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David Cronin The Electronic Intifada  /  October 18, 2019 Israel’s involvement in a major research program run by the European Union has been valued at nearly $1.6 billion – more than enough to buy silence over the plight of the Palestinians. Using the term “values” at regular intervals appears to be mandatory...

In a region where the majority have unmet energy needs, this project is bringing power to the people. Mariam Barghouti Open Democracy  /  October 8, 2019 In an office just a few minutes away from the city centre in Ramallah, Dr. Ayman Rabi scurries to submit a report on the latest efforts...

"Cycle Palestine for Medical Aid for Palestinians was the most challenging thing I’ve ever done physically, mentally and emotionally" Suha Shariff Middle East Monitor    /    October 19, 2019 https://videos.files.wordpress.com/zpfRO2Z3/191004_trn_cycle-palestine-overview_cbm_v01-1_hd.mp4 Cycle Palestine for Medical Aid for Palestinians was the most challenging thing I’ve ever done physically, mentally and emotionally. It was a life changing...

Sara Doyel Mondoweiss    /    September 9, 2019 Gleaming produce spills out of market baskets. An outstretched palm offers fresh herbs, an organic farm in the background. A table overflowing with a rainbow of dishes cuts away to a morsel of hot bread diving into a bowl of tahini and olive oil....

Middle East Monitor  /  October 18, 2019 The Ministry of Social Development in the Gaza Strip said yesterday that the rates of poverty and unemployment in the Gaza Strip reached nearly 75 percent in 2019. In a press release it added that 70 per cent of the population of the Gaza Strip is food insecure. This,...

Tamara Nassar The Electronic Intifada    /    October 16, 2019 Palestinians are calling for the boycott of a music festival taking place where Israel plans to ethnically cleanse tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins. The InDnegev music festival is scheduled to take place in the Naqab desert in southern Israel from 24 to 26 October. The area is...

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  October 16, 2019 It was only a matter of time before the Palestinian Authority would renege on its word and accept the deducted tax revenues from the Israeli government. After all, the PA is primarily concerned with prolonging its existence, even as it keeps losing any semblance...

Middle East Monitor  /  October 17, 2019 Israeli occupation forces yesterday arrested Sheikh Ismail Nawahda, a preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque, at the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported. Another 22 Palestinians were also detained yesterday from across the occupied West Bank, the news agency added. Sheikh Nawahda was taken...

Jonathan Cook The National   /   Ocober 15, 2019 Thousands have been driven out of their homes because their numbers pose a major demographic threat to the state. The decades-long struggle by tens of thousands of Israelis against being uprooted from their homes – some for the second or third time – should be...

Ramzy Baroud Middle East Monitor  /  October 14, 2019 The call by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for elections in the Occupied Territories is a political ploy. There will be no true, democratic elections under Abbas’ leadership. The real question is: why did he make the call in the first place? On...