Gaza unemployment rate reaches 70%
Middle East Monitor / October 27, 2020
The unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip has hit 70 per cent as a result of Israel’s ongoing siege of the enclave and the lockdowns which have resulted from coronavirus, the head of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions,...
Israel arrests Palestinian journalist in West Bank
Middle East Eye / October 27, 2020
Filmmaker Abdelrahman al-Thaher one of more than 20 Palestinian journalists reportedly currently detained by Israel.
Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested Palestinian journalist and filmmaker Abdelrahman al-Thaher at his home in the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Rasha al-Sayeh, Thaher’s wife, told...
Israel says U.S. will now fund Israeli research projects in West Bank, Golan
Jeffrey Heller
Reuters / October 27, 2020
JERUSALEM - Israel said on Tuesday the United States is effectively lifting a ban on U.S. funding of Israeli scientific research projects conducted in the West Bank and Golan Heights, areas Israel occupied in a 1967 war.
There was no immediate Palestinian comment...
UK universities reject Israel lobby’s anti-Semitism definition
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / October 27, 2020
Only a minority of UK universities have adopted the misleading and politically motivated definition of anti-Semitism promoted by Israel and its lobby.
Despite repeated British government threats, fewer than 22 percent of higher education establishments have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance...
Israelis mock, abuse family of hunger striker
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / October 26, 2020
Three months into Maher al-Akhras’ hunger strike, a United Nations human rights expert is demanding his immediate release.
Al-Akhras remains gravely ill. He has been protesting his imprisonment without charge by Israel by refusing all food for more than 90 days.
A...
German foundation cancels anti-Palestinian seminar
Adri Nieuwhof
The Electronic Intifada / October 26, 2020
The German Konrad Adenauer foundation has cancelled the seminar, “Palestine” - History and Problems of a Concept, just a day after it was announced.
The cancellation comes after protests were raised over an invitation that suggested that the seminar would discuss the “anti-Semitic...
Gaza schools launch second phase of reopening of schools
Mohammed Asad
Middle East Monitor / October 26, 2020
Gaza students are back at school.
The Ministry of Education in Gaza resumed studies today for years 7-11 as part of the second phase of safe return to schools, in accordance with the safety and prevention measures against coronavirus.
The ministry said...
UNSC to discuss Palestine proposal to hold peace conference
Middle East Monitor / October 26, 2020
UN Security Council is today expected to discuss Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ proposal to hold an international peace conference, Riyad Mansour, the PA’s envoy to the UN, said.
Speaking to Palestine Voice radio, Mansour said the UNSC is to hold an open...
