Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit on Thursday called for an international probe into “crimes” committed by Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians during a protest on the Gaza border on Monday.
“We call for a credible international investigation into the crimes committed by the occupation,” Abul Gheit said at the opening session of an extraordinary meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo to discuss the developments.
The League of Arab states has set out plans to counter the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and any other state, according to a document released after a ministerial meeting of the organisation in Cairo.
The document said the plan, which must be prepared in two weeks, will include political, judicial and economic measures.
The live fire actions by Israeli soldiers and the killing of almost 100 Palestinians and the wounding of thousands of others in two weeks of protests on the Gaza-Israel border were “unjustified and disproportionate,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday.
Speaking to the French Parliament a day after almost 60 Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli snipers during a protest, Le Drian recalled the “firm condemnation of France” in light of these killings.
Pier Antonio Panzeri, Chair of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights, has condemned the killing of nearly 60 Palestinians by Israeli troops at the Gaza Strip on Monday.
“We cannot remain silent in the face of what happened on Monday: a number of Palestinians killed and injured, amongst them several children, during the mass demonstration near the Gaza fence. Nothing can ever justify the use of military force against civilians who exercise their legitimate rights to protest peacefully,” he said in a statement Wednesday.
Israeli police officers and Palestinian protesters crashed violently in front of the Qalandya checkpoint near Jerusalem at 4:00 p.m. Monday (local time). It was during middle of the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Israel’s move to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. On the day, some 40,000 Palestinian residents participated in the protest at the Gaza Strip and the west bank of the Jordan river.
Hundreds of Palestinian residents gathered to protest at the Qalandya checkpoint near Jerusalem. Most were in their teens or twenties in masks. Children a little over 10 were also among the protestors but it did not stop Israel from throwing tear-gas and shooting baton rounds.
The crash in the Gaza Strip was even more tragic. Jerusalem Post, a local newspaper, reported that at least 58 were dead and 2,771 were injured in the area alone.
After a two-year wait, five humanitarian volunteers who wanted to help refugees land safely have been acquitted.
Lesbos court acquits 5 foreign NGO people accused of smuggling migrants into Greece.
Tribunalul din Mytilene, principalul oraş din insula greacă Lesbos, i-a pus luni în libertate pe cei trei spanioli şi doi danezi acuzaţi că au contribuit la intrarea ilegală de migranţi în această insulă din Marea Egee, unde ei participau la acţiuni de salvare pe mare în 2016, informează AFP, potrivit agerpres.
Judecătorul s-a opus rechizitoriului procurorului, care ceruse un verdict de culpă pentru cei cinci.
‘S-a făcut dreptate’, este ‘o mare victorie pentru ajutorul umanitar’, a comentat într-o postare pe contul său de Twitter organizaţia non-guvernamentală Prome-AID, din care fac parte cei trei spanioli, pompieri din Sevilla, care au beneficiat de o amplă campanie de susţinere în Spania şi din partea organizaţiilor umanitare.
Germany, France, and the United Kingdom on Monday said they would honor a nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers amid an ultimatum by the United States about a cancellation of the pact.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed between Iran, the US, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Russia, and France in 2015.
Iran signed the deal promising to halt its nuclear program in return for the lifting of international sanctions.
US president Donald Trump will announce a decision about the future of an international nuclear agreement with Iran on Tuesday.
Here are four possible avenues Trump could take on the fate of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, under which Iran accepted restraints on its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of UN, European and US sanctions.
Egypt will attend a second international conference organised by the European Union and the United Nations on “supporting the future of Syria and the region,” which is scheduled to take place in Brussels from 24-25 April.
The conference aims to discuss humanitarian aid to the Syrians affected by the civil war that is now in its eighth year. It also further aims to open discussions among members of the international community over the Syrian conflict to create new pledges, as well as to support the resilience of refugee-hosting countries.