LONDON (AA) – A bill seeking to ban public bodies boycotting Israel has been passed in the UK’s House of Commons, despite protests by Palestine supporters outside Parliament. The Anti-Boycott Bill was passed by 282 to 235, with 279 Conservative Party MPs, two independent MPs and 1 member of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Union...
THE HAGUE (AA) – Irish members of the European Parliament joined a rally in front of the International Court of Justice at The Hague in support of Gaza, stating that this is a trial on international law as much as Israel. Member of the European Parliament Claire Daly said that she was there representing the […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have affected arms aid by Western countries to Ukraine and perceptions on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, said Ukraine’s Ambassador to Türkiye Vasyl Bodnar. “International media has turned its attention to this direction, so there are those who think that the war in Ukraine has ended,...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain’s prime minister has urged Western states to recognize the state of Palestine “once and for all.” “And until that day comes, we must state clearly and with passion that the Palestinian population cannot pay for the terrorist acts of Hamas,” Pedro Sanchez told diplomats at the Eighth Ambassadors Conference in [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party, said Monday that the government should support the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel. In his speech in parliament, Corbyn drew attention to the suffering of Palestinians, who have been subjected to Israeli attacks since Oct. 7 last ...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – A man who worked for Dutch intelligence in 2005 sabotaged an Iranian nuclear facility without the knowledge of the Dutch government, a media report has claimed. Dutch national Erik van Sabben was recruited in 2005 by the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), the daily Volkskrant revealed. Van Sabben, whose spouse i...
BERLIN (AA) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has criticized Israel’s policy of constructing and expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territories. “The construction of settlements is illegal. It undermines lasting peace and endangers the two-state solution and thereby endangers Israel’s security,” Baerboc...
PARIS (AA) – The French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP) has strongly condemned the “murder of Judaism” by the Israeli government. In a statement the Jewish collective highlighted the ongoing Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, reporting 30,000 Palestinians killed or missing in the past three months. “This number, equiva...
BERLIN (AA) – A group of Palestine supporters staged a rally Thursday in Berlin to protest Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza, which have killed more than 22,400 people and left the coastal enclave in ruins. Despite heavy rain, the protesters gathered outside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s office to express solidarity with the...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – A representative of the March 30 Movement in the Netherlands says he has filed a criminal complaint against five Dutch citizens serving in the Israeli army, accusing them of complicity in crimes in Gaza. “We are filing complaints in local courts here against Dutch, Belgian, French and Austrian citizens...