Israel set for unprecedented third general election in year on March 2
Jack Dutton
The National / December 12, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looking to cling on to power despite being dogged with indictments
Israelis will return to the polls for the third time in under a year on March 2 as its two main parties failed to form a government before the...
Netherlands resumes funding towards UNRWA with additional $6m
Middle East Monitor / December 11, 2019
After having temporarily suspended a contribution of $14 million, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands has informed the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) of its decision to resume funding to the agency.
The temporary suspension in July...
Trump official wants students prosecuted for Israel protests
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / September 19, 2018
The Trump administration’s top civil rights enforcer at the US Department of Education wanted students who did nothing but hold a noisy protest in support of Palestinian rights to be criminally prosecuted.
Kenneth Marcus was captured on camera during a September 2016 meeting with...
Is ICC about to slam the door on justice for Palestine ?
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / December 11, 2019
In the decade since Palestinians first petitioned the International Criminal Court, around 3,500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Around 800 were children.
Israel has expanded its settlement colonies in the West Bank, encouraged by a Trump administration...
EU and Israel – the case of complicity
European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP)
December 2019
This briefing analyses and outlines the ways in which the EU is channeling European taxpayers’ money into Israeli entities accused of war crimes and violations of international law.
EU research funds have been a very important source of funding for Israeli...
Hebron plan is Israel’s reminder to Palestinians that settler-power knows no limits
Jonathan Cook
The National / December 10, 2019
Proposed destruction of the West Bank city's market to make way for a settlement is the government's way of making the apartheid system as the rule of law.
US President Donald Trump told thousands of Israel’s supporters at a rally in Florida at the...
Israel settlers led by Yehuda Glick storm Al-Aqsa compound
Middle East Monitor / December 10, 2019
Israeli soldiers arrested a guard at Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning while settlers stormed the mosque.
Under the protection of Israeli police, groups of settlers guided by Orthodox Israeli Knesset member Yehuda Glick entered the compound through the Al-Maghrebi Gate and performed prayers and rituals before leaving...
Israel arrests 11 Palestinians in West Bank raids
Middle East Monitor / December 10, 2019
Israeli forces have detained 11 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army, Anadolu Agency reports.
In a Tuesday statement, the Israeli military said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities,” without elaborating about the...
