According to reports, Israir Airlines Airbus A320 landed in Bahrain International Airport today. However, Israeli and Bahraini authorities have refused to comment on the event.
Barely a month after the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalise relations with Israel, Bahrain announces a similar agreement. President Trump calls the U.S-brokered deal a “historic breakthrough.”
More than 70 House and Senate Democrats publicly denounced Israel's rejection, while Republican lawmakers were largely silent following the announcement.
The decision of not granting consultative status to a Palestinian non-governmental organisation was adopted by a recorded vote of 28 in favour to 15 against, with five abstentions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to continue 'massive strikes' in response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip as a deadly escalation entered a second day
Modi underscored that historical ties between India and Palestine have further strengthened in recent years, adding that his visit to Ramallah in February this year was the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Palestine.
She was arrested in December 2017 after a video of her slapping and hitting two soldiers from the Israel Defence Forces outside of her house in the village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank went viral.
Both Tamimi and her mother were sentenced to eight months in an Israeli military court following a plea deal over the December incident which the family said took place in their yard in Nabi Saleh in the West Bank.
