Palestinian organisations hope for start of ICC investigation into Israel’s crimes
Middle East Monitor / March 9, 2021
Palestinian human rights organisations on Sunday expressed their hope that the investigations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) into possible Israeli war crimes in the Palestinian territories would begin before the end of this month.
This came during a press conference held...
Israel demolishes Palestinian home, water well
Middle East Monitor / March 8, 2021
Israeli occupation forces today demolished a Palestinian house that was under construction and a water well in the village of Bani Naim in Al-Khalil-Hebron.
According to a Wafa correspondent, Israeli soldiers raided the area east of Bani Naim and demolished the 500-square-metre house and...
DFLP condemns Abbas decision to postpone union elections
Middle East Monitor / March 8, 2021
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) condemned on Sunday the decision by Mahmoud Abbas to postpone the election of Palestinian syndicates, unions and popular organisations for six months, Shehab news agency has reported.
According to the DFLP, the Palestinian Authority...
PA: Jewish settler crimes expose efforts to protect Israel from ICC investigation
Middle East Monitor / March 8, 2021
The ongoing crimes committed by Jewish settlers against the Palestinians, their land, and property have exposed those trying to protect the occupation state from the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Palestinian Authority said on Sunday.
"There has been a...
Military members in Gaza protest PA decision to force them into retirement
Middle East Monitor / March 8, 2021
These measures taken by the President and the Palestinian Government, were adopted without a Law by Decree or presidential decree or Government decision, and were met with wide-ranging objections by Palestinian civil society organisations
Retired military officials in the besieged Gaza Strip...
Gaza refugees protest against cuts in UNRWA food assistance
Middle East Monitor / March 8, 2021
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees closed the UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA)'s food distribution centres in Gaza yesterday to protest against the organisation's reduction in food assistance, Al-Quds al-Arabi reported.
The protest was organised by the Joint Popular Committee for Palestine Refugees and...
Israel starts vaccinating Palestinian workers after delays
Al-Jazeera / March 8, 2021
Israel starts to inoculate Palestinian workers more than two months after launching an immunisation blitz of its own population.
Israel, which has faced criticism for excluding Palestinians from its vaccination campaign, started to inoculate Palestinians working in the country and in settlements in the...
‘Judge, Jury, and Occupier’, new report exposes Israel’s apartheid military court system
Middle East Monitor / March 8, 2021
A new report by the UK charity War on Want has further exposed Israel's two-tier racist legal system in a detailed analysis of the military court system in the occupied West Bank operated by the Zionist state.
See the Report:
https://waronwant.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Judge_Jury_Occupier_report_War_on_Want.pdf
Titled, 'Judge, Jury,...
EU backs ICC probe into war crimes in veiled rebuke of Israel
Middle East Monitor / March 8, 2021
The European Union has backed the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its decision to open a formal investigation into war crimes committed in occupied Palestine in comments that appear to rebuke Israel and its key ally the US. Both have condemned...
Israeli ambassador seeks to exploit Black struggle in US
Michael F. Brown
The Electronic Intifada / March 7, 2021
Last month, Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United States and United Nations, took a trip to the American South to learn about the civil rights movement.
Ostensibly, he learned about Jim Crow discrimination and ongoing racism. Yet he understood so little that...
