Beijing, China — AFP China has welcomed the UN Security Council call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, urging swift “action” to halt fighting over the final weeks of Ramadan. After more than five months of war, the UN Security Council for the first time demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza after Israel’s forefron...
BERLIN (AA) – The German government has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement in which he vowed to stop the creation of a Palestinian state. According to an official statement, Berlin is committed to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state “alongside the Jewish state.” Netanyahu’...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Japan has reiterated its position that the way forward to end the conflict between Israel and Palestine is a two-state solution. Tokyo “believes a two-state solution for a future independent Palestinian state, living side by side with Israel with peace and dignity, remains the only viable path for both peoples,” Tomohiro ...
MUNICH, Germany (AA) – Bangladesh’s prime minister has said that what is happening in Gaza now is genocide, stressing that the Palestinian people have the right to live and have their own state. In an interview with Anadolu, Sheikh Hasina stressed that Bangladesh has always stood against genocide, adding that as for what is happening […...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has condemned a meeting of Israeli ministers and far-right groups to promote Palestinian emigration and rebuild Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer said the participation of several Israeli government ministers at the conference, and speeches made there were unacceptabl...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt is a key partner in efforts for a two-state solution in the Middle East, EU foreign policy chief has said. Josep Borrell, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and EU Commissioner for Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi held a joint news conference following a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. “We appreciate the crucial ...
Brussels, Belgium – AFP The EU’s foreign policy chief on Monday insisted on a two-state solution as he told Israel it couldn’t build peace “only by military means” ahead of talks with Israeli and Palestinian top diplomats. The bloc’s 27 foreign ministers were set to hold separate meetings with their counterp...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has said that there is a clear and growing risk of the ongoing war in Gaza spilling over into the Middle East, which he said would be “an authentic catastrophe.” He said he has been lobbying his counterparts for an immediate cease-fire that gives way […]
ROME (AA) – Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said that Gaza needs a “civil government” and that all G-7 countries are working towards a two-state solution to the conflict. “I will reiterate to Israeli authorities that Italy aims at a ‘civil government’ in Palestine, to a two-state solution. The two people, two states is […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Israel will not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state, an Israeli minister has said, after US President Joe Biden warned that Israel is losing global support over its “indiscriminate” bombing of Gaza. “We respect and cherish the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who went out of his wa...
