‘Palestinians must be protected’: UN warns of rise in Israeli settler attacks
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / April 14, 2021
UN rights experts document 210 attacks carried out by settlers so far in 2021, and call on Israel to halt settlement expansion.
UN human rights experts have warned that violent attacks - including physical assaults and property destruction - carried out...
UN highlights rise in Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians
Al-Jazeera / April 14, 2021
Experts document 771 incidents of settler violence causing injuries to 133 Palestinians and damaging 9,646 trees and 184 vehicles in 2020.
The United Nations human rights experts have warned that violence, including assaults and property destruction, by Jewish settlers against Palestinian civilians in the...
[creeping annexation] Jewish National Fund approves land grab plan in West Bank to expand...
Middle East Eye / April 13, 2021
If final approval passed next week, the policy will allow the purchase of Palestinian land in Jenin and Nablus.
The Jewish National Fund has approved a controversial plan that will allow it to buy Palestinian lands in the West Bank for the...
24 Sudan parties reject Israel normalisation deal
Middle East Monitor / April 13, 2021
More than 24 Sudanese political parties announced their rejection of normalising relations with the occupation and the abolition of Israel boycott law.
This came after the Sudanese cabinet approved a bill to cancel the 1958 Israel boycott law, which was approved by...
Jewish groups urge Dr Fauci not to legitimise Israel ‘apartheid’ by accepting award
Middle East Monitor / April 12, 2021
Jewish groups have called on America's Chief Medical Adviser to the President, Dr Anthony Fauci, not to legitimise "apartheid" Israel by accepting a prominent prize from the Zionist state. Fauci is one of the winners of the Dan David Prize for...
Israel and Colombia: The ever more special relationship
Belen Fernandez
Middle East Eye / April 12, 2021
Right-wing alliance is bringing their bilateral partnership 'to new political and economic levels'.
Last August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Colombian President Ivan Duque held a joint videoconference to launch a new free trade agreement between their countries.
The corresponding media release from...
Palestine election: Israel’s wave of arrests sweeps up Palestinians before polls
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / April 12, 2021
Hamas and Fatah members caught up in series of Israeli arrests since March say they have been warned not to compete in coming elections.
Israeli forces arrested 24 Palestinians on Monday morning ahead of May's Palestinian legislative election, which Israel fears the Hamas...
Gaza’s Pandemic Quandary
Mona Jebril
Sada – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace / March 11, 2021
As acute effects of the pandemic mix with complex political and economic dynamics, Gazan leadership struggles to address an increasingly politicized healthcare crisis.
As healthcare systems in the occupied Palestinian territory struggle to handle COVID-19, new developments...
As Israel rejects the ICC investigation, what are the possible scenarios ?
Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo
Middle East Monitor / April 12, 2021
The Israeli government's position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has finally been declared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "It will be made clear that...
[Ramadan] Qatar distributes $100 to 100,000 poor families in Gaza
Middle East Monitor / April 12, 2021
Qatar has begun distributing $100 to 100,000 poor Palestinian families in the besieged Gaza Strip, Qatar's Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza said yesterday.
Palestinians went to the government banks to receive the aid.
On Thursday, the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of...
