AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela said today that the country, after 45 years of debate, will formally recognize Palestine as a state.
Foreign Minister Ian Borg on Saturday hinted at the possibility of Malta and a group of other countries formally recognizing Palestine during an upcoming United Nations conference in June.
Abela also said that Malta is ready to offer asylum to the surviving members of the Al Najjar family, whose nine children were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the Times of Malta reported.
According to the Gaza Civil Defense Agency, an airstrike on the city of Khan Yunis on Friday killed nine children from the same family in the home of two doctors, Hamdi al-Najjar and his wife, Alaa al-Najjar, and seriously wounded Hamdi and their son, Adam.