WASHINGTON (AA) – About 90 Democrats called on US President Joe Biden to use his “lame-duck” period in the presidency to sanction two Israeli ministers, according to a letter made public on Thursday. In a letter sent on Oct. 29, 88 lawmakers called on Biden to sanction Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security M...
ROME (AA) – The University of Milan has suspended an agreement with Israel’s Reichman University on an exchange of students and researchers after its rector, Marina Brambilla, met with a delegation of Palestinian students who had been pressing for a boycott of relations with Israeli universities. The university’s administration cited the...
LONDON (AA) – The UK government is considering imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers in response to inflammatory comments supporting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have carried out attacks on Palestinians. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed the government is “looking at that”, during Prime Minister’s Questio...
The U.S. has sanctioned a Palestinian charity, claiming that it funds terrorism. It has labeled the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network a “sham charity”, alleging that it funnels funds to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The U.S. Treasury, in collaboration with Canada, said Samidoun operates as a key inte...
LONDON (AA) – The UK government has announced new sanctions targeting three illegal Israeli settler outposts and four organizations supporting violence in the West Bank. The move comes in response to a significant rise in attacks against Palestinian communities by Israeli settlers. Foreign Secretary David Lammy revealed the measures as p...
ANKARA (AA) – Australians supporting Palestine have urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government to impose sanctions against Israel for its actions in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of prosecutors gathered outside Sydney’s Town Hall during the ruling party Labor Party conference, where the prime minister also spoke to the parti...
ANKARA (AA) – New Zealand has announced further sanctions on Russia and Iran over the Ukraine war. Announcing the news, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said New Zealand’s latest sanctions target Russians involved in the country’s military-industrial complex as well as actors providing military assistance to Russia. “These new sanct...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of State has imposed sanctions on a radical Israeli group for disrupting humanitarian aid to the civilians in the Gaza Strip. “The Department of State is today designating Tzav 9, a violent extremist Israeli group that has been blocking, harassing, and damaging convoys carrying lifesaving humanit...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has announced new sanctions against extremist illegal Israeli settlers following escalating attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. “Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers—a longstanding source of tension and conflict in the region—have escalated alarmingly in recent months. This has undermin...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the US sanctions imposed against commercial entities on allegations of links with Pakistan’s ballistic missile program. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said such listings of commercial entities have taken place in the past as well on allegations of links to Pakistan...
