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Tamara Nassar The Electronic Intifada  /  November 3, 2019 Tensions are growing between Israel and Jordan just days after the 25th anniversary of the Wadi Araba peace agreement between the two countries. On Tuesday, Jordan recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv “for consultation” in protest at Israel’s months-long detention of two Jordanians without charge or trial. “We hold ...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 4, 2019 Israel’s former justice minister Ayelet Shaked submitted a draft bill in the Knesset to annex a number of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, reported the Jerusalem Post. The legislation would see Israeli “sovereignty” applied to settlements in the Jordan Valley region, as well...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 4, 2019 Officially unveiled: Ramallah was officially named Oxford’s seventh twin earlier this year after 16 years of campaigning on The Mayor of Oxford Councillor Colin Cook on Friday attended the unveiling of a new road sign which lists Ramallah as the city’s seventh twinned...

Adnan Abu Amer Middle East Monitor  /  November 4, 2019 Israel recently participated in the Bahrain conference for maritime security after Gulf countries invited it to take part in protecting the maritime facilities for fear of Iranian and Houthi attacks. There are also Saudi fears that Washington would let it down after the recent...

Asa Winstanley Middle East Monitor  /  October 31, 2019 Recent reports have revealed that a cyber-spying company in the United Arab Emirates has been hiring former Israeli intelligence officers. DarkMatter, which has intimate links with the UAE government, has been paying exorbitant sums in an effort to lure these spooks away from...

Middle East Monitor  /  October 30, 2019 WhatsApp said in a statement that 100 civil society members had been targeted, and called it "an unmistakable pattern of abuse". https://videos.files.wordpress.com/hwzGusO8/191030_trn_whastapp-sues-israeli-nso-group_cbm_v02_hd.mp4 WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across...

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  October 31, 2019 It would be good if the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, defined his statement to the UN Security Council regarding Gaza, and which can be applied to all Palestinians. The top priority is the humanitarian crisis, he...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 1, 2019 The United States administration’s Middle East peace envoy, Jason Greenblatt said that this is not the right time to reveal details of America’s plan to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict known as the “deal of the century”. Speaking to Al Arabiya news channel, Greenblatt explained that due...

Middle East Monitor  /  October 24, 2019 A Challenger 604 private jet left Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening for an airport in the Jordanian capital of Amman, where it stopped for two minutes before taking off to an airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. After a...

Middle East Monitor  /  October 31, 2019 Israeli authorities are still preventing the exit of processed foods for sale outside of the occupied Gaza Strip, reported freedom of movement NGO Gisha yesterday. In a press release, Gisha announced that it had written a letter this week demanding that Israel’s Health Ministry...