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Ola Mousa The Electronic Intifada  /  April 23, 2020 Raya Nofal finds it hard to attend classes over the internet. “I don’t have a tablet,” the 11-year-old said. “My mother gives me her phone. But sometimes she gets a call and that interrupts our lessons. At other times, I can’t focus because...

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  April 23, 2020 The European Union has apparently backed off its threat to impose consequences on Israel if it moves to annex more occupied West Bank land. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz reached an agreement to form a coalition after a year of...

Tamara Nassar The Electronic Intifada  /  April 23, 2020 Israel has detained more Palestinian children in recent months despite the global pandemic. Meanwhile, a Palestinian man died in an Israeli prison on Wednesday. At the end of March, there were 194 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons. That is a six percent increase from January, according to...

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  April 23, 2020 While Israel and the Palestinian Authority were cooperating to curb the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19, occupation state and settler violence continued unhindered. The latest bi-weekly report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) reveals...

Adnan Abu Amer Middle East Monitor  /  April 22, 2020 The Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, are closely following the announcement of the formation of the new Israeli government, given the profound impact it will have on them. This includes the expected annexation of settlements and...

Middle East Monitor  /  April 23, 2020 Member of PLO’s Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi yesterday called on the international community to protect heritage sites in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil-Hebron, Safa news agency reported. In a statement, Ashrawi condemned the Israeli approval to seize land belonging to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron as...

Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada  /  April 22, 2020 A multi-millionaire pro-Israel lobbyist donated $62,000 to help Keir Starmer win the UK Labour Party’s leadership election, it was revealed last week. The official register of lawmakers’ financial interests shows that Trevor Chinn donated the sum as part of Starmer’s leadership campaign. During the campaign Starmer said “I support Zionism without qualification.”...

Middle East Monitor  /  April 22, 2020 The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was an Israeli decision whether to annex parts of the West Bank and the United States will offer its views on this to the new Israeli government in private, Reuters reports. “As for the annexation...