Last week, it released a report strongly criticizing Israeli building on post-1967 land and at the urging of the United States, criticized the Palestinians for incitement and violence against Israelis that has raged non-stop since October.
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The Palestinian Football Association said it will escalate its complaint with FIFA, soccer’s worldwide governing body, over Israel’s refusal to allow Palestinian soccer players to travel between the West Bank and Gaza for games in the Palestine Cup over the past week, Palestinian news site Sawa reported Saturday.
Sunday’s move was not the first time that Rajoub has turned to Federation Internationale de Football Association to take action against Israel. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a state they seek to establish in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
A view of Gilo. Al-Wahidi pointed out that other Palestinian and Arab TV channels have also been banned in Israel’s prisons, including Palestine TV and al-Arabiya. “Gilo is a deal breaker”.
Abbas said last week that the rival Palestinian factions would hold another round of reconciliation talks in the coming weeks, in a bid to mend fences after almost a decade of hostility.
“These steps by Israeli authorities are the latest examples of what appears to be a steady acceleration of settlement activity that is systematically undermining the prospects for a two-state solution”, Kirby said.
Dajani was referring to demolitions of a dozen Palestinian homes this week in East Jerusalem. “They are a violation of the Geneva convention, which specifically prohibits the occupying power from transferring people in the areas it is occupying”.
Israeli officials said on Wednesday that Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, was digging more than six miles of underground tunnels leading into Israel every month.
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The Palestinians and the entire worldwide community consider the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be parts of the same territory despite not actually being territorially contiguous.
