RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel’s Security Cabinet decision to expand illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, warning of “dire consequences,” according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry. The statement came following an announcement by Israel’s official broadcasting authority that the Israeli Security Cabi...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Minister of Settlement and National Missions Orit Strook has denied the very existence of the Palestinian people. “There is no such thing as a Palestinian people,” Strook said in a video on her X account of her speech during a Knesset session. “There will never be a Palestinian state in the […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s radical far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed his call for displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “After the war, we must remain in the Gaza Strip, control it, and encourage the voluntary migration of hundreds of thousands of Gazans,” Ben-Gvir told Israeli public broadcaster KAN. The f...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief has said that he is “very disturbed” by the Israeli government’s suggestion of mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. “Very disturbed by high-level Israeli officials’ statements on plans to transfer civilians from #Gaza to third countries,” Volker Turk said in a ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israeli ministers have rejected US criticism of their calls for expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said 70% of Israelis support a “humanitarian solution” for encouraging the emigration of Gazans. “Two million people [Palestinians in Gaza] wake up every mornin...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Hamas rejected Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s comments Tuesday about the displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “We tell Smotrich and his likes that we are the ones who will stay on this land,” senior Hamas member Osama Hemdan said at a press conference in Beirut. He acc...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s finance minister has frozen the transfer of tax revenues amounting to some $188 million monthly to the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to the Israeli media. Bezalel Smotrich said the funds will be withheld over the failure of the Ramallah-based authority to condemn the October 7 cross-border incursions by the Ha...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s finance minister has ordered the legalization of three settlement outposts in the southern occupied West Bank. Bezalel Smotrich, who has a supervisory role over settlement activities within the Israeli Defense Ministry, said late Wednesday that he would advance the development of the three settlements. The settl...
