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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

Alistair Burt

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, shakes hands with Britain's Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt, at the presidential palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 7, 2019. (Dalati Nohra via AP)
March 7, 2019, 6:46 pm
Lebanon’s president says Hezbollah part of Lebanese people
Michel Aoun tells visiting UK foreign minister that organization, considered a terror group by Britain, is represented in the cabinet and parliament
By AP and ToI Staff
British Minister of State for the Department for International Development Alistair Burt address a meeting of the United Nations Security Council during the UN General Assembly, September 21, 2017 at UN headquarters. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)
December 6, 2018, 12:20 am
London, Berlin condemn Hezbollah tunnels, back Israeli border operation
Diplomats for European nations say Lebanese terror group showing ‘blatant disregard’ for UN resolutions in its ‘aggressive behavior’ along Israel’s northern frontier
By ToI Staff
British Minister of State for the Department for International Development Alistair Burt address a meeting of the United Nations Security Council during the UN General Assembly, September 21, 2017 at UN headquarters. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)
September 5, 2018, 12:24 am
UK to boost its funding of Palestinian refugee agency
After US cuts all funding to UNRWA, Britain offers additional $9 million for education and healthcare of some of the most vulnerable refugees
By ToI Staff
Then-British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
August 10, 2018, 6:18 pm
Britain in a frenzy over Boris Johnson’s ‘bank robber’ burqa comments
Critics accuse former foreign secretary of seeking attention, encouraging Islamophobia, while many Conservatives support him
By Florence Biedermann
Then-British foreign secretary Boris Johnson (L) and then-British prime minister Theresa May in May 2017. (Thierry Charlier/Pool Photo via AP)
August 9, 2018, 4:08 am
UK’s May says Boris Johnson should apologize over burqa comments
Prime minister contends remarks by former foreign secretary ‘have clearly caused offense’; but Johnson dismisses calls for retraction
By AFP
Then-British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
August 7, 2018, 7:02 pm
UK’s Boris Johnson under fire for denouncing burqas as ‘ridiculous’
Chairman of Conservative Party calls on ex-FM to apologize for saying women wearing Muslim face covering look like ‘letter-boxes’
By AFP
Illustrative: Alistair Burt, British Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, visits the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin village in the West Bank, May 30, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
May 30, 2018, 7:50 pm
UK minister urges Israel not to demolish West Bank Bedouin village
Alistair Burt visits Khan al-Ahmar, says moving residents could be ‘forcible transfer of people’; Israeli court ruled construction was illegal
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian school girls in Gaza, March 2013 (photo credit: Flash90/Wissam Nassar)
April 2, 2018, 1:07 am
Britain gives £20m to Palestinian schools teaching jihad, martyrdom — report
Minister says UK is paying wages of 33,000 teachers who teach curriculum that includes the physics of using slingshots to attack IDF soldiers and the glory of dying for Palestine
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Seventeen-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi, right, arrives for the beginning of her trial in the Israeli military court at Ofer military prison in the West Bank village of Betunia, February 13, 2018. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
March 23, 2018, 7:01 pm
After jailing of Palestinian teen, UK slams Israel for treatment of children
Ahed Tamimi, now 17, was sentenced to 8 months in prison for slapping an Israeli soldier
By AFP
Illustrative image of a new neighborhood in the settlement of Efrat in the West Bank, on January 26, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 12, 2018, 11:28 am
UK condemns Israel green-lighting some 1,100 new settlement homes
London says move undermines two-state solution; Civil Administration committee approves 352 of the units for construction
By ToI Staff
Medics treat victims of a shooting attack on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on July 14, 2017. (Magen David Adom)
July 15, 2017, 1:39 am
UN, EU condemn deadly Temple Mount terror attack
UN chief warns shooting attack could ignite tensions, urges everyone to ‘act responsibly to avoid escalation’
By ToI Staff
The memorial ceremony for prime minister Ariel Sharon at the Knesset in Jerusalem January 13, 2014. (Photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)
January 13, 2014, 7:19 pm
Senior Egyptian diplomat quietly attends Sharon memorial ceremony
Knesset speeches highlighted late general’s military successes against Egyptian forces in 1973 war; as PM, Sharon got on well with Sadat, Mubarak
By Raphael Ahren
Vice President Joe Biden, left, followed by his daughter Ashley Biden, center, and son Beau Biden, right, walk out of Air Force Two upon their arrival at Lexington Blue Grass Airport, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2012 (photo credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
January 12, 2014, 4:02 pm
Dignitaries from 19 states due for funeral, but no heads of state
US, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Australia sending senior ministers; Japan, China, Turkey and Arab states are no-shows
By Raphael Ahren
Alistair Burt in Jerusalem, January 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 12, 2013, 10:30 am
‘Israel faces growing isolation if US peace push fails’
On visit to region, British minister says his country ‘would be extremely worried’ if Kerry’s initiative fell through
By Lazar Berman and Raphael Ahren
Former interior minister Gideon Sa'ar (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)
January 2, 2013, 7:51 pm
Ariel University here to stay, education minister says at inaugural event
Gideon Sa’ar says the newly-upgraded West Bank school will become integral to country’s higher learning
By Michal Shmulovich
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