3.(Historical Terms) the former British mandatory territory created by the League of Nations in 1922 (but effective from 1920), and including all of the present territories of Israel and Jordan between whom it was partitioned by the UN in 1948 ...
After World War II, the struggle of the peoples of Palestine to abolish the British mandate intensified. In 1947 the British government was obliged to refer the question of Palestine to the UN. On Nov. 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the abolition of the...
I want to congratulate the Government for voting affirmatively on the UN General Assembly’s resolution on October 27 that called for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in Gaza. The resolution also called for “continuous, sufficient ...
Also on Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the international community responsible for the continued "displacement and starvation" in the Gaza Strip. In a press statement, the ministry called for urgent international action to force Israel to implement UN resolutions and precaution...
As Ackman said, well, let’s make sure all these people are never employed doing this. That is reaching into that level of unsafety. But to feel safe is such an atmospheric thing that we need to trace that back to whatever source that is. I would say we should embrace the struggle ...
of terror. In 1974 the PLO received UN recognition, and a government in exile was recognized by Arab nations as a basis for a future Palestinian state, to be formed from land regained from Israel along the west bank of the Jordan River. In 1976 the PLO was granted full membership in ...
the impasse, Great Britain, already negotiating its withdrawal fromIndiaand eager to decrease its costly military presence in Palestine (of the more than 280,000 troops stationed there during the war, more than 80,000 still remained), referred the Palestine question to theUnited Nations(UN). ...
UNITED NATIONS, March 1 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomes Friday's decision by the European Commission to imminently release 50 million euros (54 million U.S. dollars) to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said his spokes...
Richard Falk, Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University, and former Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine, UN Human Rights Council The Rev. David W. Good, President, Tree of Life Educational Fund Abbas Hamideh, Co-Founder, Al-Awda: The Palestine Right To Return Coalition Tom...
Themonks,who were notpartof theecclesiastical hierarchy, playedanespeciallyimportantrolefor thepatriarchsof Jerusalem.Cf. Chitty1966,110;Grillmeier 2004,45–47;Heyer 1984,57; Leuenberger-Wenger2019,523–525; Per-rone1998bpassim.242Jan-MarkusKötter Jerusalem’sjurisdictioninPalestineitselfwasthereby...