MADRID (AA) – Portugal’s Foreign Minister Jose Gomes Cravinho has expressed deep sorrow over the deaths of three Portuguese nationals, including two children, in recent Israeli bombing attacks in the Gaza Strip. The deaths occurred November 15 in a bombing attack in the southern Gaza Strip. Cravinho conveyed condolences of the gove...
LONDON (AA) – Norway’s parliament has approved a resolution that calls on the government to be ready to recognize Palestine as an independent state, local media reported Thursday. The resolution, brought by the ruling coalition, was passed after eight out of the 10 parties in parliament voted in favor of it. It “asks the gove...
Kibbutz Beeri, Israel – – AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called for Gaza hostages to be immediately freed. He also asked Israel “not to be consumed by rage” in its so-called “battle with Hamas” in the Palestinian territory. “I ask for their immediate and unconditional release,” Bor...
London, United Kingdom – AFP Labour leader Keir Starmer was hit by a string of resignations from his frontbench in the House of Commons on Wednesday night, after facing a rebellion from his MPs over his refusal to back a ceasefire in Gaza. The vote calling for the ceasefire was defeated by 293 votes to […]
Paris, France – AFP A group of French diplomats have penned a highly unusual joint memorandum deploring what they allege is a pro-Israeli bias from President Emmanuel Macron, adding to pressure on the president after sometimes controversial statements over the conflict between Israel and Hamas. French daily newspaper Le Figaro said on Mo...
ATHENS (AA) – The Palestinian struggle at its very core is an “anti-imperialist character,” according to a Palestinian community leader in Greece. While the world’s attention is again on the Palestine-Israel issue due to the ongoing Gaza crisis, Mohammed al-Sayyed, president of the Palestinian Community in Greece, emphasized the need to view t...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has rejected growing calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and reaffirmed its support for Israel’s strikes which have claimed more than 11,100 lives, many of them children. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed doubts about a cease-fire, arguing that it was not clear how this could be negotiated, how it could [&hel...
Brussels, Belgium – – AFP The EU’s humanitarian aid chief has called for “meaningful” pauses in Israel’s war on Gaza and urgent deliveries of fuel to keep hospitals working in the territory. “It is urgent to define and respect humanitarian pauses,” Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Crisis...
LONDON (AA/AFP) – Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been sacked in a cabinet reshuffle, according to media reports on Monday. It came after a row over her controversial remarks on pro-Palestinian protests and her article in The Times newspaper that met with massive criticism. Braverman sparked widespread outrage after calling...
London, United Kingdom – – AFP Huge crowds marched through the British capital on Saturday, calling for a halt to Israel’s attacks in Palestine. The “National March for Palestine”, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, set off after a two-minutes’ silence to remember Britain’s war dead on Armistice ...
