2021-04-17 15:35:44 GMT2021-04-17 23:35:44(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
RAMALLAH, April 17 (Xinhua) The Israeli police on Saturday arrested three Palestinian electoral candidates attempting to hold a news briefing in East Jerusalem, Palestinian sources said.
Two of the candidates are on the list of the Fatah party led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the third is on the list of the Palestinian Democratic Union, according to the sources.
The three candidates planned to hold a news conference to call on the international community to pressure Israel to allow the elections to be held in East Jerusalem which was occupied by Israel in 1967, the sources said.
The Palestinian Embassy in Damascus mourned the Palestinian ambassador Mahmoud al-Khalidi Saturday, who died due to complications from his infection with the
The European Union (EU) has urged Israel not to obstruct the upcoming Palestinian elections.Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, the EU representative in Palestine, said on Thursday that the bloc continues its contact with the Israeli government to allow .
Palestinian Issue During Biden s Term
Expectations need to be moderated despite the optimism. Democratic Party member Joe Biden took office in the White House following Republican Donald Trump, who made structural and conjunctural adjustments to American foreign policy. Biden, who took office after a contentious election season, faces a very challenging foreign policy agenda. The Palestine issue is one of the most critical topics on the new president s foreign policy agenda. In contrast to Trump s harsh decisions toward Palestine under extreme pressure from the Israeli lobby, which is so powerful in American politics, a comparatively optimistic atmosphere against Palestine appears to prevail in Biden s term so far. However, we should not be misled by the optimistic environment and cannot predict that the US s relations with Israel and policies toward the Palestinian problem will change dramatically.
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