CIA director meets with chief of PA’s intelligence agency
Middle East Monitor / February 3, 2020
Director of the CIA Gina Haspel secretly met with the chief of the Palestinian Authority (PA) intelligence agency, Majid Faraj, in Ramallah, Safa news agency reported yesterday.
According to the Israeli Public Broadcaster (Kan), Safa said that Haspel met with Faraj and other PA officials on...
Arab envoys who accepted US ‘peace plan’ reject it after learning full details
Middle East Monitor / February 3, 2020
The ambassadors of three Gulf Arab states who were sent to the White House last week for the unveiling of US President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” – otherwise known as the deal of the century – have been revealed to be against the...
Israel once again bans import of cement to Gaza
Middle East Monitor / February 3, 2020
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday stopped cement entering the besieged Gaza Strip and cancelled entry permits issued to hundreds of Gaza traders, Safa news agency reported.
Reporting the Israeli Hebrew newspaper Maariv, Safa said that Bennett ordered the coordinator of the civil affairs in the occupied territories to...
Palestine PM: ‘I will not go down in history as someone who gives up...
Middle East Monitor / February 2, 2020
The Palestinian president rejected on Saturday the US’ so-called peace plan in the Middle East, saying Palestine had cut all relations with the US and Israel.
In an emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo, Mahmoud Abbas said:
I reject the so-called ‘Deal of Century’...
Criminalizing Palestinian resistance: the EU’s new conditions on aid to Palestine
Tariq Dana
Al-Shabaka / February 2, 2020
The EU recently notified the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations (PNGO) network of new conditions on its aid, namely that Palestinian civil society organizations are obligated not to deal with individuals or groups designated as “terrorist” by the EU. This includes staff, contractors, beneficiaries, and recipients of...
