Gazans create new energy sources to power life in ‘unliveable’ enclave
Rosie Scammell
The National / February 16, 2020
The UN said the strip would be uninhabitable by 2020, but residents are using innovative means to cope with their crisis.
A bleak United Nations forecast painted Gaza as a place that would become unliveable by 2020, but Palestinians are getting to grips with...
From a boycott to another peace conference, Abbas is rejecting Palestinian demands
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / February 13, 2020
We should forget all about Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s hyperbole regarding a full boycott of Israel and the US, including security coordination. During his address to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, he communicated the expected diplomatic suggestion, another international peace conference “to bring...
US rejects UN blacklist of companies with ties to illegal Israel settlements
Middle East Monitor / February 13, 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said the US government would not furnish any information for a database of companies operating in Israeli-controlled territories that the United Nations’ human rights office released, and said the compilation hurts peace efforts in the Middle...
Pro-Israel lawyers to fight European court ruling on settlement produce labelling
Middle East Monitor / February 13, 2020
A network of pro-Israel lawyers is gearing up to fight the implementation of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on the labelling of produce from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
According to right-wing news outlet Arutz Sheva, the Lawfare Project and Israel...
Deir al-Balah, Bethlehem rank highest in unemployment rates
Palestine News Network / February 13, 2020
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics "PCBS" issued its 2019 Labour Force Survey Results, which showed that 25% was the unemployment rate among labour force participants in Palestine in 2019, total labour underutilization was 33%.
Using the latest Revised ILO standards ICLS 19th, the...
Shin Bet reportedly slams defence minister for giving ‘green light to Jewish terror’
Middle East Monitor / February 13, 2020
The Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, has issued a “rare public attack” on Defence Minister Naftali Bennett, reported The Jerusalem Post, over the cancellation of an administrative detention order for a radical Jewish Israeli right-wing activist.
According to the paper, the Shin Bet...
Palestine threatens legal action against companies with settlement ties
The National / February 13, 2020
Airbnb, TripAdvisor and Motorola are among the international companies on the UN list of firms with links to Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has threatened to take legal action against companies named in a long-awaited United Nations report listing...
Israel’s Netanyahu slams UN human rights on companies with ties to illegal settlements
Middle East Monitor / February 13, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed a report issued by the United Nations human rights office on companies and commercial entities that have business ties with illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu said that Tel Aviv will not stand idly by and...
Israel arrested over 30,000 Palestinians in West Bank, Jerusalem since 2015
Middle East Monitor / February 13, 2020
Israeli occupation forces arrested more than 30,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem since 2015, including 496 in January, Arab48 reported yesterday.
Among those arrested last month were 67 children and 16 women.
The rate of detentions has increased sharply since 2015, reports have revealed.
While 16 prisoners...
