KUALA LUMPUR: As more homes are being demolished, more deaths are occurring, and more misery is being inflicted on the Palestinians, Organisation of I.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Malaysian Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah today issued a joint statement calling the international community to remain resolute in their commitment for the “two-state solution” towards.
Daily Times
May 16, 2021
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday had a telephone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and shared Pakistan’s profound concern over deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
During the conversation, both the foreign ministers discussed the Palestinian issue, peace process in Afghanistan, and Pakistan-China relations, a Foreign Office statement said. Foreign Minister Qureshi said the humanitarian situation in Palestine was becoming a major threat to peace and security of Middle East. He added that the violent attacks perpetrated by Israeli forces against the innocent worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque and unarmed civilians and the children in the occupied territories, were against humanitarian norms as well as the international law.
Saudi Arabia leads Arab efforts to highlight Palestinian cause at UN May 15, 2021
NEW YORK Saudi Arabia is championing the Palestinian cause at the United Nations amid the ongoing amid continued Israeli attacks in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Leading from the front, Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative at the UN Abdallah Yahya Al-Mouallimi met on Friday with the permanent Chinese delegation to the UN, the president of the General Assembly Volkan Bozkir, to highlight the plight of the Palestinians following an Arab mini-group meeting.
The Arab mini-group meetings aim to shed light on the security council about the Palestinian issue and the Israeli attacks so that the international community can carry out its duties to protect civilians from such attacks.
Israeli settlements: statement by France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK
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Statement from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom:
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. Settlements are illegal under international law, and threaten prospects for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
If implemented, the decision to advance settlements in Har Homa, between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem, will cause further damage to the prospects for a viable Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and a Palestinian State. This move, alongside settlement advancement in Givat HaMatos and continued evictions in East Jerusalem, including in Sheikh Jarrah, also undermines efforts to rebuild trust between the parties, following the