ABU DHABI: H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has commended the prominent role and great efforts made by the friendly Republic of Cyprus to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip through the maritime corridor between Cyprus and Gaza, launched from the port of Larnaca.
This came as the UAE Top Diplomat received today in Abu Dhabi Dr. Konstantinos Kompos, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus, where they discussed the developments in the Middle East region and their humanitarian repercussions on civilians in the Gaza Strip, as well as the latest developments in the “Amalthea” international maritime corridor initiative to deliver humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.
Sheikh Abdullah affirmed the UAE’s commitment to mobilising support for the maritime corridor initiative and working with Cyprus and all regional and international partners to invest in this initiative in the best possible way to contribute to increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to civilians in
northern Gaza at a sufficient, sustainable and unimpeded pace.
He underscored the importance of maintaining concerted efforts by the international community to reach a sustainable ceasefire that will contribute to protecting the lives of all civilians and enhancing the humanitarian response to the suffering of the brotherly Palestinian people.
In a related context, Sheikh Abdullah and Kompos discussed the UAE-Cyprus friendship relations and the strategic partnership between the two countries in various fields.
His Highness affirmed that the UAE attaches great importance to strengthening cooperation relations with the Republic of Cyprus based on the advanced and growing strategic partnership that unites the two countries, expressing his best wishes for prosperity and prosperity to Cyprus and its people.
Source: Emirates News Agency
RAMALLAH: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ deprivation of Palestinian Christian citizens from the occupied West Bank from going to Jerusalem to participate in the commemoration of Palm Sunday.
In a statement issued today, the Foreign Ministry considered this a crime against humanity that falls within the framework of an official Israeli policy to completely separate Jerusalem from its Palestinian surroundings, and deepen its racist colonial measures to annex it, including flooding it with huge settlement blocs and imposing more measures on the Israeli barriers and restrictions that prevent worshipers from having access to Christian and Islamic holy sites.
It also condemned the escalation in the colonists’ storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative march of the colonists in the center of the city of Hebron under the protection of the occupation forces, in a way that is directly linked to the crimes of land seizure, the increase in the number of
colonists in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the intensification of bases for terrorist extremists who commit crimes against Palestinian people and their land, sanctities, properties and towns.
The Ministry considered that the international reactions to the settlements and the crimes of abusing Palestinian people and depriving them of their most basic human rights do not rise to the level of the grave violations to which the Palestinian people are exposed.
It called on the UN Security Council to implement Resolution 2334 and provide international protection for Palestinian people, who are subjected to the most horrific forms of genocide, and to impose deterrent sanctions on the racist colonial occupation system and translating the international consensus on the two-state solution into serious practical steps that guarantee its protection from Israeli encroachment.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA
During Palm Sunday Mass service in Bkirki this morning, Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Beshara Boutros al-Rahi raised prayers to the Lord Almighty for the sake of Gaza’s children and for peace to prevail in wake of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the recent tragic massacre in Moscow.
Internally, al-Rahi prayed to the Almighty to grant us salvation amidst the structure of sin against God in which we are living, following the spiritual, moral, social and political sins that have brought corruption to its peak in our country.
He said: ‘The season of Great Lent is a time for all of us to return to God with all our hearts in the spirit of repentance and austerity, and to return to each other in the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation, and to our brothers and sisters who need a helping hand at the physical, spiritual, and moral levels…’
‘This is the path that leads us to commit, each in his position and responsibilities, to building our national unity complemented by our cultural and religious pluralism,’ the
Patriarch asserted.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon