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Israeli Rejection of the French Initiative Announcement: Dr. Saeb Erekat, PLO Secretary General
Statement by PLO Secretary General Dr. Saeb Erekat on Israel’s rejection of the French Initiative
Saving the Two-State Solution - New Zealand in the UN Security Council
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World Bank Report - Israeli Economic Abuse
Amid discussions of a potential royal commission into banking practices in Australia and the revelations of international tax avoidance in the Panama Papers, the World Bank has published a report detailing Israeli economic abuse against the Palestinian people and the Palestinian economy.
Palestinian Prisoners' Day
'The International Community must work to end the dehumanization and captivity of the Palestinian people' - Dr. Hanan Ashrawi marks Palestinian Prisoners' Day'
Israeli Settlement Construction Announcement: Dr. Saeb Erekat, PLO Secretary General
The continued Israeli colonization of Palestine is a war crime under international law.
This is an official policy of the Government of Israel that continues to entrench Israel's colonial occupation and destroy the prospects of two independent states living side by side in peace and security on the 1967 border.
Statement by PLO Secretary General Dr. Saeb Erekat on the Israeli Occupation’s decision to declare 2,342 dunums in Jericho as “state land”
This latest Israeli decision is coherent with its government’s plan to impose an Apartheid regime in occupied Palestine. Israel, the occupying power, continues its colonial project by maintaining its belligerent occupation and by annexing more Palestinian lands throughout the occupied West Bank, including the Jordan Valley
NZ concerned at Israeli land appropriations
In a media statement issued 17 March 2016, Foreign Minister Murray McCully has described the most recent Israeli appropriation of land in the occupied Palestinian territories as deeply unhelpful.
“Israel’s settlement activity continues to threaten the viability of a two-state solution,” Mr McCully says
McCully criticises Israeli settlements
In an address to the Lowy Institute in Sydney yesterday, New Zealand Foreign Minister Mr McCully said the viability of the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine was vanishing because of Israel's settlement activity.
Mr McCully said the United Nations Security Council needed to act.
OIC calls for ban on Israeli products
The Islamic world has called on Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries and the international community to ban products made in or produced by Israel to put more pressure on Israeli to end its occupation of Palestinian territories.The call is part of a united statement condemning the Israeli occupation in Palestine, issued by the Islamic world at the 5th Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Extraordinary Summit on Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif in Jakarta on Monday.
PLO Statement on new British “Guidance” against Boycotts, including Israeli Settlements
On February 16th and 17th, PLO Executive Committee Members Dr. Hanan Ashrawi and Dr. Saeb Erekat (Secretary General), met in separate meetings with the British Minister for Middle East Affairs Mr. Tobias Ellwood. After the meetings, Dr. Ashrawi and Dr. Erekat released the following joint statement: