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On eve of AXA’s annual general meeting (AGM), United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Michael Lynk, called on the French insurance giant to fully divest from Israeli banks while activists gathered in several cities across Europe raising the same demand.
AXA currently invests US$6 million in four Israeli banks which finance the illegal Israeli settlements on confiscated land in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem.
Speaking ahead of AXA’s AGM Mr. Lynk emphasized that:“Given the gross human rights violations associated with the Israeli settlements, it is impossible for businesses to be economically engaged with the Israeli settlements and still respect their obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law.”
March 8, 2018 Mohammed Amira took a day off work recently, rose early and went with his wife to the Population, Immigration and Border Authority office in East Jerusalem. The 65-year-old bus driver and his colleagues are supposed to go on an organized tour in a month s time. But it isn t clear he can leave Israel. AmiraÃÂ .
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About 6.8-million Jewish Israelis and 6.8-million Palestinians live today between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, an area encompassing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the latter made up of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Throughout most of this area, Israel is the sole governing power; in the remainder, it exercises primary authority alongside limited Palestinian self-rule.
Young man waves flag of
Palestine.
After the
postponement of the Palestinian Legislative Council
elections, originally scheduled for 22 May, a senior UN
official in the region on Friday urged the authorities to
set a new date for heading to the polls.
UN
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process,
TorWennesland,said that he understood the
“disappointment of the many Palestinians”whohad
gonenearly 16 years withoutbeing able to cast their
vote.
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbasannounced the postponement of the planned
parliamentary elections, amidst a dispute over voting rights
in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, according to news
reports.
Israel governs voting conditions in the city,