On Saturday, UN chief Guterres plans to meet with aid workers on the Egyptian side of Rafah, just across the border from the Gazan city where 1.5 million Palestinians have taken refuge. International efforts to pause the almost six months of fighting have grown increasingly desperate, with the Hamas-run health...
Israeli ministers join thousands at rally for Gaza settlement
The firebrand politician Itamar Ben-Gvir said Israel should "encourage voluntary emigration" of Palestinians from Gaza, echoing past remarks that drew sharp rebuke from close ally the United States and the wider international community. Several participants carried guns, while outside the convention center vendors sold t-shirts that read: "Gaza is part...Israeli envoy to UK rules out two-state solution with Palestinians
Tzipi Hotovely told Sky News that she did not believe in the long-standing position of the UK government and the United Nations that an independent Palestinian state should be established.
Saudi Arabia, amid Israel talks, sends envoy to West Bank
The delegation was led by the Saudi non-resident ambassador to the Palestinian territories, Nayef al-Sudairi, who was to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and top Palestinian diplomat Riyad al-Maliki. Sudairi, the oil-rich kingdom's envoy to Jordan, was last month also named for the Palestinian territories post and appointed consul general for...Oslo Accords promise turned into ‘destroyed dreams’ in Gaza
Oslo Accords were meant to lead to a free Palestine, but years of stalled negotiations and violence have left any peaceful resolution of the ongoing conflict a distant dream. Gaza, a narrow coastal enclave, is now home to some 2.3 million people, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.Slow steps for Palestinian economic recovery: World Bank
The lack of progress towards peace and reconciliation and Covid-19 caused an unsustainable economic situation in the Palestinian territories.
