UN envoy: Israel settlement plans ‘fuel instability’
Middle East Monitor / February 27, 2020
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, said yesterday that Israel’s plan to build new settlement units in the E1 area, which lies between the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, “fuels instability”.
“I am very concerned about Israel’s recent announcements...
UN human rights report slams impunity for Israel crimes in Gaza
Middle East Monitor / February 27, 2020
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has issued strong criticism of the lack of accountability for Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip, stating that “impunity continues to prevail”.
According to UN News, the new report was published this week looking at...
Food for thought: Providing jobs for Gaza’s widows
Mohammed Asad
Middle East Monitor / February 26, 2020
Palestinian women prepare to make maftool, as part of a project to help widows in Gaza provide for their families
Eight women sit on the roof of a small house in the Zeitoun district of Gaza City, in an area where poverty is...
European ex-prime ministers condemn Trump plan as apartheid
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / February 27, 2020
Why do European leaders find the courage to condemn Israeli apartheid and other abuses only when they are no longer in office?
Fifty former leaders from across Europe have condemned President Donald Trump’s recently released “peace plan” as akin to apartheid.
In a letter published by The Guardian on Thursday,...
Jewish settlers tell Palestinians, ‘There will be war’
Middle East Monitor / February 26, 2020
Graffiti sprayed on a wall by illegal Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank sends a warning to local Palestinians that “There will be war”, Wafa news agency has reported. Vehicles were also vandalised along with the malicious graffiti during the suspected hate crime in...
Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemns Israel settlers for vandalising church land
Middle East Monitor / February 26, 2020
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has condemned the intrusion of its territory near the village of Tayasir, in the occupied West Bank, by thousands of Israeli settlers who stormed it without permission and gathered on land belonging to the Catholic church.
Crowds of Israeli...
Israel forms multi-force agency to prepare for violence post-annexation
Middle East Monitor / February 26, 2020
Israeli authorities have established a multi-force agency to prepare for the possibility of unrest should the next Israeli government proceed with the annexation of illegal West Bank settlements.
According to the report in Haaretz, the joint body includes representatives from the Israeli military, police, Shin...
Israel reopens Gaza crossings after reaching ceasefire deal with resistance
Middle East Monitor / February 26, 2020
Israeli occupation authorities yesterday reopened crossings with the besieged Gaza Strip, but kept the fishing zone closed, Quds Press reported.
Reporting Ynet News, Quds Press said the spokesperson for the Israeli occupation army said: “After evaluation of the situation, all the crossings in the peripheries of Gaza were reopened...
Israeli settlement plan ‘more dangerous than any other’, says Palestinian minister
The National / February 26, 2020
Riyad al-Maliki was attending the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Israel's plan to build new settler homes in a particularly sensitive area of the occupied West Bank would destroy the prospect of a two-state solution, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Wednesday.
The plan to...
