by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 6, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has said the investigation into the events of 7 October is a “show planned by the state comptroller in [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s service,” the Times of Israel has reported. During a meeting held yesterday,...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 6, 2024 | Palestine Updates
France yesterday arrested then released nurse Imane Maarifi who spent 15 days volunteering as a medic in the Gaza Strip. Lawyer Rafik Chekkat, founder of the Islamophobia platform, said Maarifi was arrested in the morning at her home and taken into custody. He...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 6, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Activist Sarah Wilkinson was reportedly asked to reveal the location of her contacts in Gaza when she was arrested by UK police earlier this week. Wilkinson was taken from her home after a morning raid by Counter Terrorism Police on 29 August. According to her son,...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 6, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Israel has published plans for one of its proposed new settlements in the occupied West Bank, Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said on Wednesday, upping the ante a day before planned new Gaza peace talks seen as vital to preventing a regional...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 6, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday called for enhanced regional cooperation and solidarity among Turkic nations amid global power struggles, Anadolu Agency reports. “To prevent global power competition from affecting our region, we must strengthen...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 6, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said today that Turkiye would join in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Reuters reports. “Upon completion of the legal text of our work, we will submit the...