Nablus - Nicosia: Europe and the Arabs - Agencies
On Thursday, Israeli forces stormed the village of Madama, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian News Agency.
Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the village after erecting military barriers at its entrances and preventing citizens from entering or leaving it.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discussed with the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, during a phone call, developments in the situation in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian issue.
The Palestinian News Agency reported that President Mahmoud Abbas briefed the King of Bahrain on the latest Palestinian developments, the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, and the need to quickly stop the war of genocide.
The Palestinian President stressed the importance of accelerating the entry of humanitarian, relief and medical aid, preventing displacement, and stopping the dangerous Israeli escalation in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, stressing “the importance of the State of Palestine gaining full membership in the United Nations.”
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides expected on Wednesday to resume sending aid shipments by sea to Gaza via Cyprus soon, after stopping last week following the killing of seven aid workers in an Israeli raid in Gaza, according to the Cypriot news site Cypress News.
About a thousand tons of aid are stored in Cyprus, which were to arrive in Gaza in coordination with the "Global Central Kitchen" organization, which suspended its operations in Gaza following the killing of its employees at the beginning of this April.