Biden has ‘no intention’ of launching new initiative on Palestinian file
Middel East Monitor / June 18, 2021
The Hebrew-language Walla news website in Israel has quoted a US official as saying that the Biden administration intends to progress slowly with the new government led by Naftali Bennett. There is "no intention" of launching a new...
Roadblocks upend Palestinian family’s life in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah
Suheir Sheikh
Reuters / June 17, 2021
JERUSALEM - For months the world has watched a political eviction drama unfold between Israeli settlers and Palestinian residents of a tiny barricaded road in East Jerusalem that has become a microcosm of the long-running conflict.
But while the...
Politicians, academics and Nobel laureates urge Biden to end Israeli ‘oppression’
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / June 18, 2021
US president was heavily criticized by Palestine advocates for not immediately calling for a ceasefire during Israel's offensive on Gaza last month.
More than 680 global leaders, from politicians and Nobel laureates to leading academics and peace advocates, have called on...
Israel’s biggest fear is the Palestinian masses gathering
MEE Contributor
Middle East Eye / June 12, 2021
Recent displays of unity show that the Zionist project to fragment Palestinians has failed.
Early last month, Israeli forces stationed on a major highway to Jerusalem halted several large buses carrying Palestinians from the 1948-occupied territories (those forced to carry Israeli passports). The...
Israeli forces launch violent crackdown on protesters in Beita
Shata Hammad
Middle East Eye / June 18, 2021
More than 40 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli forces, with a number being transferred to hospital for treatment.
Israeli forces launched a violent crackdown on Palestinian protesters in the village of Beita in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring...
Israeli forces attack Al-Aqsa protesters during Prophet rally
Al-Jazeera / June 18, 2021
At least 47 Palestinians also hurt by tear gas, rubber bullets near the town of Beita in the occupied West Bank, says Palestine Red Crescent.
At least nine Palestinians were hurt after Israeli forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday.
Following...
How Israel tried to put Gaza out of business
Ola Mousa
The Electronic Intifada / June 17, 2021
A smashed sewing machine is one of the few things that Muhammad al-Madhoun has been able to retrieve from his workshop.
He and his staff used to design and make clothes in the Shorouq tower. The clothes were sold – along...
In joining the coalition, Mansour Abbas fragments the Palestinian political struggle
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / June 17, 2021
When Palestinians face the prospect of the colonization of the last remaining shards of their land by Israel, the answer is surely not collaboration with the right-wing apartheid state. And yet this is what Mansour Abbas has done by joining...
[apartheid] Israel seeks extension to law banning Palestinian family reunification
Middle East Monitor / June 18, 2021
Israel's Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked intends to submit a bill to extend the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law for an additional year.
Shaked called on right-wing opposition parties to back the law, saying that "there is no opposition or coalitions when...
Israel: far-right ‘plays politics’ with apartheid law to embarrass government
Middle East Monitor / June 17, 2021
Far-right opposition parties in Israel have claimed victory after embarrassing the new coalition government by ensuring that it failed to extend an apartheid law barring Palestinian family reunification. The law, which prevents Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from receiving citizenship, failed...
