UN agencies and international NGOs call for the protection of Palestinian olive harvesters
Joint Statement
by OCHA, OHCHR, the Food Security Sector and AIDA, which represents over 80 international NGOs
Jerusalem - November 5, 2020
International NGOs and UN agencies call on the Israeli authorities to protect Palestinians participating in the ongoing olive harvest season, as well as their property, from violence by...
[creeping annexation] Israel makes 41 Palestinian children homeless as world watches US election
Akram al-Waara
Middle east Eye / November 5, 2020
Eleven families left searching for shelter after Israeli forces destroyed their village in the Jordan Valley.
On the evening of Wednesday 4 November, a cold, bitter rain poured down over Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank, as the first...
Palestine: Factions say normalisation is extension of Balfour Declaration
Middle East Monitor / November 4, 2020
Palestinian factions have described Arab normalisation of relations with the occupation state as an extension of the “ill-fated promise” of the Balfour Declaration. Zionist projects aiming to liquidate the Palestinian cause and legitimise Israel’s occupation of Palestine have been continuous since...
‘Trump administration revived Balfour’s colonialist attitude,’ says Ashrawi
Middle East Monitor / November 4, 2020
A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee has affirmed that the dangerous and destructive results of the 1917 Balfour Declaration and its disastrous repercussions still cast a dark shadow on Palestine and the Middle East. According to Dr...
Escalating the demographic war: The strategic goal of Israeli racism in Palestine
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / November 4, 2020
The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed, the latest addition to Israel’s Basic Law is a mere start of...
COVID-19 Emergency Situation Report 21 (20 October – 2 November 2020)
OCHA / November 3, 2020
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Highlights
After weeks of declining, active COVID-19 cases rise slightly; 81 more people die.
Over 2,400 more cases of community transmission, and another nine fatalities reported in Gaza.
The Inter-Agency Response Plan for the oPt is 49 per...
100 days of hunger for freedom
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / November 3, 2020
“I don’t want to die at Kaplan hospital,” Maher al-Akhras said recently. “I want to die among my family and children.”
Al-Akhras has not eaten in 100 days.
The 49-year-old father of six is on hunger strike to demand that Israel release him from detention.
He...
