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Palestinian FM says Netanyahu insists on aborting two-state solution

Date: 2023-12-18 07:21:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:10495269

RAMALLAH, Dec 18 (MENA) – Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al Maliki asserted to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists on aborting the two-state solution. Maliki urged the international ....

One more Palestinian journalist killed in Israeli shelling of Nuseirat refugee camp

Date: 2023-12-18 06:12:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:10495218

GAZA, Dec 18 (MENA) - The Information Office of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza announced that the Palestinian journalist Hanin al-Qashtan was killed during the bombardment of the Nuseirat refugee camp located in central Gaza. Hanin's killing ....

Netanyahu has been an 'exceptionally difficult partner' - US senator

Date: 2023-12-17 22:28:41 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:91 - ID:10495152

WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (MENA) - US Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been “difficult” to work with as the US pushes for a two-state solution to end the Israel-Hamas war. "Prime Minister Netanyahu has been ....

Over 30 civilians killed, dozens injured and missing in Israeli airstrikes targeting a residential block in northern Gaza

Date: 2023-12-17 22:07:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:89 - ID:10495169

GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - In a new Israeli massacre, over 30 civilians were killed and dozens of others injured on Sunday in Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia town, in the northern Gaza Strip, said local and medical sources. Sources said that at ....

Foreign Ministry condemns provocative visit of Israeli fascist minister to illegal West Bank settlement

Date: 2023-12-17 21:42:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:10495166

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the provocative visit of the extremist fascist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to the “Psagot” settlement, built illegally on Palestinian land in the ....

US, Turkish foreign ministers talk Gaza

Date: 2023-12-17 21:04:54 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:86 - ID:10495150

WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (MENA) - Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan over the phone on Sunday. The two continued their discussion on the Israel-Hamas conflict, with an emphasis on increasing the speed ....

Paris protest demands immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza

Date: 2023-12-17 19:38:02 GMT - France - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:10495034

PARIS, Dec 17 (MENA) - Thousands of citizens participated in demonstrations in The Place de la République Square in the centre of Paris, France, to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and a halt to Israeli military operations in the ....

Lapid calls on Netanyahu to step down

Date: 2023-12-17 19:36:08 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:10495031

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid called Sunday on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down. Lapid posted on “X”: “We have a prime minister who lost the confidence of the ....

Hundreds of Palestinians killed, injured as Israeli attacks continue across Gaza

Date: 2023-12-17 19:35:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:10495012

GAZA, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation forces continue their aerial and artillery bombardment on various areas of the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, WAFA reported Sunday. Local sources ....

French FM: Settler violence undermines possibilities of political solution

Date: 2023-12-17 18:49:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:10495011

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said Sunday settlers’ violence in the occupied West Bank undermines the prospects of reaching a political solution, which is something against the Israelis. During her visit to ....