Ziad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, at the Palestinian embassy in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on September 3, 2020 [ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images] The head of Islamic Jihad denounced Arab attempts to normalise relations with Israel on Friday, as the group staged demonstrations in the Palestinian Territories and neighbouring states amid Israeli efforts to make peace …
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Egyptians divided over recent niqab ban at schools By Umut Uras
An Egyptian woman wearing a niqab takes pictures in Cairo [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters] Egyptians talk to Al Jazeera about the recent government decision to prohibit students from wearing niqab.The Egyptian government has banned female students from wearing the niqab, a face-covering veil, at schools, according to state-owned media. Education Minister Reda Hegazy’s statement, released on Monday and quoted by …
Read More »Israel illegal settler violence erasing entire Palestinian communities, says NGO
A view of Al-Urme Hill in Beita town, considered the second highest point around the city of Nablus, West Bank on June 6, 2021 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) published a report yesterday expressing deep concern about the Israeli illegal settlers’ forceful seizure of Palestinian Territories, which has resulted in the displacement of 500 Palestinians from seven different communities. …
Read More »UN motion after Sweden Quran burning: How did your country vote?
The United Nations Human Rights Council motion after the Muslim holy book was desecrated in Sweden was disputed, but passed. Though the motion was disputed, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution ‘countering religious hatred constituting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence’ [Al Jazeera] Published On 12 Jul 202312 Jul 2023 The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) …
Read More »Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? By Mohammed Haddad
This year marks 74 years of Al-Nakba, or the Palestinian experience of dispossession and loss of their homeland. Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Having secured the support of the British government for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, on May …
Read More »‘ World should be ashamed of its failure to resolve the Palestine issue’ – Sajith Premadasa at the Naqba day
ASHRAF A SAMAD COLOMBO: The world should be ashamed of it failure to resolve the Palestinian issue for the past 75 years which was a crime against humanity,Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said here in Colombo on Monday May 22. Premadasa was speaking at the Nakba Commemoration Day observed in Colombo by the embassy of the state of Palestine …
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