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UN insists on illegality of Israeli settlements in the West Bank

Published on: March 7, 2024
18:18

United Nations, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, condemned the progress of Israel's plans to build more than three thousand housing units in the West Bank.

EU condemns Israel’s approval to build houses in West Bank

Published on: March 7, 2024
13:58

Brussels, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The European Union (EU) condemned on Thursday the approval by an Israeli body of the construction of nearly 3,500 new housing units in settlements in the West Bank and called for a reversal of these decisions.

Palestine condemns Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank

Published on: February 7, 2024
08:53

Ramallah, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Palestine condemned on Wednesday the beginning of the construction of 167 homes in the Israeli settlement of Tzufim, in the northern West Bank region, a fact that it considered a disregard to the position of the international community on these localities.

UN denounces increase in attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank

Published on: January 31, 2024
08:32

Ramallah, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) The UN denounced that since the beginning of the new cycle of violence in the occupied territories on October 7th, 447 attacks by Israeli settlers against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank were reported.

Palestine criticizes Israeli minister’s visit to West Bank settlement

Published on: December 18, 2023
08:41

Ramallah, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned a visit by the Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, to a Jewish colony in the occupied West Bank, considering it yet another example of Israel’s expansionist plans.

WHO adopted resolution to enable humanitarian aid to Gaza

Published on: December 11, 2023
10:14

Geneva, Dec 11 (Prensa Latina) The WHO adopted by consensus a resolution calling for the immediate, sustained and unimpeded passage of humanitarian aid to address the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip.

Syrian and Russian deputy FMs analyze Israeli aggressions

Published on: November 28, 2023
10:30

Damascus, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Bassam Sabbagh met with his Russian counterparts Mikhail Bogdanov and Sergey Vershinin on Tuesday to discuss the Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, besides the Syrian and Lebanese territories.

Israeli troops killed Palestinian doctor in the West Bank

Published on: November 25, 2023
11:06

Ramallah, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) Israeli security forces assassinated today a Palestinian doctor in the town of Qabatiya, in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Jordan stresses need to lift blockade of Gaza

Published on: November 20, 2023
13:25

Amman, Nov 20 (Prensa Latina) King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday stressed the need to have the blockade imposed by Israel on the people of the Gaza Strip lifted.

Israel bans Palestinian governor from visiting West Bank

Published on: October 31, 2023
14:09

Ramallah, Oct 31 (Prensa Latina) Israeli authorities on Tuesday renewed, for the fifth consecutive year, the ban on the Palestinian Governor of East Jerusalem, Adnan Ghaith, under house arrest since August 2022, from visiting the West Bank.

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