An injured Palestinian demonstrator is helped during a protest against the planned evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP/Oded Balilty). A Lancashire MP will write to the Prime Minister and Foreign Office asking the Government to call for an immediate halt to evictions and illegal settlement expansions in Israel. On Friday, Palestinian medics said more than 200 Palestinians were wounded at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and elsewhere in the city The current wave of protests broke out at the beginning of Ramadan three weeks ago when Israel restricted gatherings at a popular meeting spot outside Jerusalem’s Old City.
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NEW YORK A recently released bombshell Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has made waves around the world. For the first time, the New York-based non-governmental organization has categorized Israel as an apartheid state guilty of “crimes against humanity.”
The 213-page study goes into detail about a range of racist laws and policies carried out by successive administrations, concluding that there is an “overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians and grave abuses committed against Palestinians living in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem.”
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Portugal, Gibraltar and Israel are among small group of countries which will be on the green list from May 17
Only above three nations and territories, as well as Iceland, are allowing Britons in without need to quarantine
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EasyJet boss John Lundgren said decision to put so few European countries on list was simply not justified
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LONDON France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain urged Israel on Thursday to halt settlement-building in the occupied West Bank.
The joint statement came as tensions mounted in East Jerusalem ahead of a hearing that could see Palestinian families evicted from Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood where Jewish settlers backed by an Israeli court have taken over some homes.
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“We urge the government of Israel to reverse its decision to advance the construction of 540 settlement units in the Har Homa E area of the occupied West Bank, and to cease its policy of settlement expansion across the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” the European nations said.
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