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Saturday, June 24, 2023
Bahrain denounces recent settler rampages in Palestinian towns
Bahrain releases a statement denouncing several recent settler rampages in Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
The Gulf kingdom’s foreign ministry releases a statement “calling for calming the situation in the Palestinian territories, stopping violence and escalation, providing protection for civilians, and to ensure resuming the just and comprehensive peace process, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the two-state solution, the principles of international law and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
The condemnation by Bahrain, which normalized relations with Israel as part of the 2020 Abraham Accords, comes as several dozen settlers rioted in the Palestinian village of Umm Safa and reportedly set fire to homes and cars.
