Ali Sawafta

3 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Ali Sawafta |James Mackenzie

'This is our land,' said 65-year-old Asher Meth, a West Bank settler who was enjoying an outing at the springs of Ein al-Auja, in the Jordan Valley that the nearby Bedouin community is prevented from accessing. Fatima Abu Naim, a mother of five, lives in a hillside cave in the occupied West Bank, under increasing pressure from Jewish settlers who, she says, try to steal her family's sheep and come by regularly to tell her and her husband to leave.

3 weeks ago | uk.marketscreener.com | Ali Sawafta |Nidal al-Mughrabi

RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Hamas on Wednesday to lay down arms and hand the running of Gaza to his Palestinian Authority, part of efforts to answer international doubts over the authority's role at a key moment for the region. Abbas was speaking at a leadership council where he is expected this week to name a successor amid pressure from Western and Arab powers concerned about the PA's ability to play a viable-long term role in peace efforts.

3 weeks ago | lanacion.com.ar | Ali Sawafta |Nidal al-Mughrabi

(Ajusta el titular, cambia procedencia y guía y añade citas ydetalles a partir del párrafo 2)By Ali Sawafta, Nidal al-MughrabiRAMALA, 23 abr (Reuters) -El presidente palestino, Mahmud Abás, pidió al grupomiliciano Hamás el miércoles en un discurso televisado quecediera su responsabilidad sobre la Franja de Gaza, entregarasus armas a la Autoridad Palestina y se convirtiera en unpartido político. Hamás ha rechazado en los últimos meses los llamamientos deIsrael y Estados Unidos a deponer las armas.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ali Sawafta |Nidal al-Mughrabi

By Ali Sawafta and Nidal al-MughrabiRAMALLAH (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Hamas militant group Hamas on Wednesday to cede responsibility for the Gaza Strip, hand over its arms to the Palestinian Authority and turn itself into a political party. Hamas has refused calls in recent months by Israel and the United States to lay down its arms.

3 weeks ago | perthnow.com.au | Ali Sawafta

The Palestinian Red Crescent has called for a "serious investigation" into the killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza in March, a day after the Israeli military admitted "professional failures" and disciplined two officers over the incident. Younish Al-Khatib, chairman of the Palestinian Red Crescent, on Monday said he did not consider the measures taken by the Israeli military, which reprimanded one officer and dismissed another from his position, as sufficient.