Israel

Folau stars in new team debut but Super League still uneasy with Australian’s signing | ABC News

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Catalans Dragons fans came to support Israel Folau with open arms and he did not disappoint, but the team’s sponsors are being pressured to withdraw support and a team is threatening legal action if they suffer over the controversial Australian’s signing. Read more here: https://ab.co/2Svgti7 For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY You can … Read more Folau stars in new team debut but Super League still uneasy with Australian’s signing | ABC News

The Palestinian family with its own checkpoint – BBC News

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How is President Trump’s plan to solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict being received on the ground? The BBC’s Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman went to visit two homes in the occupied West Bank; starting with a Palestinian family whose house is in a fenced off enclave within an Israeli settlement. Israel has said it intends … Read more The Palestinian family with its own checkpoint – BBC News

World Vision aid worker still being held in Israeli prison | 7:30

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Three years ago the Australian Government suspended funding to the charity World Vision, over allegations the aid was being funnelled to Palestinian militant group Hamas. Although a government investigation found the allegations were unfounded, the man held responsible is still languishing in an Israeli Prison. Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-13/world-vision-aid-worker-still-behind-bars-in-israel/11924658 For more from ABC News, click … Read more World Vision aid worker still being held in Israeli prison | 7:30

Pro-Israel groups enhance efforts against Roger Waters for BDS stance

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UN lists more than 100 firms linked to Israeli settlements in West Bank

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The United Nations has released a list of 112 companies that has business ties to Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Israel settlements there are considered illegal under international law. The Palestinians have cheered this report as a “victory’ and threatened legal action, Israel dismissed it as shameful. Subscribe to France 24 now: http://f24.my/youtubeEN FRANCE … Read more UN lists more than 100 firms linked to Israeli settlements in West Bank

UN lists firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank

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Palestinians have welcomed a United Nations report listing companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The UN and most of the international community recognise these settlements as illegal. The UN says it has identified more than 100 firms including the US-based home-rental company Airbnb. Israel has described the publication as … Read more UN lists firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank

Airbnb on UN list of companies tied to illegal Israeli settlements

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Palestinians have welcomed a United Nations report on companies with business ties to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the UN said it had identified 112 business entities with reasonable grounds to conclude they have ties with Israeli settlements. Among these was the US-based home-renting company Airbnb. In 2018, Airbnb … Read more Airbnb on UN list of companies tied to illegal Israeli settlements

Abbas blasts Trump’s plan for a ‘Swiss cheese’ Palestinian state in UN speech

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN Security Council to reject Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, calling the so-called “win-win” deal a “gift to the Israelis”. Brandishing a large map of Israel and Palestine as laid out by Trump’s January 28 announcement, Abbas called it a “Swiss cheese” deal that would limit Palestinian … Read more Abbas blasts Trump’s plan for a ‘Swiss cheese’ Palestinian state in UN speech

Palestinian president urges world to reject ‘Swiss cheese’ plan

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A Middle East plan that will bring neither peace nor stability and leave Palestinians with a fragmented state. That is how Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described US President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan at the United Nations Security Council. Under the plan, Israel would annex parts of the occupied West Bank. But Palestinians did not … Read more Palestinian president urges world to reject ‘Swiss cheese’ plan

Abbas attends UNSC meeting on Israel-Palestine

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UN Security Council holds a briefing in New York City on ‘the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question’ and is expected to focus on the recently released US peace plan for Israel-Palestine. Subscribe to RT! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg?sub_confirmation=1 RT LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFAcqaNzNSc Check out http://rt.com Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on VK https://vk.com/rt_international … Read more Abbas attends UNSC meeting on Israel-Palestine