Fatah is still preparing candidate list, says official, but coalition with Hamas is possible
Middle East Monitor / March 23, 2021
A senior member of the Fatah Central Committee said on Monday that the movement has been giving its members weeks to prepare a list of possible candidates for the upcoming Palestinian elections. "An assessment of the situation by regional committees will...
Netanyahu will not allow creation of fully sovereign Palestinian state
Middle East Monitor / March 23, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that if he is re-elected he will not allow the creation of a fully sovereign Palestinian state, Panet news website has reported. Netanyahu stressed his belief that peace will be achieved in the region...
Israel wants PA to stop cooperating with ICC
Middle East Monitor / March 23, 2021
The Israeli government has said that it will not allow any economic project to be implemented in the occupied territories unless the Palestinian Authority (PA) stops cooperating with the ICC probe into Israeli war crimes, Quds Net said yesterday.
Reporting Israeli Broadcasting Corporation Makan, Quds...
Israel continues to ban Amnesty staffer from travel
Middle East Monitor / March 23, 2021
Israeli authorities continue to ban Palestinian rights activist and Amnesty International campaigner Laith Abu Zeyad from travel to East Jerusalem or abroad, Rai al-Youm reported yesterday.
The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem is due to hold a hearing on 6 April to respond...
Israeli army stops Palestine TV documenting settlement activities in West Bank
Middle East Monitor / March 22, 2021
Israeli soldiers prevented the Palestine TV crew from reporting at Ein al-Bayda village in the occupied West Bank and forced the media crew to leave the area, reported Wafa news agency.
According to a Wafa correspondent, the soldiers held the Palestine TV van and checked the journalists and crew...
[creeping annexation] Israel planning to relocate Khan al-Ahmar residents to new area in West...
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 22, 2021
Israeli officials' latest proposal would move residents of West Bank village to an area that would allow them 'to maintain the same texture of life'.
Israeli officials are planning to remove Palestinians from the village of Khan al-Ahmar and relocate them a...
Save Sheikh Jarrah: The online campaign giving hope to Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem
Aseel Jundi
Middle East Eye / March 22, 2021
Residents of Karm al-Jaouni live under the threat of forcible eviction that would see them replaced by Israeli settlers.
At first glance, everything looked seemingly normal in Karm al-Jaouni in the Sheikh Jarrah district, but the clamour of gathering news outlets...
Israel takes ‘VIP border pass’ from Palestinian minister following ICC meeting
Middle East Eye / March 22, 2021
Palestinian Authority foreign minister Riad al-Maliki had pass taken from him after meeting with international court's lead prosecutor.
Israeli authorities confiscated the VIP border pass of Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki upon his return to the occupied West Bank from...
The morning after the Israeli electoral circus
Marwan Bishara
Al-Jazeera / March 22, 2021
Israel is stuck in an electoral groundhog day, with each election producing more of the same.
Israel is about to hold its fourth parliamentary election in two years. Since 2019, it has emerged from one chaotic electoral campaign season only to plunge into another.
But Israeli...
Netanyahu desperately pins hopes on Israel’s vaccination record as country heads to polls again
Bel Trew
The Independent / March 22, 2021
Even as people get set to vote for the fourth time in two years, there are warnings that Tuesday’s election could bring another stalemate.
Israelis are set to vote in their fourth national election in just two years, with polls predicting a...
