Palestine

Lithuanian citizen Gabrielė Tervidytė has been detained in Tel Aviv, Israel, as a threat to national security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BNS on Thursday.

Palestine does not seek to change Lithuania's attitude towards Israel, but wants the country to serve as a mediator in the peace negotiations, Palestine's Foreign Vice-Minister Amal Jadou has said in Vilnius.

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During a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė stressed the need for Israelis and Palestinians to go back to peace talks. She also hinted that Lithuania could serve as a broker in the negotiations. However, with Lithuania's record of suppor...

International security situation and recent outbreaks of violence in Israel were the main topic of the meeting of Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Israel on an official visit, met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. The meeting - the first between the Lithuanian president and the president of Israel, who was elected last year - focused on the most relevant issues relating to regional security and bilat...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is making an official visit to Israel on 19-21 October. She will be accompanied by the ministers of foreign affairs and economy as well as by Chair of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Faina Kukliansky, the presidential press service said.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is planning a visit to Israel this week, says that the Lithuanian-Israeli relations have never been as good as they are now. She adds that the four-day visit might have international significance due to current tensions in Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and his Palestinian counterpart Rami Hamdallah have decided to set up an intergovernmental committee on economic cooperation.

The United Nations Security Council, in a 8-2 vote with five abstentions, rejected a resolution on Palestinian statehood which sets a deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territories by 2017, CNN reports.

As a member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, Lithuania intends to get constructively involved in discussions on Palestine's statehood. The Lithuanian government notes, however, that it supports direct talks to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Lithuania does not agree with unilateral recognition of Palestine, saying a decision needs to be reached by way of negotiations, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius stated on Monday.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday called on the Government of Israel to stop the expansion of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

After the civil war in Syria began, in 2012, Hamas headquarters moved out of Damascus. Political leaders of Hamas are now based in Qatar.

Lithuania, which is working in the United Nations Security Council, would support the institution's international mechanism on long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday it had allocated EUR 30,000 (103,000 litas) in humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

The State Consumer Rights Protection Authority of Lithuania forwarded a claim received from a foreign national to the Lithuanian Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson.

A special event was hosted by the Lithuanian Jewish Community Wednesday night in support of the Israeli army which has been engaged in military action in the Gaza Strip.

For a past week, to talk about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian relations objectively became quite a self-indulging activity. The debate itself is toxic, since, according to the opposing camps, any affection to the Palestinian cause turns one into an anti-Semitic, terrorist-loving, revanchist bastard...