday began construction of a concrete wall along border with Gaza to thwart illegal trafficking from inside the enclave controlled by the Hamas movement. Egyptian cranes and workers launched the construction along the lines of an old, lower barrier that stretches three kilometers (two miles) from Gaza’s southeastern tip at Karem Shalom to the […]
Palestinian Foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki commended, on Wednesday in Brussels, the pivotal role played by King Mohammed VI, in his capacity as Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, in protecting the holy city and supporting the resistance of its inhabitants. Maliki made the remarks in a statement to MAP on the sidelines of his participation […]
King Mohammed VI addressed a verbal message to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The message was conveyed to the Palestinian leader Saturday in Amman by Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, who reaffirmed during the audience Morocco’s unwavering support to the Palestinian cause. The Royal message is part of the ongoing dialogue between the two heads of […]
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 […]
The unwavering support of King Mohammed VI to the Palestinian cause and his tireless efforts to preserve the holy city of Jerusalem have been highlighted at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held in Rabat. In this connection, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas commended Morocco’s unwavering […]
King Mohammed VI has warned that the continuing Israeli practices in violation of international legitimacy and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories fuel tension, violence, instability and sow the seeds of religious conflict and hatred. These Israeli practices include further settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, depriving Palestinians of a […]
Morocco has renewed its unwavering support for the Palestinian cause and for the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent and viable State. This came during an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers, held to discuss the US government’s new stand on Israel’s West Bank settlements that it no […]
Egyptian security forces in plain clothes arrested earlier this week a football fan in a stadium in Cairo for flying the Palestinian flag during a match between Egyptian and South African Olympic teams. The move caused outrage on social media and in the stadium. Ahmed Elbaqry, a former vice president of the Egyptian students’ union, […]
Kuwait has named for the first time an ambassador to Palestine in a gesture of unshakable support to the Palestinian cause. Media reports, citing Palestine’s envoy to the Gulf country Rami Tahboub, indicate that Aziz al-Daihani has been appointed as Kuwait’s non-resident ambassador to Palestine. The appointment came following talks between Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed and […]