‘This is our sea’ Isra
Saleh el-Namey
The Electronic Intifada / November 5, 2020
Suhail al-Amoudi spends a great deal of time on Gaza’s shore.
Watching the waves rise and descend fills him with memories. For more than three decades, he supported his family by fishing.
Al-Amoudi, 58, cannot exercise that profession any longer; Israel has...
Israeli politician boasts about role in Corbyn’s downfall
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / November 5, 2020
An Israeli politician has claimed responsibility for her part in the political downfall of former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
“Bye bye @jeremycorbyn,” Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin posted on Twitter, “Justice is done. Proud I was part of this puzzle.”
Nahmias-Verbin is a former member of...
Palestinian prisoners face coronavirus outbreak
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / November 4, 2020
More than 70 Palestinian prisoners have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, in the overcrowded Gilboa prison in northern Israel.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club said the majority of infected prisoners showed symptoms of the illness since last week, including fevers, but...
UN agencies and international NGOs call for the protection of Palestinian olive harvesters
Joint Statement
by OCHA, OHCHR, the Food Security Sector and AIDA, which represents over 80 international NGOs
Jerusalem - November 5, 2020
International NGOs and UN agencies call on the Israeli authorities to protect Palestinians participating in the ongoing olive harvest season, as well as their property, from violence by...
[creeping annexation] Israel makes 41 Palestinian children homeless as world watches US election
Akram al-Waara
Middle east Eye / November 5, 2020
Eleven families left searching for shelter after Israeli forces destroyed their village in the Jordan Valley.
On the evening of Wednesday 4 November, a cold, bitter rain poured down over Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank, as the first...
Palestine: Factions say normalisation is extension of Balfour Declaration
Middle East Monitor / November 4, 2020
Palestinian factions have described Arab normalisation of relations with the occupation state as an extension of the “ill-fated promise” of the Balfour Declaration. Zionist projects aiming to liquidate the Palestinian cause and legitimise Israel’s occupation of Palestine have been continuous since...
‘Trump administration revived Balfour’s colonialist attitude,’ says Ashrawi
Middle East Monitor / November 4, 2020
A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee has affirmed that the dangerous and destructive results of the 1917 Balfour Declaration and its disastrous repercussions still cast a dark shadow on Palestine and the Middle East. According to Dr...
Escalating the demographic war: The strategic goal of Israeli racism in Palestine
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / November 4, 2020
The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed, the latest addition to Israel’s Basic Law is a mere start of...
