Important News
- Prisoners' organizations: Escalating and systematic violations against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in April
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- Israeli colonists continue attacking Palestinians, their properties in Masafer Yatta
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- Palestinian national heritage committee calls on UNESCO to immediately intervene to stop Israeli violations at Sebastia archaeological site
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- PCBS: 77 years after Nakba, Palestinian population has increased nearly 10-fold
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- German Government alarmed by developments in Gaza
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- One killed, others injured in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza city
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- Cabinet holds meeting in Tulkarm; PM affirms government continues efforts to alleviate residents' suffering
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- Israeli forces continue to demolish homes in Nour Shams camp amid ongoing offensive
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- Armed colonists graze their sheep near Palestinian residents' homes south of Hebron
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- UN organizations: 2.1 million Gazans face starvation, as Israeli genocide continues
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- Tulkarm: 106 days since Israel's aggression began on the city and refugee camps
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President Calls EU to Leave Siege Imposed on Palestinians
ATHENA, April 21, 2007, (WAFA) -President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated Saturday his call to end international siege imposed on the Palestinian people.
In a joint press conference with Greece Foreign Minister, Dora Bakoyannis, the President called on the European Union to leave siege so as the Palestinian people lives a normal life, saying that the continuation of blockade only encourage extremism.
"We call upon the European Union to lift the embargo imposed on our people, whose continuation will only succeed in encouraging extremism," Abbas said.
The President clarified that the national unity government corresponds to all expectations, saying that circumstances are suitable to implement US President George Bush vision of two state solutions.
"We recently formed a government of national unity, its agenda has been announced and we believe that it corresponds to all expectations," the President added.
The President also called on Israeli government to release Palestinian prisoners, affirming that efforts were being made to secure the release of a BBC journalist abducted in Gaza as well as that Israeli soldier seized in Gaza.
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