Palestinian held by Israel ends hunger strike after 103 days
Al-Jazeera / November 6, 2020
Maher launched his hunger strike to protest against his four-month detention order which ends on November 26 but could be extended.
A Palestinian imprisoned by Israel in July for alleged membership of an armed group has ended his hunger strike after 103 days, his...
Normalisation prompts Israel to build new alliances
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / November 5, 2020
The normalisation agreements between Arab countries and Israel have led to louder calls for the US and Israel to establish new political and military alliances in the Middle East, with the aim of confronting hostile camps, especially Qatar, Turkey,...
Israeli settlement expansion sees the UN shy away from its duty, as usual
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / November 5, 2020
UN intransigence over Israel contrasts with Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk’s observations regarding Israel’s ongoing settlement expansion, not least because the latter boosts his arguments by providing some colonial context instead of remaining tethered to the two-state compromise. Following the recent...
Sudan has normalised relations with Israel, and Khartoum is to blame
Mustafa Fetouri
Middle East Monitor / November 5, 2020
When US President Donald Trump announced on 24 October that Sudan had agreed to normalise ties with Israel he surprised few observers in the region. In February, Sudan’s transitional leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, met secretly with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu in the home of...
