Libya – Features

(source: Middle East Monitor)

Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation of the Republic of South Africa Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim used the occasion of the 2010 Budget Vote in the National Assembly (22nd April 2010) to reiterate the South African position in relation to the current state of Israeli – Palestinian affairs.

He took the opportunity to salute Judge Richard Goldstone, a fellow South African countryman, and his team and praised them for having "exposed the calculated and well orchestrated violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza." In addition to emphasising South African support for the implementation of the Goldstone Report’s recommendations, he also stated that the current South African administration would exert efforts to see a "just peace" for Palestinians which should include a total freeze on Israeli settlement building; the end of the blockade on Gaza; the right of return for Palestinian refugees; East Jerusalem as the capital for Palestinians; and the right for Palestinians to control their own natural resources.

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(source: telegraph.co.uk)

Hamas has accused Egyptian security forces of pumping poisonous gas into a cross-border smuggling tunnel, killing four Palestinians as a result

An Egyptian intelligence official has denied they pumped gas into the tunnel although admitted security forces blew up the entrances to several tunnels earlier this week and were not aware of any casualties.Egypt, which has been under pressure to shut down the cross-border tunnels into Gaza, routinely blows up entrances to seal the tunnels off.

Palestinian medics working for the Hamas-run health ministry said the four had died from suffocation and that there was evidence of poisonous gas.

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