United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed an accord brokered by China seeking reconciliation between Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions.
“I think all steps towards unity are to be welcomed and encouraged,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday.
Guterres “very much welcomes the signing of the Beijing Declaration by the Palestinian factions.”
Hamas says it signed an agreement in Beijing with other Palestinian factions, including Fatah, to work together for “national unity.”
The Hamas political bureau member, Mousa Abu Marzook, made the announcement after meeting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and emissaries from other Palestinian groups, namely Fatah, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
Chinese officials have described it as a deal aimed at maintaining Palestinian rule over Gaza once the Israeli campaign of genocide ends.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said the Palestinian envoys agreed to set up an “interim national reconciliation government” to govern post-war Gaza.
Beijing, Wang said, called for a “comprehensive, lasting and sustainable ceasefire,” as well as efforts to promote Palestinian self-governance and full recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations.
Hamas announces 'national unity' deal with other Palestinian factions
Hamas announces 'national unity' deal with other Palestinian factions
Hamas says it has signed an agreement in the Chinese capital Beijing with other Palestinian factions, including Fatah, to work together for “national unity.”
The agreement brokered by China on Tuesday has infuriated the Israeli regime.
The foreign minister Israel Katz accused President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmud Abbas, whose Fatah faction signed the deal, of embracing the resistance groups which launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, 2023.
Hamas says a new and independent government of non-partisan figures should run the post-war Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
The resistance movement has said the administration of Gaza after the war is an internal Palestinian matter and the group will not discuss it with foreign parties.
According to Hamas officials, the post-war government will pave the way for a general election in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
Hamas has repeatedly said Israel must withdraw from the entire territory of Gaza after a ceasefire.
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The US House Oversight Committee has published roughly 20,000 pages of documents from the sex offender’s estate
US Democrats have released an email in which convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed that President Donald Trump was aware of women procured for sex trafficking.
The email is part of some 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate published by the US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. The documents include correspondence between Epstein and his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking and related offenses.
In a 2011 email, Epstein wrote to Maxwell that a victim, whose name was redacted, “spent hours at my house with him,” referring to Trump. In a 2019 email to journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein said Trump “knew about the girls as he asked (Ghislaine) to stop.”
The documents show Epstein referenced Trump multiple times, calling him “borderline insane,” a “maniac,” and “f**king ...
US President Donald Trump has called on Israel’s president to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a move widely seen as political meddling in favor of an embattled ally, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Israel’s presidential office released a statement on Wednesday, confirming that Trump sent a letter to President Isaac Herzog urging him to dismiss Netanyahu’s legal case.
“I hereby call on you to fully pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been a formidable and decisive War Time Prime Minister,” Trump wrote on social media.
Trump praised Netanyahu’s aggressive policies towards Iran as commendable, framing them as a justification for dismissing the corruption charges.
“While I absolutely respect the independence of the Israeli Justice System, and its requirements, I believe that this ‘case’ against Bibi, who has fought alongside me for a long time, including......more below
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Dozens of Israeli settlers have launched a wide-scale attack on industrial and agricultural facilities in the northeastern sector of the West Bank, sparking major fires and injuring several Palestinians amid a surge of settler violence in the occupied territory.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources, reported that settlers set fire to multiple vehicles, including four trucks belonging to a dairy factory in al-Lada’in industrial zone near the town of Beit Lid east of Tulkarm, and caused damage to the facility itself.
Settlers also destroyed nearby farmland, metal sheds, and tents used by a small Bedouin community living in the area.
Videos posted online show smoke engulfing the area, with Palestinian women heard shouting in the background, and men carrying extinguishers and water buckets scrambling to put out the fires.
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