British FM condemns ‘abhorrent’ settler attack in West Bank

A Palestinian stands in his home the morning after it was torched in a rampage by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Jit, on Aug. 16, 2024. (AP)
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Updated 16 August 2024
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British FM condemns ‘abhorrent’ settler attack in West Bank

  • “I condemn it in the strongest of terms,” Lammy told reporters

JERUSALEM: Britain’s foreign minister, David Lammy, on Friday called a deadly Israeli settler attack on a Palestinian village “abhorrent” and condemned it “in the strongest of terms.”
“The scenes overnight of the burning and the torching of buildings, of the Molotov cocktails thrown at cars... and chasing of people from their homes is abhorrent, and I condemn it in the strongest of terms,” he told reporters during a visit to Jerusalem.


UAE, US discuss regional developments in Yemen and Gaza, WAM news agency reports

Updated 31 December 2025
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UAE, US discuss regional developments in Yemen and Gaza, WAM news agency reports

  • This month, drones hit a kindergarten and a hospital in Kalogi in South Kordofan, killing 114 people, including 63 children, according to the World Health Organization

ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates’ ​Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed received a phone call ‌from US ‌Secretary ‌of ⁠State ​Marco ‌Rubio, where they discussed regional developments, topped by situations in Yemen ⁠and Gaza, state ‌news ‍agency ‍WAM reported ‍on Tuesday.
The call came after the latest ​developments in Yemen as Saudi-led coalition ⁠forces attacked the southern Yemeni port of Mukalla.