Sentences with phrase «of palestinian»

In a House of Commons debate, Dame Joan Ruddock also spoke of her experience at the Israeli military court at Ofer, and the treatment of Palestinian child detainees there.

On 24 October 2017, a cross party group of UK parliamentarians wrote to the Foreign Secretary about compensation for demoltions of Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank.

On 21 July, Nabil Amar, former Minister of Information and a cabinet member and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was shot by masked gunmen, after an interview with a television channel in which he criticized Yasser Arafat and called for reforms in the PA. [95]

I support a two - state solution to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict: Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people living in peace and security alongside the state of Palestine as the national homeland of the Palestinian people,» Teachout said.

Introducing the report, MAP President Baroness Morris of Bolton highlighted the importance of Palestinian statehood recognition, supported by UK Parliament in a symbolic vote in October 2014: «Recognition will bolster those Palestinians who believe that the path of non-violence will lead to a state coming into being through diplomacy and democratic expression, not destruction, a state which lives side - by - side with Israel in peace and prosperity.»

Mr Alexander added it was a «source of shame» that the Prime Minister has so far failed to condemn the scale of Palestinian suffering as a result of the Israeli offensive.

Final status negotiations were to be conducted in 1999 that would resolve remaining issues, such as administration over Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, as well as the fate of Palestinian refugees and their descendants living in other Arab countries.

Oslo I was roughly a framework for negotiations, the Gaza - Jericho agreement provided for a limited amount of Palestinian autonomy within the Gaza Strip and Jericho following IDF redeployment, and the third agreement, Oslo II, divided the West Bank into areas with the goal of interim self - government pending final status negotiations, which would include the «difficult» issues: the division of Jerusalem, the Palestinian refugees, the borders, Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory, as well as security.

And all of this is to say nothing of the fact that thousands of Palestinian civilians have been killed by the Israeli military.

The justification of the Palestinian officials for not openly accusing Israel of assassination at the time was simple; they didn't want to jeopardise the peace process, so they made a sacrifice.

The Oslo Accords were a set of agreements — Oslo I, the Gaza — Jericho Agreement and Oslo II — between the state of Israel (lead by prime minster Yitzhak Rabin) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (lead by Yasser Arafat), internationally regarded as the representative of the Palestinian people.

now 70 % of Palestinian people are living as refugees out of their own lands.

Ideologically, the Likud party was and is averse to the idea of a Palestinian state and any meaningful negotiations.

Theresa May has called for an inquiry into the «deeply troubling» deaths of scores of Palestinian demonstrators near the Israeli border.

Nothing that has happened since their signing precludes the establishment of a Palestinian state.

One Fifth Avenue sidewalk was filled with two groups of protesters who have appeared each year, both critical of Israel: anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jews who oppose Israel's existence, saying only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state; and supporters of a Palestinian state who hoisted their red, black, white and green flags.

On Tuesday, ConservativeHome reported that only 2 Tory MPs, Nicholas Soames and Sir Peter Bottomley had signed an Early Day Motion in favour of a Palestinian state.

«Shame on those who ignore the pain and the suffering of the Palestinian people,» Mansour said, adding that he is considering asking for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting.

The main threat to regional stability is not Iran but the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

If Netanyahu is unwilling to create a Palestinian state under present conditions that is certainly unfortunate, but doesn't change the inevitability of the creation of a Palestinian state in most of the West Bank in the long term.

And the main source of hostility towards America throughout the Arab and Muslim lands is Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people and America's complicity in this oppression.

The first is that the settler movement is not naïve about the implications of its actions for the possibility of a Palestinian state, rather the policy that they advocate is explicit in seeking to deny the Palestinians a state of their own and to deny them integration into the state of Israel itself.

The killings of Palestinian protesters made today the bloodiest in Gaza since the first Palestinian intifada in 1987, an uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Yet even if it were existential, it could not justify the systematic murder of the Palestinian people.

«It is very, very tragic that they're celebrating an illegal action while Israel is killing and injuring thousands of Palestinian civilians,» Mansour said.

This is like because the security fence around the West Bank has lead to a dramatic reduction in terrorist attacks, meaning that the government is less likely to view the establishment of a Palestinian state as immediately necessarily to Israeli security interests.

But power politics of this sort keep swallowing up concerns over the daily life of the Palestinian people.

Olmert also offered to accept a small number of Palestinian refugees and descendents back into Israel, but created a fund to monetarily compensate refugees or descendants who could not return, in accordance with UN Resolution 194, which called for compensation for refugees who could not return to Israel.

A Romanian citizen of Palestinian origins, Mr. Arafat is regarded by many as a national hero.

A recent workshop in Stockholm brought together work as varied as West European attitudes to Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to 1989, Israeli students» knowledge of the Palestinian areas of the country, the conflicting mental maps of 20th century Lebanon, mental maps of Europe based on quantitative evidence from surveys of European and extra-European students, and comparative work on mental maps in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions.

Over the course of the attacks news reports in the Western media have been depicting the knife attacks in Israel as part of the Palestinian struggle.

Those talks did not result in the creation of a Palestinian state, as the Palestinians rejected all Israeli offers.

And then there's the matter of Iran supporting the existence of a Palestinian State.

When Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and president of the Palestinian Authority completes his address to the UN general assembly, expected to take place on September 23rd, he will be calling for the admission of Palestine as a full member state of the United Nations.

In addition to presenting a significant barrier to resolution of the Israel - Palestine conflict, by constituting a substantial obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, the ICJ similarly notes that the existence of these settlements «violates the basic human rights of the Palestinians by impeding liberty of movement and the inhabitants» right to work, health, education and an adequate standard of living.»

Netanyahu has insisted on troops in the Jordan Valley for many years after the establishment of a Palestinian state.

At lunch with a group of Palestinian politicians the following day, we realised that the data line on our smartphones had died.

«This is the life of the Palestinian people, and those who think that opening the embassy opens doors to peace, let them look at what is really happening in the Gaza Strip.»

Taylor Force, 28 died in Israel at the hand of a Palestinian terrorist.

A list of any terrorist suspects in these cases who are members of Palestinian police or security forces, the Palestine Liberation Organization, or any Palestinian governing body.

A number of proposals for the granting of Palestinian citizenship or residential permits to Jewish settlers in return for the removal of Israeli military installations from the West Bank have been fielded by such individuals [47] as Arafat, [48] Ibrahim Sarsur [49] and Ahmed Qurei.

But Tillerson, Mattis and others argued that ending all assistance would exacerbate instability in the Mideast, notably in Jordan, a host to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and a crucial U.S. strategic partner.

A New York kosher restaurant, Izzy's Brooklyn Smokehouse, is under fire for employing the brother of Palestinian - American activist Linda Sarsour.

However, after a wave of Palestinian rioting in the First Intifada, Israel decided to give Palestine limited self - government in exchange for peace.

In my view, the Istanbul statement does nothing to make a constructive contribution to Middle East peace or the cause of a Palestinian state.

Saudi Arabia making overtly common cause with Israel, could have consequences for Palestinian politics and the future of a Palestinian state.

now many of Palestinian Muslims are originally from Bani Israel.

But the tribes increasingly feel they are being abandoned in favour of the Palestinian - dominated urban elite, meaning that the principal no longer able to meet the demands of new jobs, higher salaries and rural development.

Note that most of the Palestinian refugee camps are in Arab lands.

After defeating former Labour MP Terry Rooney to enter parliament in 2010, Ward - an outspoken supporter of Palestinian causes - made a string of remarks that brought condemnation from party colleagues and Jewish organisations: