Month: September 2023

(The Australian, 27/9/2023) ( https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/saudi-envoy-seeks-to-reassure-palestinians-amid-talks-with-israel/news-story/c0c0e38973774326558388a1528da2f4 ) Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sent its first delegation in three decades to the occupied West Bank to reassure Palestinians that it will defend their cause even as it forges closer ties with Israel.  In a sign of the thaw, Israel’s Tourism Minister Haim Katz visited Riyadh on the same day,… Continue reading Saudi envoy seeks to reassure Palestinians amid Israel talks

A group of illegal Jewish settlers, escorted by Israeli soldiers, hurled stones at Palestinian farmers while they were in their own lands. Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers assaulted on Wednesday Palestinian farmers in the village of in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of the city of Ramallah, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Marwan… Continue reading Israeli Jewish Settlers Assault Palestinian Farmers near Ramallah

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. During the last three months, more than 10,000 housing units were advanced, Tor Wennesland told ambassadors at the UN Security Council in New York. “Settlements further entrench… Continue reading Israeli settlements ‘systematically erode’ viability of Palestinian State

A bomb explodes during clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli security forces east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the Israel-Gaza border fence on September 23, 2023. (AFP) Israel has imposed an air, land and sea blockade on the impoverished Palestinian enclave ever since the Islamist group Hamas seized control in 2007 GAZA… Continue reading Israel strikes Gaza again amid new violence at border

Posted 7h ago7 hours ago (ABC Australia, 25/9/2023) ( https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-24/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-in-west-bank-raid-hamas-eme/102895468 ) Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians, including a fighter of the Hamas group, during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, emergency workers and Hamas said. Key points: The Nur Shams camp near Tulkarm was raided in the early hours of Sunday morning Israeli… Continue reading Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in ‘counter-terrorism activity’ in West Bank

In our last blog we commented on Archbishop Welby’ September 6th lecture about “Reconciliation” in the Middle East. Archbishop Welby meeting Benjamin Netanyahu The event was organised by Embrace the Middle East and hosted by St. Martins in the Fields, London, as part of a series that takes as its theme the words of Martin… Continue reading Archbishop, “you stand on unfirm ground”

One night in 2005, Israeli soldiers came for Huda Dahbour’s teenage son. He was gone for a year and a half. The damage done to their family – and so many others like them – was incalculable The Guardian | Nathan Thrall | 21 Sep 2023 This is an edited extract from A Day in… Continue reading ‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail

AAP | Shepparton News | Sep 22, 2023 Foreign Minister Penny Wong has held a “very positive, constructive meeting” with her Israeli counterpart after Australia’s position returned to referencing “occupied Palestinian territories”. The government is strengthening its opposition to settlements, affirming them as illegal under international law. Speaking from New York on Friday, Senator Wong… Continue reading Positive, constructive meeting’ with Israeli FM: Wong

A United Nations conference has voted to list ruins of the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision likely to anger Israel, which controls the territory and does not recognise a Palestinian state. Jericho is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on Earth and is in… Continue reading Palestine’s Ruins of Jericho to be listed as World Heritage Site

Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on last day of Rosh Hashanah under the protection of occupation forces, the latter assaulting Palestinian worshippers. Israeli forces have attacked Palestinian worshippers at Bab as-Silsila, one of the main entrances to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local sources. Israeli forces imposed tight… Continue reading Israeli forces attack Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque