Palestinian Civil Society to Austrian Parliament: oppose resolution to criminalize peaceful activism for Palestinian...
Letter by Palestinian civil society organizations
January 2, 2020
Dear Members of the Austrian National Parliament and Political Parties,
We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society coalitions, human rights organizations and labour unions write to you regarding the resolution (141/A(E)) “Condemnation of Antisemitism and the BDS Movement” tabled jointly by all elected political...
Human rights groups urge Israel to halt aerial herbicide spraying along Gaza fence
Middle East Monitor / January 17, 2020
Human rights organisations have urged Israel to immediately halt renewed aerial herbicide spraying along the Gaza Strip perimeter fence, stated legal rights centre Adalah.
Israeli crop dusters flew along the fence on Tuesday “and sprayed chemicals purported to be herbicides”, which was “conducted sporadically for...
Israeli court to keep spyware firm information from public
Middle East Monitor / January 17, 2020
Tel Aviv District Court is allowing a closed-door hearing of the case challenging an Israeli spyware firm, NSO Group, following the ministry’s legal team appeal that it should be held in secret, on national security grounds.
Amnesty International has filed a case against the notorious tech...
Israeli agritech profits from military occupation
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / January 17, 2020
Israeli agritech companies “are deeply complicit in the occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land,” according to a new report by the corporate watchdog Who Profits.
Technology developed in the context of the occupation is used by Israel’s seemingly benign precision agriculture industry. This civilian...
Israel announces 7 nature reserves in West Bank and expansion of 12 others
Middle East Monitor / January 16, 2020
The Israeli defence minister, Naftali Bennett approved the creation of 7 nature reserves and the expansion of 12 others in Area C of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli defence minister, Naftali Bennett, on Wednesday approved the creation of seven nature reserves and the expansion...
Sealed off and forgotten: What you should know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the...
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / January 13, 2020
A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called “firing zones” in the West Bank.
“Israel has impounded the only vehicle available to a medical team that provides assistance to 1,500...
Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / January 16, 2020
Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. According to a senior Israeli official who spoke to Israel Hayom, “The very fact that an ICC investigation will...
The race to annexation
Nasser Nasser
Middle East Monitor / January 15, 2020
We are witnessing the “annexation of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley” fever and the left in Israel is running to catch up to Israel. This is the meaning of what one of Israel’s senior investigative journalist, Raviv Drucker, revealed in Haaretz yesterday,...
