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Iraq PM says will not abandon Palestine cause May 24, 2021 at 2:03 pm | Published in: Iraq, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in Ankara, Turkey on December 17, 2020 [Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency] May 24, 2021 at 2:03 pm
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi yesterday reaffirmed his country s support for the Palestinian cause saying Baghdad will not abandon it. Al-Kadhimi also stressed the importance of Palestinian political unity.
According to the
Iraqi News Agency, a statement issued by the prime minister s media office said that Iraq will not abandon the Palestinian issue and its principled and firm stance on it, and that Palestine, which inhabits the Iraqi conscience, enjoys popular, political and official support, and will not see from Iraq except direct support through regional and international positions and contacts.
The latest round of hostilities between Israel and Hamas ended on Thursday with a ceasefire agreement between the two sides, and, on the face of it, very little has changed after eleven days of violence and almost 250 lives lost. Hamas is still in control inside the Gaza Strip, Israel retains its vice grip on Gaza’s borders. Benjamin Netanyahu is still Israel’s prime minister, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is still irrelevant. This, at any rate, is the picture you get if you look at the conflict through the prism of “two states”, where the issue is friction between the Israeli government in Jerusalem on the one side and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and the Hamas government in Gaza on the other.
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