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The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (Arabic: اليوم الدولي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني) is a UN-organized observance. Events are held at the United Nations headquarters in New York , [ 1 ] as well as at the United Nations offices at Geneva , [ 2 ] Vienna and Nairobi .
United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 was a resolution accepting Palestine [1] as a non-member observer state in the United Nations General Assembly. [2] It was adopted by the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly on 29 November 2012, the date of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and the 65th anniversary of the adoption by the ...
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM; Arabic: حركة التضامن العالمية) is a Palestinian-led movement focused on assisting the Palestinian cause in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. ISM is dedicated to the use of nonviolent protests and methods only.
It was organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the International Solidarity Movement. Many of the latter's members had been barred from entering Israel on security grounds. According to the Free Gaza Movement's Web site, the group intended for the boat to cross the Israeli-declared "special security zone" to deliver 100 hearing aids to a ...
A group of students rallied in The Hague on 13 October to show solidarity with Palestine, [citation needed] followed by a 15,000-strong pro-Palestinian protest in Amsterdam on 15 October. [267] On 23 October, activists opposed to Israel's actions in Gaza occupied the entrance to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, demanding action ...
The speakers in these gatherings blamed the Arab governments and the Arab League for failing to "save Palestine", according to author Tamir Sorek. By the late 1950s, 15 May would be known in the Arab world as Palestine Day, mentioned by the media in Arab and Muslim countries as a day of international solidarity with Palestine. [5]
The Gaza-Egypt Rafah border crossing was closed during the protests. [65] [66] On 9 February continuing protests in Egypt threatened the supply of petrol into the Gaza Strip. [67] The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) declared its solidarity with the protesters and called for social and political revolution in Egypt. [68]
The prime minister of Egypt, Hisham Qandil, paid a visit to the Gaza Strip on 16 November. His official purpose of the visit was to "show solidarity with the Palestinian people." He arranged for a 3-hour ceasefire to accommodate his visit. [31] About 50 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip during this window hitting sites in southern Israel.