Palestinian Embassy condemns Israeli rejection of statehood

The Embassy of Palestine in Cyprus denounced on Thursday the Israeli parliament’s rejection of a Palestinian state, calling the move a rebuff to the international community.

“The insistence of the Israeli government in continuing to dispute the international community and its resolutions regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state, must stop,” the embassy said in a statement.

It noted that the establishment of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders is key to a two-state...