Hebrew sources: Tel Aviv getting ready for direct Iranian attack with cruise missiles or...
Middle East Monitor / October 24, 2019
Israeli Army radio station revealed that Tel Aviv is preparing for a direct Iranian attack by a cruise missile or a drone in response to the recent Israeli attacks on Iranian-backed armed groups in the region that were attributed to the occupying state.
Unlike...
Increase in destruction of Palestinian property in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem
OCHA / October 23, 2019
The Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin | September 2019
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA)
Demolitions and the story of a West Bank family
Aziz, is a 25 years old Palestinian from Khirbet ar Ras al Ahmar, a small Bedouin community in the northern Jordan Valley. Over...
The War on Truth: How Israel’s social media trolls conquered Facebook
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / October 20, 2019
On October 9, the social media platform, Facebook, deleted the page of the popular Palestinian news website, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC). This act, which was carried out without even contacting the page administrators, confirms that Facebook’s war on pro-Palestine voices is continuing unabated.
PIC had nearly...
Palestine workers forced to pay to work in Israel
Middle East Monitor / October 23, 2019
Some 20,000 Palestinian workers paid $140 million to brokers and employers in order to get permits allowing them to work in Israel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed yesterday.
The workers make up 33 per cent of all Palestinian labourers in Israel, the paper added.
According to the report,...
Palestinian Authority blocks 59 news outlets
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / October 22, 2019
The Palestinian Authority has blocked 59 Palestinian and Arabic-language news websites and social media pages.
The Ramallah magistrate’s court issued the order on 17 October at the request of the PA attorney general, Akram Ismail Khatib, but it was not reported until Monday.
The...
Israeli sources: ‘Tel Aviv uses UAE to spy on Qatar, Iran and Hezbollah’
Wadih Awawdah
Middle East Monitor / October 19, 2019
Sources in Israel have revealed that Israeli intelligence officers in the reserve army are working in private companies, some of which are linked to the UAE’s intelligence services, and pointed to the immigration of brains abroad.
Dr. Ronen Bergman, intelligence editor for Yedioth Ahronoth,...
Like the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque is also under threat
Kamel Hawwash
Middle East Monitor / October 18, 2019
Not a day goes by without another Israeli attack on various aspects of Palestinian life, be it through home demolitions, land confiscations, the abduction of youngsters in the night or attacks on their holy places. A good source of factual information about...
DFLP criticises continuous PA security cooperation with Israel
Middle East Monitor / October 22, 2019
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) has criticised the continuous security cooperation between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israeli occupation, a statement said yesterday.
The DFLP wondered about the “feasibility” of the security cooperation in light of the Israeli aggression on...
Vital medicines run out in Gaza
Yousef M. Aljamal
The Electronic Intifada / October 16, 2019
Shaaban is a 10-year-old child with autism.
He requires assistance with his education, as well as medical treatment that costs up to $900 per month. Without his medicine, he can begin to scream, has difficulty sleeping at night and sometimes even loses...
Some 5,000 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque during Sukkot
The Union of Temple Mount Organisation called for its fans to increase their raids of Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish holidays
Middle East Monitor / October 19, 2019
For the third consecutive day, around 2,473 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed Talmudic rituals during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Arab48.com reported on Friday.
On Thursday, 816 settlers bombarded the...
