Israel demolishes 10 Palestinian commercial properties in Jerusalem
Middle East Monitor / December 27, 2021
Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished on Monday morning 10 Palestinian commercial properties in occupied Jerusalem's neighbourhood of Hizma, Safa news agency reported.
Anti-Israeli settlement activist, Yousef Askar, told Safa that the Israeli occupation forces backed with bulldozers raided Hizma and demolished the shops.
He said that the owners...
PA president will not let violence of Jewish settlers to continue against Palestinians
Middle East Monitor / December 27, 2021
Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO, and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas pledged on Monday he will not let the violence of Jewish settlers against Palestinians continue, a statement said.
The statement, which was issued by Abbas' spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said: "We will not...
Israel approves plan to double Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights
The National / December 26, 2021
Plan is to build 7,300 homes for Jewish families at Mevo Hama.
Israel’s government has approved a $317 million plan to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights.
Forty years since Israel annexed the territory, the Cabinet voted to build 7,300 homes...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, defender of human rights in South Africa and beyond, dies at...
Julia Conley
Common Dreams / December 26, 2021
"Let we who believe in freedom and justice be his legacy always," said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of the Poor People's Campaign.
Leaving behind a legacy of fighting for oppressed people in South Africa and around the world, Archbishop Desmond Tutu...
‘The system is defending police shooters instead of putting them on trial’
Oren Ziv
+972 Magazine / December 22, 2021
Israeli authorities are systematically dismissing probes into police officers who 'shoot to kill' Palestinian assailants as a first resort, says rights group.
Less than a week after Israeli Border Police shot dead a Palestinian who had stabbed an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man near...
Israel set to expel Sheikh Jarrah family in the new year
Oren Ziv & Yuval Abraham
+972 Magazine / December 19, 2021
The Salems could be thrown out of their home to make way for settlers, after Jerusalem municipality officials hand an eviction order with no legal recourse.
This article has been updated to reflect the fact that the eviction order...
First Omicron case detected in Gaza
Middle East Monitor / December 26, 2021
The Palestinian health ministry said on Sunday it had identified the first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the Gaza Strip, reported Reuters.
The carrier is a Gaza resident who was infected within the coastal territory, ministry official Majdi Dhair told a...
Palestine reports 5 new cases of omicron variant
Middle East Monitor / December 25, 2021
Palestine recorded five new cases of the omicron variant of coronavirus on Saturday, according to the Health Ministry, Anadolu reports.
In a statement, Kamal al-Shakhra, Ministry spokesman, said the new infections were reported in the occupied West Bank.
He said the new cases take the...
West Bank: Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire during protests
Middle East Eye / December 25, 2021
Medical sources say injuries in occupied West Bank villages were caused by live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets and teargas.
Israeli soldiers have shot and wounded at least seven Palestinians during protests in several villages in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian medical sources said dozens...
Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Tutu dies – here is what he said about Israel-Palestine
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / December 26, 2021
The South African Nobel peace laureate has passed away at the age of 90.
South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace prize laureate, died on Sunday aged 90.
A contemporary of Nelson Mandela, Tutu was known not just for his role...
