In light of the recent Cabinet’s decision assigning the date for Local Council Elections on October 8th, 2016, the CEC Commissioners convened today at CEC premises in Ramallah and through videoconference with Gaza where they approved the Local Elections Timeline.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave a speech in front of the European Union parliament on Thursday regarding the current state of Palestine and its people within the occupied territory and around the world.
Abbas slammed the international community’s complacency with Israel’s illegal occupation, saying: “their [Palestinians’] history, heritage, identity and geopolitical entity were historically massacred in the twentieth century, and that the massacre is still ongoing through the twenty first century under the eyes and ears of the international community.”
The Palestinian cabinet on Tuesday, which meets weekly in Ramallah, have announced a decision to hold municipal elections on October 8, according to a statement released by the cabinet.
The cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, appointed a central elections committee to start preparations for the upcoming elections and gave the local governance minister the responsibility of following up on organizing efforts and facilitating elections with the central elections committee.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, in a statement Monday, that Israel’s recent approval to disburse $21.3m in aid to illegal settlements in the West Bank means that Israel practically started to annex the settlements.
Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah issued a statement decrying Israel's national water company Mekorot's decision to cut off water supplies to several Palestinian cities and villages.
“Israel wants to prevent Palestinians from leading a dignified life and uses its control over our water resources to this end; while illegal Israeli settlements enjoy uninterrupted water service, Palestinians are forced to spend great sums of money to buy water that is theirs in the first place,” Hamdallah said.
A Hamas delegation is to visit Cairo in the coming days to hold meetings with Egyptian officials to resume reconciliation talks regarding the Gaza Strip and Egypt’s shared border, an Egyptian security source told Ma’an.
According to the source, who preferred to remain anonymous, the Hamas delegation will be joined for the first time by representatives from the movement’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, to travel to Cairo between Tuesday and Wednesday through the Rafah border crossing.
La Liga Árabe va a solicitar en nombre de los palestinos que se reconozca "el Estado de Palestina, con Jerusalén como capital", y que se le declare miembro de pleno de derecho de la ONU, según indica el borrador de un comunicado del comité de seguimiento árabe, que se reúne este jueves en Qatar.
"Se ha decidido acudir a Naciones Unidas a solicitar el reconocimiento del Estado de Palestina, con Jerusalén como capital, e ir más allá y pedir su inclusión como miembro de pleno de derecho", se lee en el borrador, una copia del cual ha llegado a Reuters.
Los presidentes palestino, Mahmud Abás, y egipcio, Abdelfatah al Sisi, destacaron hoy en El Cairo la necesidad de conseguir la unidad nacional palestina con el objetivo de alcanzar la paz con Israel, dijo a Efe un miembro de la delegación palestina presente en la reunión.
Ambos líderes debatieron en su encuentro sobre las últimas evoluciones en la región y en la escena palestina, sobre todo la reciente iniciativa de Francia por organizar una cumbre internacional orientada a impulsar el proceso de paz del estancado conflicto palestino-israelí.
El presidente de la Autoridad Palestina, Mahmud Abbas, ha afirmado este martes que la organización estaría dispuesta a acoger a miles de refugiados de Siria y el resto de la región si no fuera por la ocupación de los territorios palestinos por parte de Israel.
"Hemos presentado múltiples iniciativas y hemos apoyado los esfuerzos internacionales para desarrollar soluciones pacíficas para mantener segura a la gente de la región y evitar conflictos religiosos y sectarios", ha dicho.
El movimiento islamista Hamás aprobó por ley parlamentaria la aplicación de la pena de muerte en Gaza, a pesar de la oposición del Gobierno de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina (ANP, efectiva solo en Cisjordania) y grupos de derechos humanos.
En un comunicado, Hamás informó de que la ley fue aprobada con el voto a favor de los legisladores islamistas en el Consejo Legislativo Palestino (PLC por sus siglas en inglés) , que nunca ha llegado a reunir a sus 132 diputados desde que Hamás se hizo con el control de la franja en 2007.
HYDERABAD: Around 30 per cent of the 3,500 polling stations in nine districts of Hyderabad division have been declared very sensitive by the police.
Besides the army and Rangers personnel, more than 30,000 policemen will perform the election duty, out of which 23,000 policemen will be deployed at the polling stations.
Around 142 areas have been declared as trouble spots, where it is feared that clashes can occur between the rival groups. These trouble spots include small localities to an entire taluka of a district.
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday evening in a speech that “his hand is still reaching for peace,” repeating his administration's stance that the recent wave of violent upheaval that has gripped the occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel must be extinguished.
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The deputy head of the Hamas movement on Thursday visited Palestinians at al-Shifa hospital who had been shot and injured by Israeli forces during recent clashes near Gaza's border with Israel.
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