Tag Archives: Palestine

Jerusalem, Israel | NEWS ANALYSIS – Xinhua | The Israeli government formally declared war and greenlighted “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack, as the military labored into Monday to crush fighters still in southern towns and intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. More than …

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua |  Israeli police forces broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem before dawn on Wednesday and clashed with dozens of Palestinian youth inside, drawing condemnation from Arab countries and sparking a new round of rocket attacks and airstrikes in the region. The Palestinian Red …

Visit to the historic city offers intriguing, exciting, interesting and fascinating experience THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda |  Last week I visited the historic city of Jerusalem. I decided to take a tour following the journey Jesus took 2000 years ago when he visited the city – from Gethsemane …

Madrid, Spain | Xinhua | The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell admitted recently that the EU has applied double standards on the Ukraine crisis, as opposed to the situation in Gaza. “We are very often criticized for double standards. But international politics is largely about applying double standards. We …

New York, US | XINHUA |  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for a unified Security Council over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and regretted the lack of multilateralism. Asked what the secretary-general expects from Sunday’s emergency meeting of the Security Council on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian escalation, Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric …

Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in the Middle East, urged the US president to be cautious, his office said Tuesday, after reports Washington was planning to move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem. Trump informed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas of his …