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Dr. Ashrawi on the announcement of 1,500 new settlement units
Friday, 06 June 2014 14:07

PRESS RELEASE 

PLO Executive Committee 

Department of Culture and Information

June 5, 2014

 Dr. Ashrawi on the announcement of 1,500 new settlement units

PLO Executive Committee, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi condemned the announcement of 1,500 new settlement units in and around Jerusalem in the strongest terms:

“Israel’s latest announcement of tenders for 1,500 settlement units is not part new of a new strategy; this constitutes a deliberate and systematic policy that aims to rob the Palestinians of their land and ethnically cleanse them from historical Palestine.”

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Hamdallah Calls on International Community to Exert Pressure on Israel to Hold Elections in East Jerusalem
Thursday, 05 June 2014 10:28

RAMALLAH – (WAFA) - Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah received Wednesday the representatives of several delegations from Europe, Arab countries, Latin America and Africa, along with Head of the office of the Quartet Representative Mark Singleton at his office in Ramallah.

Hamdallah briefed the representatives on the latest developments and challenges facing the 17th government and renewed the Palestinian government’s call to the international community to intervene and exert pressure on Israel to hold the elections in East Jerusalem, stressing that the new government will not be able to guarantee a free and democratic elections without East Jerusalem.

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Consensus Government Takes Oath of Office, Abbas Announces End of Division
Tuesday, 03 June 2014 10:15

RAMALLAH (WAFA) – Palestinian national consensus government, headed by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, Monday took the oath of office before President Mahmoud Abbas, who announced the end of national division which lasted from 2007 to 2014.

“Today we announce the restoration of national and institutional unity. As for the unity of [our] people, it has always been preserved and has never been susceptible to split,” said Abbas during the oath-of-office ceremony of the new government.

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Ashrawi Warns of Deteriorating Health Conditions of Hunger Strikers
Monday, 02 June 2014 10:06

RAMALLAH (WAFA) – PLO Executive Committee member and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Hanan Ashrawi, stressed that the health conditions of the hunger striking prisoners, held in Israeli jails, have significantly deteriorated, Sunday said a press release issued by the PLO Department of Culture and Information.

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Abbas Officially Assigns Hamdallah to Prime Minister Office
Friday, 30 May 2014 09:54

RAMALLAH (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday officially assigned current Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to form the national consensus government.

“I hereby appoint Mr. Rami Hamdallah to form the new national consensus transitional government, and wish him all profound success in this hard task,” said Abbas.

 
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