Biden Plans to Repeal Trump-Era Sanctions on ICC – Human rights advocates say the...
Colum Lynch & Robbie Gramer
Foreign Policy / March31, 2021
The Biden administration plans as early as this week to revoke a Trump-era executive order levying sanctions on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a top deputy, removing another source of friction in U.S. relations with key...
Gaza sees spike in coronavirus cases: Health ministry
Al-Jazeera / March 31, 2021
Magdy Dahir, deputy director of primary care at the Gaza health ministry, says situation is ‘dangerous’ with ‘clear increase in hospitalisations’.
Gaza’s health ministry said on Wednesday that more than a thousand cases of coronavirus were recorded during the previous day, the highest daily...
Israel’s legislature now home to racist Kahanist: Itamar Ben-Gvir
James Zogby
Israel-Palestine News / March 31, 2021
James Zogby, personally familiar with the racism of Israel’s Kahanists, discusses the danger of having Itamar Ben-Gvir and his ilk in the Israeli legislature, the upcoming government, and Israeli mainstream.
Reposted from his newsletter, March 29, 2021
At the conclusion of Israel’s fourth...
‘Afraid of return’: Palestinians fearful of life in Yarmouk camp
Anchal Vohra
Al-Jazeera / March 30, 2021
Some 160,000 Palestinians were forced to flee the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus throughout the 10-year-long war.
After years of displacement and months of running around to obtain the required government permits, 74-year-old Um Ahmad finally visited her home in Yarmouk camp near...
‘Fatah to the bone’: Who is Palestinian official Nasser al-Qudwa ?
Al-Jazeera / March 30, 2021
The dismissal of Nasser al-Qudwa highlights political divisions within the Palestinian party Fatah in upcoming elections.
Senior Palestinian official and diplomat Nasser al-Qudwa was sacked from the Fatah political party after his surprise announcement to run a separate list from Fatah in the May...
How an Islamist became Israel’s unlikely political kingmaker
Edo Konrad
+972 Magazine / March 24, 2021
The fall of the Joint List and rise of Ra'am's Mansour Abbas show that Israeli politics can no longer ignore Palestinian citizens — even if it may end up boosting the right.
A few months ago, the majority of Jewish Israelis had...
Hamas insists on rebuilding PLO and liberating Palestine
Middle East Monitor / March 31, 2021
Head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Tuesday that his movement insists on rebuilding the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
During a speech he delivered to the Second International Student Conference, Haniyeh said: "We believe that internal division is abnormal in...
Student group urges London University council to reject ‘not fit for purpose’ IHRA anti-Semitism...
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2021
UCL's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has welcomed the London university's Academic Board's rejection of the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. In February, the board concluded that the IHRA working definition was not fit for...
Poll: Marwan Barghouti to win Palestine presidential elections
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2021
Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is expected to get the largest number of votes if he runs for president, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, Khalil Shikaki, said yesterday.
Speaking about the latest survey conducted by his centre,...
Hamas registers its electoral list for parliamentary election
Mohammed Asad
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2021
The list was named “Jerusalem is Our Goal” said Abdel-Latif al-Qanou, Hamas' spokesman.
Hamas yesterday registered its electoral list for parliamentary election at the Central Elections Commission's office in Gaza.
Speaking to the media, the movement's spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanou announced the list...
