Commemorating Land Day amid lockdown in Palestine
Yara Hawari
Al-Jazeera / March 30, 2020
Israel is taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to take more Palestinian land, but the Palestinians will resist.
Forty-four years ago today, the Israeli police shot six Palestinian citizens of Israel dead as they were protesting against the Israeli government's expropriation of thousands of acres of...
Palestine commemorates Land Day on social media due to coronavirus lockdown
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2020
Due to the spread of coronavirus and lockdowns imposed on Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinians will mark the 44th anniversary of Land Day on social media and from rooftops and balconies rather than by joining the marches which are organised every year to...
Israel renews administrative detention of Palestinian MP
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2020
The Israeli occupation authorities renewed administrative detention for a Palestinian MP on Sunday. Hassan Yousef, 66, will be held for at least another four months, Quds Press has reported, citing details provided by the MP’s son, Owais.
Israel uses so-called administrative detention to hold Palestinians...
Land Day report reveals sharp rise in illegal settlement building in West Bank
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2020
Newly-released statistics show a sharp rise in the building and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Quds Press reported on Sunday.
According to a report issued to mark Palestine Land Day today, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistic (PCBS)...
Palestinian MK warns of humanitarian disaster in West Bank and Gaza
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2020
Palestinian MK Sami Abu Shehadeh warned on Sunday of an eminent humanitarian crisis in occupied West Bank and Gaza in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus, Arab48 reported.
Shehadeh, who is a member of Balad (the National Democratic Assembly), outlined his warning in a...
PCHR condemns Israeli Authorities discriminatory treatment of Palestinian workers suspected with coronavirus
pchrgaza.org / March 28, 2020
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns the Israeli occupation authorities’ discriminatory and unethical treatment towards Palestinian workers in Israel, by dumping workers suspected with coronavirus symptoms in the West Bank at checkpoints and seam points within the Annexation Wall that separates Israel and...
Palestinian groups cancel mass Gaza rallies over coronavirus concerns
Middle East Monitor / March 28, 2020
Palestinian groups in Gaza cancelled mass rallies planned for next week along the border with Israel amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus in the densely-populated territory, organizers said on Saturday, Reuters reports.
The rallies were called for March 30 to mark the second anniversary of...
