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Israeli forces kill two Palestinians amid overnight West Bank raids

MEE Staff Middle East Monitor  /  October 5, 2023 At least five Israeli soldiers are wounded from a grenade bomb used by Palestinian fighters during clashes. Israeli forces killed two Palestinians and wounded dozens more while suffering five injuries as they raided several areas in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday and into Thursday morning.  Abd...

Sweeping statements about concessions expose how much the PA is held in contempt

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  October 5, 2203 The only outcomes that the Palestinians can expect from any political negotiations are yet more settler-colonial expansion and talk about concessions. As the Abraham Accords continue to take centre stage, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing them as a...

Suicide in Gaza

Tareq S. Hajjaj Mondoweiss  /  October 5, 2023 Recent widely publicized suicide cases have instigated public concern regarding climbing suicide rates in Gaza as young Palestinians navigate social stigma while facing poverty and violence due to the Israeli blockade. At 2 a.m. on August 19, 27-year-old Ahmad al-Najjar from Khan...

Labour Friends of Israel calls on a Starmer government to transform policy

Patrick Wintour The Guardian  /  October 5, 2023  Group says party ‘freed of the stain of antisemitism’ can promote two-state solution and reverse Tory apathy to Middle East. An incoming Labour government “freed of the stain of antisemitism” can seek an Israeli settlement freeze, promote a two-state solution and call...

Israel: rights group to defend Palestinian against official violations

Middle East Monitor  /  October 5, 2023 The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) and the High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel declared on Wednesday that they will seek protection for Palestinian citizens of Israel against official violations. Both said that they will...

Israel is perennially swept up in religious conflict – yet many of its citizens...

Ilan Ben Zion AP  /  October 5, 2023 MEVASSERET ZION, Israel – Israel is a nation perennially swept up in religious fervor and conflict. And yet, strikingly, a large portion of its population is secular, and even its insular ultra-Orthodox community loses a steady stream of members who tire of...

Human Rights Council holds general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and...

UN – Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner   /  4 October 2023 The Human Rights Council today held a general debate on its agenda item seven on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories. State of Palestine, speaking as an entity concerned, said it...

‘It will turn campus into an army base’: Tel Aviv University to host soldiers’...

Meron Rapoport +972 Magazine  /  October 4, 2023 A collaboration between the Israeli army and TAU has drawn backlash from faculty and Palestinian students decrying the militarization of academia. When students return to Tel Aviv University (TAU) next week for the start of the academic year, they will be joined...

Nathan Thrall has written a masterpiece about Israel’s occupation

James North Mondoweiss  /  October 3, 2023 "A Day in the Life Of Abed Salama" tells the story of Israel's occupation of Palestine through one family's tragedy. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMAAnatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedyby Nathan Thrall272 pp. Metropolitan Books. $29.99 For years, thoughtful reporters have explained...

[VIDEO] The Oslo Accords: failure or betrayal ?

Yumna Patel Mondoweiss  /  October 4, 2023 Palestinians reflect on the past 30 years since the first Oslo Accords were signed and all the ways in which the agreement impacted their lives, pushing them even further away from achieving liberation and statehood. On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak...