Decades after a Palestinian American activist was assassinated in California, two suspects in his...
David Sheen
The Intercept / February 6 2020
Alex Odeh was born in 1944 in British Mandate Palestine to a Christian family in the West Bank village of Jifna, near Ramallah, just four years before the founding of Israel. He immigrated in 1972 to the United States, where he became a...
Israel soldiers turn Palestinians away from Al-Aqsa Mosque
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
Hundreds of Palestinian worshippers making their way to Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers were prevented from entering the holy site.
Stationed at the entrance of Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces stopped buses ferrying Palestinians to the holy site for morning prayers and forced them to U-turn...
Blue and White MK: Joint List isn’t our partner
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
A senior Blue and White lawmaker affirmed yesterday that the party has no intention of cooperating with the Joint List after the coming election.
As reported by right-wing news outlet Arutz Sheva, MK Yoaz Hendel was being interviewed by Radio 103FM on the subject of next month’s elections,...
Israel minister: PA would collapse without security coordination
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said the Palestinian Authority would collapse within a week if it stopped security coordination with Tel Aviv.
“The security coordination is important for Israel, but it is more important for the Palestinian Authority,” Deri said in a radio interview...
Palestinians in Israel are the next target for the deal of the century
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / February 6, 2020
Israelis of all political persuasions welcomed the Trump “peace plan”, but the Palestinian citizens of the self-styled Jewish state are angry because the deal refers to land and population swaps between Israel and Palestinian Authority territory. This confirms that Israel wants...
Palestinian teen killed by Israel forces during home demolition
Middle East Monitor / February 6, 2020
A 19 -year-old Palestinian was this morning shot dead by Israeli soldiers as they demolished a the home of a Palestinian family in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Yazan Munther Abu Tabikh, a student at the Palestinian Authority’s Istiqlal Military College, was...
PA bans Israel produce from Palestinian markets
Middle East Monitor / February 6, 2020
The Palestinian Authority is banning some Israeli goods from markets in the occupied territories in response to Israel having stopped Palestinian agricultural produce from being sold, the Ministry of the Economy has announced.
The PA’s ban on Israeli vegetables, fruits, juices, mineral water and...
Trump official warns Palestinians: Israel settlements will continue to grow
Middle East Monitor / February 6, 2020
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien warned Palestinians yesterday that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to grow.
In a speech reported on by the Associated Press (AP), the senior US official linked anti-Semitism worldwide with the expansion of Israeli settlements.
“This...
Israel’s justice minister: Our judges are ‘not from the UN’
Middle East Monitor / February 6, 2020
Israel’s Justice Minister Amir Ohana spoke Tuesday at a conference hosted by lawfare advocacy group Shurat HaDin, praising the role of the Israeli judiciary in pursuing political objectives.
According to The Jerusalem Post, Ohana was discussing a July 2019 ruling by the Jerusalem District Court...
