International complicity aids US-Israel efforts against the ICC
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / March 10, 2020
Aside from lobbying governments to oppose the International Criminal Court’s investigation and possible war crimes charges, Israel is planning a joint response with the US to counter the process. The plan, according to Israeli media reports, is to exert US influence globally...
Palestinians’ names often reflect their heritage and challenge the occupation
Yousef Alhelou
Middle East Monitor / March 10, 2020
Colonial powers subjugated other nations and imposed their own language and culture upon the indigenous people. Ever since Israel was established at the expense of the inhabitants of Palestine and uprooted three-quarters of a million of them in 1948, successive Israeli governments...
Israel paper slams latest plans for ‘apartheid’ highway in West Bank
Middle East Monitor / March 11, 2020
Israeli newspaper Haaretz has slammed plans for new “apartheid” transport infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, in a scathing lead editorial.
“While the public’s attention is focused on the coronavirus and the endless attempts to form a government,” the paper wrote, “Israel has started planning...
West Bank closure will shut down 67% of construction sites in Israel
Middle East Monitor / March 11, 2020
An Israeli closure of the occupied West Bank in response to the coronavirus crisis will be a disaster for the country’s construction business, reported Globes.
According to Israel Builders Association President Raul Srugo: “A closure will mean that 70,000 Palestinian workers will be unable...
Twitter storm protests ICC delay in investigating Israel crimes
Middle East Monitor / March 10, 2020
A “Twitter Storm” has been launched by a Palestinian rights organisation in response to the International Criminal Court’s decision to delay the investigation into Israel’s human rights violations and war crimes in the occupied West Bank.
Despite having found a reasonable basis to mount an investigation...
Israel minister: Arab [Palestinian] MKs ‘terrorists wearing suits’
Middle East Monitor / March 10, 2020
Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz described Israeli Arab MKs as “terrorists wearing suits”.
Speaking to Israeli radio station Makan about the possibility that the Joint List – a Arab dominated bloc – may help form the next government, Katz said: “Arab MKs are terrorists wearing suits.”
“We...
Israel forces uproot 400 olive trees in Bethlehem
Middle East Monitor / March 10, 2020
Israeli occupation forces yesterday uprooted 400 olive trees in the farms of Wadi Fukin village, west of occupied Bethlehem, Quds Press reported.
Local Palestinian sources reported that the targeted farm belongs to Palestinian farmer Mohamed Al-Harroub.
According to the sources, 800 olive trees and grape vines have...
Coronavirus would see “collapse” of Gaza health system
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / March 9, 2020
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in the occupied West Bank has increased to 25, the World Health Organization reported on Monday.
That figure appears to be inclusive only of the Palestinian population and not the...
The PA is provoking the Palestinians with its Israel normalisation meetings
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / March 9, 2020
After the massive Palestinian protests against the recent normalisation meetings between PA leaders and Israeli figures, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and head of the PLO’s Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society resigned.
Surprisingly, President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Muhammad al-Madani’s...
New settler-only road will allow Israel to annex West Bank settlement
Middle East Monitor / March 9, 2020
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett today approved a project for a new road for Palestinians that would allow Israel to annex the Ma’aleh Adumim bloc in the E1 zone of the occupied West Bank.
The road, which would connect the village of Azzim, near Ma’aleh Adumim,...
