Palestinians get Chinese-donated COVID-19 vaccines
Middle East Monitor / March 29, 2021
Palestinians on Monday received 100,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine donated by China to help broaden an initial campaign to vaccinate medical staff, the elderly and the chronically ill, Reuters reported.
Palestinian health authorities have been mounting a limited vaccination drive among the...
Land Day: Israel’s programme of Palestinian land theft goes on undisturbed
Ghada Karmi
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
For Palestinians, Land Day continues to be an inspiration and a tribute to the just struggle of an unbowed people for their land.
The centrality of the struggle for land has always been fundamental to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It is at...
Land Day: Palestinians mark the 45th anniversary
Maha Hussaini
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
Palestinian farmers say they face constant threats while working on family lands due to Israel's annexation policies.
On 30 March 1976, six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as hundreds of Arab citizens in the occupied territory took to the streets to...
Land Day anniversary: Thousands demonstrate across Israel, Gaza, West Bank
Lubna Masarwa & Mustafa Abu Sneineh
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
Thousands laid wreaths on the graves of those killed in 1976, as Israeli forces arrest dozens across the West Bank.
Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and inside Israel demonstrated on...
Palestine elections: Marwan Barghouti announces independent election list
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
Jailed Palestinian leader's list is 'essentially Fatah in nature' but also includes national figures and independents.
Palestinian political prisoner and veteran Fatah party leader Marwan Barghouti has put together his own independent list of candidates to run in the Palestinian legislative...
US judge dismisses lawsuit linking Palestine solidarity group to ‘terrorism’
Ali Harb
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
Judge dismissed argument that US Campaign for Palestinian Rights was liable for militant attacks because of its support for BDS as 'not convincing'.
A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit that aimed to link a Washington-based Palestinian rights advocacy group to...
Free in Israel, convicted spy Jonathan Pollard calls for more Americans to betray their...
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / March 29, 2021
Israel Hayom published an extremely long, fawning interview on Friday with convicted American traitor and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. It made for startling reading.
The newspaper is owned by Miriam Adelson, Israel's richest person and the widow of the late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson....
Palestine Fatwa Council: Israel’s demolition of Al-Bustan suburb ‘dangerous’
Middle East Monitor / March 29, 2021
The Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council on Sunday warned of the Israeli demolition of Al-Bustan suburb in Jerusalem's neighbourhood of Silwan, Sama News Agency reported.
Following a meeting headed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Hussein, the council announced that this demolition is leading to...
Israel prevents Hussein al-Sheikh from meeting imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti
Middle East Monitor / March 29, 2021
Israeli occupation authorities have rejected the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh's request to visit senior imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Shehab News Agency reported on Sunday.
According to Israel's Public Broadcaster KAN, Shehab News Agency confirmed that Al-Sheikh would have discussed the upcoming...
Palestine: Efforts to unite left-wing parties fail
Middle East Monitor / March 29, 2021
Secretary-General of the Palestinian People's Party (PPP) Bassam al-Salhi announced on Sunday his party's failure to unite the Palestinian left-wing, local Palestinian news agencies reported.
Al-Salhi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)'s Executive Committee, expressed his sadness about his party's...
