UN measures against UNRWA are intended to negate the Palestinians’ right of return
Motasem A Dalloul
Middle East Monitor / November 11, 2019
Last week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced that Pierre Krähenbühl, the General Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), had resigned over “management issues”.
In a statement, Guterres said that the findings of...
Israel to attend Dubai Expo 2020
Middle East Monitor / November 11, 2019
Dubai is set to welcome the Israeli delegation at the Expo 2020 in October next year, with the event opening the door to future visits by Israeli citizens to the Gulf state, reports have said.
Dubai Expo 2020 is expected to be the largest...
Gaza specialist doctors emigrate due to Israel siege
Middle East Monitor / November 11, 2019
More than 120 highly qualified Palestinian doctors emigrated from the Gaza Strip in 2018 and 2019, pushing the Ministry of Health to close medical departments in hospitals.
According to a report published by Amad.ps on Saturday, the Palestinian doctors who left their posts in Gaza highlighted...
UNRWA in a time of crisis: separating the red herrings from legitimate shortcomings
Ardi Imseis
Al-Shabaka / October 8, 2019
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has faced much turmoil in the past few years. In August 2018, the US announced that it would no longer fund UNRWA, withdrawing the more than $300 million it had formerly supplied annually. Though others, such as...
Report: 600 Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists in 2019
Middle East Monitor / November 9, 2019
Israeli occupation forces committed 600 violations against Palestinian journalists between October 2018 and October 2019, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) announced on Friday.
According to the report, which covered the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, the most dangerous violations were the direct shootings...
Israel: Rate of conscript drop out for psychological reasons increases by 30%
Middle East Monitor / November 9, 2019
The rate of conscripts being exempted from military service in the Israeli army for psychological reasons has increased by 30 per cent in 2018, Israeli newspaper, Maariv, reported on Friday.
According to Quds Press, the Israeli newspaper reported that 4,500 conscripts were exempted in 2018, compared...
Protests against Israel’s Nation-State Law proved a more just state is possible
But to make that happen, it’s time to work outside of government and to build a movement.
Dov Khenin
The Nation / November 7, 2019
In the summer of 2018, I witnessed two scenes that sum up the contradiction that defines Israeli politics at this moment. Late one summer night, as a...
U.N. Aid chief quits amid probe into Palestinian refugee program
Colum Lynch
Foreign Policy / November 6, 2019
Trump’s aid cuts posed an existential threat to the U.N. agency charged with caring for millions of Palestinians. Now, the agency is grappling with its own management crisis.
Pierre Krähenbühl, the Swiss commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees,...
Tear gas destroys livelihoods in Gaza
Amjad Ayman Yaghi
The Electronic Intifada / November 6, 2019
Through his photography, Atia Darwish has documented how despite being under a brutal Israeli blockade, Gaza’s people still find moments of joy.
His image of Palestinian children eating watermelon by the sea was featured in an outdoor exhibition that toured Lebanon during September.
Many of...
Ready for execution: the former Israeli General and his quest for a new Gaza...
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / November 7, 2019
Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of Israeli politics. The fact that he has the opportunity to finally oust long-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, speaks volumes about the...
