Disappointed with US, Palestine turning to China: Foreign Minister
Middle East Monitor / August 3, 2023
As the Biden administration has been a disappointment for them, Palestine is "increasingly turning to China", said the Palestinian Foreign Minister on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports.
"Three years have passed since President Biden's promises, but we have seen nothing other than financial support...
Gaza Americans urge Washington to include them in Israel visa deal
Nidal al-Mughrabi
Reuters / August 3, 2023
GAZA – U.S. passport holders with Palestinian papers and families in Gaza are urging Washington to ensure they are treated equally under a reciprocal deal with Israel intended to insure visa-free travel for American and Israeli citizens.
Israel, facing a September 30 deadline...
Palestinian farmer loses $10,000 after Jewish settlers set fire to his beehives
Middle East Monitor / August 3, 2023
Israeli occupation forces today destroyed and uprooted dozens of olive trees in the town of Battir, west of occupied Bethlehem, WAFA News Agency reported.
According to a local Palestinian activist, an Israeli army unit broke into the eastern part of the village during a...
Tensions escalate between Israel and Hezbollah in border region
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / August 3, 2023
Lebanese militant group appears to be trying new tactics to test Israel’s resolve.
Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are at their highest level in years after a series of inflammatory incidents on the UN-controlled boundary between the two countries.
Seventeen years...
Israel is an apartheid state, so why did an EU diplomat refuse to say...
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / August 3, 2023
Outgoing EU Envoy to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Sven Kuhn Von Burgsdorff attracted the wrong sort of attention when he para-glided off Gaza's coast last month, purportedly promoting a promise of freedom even as the EU persists in...
Renewed clashes break out at Palestinian camp in Lebanon ending a brief cease-fire
Abby Sewell
AP / August 2, 2023
BEIRUT – Heavy clashes resumed Wednesday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, ending a cease-fire there following a day of relative calm.
The clashes between Palestinian factions at the Ain al-Hilweh camp have pitted members of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party...
Palestinians remain holed up in internment, not ‘refugee’, camps
Thomas Suarez
Middle East Monitor / August 2, 2023
During much of 1948, Palestinians driven from their homes by the violence of that terrible year took safety in what could reasonably be called refugee camps; camps for people who have fled ongoing violence or natural disaster and are unable...
The Arabic media on Israel’s crisis: don’t interfere with its implosion
Baker Zoubi
+972 Magazine / August 3, 2023
Across the Arab world, journalists are debating the implications of Israel's anti-government protests on the state's stability and regional relations.
For months, Arabic media in the Middle East has been following the mass protests against the Israeli government and its judicial overhaul...
US lawmakers cast doubt on continued security ties to Palestinian Authority
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / August 2, 2023
The US has trained PA and encouraged its security cooperation with Israel since the Second Intifada.
US lawmakers have questioned whether Washington should continue security coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), with some blaming it for the deteriorating security situation in the occupied West...
US wants an Israeli-Saudi ‘normalization’ deal – why now ?
Ali Harb
Al-Jazeera / August 2, 2023
Potential deal to formalize relations between Israel and kingdom would be complex but not transformative, analysts say.
Washington, DC – The United States has made establishing diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel a top policy goal – a push that experts say would leave Palestinians...
