GENEVA (AA) – The Spanish prime minister on Thursday called on all states to support the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the implementation of the provisional measures against Israel. Pedro Sanchez’s remarks came after Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares announced Spain’s decision to join South Africa’s genocide case again...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief has said that he noticed a “clear lack of empathy for what’s happening in Gaza,” from the conservative European People’s Party. Speaking at a Socialist Party campaign event in Madrid ahead of the EU elections, Josep Borrell criticized EU Commission President Ursula von de...
ARNOUVILLE, France (AA) – A French opposition lawmaker has urged President Emmanuel Macron’s government to decolonize New Caledonia where violent protests erupted in mid-May after Paris passed a constitutional reform aimed at reducing the indigenous Kanaks’ electoral influence, killing at least seven people. Carlos Martens Bi...
ATHENS (AA) – Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance (AVS) has urged the government to recognize Palestine as a state and support the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu liable for “crimes against humanity” in Gaza. Speaking to the country’s state-run ANSA news agency, party’s lawmaker Angelo Bonelli ...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Several municipalities in France turned off lights at their city hall buildings in order to honor civilians Israel killed in the Gaza Strip. Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan launched the campaign in response to recent Israeli attacks on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip. “The horror of the murderous strikes [&helli...
Stockholm, Sweden – AFP Sweden has alleged that Iran was recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs, some of them children, as proxies to commit “acts of violence” against Israel and other states and groups in Sweden that Tehran considered a threat. These claims were made by Sweden’s intelligence agency on Thursday. T...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Slovenia’s government has endorsed a motion to recognize Palestine as a state. The government referred the motion to the National Assembly for final approval, Prime Minister Robert Golob said after the government session, according to the Slovenian Press Agency. The National Assembly is expected to vote on the motion next...
Paris, France – AFP France’s parliament on Tuesday suspended a left-wing lawmaker for two weeks after he held up a Palestinian flag during a heated debate over whether France should recognise Palestinian statehood, as President Emmanuel Macron said such a step should not be based on “emotion”. Sebastien Delogu, a member...
Madrid, Spain — AFP Recognising Palestinian statehood is an “essential” step for achieving peace in the Middle East, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said. “Recognition of the state of Palestine is not only a matter of historic justice… also an essential requirement if we are all to achieve peace,” h...
Paris, France — AFP About 10,000 people took part in a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in Paris against Israel’s bombing of the refugee town of Rafah. The demonstrators gathered a few hundred metres from the embassy in the centre of the French capital and chanted “We are all Gaza children”, “Free Gaza”...
