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OCHA – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OVERVIEW Early May witnessed the most serious outbreak of hostilities in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel since the 2014 conflict, and the fifth recorded in the past year. This followed the wounding of two Israeli soldiers by a sniper...

Tamara Nassar The Electronic Intifada  /  May 11, 2019 Israeli occupation forces have sharply escalated their demolitions of Palestinian properties in East Jerusalem. As a result, more Palestinians have been made homeless this year than in all of 2018. United Nations humanitarian coordinator Jamie McGoldrick decried the alarming trend, calling on Israel to immediately halt all...

While official annexation would be seen as a dramatic escalation, many Palestinians feel the area is already annexed. Jaclynn Ashly Al-Jazeera  /  May 7, 2019 While the international community and media created an uproar when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intent to annex the West Bank in a bid to garner votes during last...

The Palestine Chronicle  /  April 27, 2019 Three Israeli hospitals have admitted for the first time that they segregate Jewish and Arab women giving birth, at the women’s request. In response to a lawsuit filed against four hospitals, three of them – Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Haemek Hospital in Afula...

Liz Essley Whyte USA Today  /  May 1, 2019 The front lines in a bitter debate between Israel’s defenders and critics lie in an unexpected place: state capitals across America. Palestinian rights activists calling for people to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel have racked up policy victories over the past 14 years across the globe and in the USA, particularly on university campuses. In response, pro-Israel...

 Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine & Jordan 22 april 2019 Over the past several years, Palestinian and Israeli environmental and human rights organizations have documented the transfer of Israeli solid waste into areas of the occupied West Bank. In December, 2017, B’Tselem an Israeli human rights organization revealed that Israel has supported...

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  April 30, 2019 https://youtu.be/-MFWsMN2dFA In the wake of its recent elections, some of Israel’s liberal backers have been fretting that the self-described Jewish state is becoming ever less democratic. “The general celebratory line in Israel and among its Western supporters since its establishment in 1948 – that the...

Is het tijd voor sancties tegen Israël ? Brecht Neven MO* Magazine  /  23 maart 2019 Honderdnegenentachtig. 189 grotendeels ongewapende demonstranten werden tijdens hoofdzakelijk vreedzame protesten, die deel uitmaakten van de ‘Great March of Return’ gedood door Israëlische veiligheidstroepen. In een rapport van 28 februari 2019 stelt een speciale VN-onderzoekscommissie dat het geweld met...

een van de dieptepunten in de grote campagne van etnische zuivering van Palestina Dit jaar is het 71 jaar geleden dat de massamoord in Deir Yassin plaatsvond. Deze is uitgevoerd door strijders van de joods-zionistische terroristische Irgoen-militie – met medeweten, dan wel indirecte steun van reguliere joods-zionistische gevechtseenheden. In onderstaand artikel...

Haaretz poll: 42% of Israelis back West Bank annexation, including two-state supporters Thirty-four percent support a two-state solution ■ Twenty percent of non-Jews support entire West Bank annexation ■ Only three Israeli parties openly support two-state solution Dina Kraft Haaretz /  March 24, 2019 With just a couple of weeks left until the...