Israel: Smotrich plan to deduct funds from PA revenue to settle electricity debt

Middle East Monitor  /  September 7, 2023 Israel’s extreme far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Tuesday that the apartheid state will begin deducting funds collected on...

Mobile app helps Palestinians reduce waiting time at Israeli checkpoints

Middle East Monitor  /  September 7, 2023 A mobile application will allow Palestinians to monitor the traffic situation at checkpoints manned by Israeli soldiers and...

Palestine administrative court orders doctors’ strike to end

Middle East Monitor  /  September 8, 2023 The Palestinian Administrative Court yesterday ordered the Doctors Syndicate to stop the strike carried out by its members...

1.2m Palestinians face devastating humanitarian crisis because of US aid block

Middle East Monitor  /  September 7, 2023 Twenty-three civil society organizations have warned of “a devastating humanitarian crisis” unless the block placed by Republican lawmakers on aid...

Former Mossad chief says Israel is an ‘apartheid state’

Jonathan Ofir Mondoweiss  /  September 7, 2023 Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo has joined the chorus of Israeli officials who have admitted, to varying degrees, that...

Israel halts exit of goods from Gaza

Maureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada  /  September 7, 2023 Israel has halted the transfer of commercial goods from Gaza in what human rights groups and...

Foreign investment in Israel declines 60%

Middle East Monitor  /  September 7, 2023 Foreign investment in Israel plummeted 60 per cent during the first quarter of the year, according to a...

Blinken indulges Republican senator toying with Palestinian hunger

Michael F. Brown The Electronic Intifada /  September 7, 2023 A single Republican US senator, Jim Risch of the sparsely populated state of Idaho, is toying...

Israel in middle of ‘acute constitutional and social crisis,’ says president Herzog

Middle East Monitor  /  September 7, 2023 Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Wednesday that the state has been in the middle of an “acute...

Boycott bill: Labelling critics of Israel antisemitic a ‘dangerous road’, MPs told

Simon Hooper Middle East Eye  /  September 7, 2023 Campaign groups warn legislation could block divestments from arms trade and fossil fuels and undermine human rights...