Emirates Official News
Hezbollah has denied media reports claiming that a group belonging to the Islamic Resistance was setting up a rocket launcher in the southern border town of Rmeish.
In a statement by its media unit, Hezbollah dismissed the reports as “fake” and “fabricated.” It accused “the sides insisting on spreading these rumors” of seeking to sow strife among the Lebanese and serving the Israeli enemy.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon
Hezbollah has strongly condemned an Israeli attack on the Islamic Medical Association center in the southern town of Habbariyeh that killed and injured Lebanese civilians.
“We assure that this aggression will not go unpunished,” Hezbollah vowed.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon
ABU DHABI: – The UAE has strongly condemned the Israeli government’s announcement to confiscate 8,000 dunams of land in the Jordan Valley of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and expressed its rejection of all measures aimed at changing the historical and legal status of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) expressed the UAE’s categorical rejection of all practices in contravention of resolutions on international legitimacy, which risk further escalation and instability in the region, and impede endeavours to achieve peace and stability.
The Ministry stressed the need to support all regional and international efforts to advance the peace process in the Middle East, as well as end illegal practices that threaten the two-state solution, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
The Ministry reiterated the UAE’s steadfast commitment to fostering peace, justice, and the realisation of the rights of the Palestinian people.
Furthermore, th
e Ministry called on the international community to intensify efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire to avoid further loss of life, prevent fueling the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and to advance all efforts to achieve a comprehensive and just peace.
Source: Emirates News Agency
CAIRO: Egypt has welcomed the Security Council’s adoption of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza for the first time since the beginning of the crisis despite its imbalance and limited time frame, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
‘The Arab Republic of Egypt welcomes the Security Council’s adoption of a resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during the month of Ramadan – for the first time since the beginning of the crisis and following the Security Council’s repeated inability to reach a resolution demanding a permanent ceasefire,’ read the foreign ministry statement.
“Egypt calls for the immediate implementation of the ceasefire in a way that opens the way for dealing with all elements of the crisis,” it added.
Source: Emirates News Agency
CAIRO: The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmad Aboul Gheit, welcomed today the resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during the blessed month of Ramadan.
“I welcome the Security Council’s adoption of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza,” he said in a statement, adding that this resolution was long overdue, and what is needed now is for its implementation on the ground.
Source: Emirates News Agency