Palestinians bewildered after settler group posts warning signs across West Bank
Akram Al-Waara
Middle East Eye / February 28, 2020
One of the most common sights across the occupied West Bank are giant red billboards sitting at the entrance of every Palestinian town, village, and city, warning Israelis not to enter Area A, under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as...
Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start…
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / February 28, 2020
The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. This move was only made after years of unexplained delays. Rather helpfully, though, the Zionist Federation – an anti-Palestine, pro-Israel lobby group in Britain...
Israel settlers uproot hundreds of trees in Bethlehem
Middle East Monitor / February 29, 2020
On Friday extremist Israeli settlers uprooted hundreds of olive trees and grapevines in the Al-Khader neighbourhood, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Safa news agency reported.
Local sources reported that the Israeli settlers uprooted 300 trees in the farm of a Palestinian farmer, Naser Ismail Marzouq,...
Netanyahu: annexation has started, PA and Jordan threats don’t matter
Middle East Monitor / February 29, 2020
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he is not concerned with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Jordan’s threats as his government has already begun the annexation of the West Bank, Arab48 reported on Friday.
“I am not concerned with the threats by the PA and Jordan,” Arab48 reported Netanyahu conveying...
PA: Israel ‘armed settler militias’ should be blacklisted
Middle East Monitor / February 29, 2020
On Friday the Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned Israeli settlers’ attacks on the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, stressing that settlers are “criminal armed militias” who should be added to the international terror blacklist, Al Watan Voice reported.
“The armed settler militias who opened fire and threw stones at...
The Palestinian Authority Is a sinking ship – the Trump plan makes that clear,...
Zena Agha
The New York Times / February 5, 2020
Palestinians have remained glaringly absent throughout the grand unveiling of President Trump’s “deal of the century.” As Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel — one facing impeachment, the other indictment — laid out the conditions for Palestinian submission last Tuesday...
Palestine wins the right to direct international postal exchanges
Middle East Monitor / February 28, 2020
The UN Universal Postal Union has recognised Palestine’s right to have direct postal exchange with the world through Jordan without any restrictions imposed.
Following the UPU council meeting in Bern, Switzerland, discussing solutions aimed at improving the operations and quality of the Palestine’s postal...
Israel military protects illegal Jewish settlers invading Palestine villages
Middle East Monitor / February 28, 2020
Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinians who were defending themselves from illegal settlers taking over a major West Bank city last night.
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian stores and houses in the town of Huwwara and the village...
Anti-Palestinian social media incitement in Israel continues to rise
Middle East Monitor / February 28, 2020
Anti-Palestinian incitement continues to rise in Israeli society, according to a new report by 7amleh – The Arab Centre for the Advancement of Social Media.
7amleh’s annual index revealed that in 2019, one racist social media post was published on average every 64 seconds – a...
