Haaretz: Israeli hate crimes against Palestinians more blatant in 2019
Middle East Monitor / December 16, 2019
Israeli data has revealed that violence by Jewish settlers against the Palestinians was more blatant in 2019 than in previous years, Haaretz reported yesterday.
Based on information given by the Israeli defence establishment, Haaretz said there were 256 acts of violence against the Palestinians or Israeli forces...
Israel official: military offensive only way to end Palestinian resistance in Gaza
Middle East Monitor / December 16, 2019
Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Avi Dichter believes that a military offensive is the only way to end Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza, Quds Press reported yesterday.
Dichter, who is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, former minister of internal security and former head...
3,750 Jerusalemites, including 1,070 children, arrested since Trump declared city Israel’s capital
Middle East Monitor / December 16, 2019
Yesterday, Saturday, a report issued by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Centre for Studies (PCBS) showed that the Israeli authorities had arrested 3,750 Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem since the US announced its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on 6 December 2017.
According to...
From a blessing to a curse: how UN resolution 2334 accelerated Israel’s colonisation in...
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / December 17, 2019
Three years ago, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334. With fourteen members voting in favour and one abstention, the Resolution was the equivalent of a political earthquake. Indeed, it was the first time in many years that the international body roundly condemned Israel...
VIDEO Naila and the uprising
Naila and the uprising video here
Filmmaker: Julia Bacha
During the first Palestinian Intifada - or uprising in the occupied territories - courageous female activists took a full part in the movement, building self-sufficiency for Palestinians under Israeli occupation and collectively blazing a trail of resistance.
This film tells the story of Naila Ayesh, a student organiser in Gaza at a...
UN envoy: ‘We are always no more than two to three days away from...
Middle East Monitor / December 13, 2019
Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations (UN) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, has told FRANCE 24 that the situation in the Gaza Strip remains extremely tense, warning that “we are always no more than two to three days away from another war in...
A glimpse at Palestinian refugee camps then and now
Reuters / December 12, 2019
'Maybe they put electricity and water inside the houses, but things are far worse than they used to be,' a resident of a refugee camp in Gaza says.
History has marched on since they arrived in the middle of the last century, seeking refuge for what...
New York Times enables Trump’s attack on Palestine solidarity
Michael F. Brown
The Electronic Intifada / December 14, 2019
The New York Times opinion section doesn’t play fair. That is not exactly a revelation but sometimes enough is enough and the newspaper’s anti-Palestinian bias needs to be reiterated.
A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump threatens the First Amendment rights of students....
