UN publishes list of firms profiting from Israeli war crimes
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / February 12, 2020
The United Nations on Wednesday finally released its database of companies involved in Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Syria’s Golan Heights.
The release of the database comes after years of unexplained delays, which prompted human rights organizations to...
Food insecurity – Fewer Palestinians in Gaza can meet their food needs
OCHA / February 12, 2020
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Based on a 2018 survey, over 1.2 million people in Gaza, or 62.2 per cent of households, were identified as moderately or severely food insecure, compared with 53.3 per cent in 2014, when the previous survey...
3,602 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and over 100,000 injured during the decade
OCHA / February 12, 2020
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
In 2019, Israeli forces killed 132 Palestinians, mostly by air-launched explosive weapons or live ammunition: 107 were killed in the Gaza Strip and 25 in the West Bank. Another 15,368 Palestinians were injured during the year by Israeli forces: 42...
How Israel is ‘bombing Gaza blind’ with old intelligence
Bel Trew
The Independent / February 12, 2020
Israeli servicemen say ‘serious structural problems’ mean ‘masses of targets’ are attacked and killed without thorough intelligence evaluations.
The Israeli military regularly strikes sites in Gaza using out-of-date intelligence that can be well over a year old, bombing “blind” with no real-time check for civilians causing unnecessary deaths,...
Trump plan exposes existential roots of conflict
Omar Karmi
The Electronic Intifada / February 13, 2020
There was much fury, plenty of support, but little end result.
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas’ visit to New York and the United Nations to convince the world’s countries to reject Donald Trump’s “vision” for Palestinian-Israeli peace” did not, as PA officials had hoped, result in...
US’ Trump will ensure coalition forms after next Israel election, Yisrael Beiteinu MK says
Middle East Monitor / February 12, 2020
Yisrael Beiteinu MK Eli Avidar suggested yesterday that US President Donald Trump would help enable the formation of a coalition government after Israel’s forthcoming election.
Speaking in an interview with “The Land of Israel Network”, Avidar declared that his party’s leader, Avigdor Lieberman, “wants a Zionist...
Ex-official says PA should be dissolved soon
Middle East Monitor / February 12, 2020
A former Palestinian Authority and PLO official said on Tuesday that the PA should be dissolved soon.
“If the deal of the century is implemented on the ground, there would be no justification for the existence of the PA,” explained Yasser Abed Rabbo, who...
