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‼️ BREAKING. The delegations of the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) have signed an agreement for a historic 6-month bilateral ceasefire to conclude the third cycle of dialogue between the two parties. The announcement took place in Havana, Cuba, with the presence of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel, and the leadership of the ELN.

🇨🇺 Read here an interview between Ileana Morales from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health and the team of Outra Saúde, Fabiano Tonaco Borges, Gabriela Leite and Leandro Modolo, on how Cuba faced the Covid-19 pandemic.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/10/how-did-cuba-tackle-covid-19/

🇵🇸 Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned the Israeli occupation against submitting any proposal to divide the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on religious basis, saying that any such move will lead to “overwhelming anger with unpredictable results” given its religious sanctity for Palestinians, other Arabs, and Muslims in general.

Shtayyeh’s remarks came after the Islamic Supreme Council and Council of Scholars and Preachers in the occupied territories issued a statement on Sunday calling the Israeli proposal to divide the Al-Aqsa mosque dangerous.

Last week, Member of Knesset (MK) from the ruling Likud party, Amit Halevi, proposed a legislation as per which the Al-Aqsa mosque compound would be divided into two parts, to be allotted to settlers and Palestinians separately.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/12/palestinians-warn-against-israeli-proposal-to-divide-al-aqsa-compound/

🇪🇭/🇲🇦 The Moroccan authorities illegally occupying Western Sahara have besieged the home of 39-year-old Mahfouda Lefkir, a former political prisoner and prominent human rights defender.

Mahfouda is the head of the Sahrawi Committee for the Defense of Workers Arbitrarily Expelled by the Moroccan State and a trade unionist. She has been on the frontlines of several struggles in the occupied territory, “organizing protests for Western Sahara’s independence and workshops with human rights organizations,” said Babouzeid Lebbihi, President of Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/13/moroccan-agents-assault-former-sahrawi-political-prisoner-mahfouda-lefkir-besiege-her-house-in-occupied-territory/

🇮🇷/🇨🇺/🇻🇪/🇳🇮 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Venezuela on Monday, June 12, on the first leg of his five-day visit to three Latin American countries. He is also slated to visit Cuba and Nicaragua.

The visit is significant since these countries, like Iran, are affected by unilateral sanctions imposed by the US.

Underlining the significance of his visit, Raisi claimed before leaving for Latin America that relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and independent countries are “strategic.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/13/iranian-president-visits-latin-american-countries-in-an-attempt-to-strengthen-multipolar-world-order/