Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 9:56 am
On February 4, representatives from the Palestinian
Movement, Hamas,
visited Moscow to inform the Russian government of the
latest development on the unity talks between the Islamic
Movement and its Palestinian counterparts, especially
Fatah.
This was not the first time that Hamas’s
officials traveled to Moscow on similar missions. In fact,
Moscow continues to represent an important political
breathing space for Hamas, which has been isolated by
Israel s Western benefactors. Involved in this isolation are
also several Arab governments which, undoubtedly, have done
very little to break the Israeli siege on Gaza.
The
Russia-Hamas closeness is already paying dividends. On
We will always remember 2020 with the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic and the violations, mostly in the Middle East and North Africa region, that accompanied it. In 2021, the world hopes to witness not only an end to the pandemic but also .
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 7:08 am
Geneva – The Euro-Mediterranean Human
Rights Monitor welcomed today a letter signed by some 450
European parliamentarians addressed to EU foreign ministers
calling for pressuring Israel to stop the de facto
annexation of the West Bank.
The European
parliamentarians’ letter is consistent with international
law regarding the prohibition of any annexation of occupied
lands by the occupying state, including the violations that
this entails from the forced displacement of the civilian
population.
Signatories to the letter include MPs from
22 European countries, in addition to members of the
European Parliament. The vast majority are affiliated with
parties on the center-left, such as the Social Democrats and
Sunday, 28 February 2021, 4:44 pm
The
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor strongly condemns
the Israeli Police s suppression of demonstrations in Umm
al-Fahm protesting the escalation of violence and crime in
the city. Many protesters were injured while others were
arrested.
The demonstration took place yesterday,
February 26th, after Friday prayers in front of the
municipality of Umm al-Fahm. The protesters headed on foot
to the Israeli police station, where police officers used
violence and disproportionate force against them. The Police
used rubber bullets, tear gas, wastewater cannons, sound
bombs and batons, leaving 11 civilians injured and seven
others arrested.
Umm al-Fahm Mayor, Samir Mahamid, and
Friday, 19 February 2021, 5:10 pm
The
renowned Palestinian poet and novelist Mourid Barghouti died
on 12 February 2021, at the age of 77 in Amman,
Jordan.
He was born in the village of Deir Ghassaneh,
near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank in 1944, 4 years
before the State of Israel came into existence.
In
1963, Barghouti travelled to Cairo to study English
Literature. After Israeli authorities occupied the West Bank
in the 1967 Middle East war, they banned him from returning
back to his village near Ramallah.
Barghouti spent
most of his life in exile in Egypt, Hungary, Lebanon and
Jordan.
Wherever he was, under whatever circumstances,
he wrote poetry. I gave everything to poetry, which is the