Tasnim A UN rights investigator urged the European Union to consider measures to prevent or punish any Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, a few days after over 1,000 European lawmakers made a similar call. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres added his voice to the matter on Wednesday, calling on Israel to abandon ...

The Wall Street Journal | Felicia Schwartz: The United Arab Emirates made a rare appeal to the Israeli public, offering closer security and commercial ties between the two Middle East nations if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed away from his move to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. The U.A.E.s ambassador to the U.S., Yousef Al Otaiba,...

Tasnim Irans deputy foreign minister for international and legal affairs participated in an extraordinary ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Executive Committee on Israeli threats to annex parts of the occupied Palestinian territories. Following a recent announcement from the Zionist and occupying regime of Israel ...

Al-Monitor| Rina Bassist: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made no mention of annexation in his press conference with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, focusing instead on the pandemic, the US peace plan and Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrapped up a three-hour meeting in Jerusalem this morning, the day ...

Press TV - The US secretary of state is in the Israeli-occupied territories to discuss Tel Avivs plan to annex Palestinian land under a controversial plan by US President Donald Trump, among other topics. Mike Pompeo arrived in Israel on Wednesday on his first foreign trip since Washington began enforcing a lockdown against the new coronavirus outbreak....

The New York Times | Daniel Pipes: A conservative American commentator on Middle Eastern affairs gives six reasons to believe that taking over Palestinian territory would harm both U.S.-Israel relations and Israels status as the Jewish state. Thanks to the Trump administrations Peace to Prosperity plan, the topic of Israel annexing parts of the ...

MNA Nearly 130 parliamentarians have written to Boris Johnson urging him to impose economic sanctions against Israeli regime if Benjamin Netanyahus new coalition government goes ahead with its threat to annex parts of the West Bank. The letter, signed by the former Tory chairman Lord Patten and the former international development secretary Andrew ...

Tasnim An adviser to Irans parliament speaker warned the Israeli regime that its decision to annex parts of the occupied West Bank will draw a shocking response from resistance groups. In a post on his Twitter account on Tuesday, senior adviser to the Iranian parliament speaker for international affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian expressed outrage ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry called on international organizations and the world countries to take action against the Zionist regimes plans to expand Israeli settlements and annex parts of the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi strongly condemned the Zionist regimes plans to expand the ...

Tasnim Israeli forces demolished the house of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Irfaiya, 19, in the Wadi al-Harya in Hebron, southern occupied West Bank, on predawn Friday, a report said. Spokesperson of the Israeli army said that its forces demolished two apartments in Hebron (al-Khalil), belonging to Irfaiyas family, who is allegedly behind the killing ...

Press TV - Israeli forces have fatally shot a Palestinian youth at a makeshift checkpoint in the West Bank. The incident took place just north of the city of Jerichoearly on Sunday. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the victim as Salameh Salah Kaabneh, 22. Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that Kaabneh was killed in mysterious ...

IRNA The Israeli armed forces have shot two Palestinians dead in the Wes Bank, Qatari media ' Al Jazeera' said. According to Qatari media, Israelis killed Palestinian youths on the pretext of the so-called plot to kill Zionist forces. The incident happened hours after Zionists' jetfighters' attacks on Palestinian resistance movement Hamas watch ...

Press TV - Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has commended the West Bank for its "resistance" in the face of Israeli occupation, as thousands of Palestinians marched in the Gaza Strip to express their support for the movement on its 31st anniversary. "We place our hopes in the West Bank, which is the main area where events are occurring and the most ...

Press TV - Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man, alleging that he attempted to ram hiscar into the regime's policemen in the southern West Bank. The incident took place in the Palestinian town of Idhna near al-Khalil (Hebron) on Tuesday morning. The Palestinian Red Crescent identified the victim as Omar Hassan al-Awawdeh, 27. Witnesses ...

Press TV - A recently released video footage has showed Israeli forces shooting a disabled Palestinian man in the back, despite the militarys claim that he was killed during clashes in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces shot 22-year-old Mohammad Hossam Habali in Tulkarm on December 4 and the regimes military claimed that its troops had been ...

Press TV - The United Nations says violence and vandalism committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property have been on the rise since the beginning of the year 2018. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday made the news in a report published in its biweekly Protection of Civilians, comparing ...

Press TV - Evangelical Christian groups have reportedly raised tens of millions of dollars over the past decade to fund settlement projects in the occupied West Bank as the Israeli regime presses ahead with itsland expropriationpolicies in the occupied territories irrespective of greatinternational outcry. According to a report published by ...

Press TV - A 23-year-old Palestinian hassuccumbedto the gunshot wounds he sustained during an Israeli military raid in the northern West bank. Local medical sources identified the victim as Mohammed Mahmoud Bisharat, saying he had died at hospital on Wednesday after being shot in the chest by Israeli troops during a raid on the village of Taamun ...

Press TV - Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian who they claim attempted to attack one of them with a knife in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said in a statement on Monday that the Palestinian "assailant" had attacked one soldier in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron), "lightly injuring him." The statement said the "soldier ...

Press TV - Israels minister for military affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, says negotiations with Palestinian authorities on the situation in both besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied west Bank are pointless and that Tel Aviv should act on the Palestinian issue in both regions unilaterally. Im aware of all the negotiations and all the mediators and ...