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Jessica Buxbaum The New Arab  /  March 11, 2021 Palestinians working in settlement industrial zones often feel they have no other choice, with the Palestinian economy and labour market shackled by Israel's military occupation. Every day, around 70,000 Palestinians make the arduous journey across military checkpoints to work in Israel, often in...

Reuters  /  March 19, 2021 THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said on Friday they have sent Israel and the Palestinians notifications of the opening of a war crimes probe, a move that leaves the parties with one month to seek a deferral. Earlier this...

Reuters  /  March 21, 2021 RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israeli authorities confiscated the VIP border pass of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki upon his return to the West Bank from a meeting at the International Criminal Court, a Palestinian official said on Sunday. Ahmed al-Deek, an official at Maliki’s...

Middle East Monitor  /  March 22, 2021 Fatah is going to stand in the parliamentary elections on its own list, Anadolu reported the movement's Secretary Jibril al-Rajoub saying yesterday. "There will be no joint list with any other parties," he said only two days after Israel warned the movement's Chairman...

Middle East Monitor  /  March 22, 2021 A recent study has found that only four per cent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safe water, compared with 39.5 per cent in the rest of Palestine. According to a study released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of...

David Cronin The Electronic Intifada  /  March 21, 2021 How does muzzling someone who tells uncomfortable truths about the present constitute learning from the past? That is a question which Johannes Bӧrmann ought to ask himself. He works on Holocaust education for the European Union. His commitment to learning is questionable. Bӧrmann has lately...

Orly Noy +972 Magazine  /  March 21, 2021 ____________________________________________________________ PODCAST: Does Kahanism expose what Israel tries to hide ? Henriette Chacar – January 17, 2020 https://www.972mag.com/kahanism-natasha-roth-rowland-podcast/ Kahanism reveals a larger, inconvenient truth about Israel’s very nature, says researcher Natasha Roth-Rowland ____________________________________________________________ Israelis may fear the racist Itamar Ben-Gvir could enter the Knesset next week, but...

Edo Konrad +972 Magazine  /  March 17, 2021 The growing visibility of queer Palestinians poses a challenge to Arab political parties that are exploiting homophobia ahead of the Israeli election, says attorney and activist Fady Khoury. The Palestinian LGBTQ community isn’t used to being at the heart of their society’s...

Mohammad Ayesh Middle East Monitor  /  March 17, 2021 The sudden return to the Gaza Strip of a large number of defectors from the Fatah movement cannot be a coincidence in these circumstances and at this time. It is impossible to be the result of "societal reconciliation" as is...

Adnan Abu Amer Al-Jazeera  /  March 21, 2021 Several foreign players are seeking to influence the outcome of the Palestinian elections. As Palestinians begin the countdown to their general legislative and presidential elections in May and July of this year, there seems to be growing interest among foreign actors in...