Palestine

27 May 2021; MEMO: The United State will never be part of any solution aimed at bringing an end to the Israel-Palestine crisis, senior Hamas official Dr Mousa Abu Marzouq said yesterday.

"The U.S. is part of the crisis," Abu Marzouq wrote on Twitter. "They provide Isr. [Israel] with killing tools. They will not be part of the solution. Their policies & bias have hurt us."

26 May 2021; MEMO: Tunisian authorities sent a military plane loaded with medical supplies and food aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, local news outlets reported.

Minister of Defence, Brahim Bartagi, said the plane was loaded with 1.5 million Tunisian dinars ($553,097) worth of aid.

26 May 2021; MEMO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this morning announced that America will reopen its consulate in Jerusalem, to restore ties with Palestine that collapsed during former President Donald Trump's tenure.

Palestinian leaders decided to boycott the Trump administration's peace efforts over its decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the US embassy there from Tel Aviv in 2018, upending decades of US policy.

26 May 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Health Ministry yesterday released surveillance footage which shows the moment Israeli warplanes targeted a clinic in Gaza last week.

The CCTV footage dated 17 May shows people running in the corridors of Al-Remal Clinic, Gaza's main COVID-19 laboratory, as an Israeli air strike hits neighbouring buildings.

26 May 2021; MEMO: Screams, air raids, scattered pools of blood and constant fears and nightmares, this is how the children of Gaza live their lives. With every war they witness, the feelings and scenes are repeated in their minds and work to distort their view of the world, which they see as a place of war and in which they must constantly prepare for losing their lives, homes, their loved ones at any moment.

26 May 2021; MEMO: Social media users yesterday slammed Google for linking the iconic Palestinian scarf the keffiyeh with "terrorism".

A Google search asking 'what scarf do terrorists wear on their head?' brings up images of the Palestinian keffiyeh donned on the head or neck, alongside pictures of terrorists waving the Daesh flag, or even Muslim women wearing the hijab or headscarf.

26 May 2021; MEMO: Palestinian pop star Mohammad Assaf announced that he will not release his latest single We are Palestinians on his YouTube channel following the site's censorship of pro-Palestine content.

Assaf criticised YouTube for fighting pro-Palestinian content, saying: "This song will not be uploaded to my official YouTube channel, because YouTube is fighting Palestinian content during this period for no reason."

GAZA, May 26 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt invited leaders of Hamas, to hold talks in Cairo, on stabilising a ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip, officials said yesterday.

Spokesman of Hamas in Gaza, Hazem Qassem, said, the movement’s politburo chief, Ismail Haniyeh, received the invitation, adding that, the talks will also focus on the process of reconstructing the Gaza Strip, following 11 days of Israeli airstrikes, which caused massive damages to the Palestinian enclave.

GAZA, May 25 (NNN-WAFA) – The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip that ended on Friday, reached 253, medics said yesterday.

In an update on the death toll, the health ministry in Gaza said that, 253 Palestinians were killed, including 66 children, 39 women and 17 elderly people, and 1948 were injured, including 20 in critical conditions.

Yesterday, the ministry said that, two young men succumbed to their critical wounds, as a result of the Israeli airstrikes, adding that, the bodies of four Palestinians were retrieved from under building rubbles.

24 May 2021; MEMO: Director-General of the Palestinian Police in the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Salah, said police forces had neutralised nearly 300 unexploded shells and missiles that had fallen on the Palestinians' homes during the recent Israeli aggression on the besieged enclave, Anadolu reported.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Salah said the bomb disposal technicians are still working to neutralise other unexploded ordnance despite their limited technical capabilities.